Sept. 13, 2026
Locked in an ER Closet: My Terrifying — and Hilarious — Night at the Hospital
This turned out to be a crazy, dramatic and humor filled visit to the ER at the local hospital.
In this episode the host recounts a sudden, severe abdominal pain that led to an eventful trip to the emergency room: long waits, repeated blood draws, cold IV fluids that caused violent shaking, and a rushed trip to the operating room where doctors removed a dangerously swollen organ. After surgery they recover in a surprisingly luxurious room and share funny interactions with nurses, fellow patients, and hospital staff.
The story mixes fear and humor—detailing the chaos of a packed ER, moments of panic, the effects of medication, and the post-op reality of needing care while planning to 'milk' the recovery for help from friends and family.
Escape the daily grind with two chaotic seniors who completely lack a filter as they dive into unhinged, outrageous topics guaranteed to clear your skin, cure your stress, and transport you to a better mood. Coming soon, Laugh Out Loud with Mari and John the podcast!
00:46 - Eye Procedure and Sudden Pain
04:25 - ER Chaos Begins
08:16 - Appendicitis Revealed
11:32 - Freezing on the Gurney
13:12 - Rushed to Surgery
16:40 - Waiting to Be Released
18:31 - Caught Stealing Hospital Supplies
20:40 - Home at Last
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Yes all right,
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So,
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we had quite the eventful past, what, 48 hours? Yes, big time. So, all right.
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So, this is a clue. There's a clue right there. See it?
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And it's not a wristband for a rave party.
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That's your wish, right? Yeah, I wish. But I came home yesterday from the procedure
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I had done on my eye. Yes. And I got laced.
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Old people were always having procedures. Procedures were always at the hospital.
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They're starting to get to know us. By name. It's scary. Very scary.
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It's sad. So I got home after being laced.
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I still had a gloopy eye. She had lasers in her eyeballs. I had lasers in my eyeballs.
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And I get home and I said, how are you?
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And you said, not great. I'm not feeling great. I said, yeah,
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I was feeling a pain in my abdomen by my belly button, kind of on down there.
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And I had never felt a pain like that before. Yeah.
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It was concerning, you know, we were in pain, and I was like, it'll go.
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I'll just drink a lot of water. I'll lay down for a while. It'll be gone tomorrow.
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Yeah, because that's what we usually do. Yeah, because, you know,
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God, I don't want to go to the doctor.
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Not that we hate you, doctors. We love you, and we're very grateful.
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But you don't go to a doctor for a good reason, usually. I mean,
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unless it's just a checkup. True.
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But trust me, if you saw her calendar, we are at the doctors far too much in
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our old age. It's just, you know.
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So eat right and exercise. There's the bottom line. Eat lots of fiber.
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Vegetables. Green. Drink along to water. Oh, you know the routine.
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So anyways, I'm feeling this pain. And I was going to lay down and kind of ignore
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it. And something in my brain just kept saying, you know, that's a real unusual
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pain. I don't think you've ever felt that.
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You've never felt that before it was weird it was a weird pain and.
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So I got dressed and washed up, got dressed, shaved.
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Yeah. Because I can't go looking ugly. You've got to smell pretty,
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too. Yeah, and then Maddie was like, do you want me to go with you?
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And I was like, no, no, no. You never want to go.
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And listen, since I'm 10 years old, I'm having surgery on cancer.
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My mom drops me off at the hospital.
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I had five different surgeries for cancer.
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Each time, my mom would drop me off at the hospital, and I would stay overnight,
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whatever, have the procedure done.
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And then I would walk home because the hospital was at the end of our neighborhood.
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I was used to just going through these procedures by myself. It was cancer.
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So, hey, it's just the way it was. Yeah, but still. When you got a lot of kids, you're busy.
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You drop one off at the hospital and you say, hey, call me if you need me.
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So I didn't need her. Yeah, my mom would go with me every single time.
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No, no. For everything. Not me.
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Not me. So that's how I grew up. That's what I do.
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If I got to go in for something, I go in by myself. So Monty calls me an Uber.
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You want me to go? I say no. I go into the hospital.
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So the lady at the desk, of course, recognizes me. It's so sad.
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Yeah, right. In the emergency room. And she says, well, she says that...
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That nice people go to the front of the line. So I was admitted immediately.
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And the other people in the waiting room,
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you can wait. You weren't nice. She'll know you.
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VIP at the ER. That's a lot of abbreviation. All right. So I go in there.
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Unfortunately, they're packed. So there are no rooms available.
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Tell them what you saw. Oh, God. Okay. They had, well, at first,
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I was sitting in there forever, and then they sent me this young lady to take blood.
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They're called, what are they called? The blood people. Phlebotomists. Phlebampires.
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So they sent me a vampire junior to take my blood.
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And I guess, I mean, I guess she was new to the system.
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I don't know what, but, um, on her, you guys on her seventh,
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seventh, seventh attempt at, uh, finding a vein unsuccessfully.
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Seven times in with a needle. And then she would twist them around to see if
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it could find the vein, you know?
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And I was like, I'm dying. I'm like, Oh, I don't know how much more.
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So then she says, maybe I should, maybe I should get my supervisor.
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And I was like, yeah, maybe that's a good idea. So, um, so she goes and gets
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her supervisor and the supervisor comes in. It did take her supervisor two tries.
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Cause it was, I have problematic veins.
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So, uh, They got it. Okay, so there was that gun.
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So I'm still sitting there waiting for a room after they've done all that stuff.
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And a bunch of paramedics are coming in with ER beds. And one of the guys was a gunshot wound.
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That was a different guy. I saw two gunshot wounds. One was a gunshot wound.
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That's insane. Yeah. And so anyway, so I'm sitting there, sitting there,
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sitting there because they're packed.
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And I told them, you guys, this
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is like, you guys are like busy like McDonald's at lunch. they were busy.
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When they finally got me a room we had to walk past a hallway full of gurneys
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with people on them I mean it was like,
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they were busy and the room they got me,
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God bless them because they got me a room they were treating me so VIP it was scary
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because these guys are in the hall waiting for any private room or any not even
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a private room curtain off areas uh where they line up the beds you know six
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in a row yeah and then you just got curtains,
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between each one no they found me a private closet it was it was in the closet
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it was a storage it was a storage room and they moved equipment out of it,
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and um so they put me in there and uh had to pass the equipment on the way in
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and stuff like that it had two double doors big heavy, heavy doors, like a vault.
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And they put me in there. They didn't have any more, they didn't have any beds.
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So they put me in one of those well, basically, like, what's.
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What um you get wheeled in yeah those yeah those um the paramedics those paramedic
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beds that are really thin you know for us big old fat people oh you might rise
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but so they put me on one of those little skinny beds i mean skinny bed,
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and um i and so i was like nervous and i asked them to put the handrail up yeah
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if you roll a little to this way a little you're you're on the floor,
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and um then they came in right away with the ivs you know more needles needle
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needle by the By the time they got done poking with needles my entire visit,
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I had 16 new holes put in my arms.
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And they ended up having to go through my knuckles to get the blood with the
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veins on top of the knuckles because they were the only ones visible that would
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not burst when the needle would go.
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Anyway, so in doing that, and they get the IV, and then they're doing the drip,
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drip, drip, and that is gone in no time.
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So then they do one with antibiotics and they, you know, and they take me in
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for a CT scan, blah, blah, blah, all sorts of stuff.
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And they realize that I have...
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Um, my appendix is in the CT scan. They see that it's swollen to the point of
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like, it's going to burst, which is a dangerous thing for somebody our age.
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And so, yeah, so there, so that's why the antibiotics and then followed by more.
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But the thing is, they're in such a rush. I don't know.
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I don't know how this works. This is what I'm imagining.
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All i know is that the liquids were cold enough to make my body go into like
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hypothermia and i started shaking,
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and my teeth my whole body i'm kidding you not the entire bed was rattling it
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was you know that metal you could hear.
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And i was like oh my god what's happening to me okay yeah and so the thing is
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i'm looking around and because i made this basically,
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what looks like a storage closet there's no way to call a nurse to call an attendant
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call somebody there's no buttons anywhere there's nothing like that in that
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room just the cot i was on so
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i start trying to call them verbally,
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help me,
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somebody can you hear me and my whole body is tensing up tensing up because I'm freezing,
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and it was weird it happened like in a minute all of a sudden my body was and
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then it got worse and worse and I was freezing it was like hypothermia I was
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just like shaking uncontrollably my legs, my back, my arms everything was tensing up my head,
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My teeth couldn't stop shattering,
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And I was screaming for them Help me!
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Help me! And they couldn't hear me Because those damn heavy double doors That
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were in front of my room Were blocking all the audio And...
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The room next to me had another guy who must have been there on drugs and a
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little bit loopy because he was yelling with me.
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So they thought we were having like a drug party or something.
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So nobody was coming for like 15 minutes.
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And I swear, I really started to panic because I knew,
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with my physical condition, if I kept shaking like that and vibrating and tensing
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and getting more and more and more tense to the point where my head started to hurt so bad.
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I was tensing up and I couldn't move and I was having trouble even forming words. I was just...
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And so just something inside me said, dude, you're not going to survive this.
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If you don't freaking make some major noise.
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So I started just to scream at the top of my lungs.
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And finally, like a minute or two later, a nurse came running into the room
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and was like, what's going on? And I was like, I'm freezing.
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And then all of a sudden, more people just cored into the room.
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And they're like Mr. Srabio please calm down take deep breaths take deep breaths
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please calm down here and I hear uh the doctor explaining to them that the fluids
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went in too quickly and uh that they brought my body temperature down rapidly,
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they were cold the fluids were cold and they emptied three bags into me really fast and um,
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So they went and they got these heating pads and they broke them up and they
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put them all over my body. They couldn't put them anywhere near my abdomen, though.
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But they put them on my legs and my chest. And I was holding on to them and I was sick.
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And it took me, I kid you not, it took me about 15 minutes before my body stopped
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shaking, shaking, shaking, shaking.
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And finally,
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I started to relax a little. but every once in a while but it was not it was
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not permanent it was just every once in a while you know before it was like
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non-stop now it was just every once in a while just a oh my god,
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it makes me nervous just to watch you do that oh my god but finally finally
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finally finally finally,
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And, um, oh, and then, and then, uh, they gave me morphine and that kind of
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made me feel a little, a lot better. A little, a lot. Yeah.
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Cause it was like, we're going now. We go, we're going now.
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Fly me to the moon.
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And then, so they tried to wheel me out of the room, but the thing was I,
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the double doors all the equipment my bed kept getting caught on the equipment
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so they couldn't get me out of the room,
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jam jam there wasn't enough room to wheel me out so i sat up in the bed and
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i was pushing equipment back,
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and the nurse kept saying sir please lay down and keep your arms inside
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you know for safety purposes and i was like okay but i would still sit up and
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push push push because i want to get out of here i just want to get out of this
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room now get out of the closet and we get out And they finally get me in the hallway.
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And there's so many beds on the sides of the corridors that we're bumping into
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them. With people. With people.
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And I'm like, what is happening? COVID all over again? Look at all these people.
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And then one of the dudes, I hear him say that he has a bullet in his hand.
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And so I'm feeling really good from my drug inducement so I just sit up and
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tell him at least it wasn't in your chest it's easier to get out of your hand.
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Because you know it's my field of expertise yeah of course and he says to me
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yeah but the thing is it's been in my hand for a year and I'm like,
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And I laid back down, and all I could do was go, whoa, wow.
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Dude. So then they get me into the operating room, and the doctors are like,
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hey, heard you been through some stuff? And I was like, yeah,
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yeah, yeah. And he was like, well, you're going to feel much better now.
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And so then, you know, I give a shout out to the anesthesiologist.
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The person that puts you under.
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Because I was told this a long time ago.
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I am, I have sleep apnea and I use a sleep apnea machine at night by, by machine.
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And I am telling you because I have difficulty waking up after I am put under.
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And I'm supposed to give you that warning before I am put under by anybody.
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And she says, that's good. That's a good thing. And then.
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So she puts me under. He tells me, you know, told me I was going to feel good.
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I went under quick. Man, I went under. And listen, I woke up and I was in a
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private room overlooking Wrigley Field.
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Beautiful room. You know what I mean? Yeah. They gave me like the penthouse
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suite or something like that. You know, it was gorgeous. And the windows were giant.
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I'm serious. The windows were like 15 feet across. One window was gigantic. It was a gorgeous room.
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It was so bougie. It was so bougie. So bougie.
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Yes yes and i don't even have that great of assurance they must have you know
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i don't know what was going on anyways um yeah,
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so and the nurses were telling me on the way to the room you were so funny do
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you remember and i was like uh i was,
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i have no memory they're like oh honey you were so fun you were just so funny
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you're cracking us all up and i was like oh my god i I was putting him on his show.
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And you didn't film me. And I did, yeah. And so, yeah.
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And then, yeah, so that was great.
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And it was funny because I was ready to leave.
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I thought, you know, I slept there morning time because the surgery was right
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away as soon as I got there.
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So the following, you have to stay overnight. And then the following morning,
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woke up, had breakfast, blah, blah, blah, watched TV, blah, blah.
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Lunchtime rolls around, still waiting, waiting.
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Can I go home? I'm feeling much better. I mean, I'm feeling great.
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They took out the problem. Now I'm feeling like, whoo, ready to,
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plus they gave me coffee, coffee for breakfast, coffee for, and I do not drink coffee.
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So I was like a crack at, I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Woo hoo.
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I'm ready. Fandango, let's go horse riding. I'm ready to go.
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So she tells me, the nurse tells me, okay, you are being discharged.
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And I'm like, thank the Lord. After how many hours? Yes. So she says,
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stay right here. I'm going to go get your discharge papers.
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So little old May kind of forgot the instructions. Kind of. Yeah.
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So I get up and I pull out the heart monitor and I pull off all the little tabs
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and i start hitting buttons on the heart monitor and the oxygen monitor and,
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uh and the bypass the ventilator machine they have yeah and and i'm just hitting
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the buttons and going oh that looks turn it off and it turns off and i go up to the other and i'm like,
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and i'm turning everything off hey i'm doing their job for them taking everything
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off setting it down. I go in the bathroom.
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I get dressed because I want to go.
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Put my backpack on and I go to the counter out at the nurse's station and I'm
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just sitting there waiting.
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And the nurse is about to walk by and she freezes and she turns to look at me
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and she says, what are you doing?
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And I said, I'm ready to go. And she goes like, just like she's the principal
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at school, go back to your room right now.
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And I'm like, yes, ma'am. And I go back and I sit down and I hear in the hallway,
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talking to this guy, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, and don't let him leave.
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And the guy walks up to my bedroom door at the hospital, stands in front of it,
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And just stands there like, where do you think you're going?
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Like I'm being guarded. It was hysterical. It was hysterical.
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And I hear her in the hallway. Don't you be trying to leave?
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I was like, yes, ma'am. So the guy is sitting there and he's watching me.
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He turns out to be gay as fruity, fruity, fruity gay.
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So sister, we start talking and I'm like, you know, the mask I was wearing.
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I hear that they throw those away. Is that true? And he says,
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yeah, they do. And I said, so I can take that with me then probably.
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And he said, yeah, go for it. I don't care.
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And I was like, and that beautiful cup that I was using with the straw,
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you know, and these tissues and those wipes and this bag here.
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And I just started putting things in my backpack.
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And he was like, I'm okay, whatever, whatever.
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So she finally comes back with the paperwork and signs me out.
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And then they put me in a wheelchair and he is the one that's going to take
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me in the wheelchair because you have to go everywhere in a wheelchair after procedure. Yeah.
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So I'm going, I'm being wheeled past the nurse's station and my nurse is sitting
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there and I, she, she shouts out.
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So I hear you've been stealing stuff.
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And I was like, yes, ma'am. And she goes, well, you paid for it.
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You may as well take it home with you.
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And so I just turned to her and I shout out as loud as I can.
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The mattress didn't fit into my backpack.
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And she says...
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She says, I'm going to miss you. Oh. And I said, I'll miss you too.
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She was badass. And then I came home.
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They sent you home. I was supposed to get you an Uber. I told her.
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I kind of fudged the truth. I told her. Because she said, do you have someone
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that can bring you home? And I said, no.
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And she said, well, we can arrange that for you. And I said, okay.
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So they did. so they arranged my ride home and stuff like that.
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Oh, and then the guy that wheeled me out there, the gay guy,
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when we were waiting for the UR, he goes, listen, you're a bit too energetic
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for someone who just got done with surgery.
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And I'm like, what is that supposed to be? And he goes, listen, listen carefully.
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It was like, it was like a guru speaking to you. Like Yoda. Like Yoda.
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He says, you have to milk this for all you can.
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Milk this for all you can. When you get home, you tell them,
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all your friends, that for the next few days, you can't cook, you can't clean,
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you can't do laundry, that you're going to need them to do all of that for you. You hear me?
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And I just put on this big old smile, and I was like, you're good.
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You are good. And he was like, I'm telling you, get what you can out of this.
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And I was like, thank you. So that's my big story for the day.
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That's what happened for the past 20 years. 48 hours I'm home and I'm feeling so much better yeah.
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Appendix they took a piece out of you they could have that thing I don't want
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it anymore alright so alright thanks for listening to us have fun check it out
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bye stay healthy love you.
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Uh, something inside me just said, go on in.
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It's an unusual pain. I never felt it before in my, in my belly,
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dumb, you know, the lower quadrant.
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And, um, good thing I came in because my gallbladder was swollen.
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And so they put me into surgery immediately and removed it.
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So here I am waiting for the doctor, hopefully, so I can be released because I'm ready to go home.
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Yes all right,
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So,
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we had quite the eventful past, what, 48 hours? Yes, big time. So, all right.
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So, this is a clue. There's a clue right there. See it?
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And it's not a wristband for a rave party.
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That's your wish, right? Yeah, I wish. But I came home yesterday from the procedure
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I had done on my eye. Yes. And I got laced.
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Old people were always having procedures. Procedures were always at the hospital.
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They're starting to get to know us. By name. It's scary. Very scary.
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It's sad. So I got home after being laced.
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I still had a gloopy eye. She had lasers in her eyeballs. I had lasers in my eyeballs.
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And I get home and I said, how are you?
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And you said, not great. I'm not feeling great. I said, yeah,
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I was feeling a pain in my abdomen by my belly button, kind of on down there.
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And I had never felt a pain like that before. Yeah.
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It was concerning, you know, we were in pain, and I was like, it'll go.
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I'll just drink a lot of water. I'll lay down for a while. It'll be gone tomorrow.
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Yeah, because that's what we usually do. Yeah, because, you know,
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God, I don't want to go to the doctor.
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Not that we hate you, doctors. We love you, and we're very grateful.
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But you don't go to a doctor for a good reason, usually. I mean,
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unless it's just a checkup. True.
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But trust me, if you saw her calendar, we are at the doctors far too much in
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our old age. It's just, you know.
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So eat right and exercise. There's the bottom line. Eat lots of fiber.
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Vegetables. Green. Drink along to water. Oh, you know the routine.
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So anyways, I'm feeling this pain. And I was going to lay down and kind of ignore
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it. And something in my brain just kept saying, you know, that's a real unusual
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pain. I don't think you've ever felt that.
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You've never felt that before it was weird it was a weird pain and.
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So I got dressed and washed up, got dressed, shaved.
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Yeah. Because I can't go looking ugly. You've got to smell pretty,
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too. Yeah, and then Maddie was like, do you want me to go with you?
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And I was like, no, no, no. You never want to go.
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And listen, since I'm 10 years old, I'm having surgery on cancer.
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My mom drops me off at the hospital.
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I had five different surgeries for cancer.
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Each time, my mom would drop me off at the hospital, and I would stay overnight,
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whatever, have the procedure done.
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And then I would walk home because the hospital was at the end of our neighborhood.
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I was used to just going through these procedures by myself. It was cancer.
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So, hey, it's just the way it was. Yeah, but still. When you got a lot of kids, you're busy.
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You drop one off at the hospital and you say, hey, call me if you need me.
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So I didn't need her. Yeah, my mom would go with me every single time.
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No, no. For everything. Not me.
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Not me. So that's how I grew up. That's what I do.
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If I got to go in for something, I go in by myself. So Monty calls me an Uber.
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You want me to go? I say no. I go into the hospital.
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So the lady at the desk, of course, recognizes me. It's so sad.
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Yeah, right. In the emergency room. And she says, well, she says that...
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That nice people go to the front of the line. So I was admitted immediately.
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And the other people in the waiting room,
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you can wait. You weren't nice. She'll know you.
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VIP at the ER. That's a lot of abbreviation. All right. So I go in there.
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Unfortunately, they're packed. So there are no rooms available.
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Tell them what you saw. Oh, God. Okay. They had, well, at first,
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I was sitting in there forever, and then they sent me this young lady to take blood.
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They're called, what are they called? The blood people. Phlebotomists. Phlebampires.
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So they sent me a vampire junior to take my blood.
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And I guess, I mean, I guess she was new to the system.
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I don't know what, but, um, on her, you guys on her seventh,
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seventh, seventh attempt at, uh, finding a vein unsuccessfully.
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Seven times in with a needle. And then she would twist them around to see if
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it could find the vein, you know?
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And I was like, I'm dying. I'm like, Oh, I don't know how much more.
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So then she says, maybe I should, maybe I should get my supervisor.
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And I was like, yeah, maybe that's a good idea. So, um, so she goes and gets
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her supervisor and the supervisor comes in. It did take her supervisor two tries.
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Cause it was, I have problematic veins.
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So, uh, They got it. Okay, so there was that gun.
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So I'm still sitting there waiting for a room after they've done all that stuff.
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And a bunch of paramedics are coming in with ER beds. And one of the guys was a gunshot wound.
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That was a different guy. I saw two gunshot wounds. One was a gunshot wound.
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That's insane. Yeah. And so anyway, so I'm sitting there, sitting there,
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sitting there because they're packed.
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And I told them, you guys, this
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is like, you guys are like busy like McDonald's at lunch. they were busy.
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When they finally got me a room we had to walk past a hallway full of gurneys
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with people on them I mean it was like,
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they were busy and the room they got me,
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God bless them because they got me a room they were treating me so VIP it was scary
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because these guys are in the hall waiting for any private room or any not even
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a private room curtain off areas uh where they line up the beds you know six
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in a row yeah and then you just got curtains,
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between each one no they found me a private closet it was it was in the closet
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it was a storage it was a storage room and they moved equipment out of it,
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and um so they put me in there and uh had to pass the equipment on the way in
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and stuff like that it had two double doors big heavy, heavy doors, like a vault.
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And they put me in there. They didn't have any more, they didn't have any beds.
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So they put me in one of those well, basically, like, what's.
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What um you get wheeled in yeah those yeah those um the paramedics those paramedic
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beds that are really thin you know for us big old fat people oh you might rise
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but so they put me on one of those little skinny beds i mean skinny bed,
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and um i and so i was like nervous and i asked them to put the handrail up yeah
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if you roll a little to this way a little you're you're on the floor,
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and um then they came in right away with the ivs you know more needles needle
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needle by the By the time they got done poking with needles my entire visit,
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I had 16 new holes put in my arms.
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And they ended up having to go through my knuckles to get the blood with the
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veins on top of the knuckles because they were the only ones visible that would
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not burst when the needle would go.
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Anyway, so in doing that, and they get the IV, and then they're doing the drip,
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drip, drip, and that is gone in no time.
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So then they do one with antibiotics and they, you know, and they take me in
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for a CT scan, blah, blah, blah, all sorts of stuff.
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And they realize that I have...
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Um, my appendix is in the CT scan. They see that it's swollen to the point of
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like, it's going to burst, which is a dangerous thing for somebody our age.
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And so, yeah, so there, so that's why the antibiotics and then followed by more.
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But the thing is, they're in such a rush. I don't know.
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I don't know how this works. This is what I'm imagining.
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All i know is that the liquids were cold enough to make my body go into like
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hypothermia and i started shaking,
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and my teeth my whole body i'm kidding you not the entire bed was rattling it
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was you know that metal you could hear.
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And i was like oh my god what's happening to me okay yeah and so the thing is
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i'm looking around and because i made this basically,
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what looks like a storage closet there's no way to call a nurse to call an attendant
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call somebody there's no buttons anywhere there's nothing like that in that
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room just the cot i was on so
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i start trying to call them verbally,
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help me,
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somebody can you hear me and my whole body is tensing up tensing up because I'm freezing,
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and it was weird it happened like in a minute all of a sudden my body was and
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then it got worse and worse and I was freezing it was like hypothermia I was
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just like shaking uncontrollably my legs, my back, my arms everything was tensing up my head,
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My teeth couldn't stop shattering,
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And I was screaming for them Help me!
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Help me! And they couldn't hear me Because those damn heavy double doors That
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were in front of my room Were blocking all the audio And...
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The room next to me had another guy who must have been there on drugs and a
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little bit loopy because he was yelling with me.
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So they thought we were having like a drug party or something.
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So nobody was coming for like 15 minutes.
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And I swear, I really started to panic because I knew,
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with my physical condition, if I kept shaking like that and vibrating and tensing
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and getting more and more and more tense to the point where my head started to hurt so bad.
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I was tensing up and I couldn't move and I was having trouble even forming words. I was just...
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And so just something inside me said, dude, you're not going to survive this.
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If you don't freaking make some major noise.
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So I started just to scream at the top of my lungs.
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And finally, like a minute or two later, a nurse came running into the room
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and was like, what's going on? And I was like, I'm freezing.
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And then all of a sudden, more people just cored into the room.
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And they're like Mr. Srabio please calm down take deep breaths take deep breaths
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please calm down here and I hear uh the doctor explaining to them that the fluids
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went in too quickly and uh that they brought my body temperature down rapidly,
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they were cold the fluids were cold and they emptied three bags into me really fast and um,
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So they went and they got these heating pads and they broke them up and they
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put them all over my body. They couldn't put them anywhere near my abdomen, though.
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But they put them on my legs and my chest. And I was holding on to them and I was sick.
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And it took me, I kid you not, it took me about 15 minutes before my body stopped
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shaking, shaking, shaking, shaking.
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And finally,
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I started to relax a little. but every once in a while but it was not it was
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not permanent it was just every once in a while you know before it was like
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non-stop now it was just every once in a while just a oh my god,
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it makes me nervous just to watch you do that oh my god but finally finally
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finally finally finally,
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And, um, oh, and then, and then, uh, they gave me morphine and that kind of
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made me feel a little, a lot better. A little, a lot. Yeah.
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Cause it was like, we're going now. We go, we're going now.
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Fly me to the moon.
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And then, so they tried to wheel me out of the room, but the thing was I,
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the double doors all the equipment my bed kept getting caught on the equipment
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so they couldn't get me out of the room,
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jam jam there wasn't enough room to wheel me out so i sat up in the bed and
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i was pushing equipment back,
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and the nurse kept saying sir please lay down and keep your arms inside
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you know for safety purposes and i was like okay but i would still sit up and
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push push push because i want to get out of here i just want to get out of this
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room now get out of the closet and we get out And they finally get me in the hallway.
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And there's so many beds on the sides of the corridors that we're bumping into
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them. With people. With people.
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And I'm like, what is happening? COVID all over again? Look at all these people.
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And then one of the dudes, I hear him say that he has a bullet in his hand.
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And so I'm feeling really good from my drug inducement so I just sit up and
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tell him at least it wasn't in your chest it's easier to get out of your hand.
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Because you know it's my field of expertise yeah of course and he says to me
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yeah but the thing is it's been in my hand for a year and I'm like,
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And I laid back down, and all I could do was go, whoa, wow.
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Dude. So then they get me into the operating room, and the doctors are like,
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hey, heard you been through some stuff? And I was like, yeah,
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yeah, yeah. And he was like, well, you're going to feel much better now.
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And so then, you know, I give a shout out to the anesthesiologist.
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The person that puts you under.
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Because I was told this a long time ago.
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I am, I have sleep apnea and I use a sleep apnea machine at night by, by machine.
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And I am telling you because I have difficulty waking up after I am put under.
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And I'm supposed to give you that warning before I am put under by anybody.
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And she says, that's good. That's a good thing. And then.
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So she puts me under. He tells me, you know, told me I was going to feel good.
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I went under quick. Man, I went under. And listen, I woke up and I was in a
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private room overlooking Wrigley Field.
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Beautiful room. You know what I mean? Yeah. They gave me like the penthouse
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suite or something like that. You know, it was gorgeous. And the windows were giant.
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I'm serious. The windows were like 15 feet across. One window was gigantic. It was a gorgeous room.
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It was so bougie. It was so bougie. So bougie.
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Yes yes and i don't even have that great of assurance they must have you know
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i don't know what was going on anyways um yeah,
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so and the nurses were telling me on the way to the room you were so funny do
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you remember and i was like uh i was,
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i have no memory they're like oh honey you were so fun you were just so funny
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you're cracking us all up and i was like oh my god i I was putting him on his show.
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And you didn't film me. And I did, yeah. And so, yeah.
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And then, yeah, so that was great.
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And it was funny because I was ready to leave.
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I thought, you know, I slept there morning time because the surgery was right
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away as soon as I got there.
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So the following, you have to stay overnight. And then the following morning,
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woke up, had breakfast, blah, blah, blah, watched TV, blah, blah.
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Lunchtime rolls around, still waiting, waiting.
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Can I go home? I'm feeling much better. I mean, I'm feeling great.
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They took out the problem. Now I'm feeling like, whoo, ready to,
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plus they gave me coffee, coffee for breakfast, coffee for, and I do not drink coffee.
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So I was like a crack at, I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Woo hoo.
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I'm ready. Fandango, let's go horse riding. I'm ready to go.
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So she tells me, the nurse tells me, okay, you are being discharged.
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And I'm like, thank the Lord. After how many hours? Yes. So she says,
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stay right here. I'm going to go get your discharge papers.
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So little old May kind of forgot the instructions. Kind of. Yeah.
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So I get up and I pull out the heart monitor and I pull off all the little tabs
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and i start hitting buttons on the heart monitor and the oxygen monitor and,
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uh and the bypass the ventilator machine they have yeah and and i'm just hitting
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the buttons and going oh that looks turn it off and it turns off and i go up to the other and i'm like,
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and i'm turning everything off hey i'm doing their job for them taking everything
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off setting it down. I go in the bathroom.
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I get dressed because I want to go.
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Put my backpack on and I go to the counter out at the nurse's station and I'm
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just sitting there waiting.
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And the nurse is about to walk by and she freezes and she turns to look at me
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and she says, what are you doing?
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And I said, I'm ready to go. And she goes like, just like she's the principal
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at school, go back to your room right now.
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And I'm like, yes, ma'am. And I go back and I sit down and I hear in the hallway,
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talking to this guy, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, and don't let him leave.
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And the guy walks up to my bedroom door at the hospital, stands in front of it,
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And just stands there like, where do you think you're going?
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Like I'm being guarded. It was hysterical. It was hysterical.
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And I hear her in the hallway. Don't you be trying to leave?
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I was like, yes, ma'am. So the guy is sitting there and he's watching me.
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He turns out to be gay as fruity, fruity, fruity gay.
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So sister, we start talking and I'm like, you know, the mask I was wearing.
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I hear that they throw those away. Is that true? And he says,
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yeah, they do. And I said, so I can take that with me then probably.
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And he said, yeah, go for it. I don't care.
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And I was like, and that beautiful cup that I was using with the straw,
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you know, and these tissues and those wipes and this bag here.
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And I just started putting things in my backpack.
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And he was like, I'm okay, whatever, whatever.
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So she finally comes back with the paperwork and signs me out.
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And then they put me in a wheelchair and he is the one that's going to take
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me in the wheelchair because you have to go everywhere in a wheelchair after procedure. Yeah.
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So I'm going, I'm being wheeled past the nurse's station and my nurse is sitting
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there and I, she, she shouts out.
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So I hear you've been stealing stuff.
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And I was like, yes, ma'am. And she goes, well, you paid for it.
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You may as well take it home with you.
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And so I just turned to her and I shout out as loud as I can.
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The mattress didn't fit into my backpack.
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And she says...
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She says, I'm going to miss you. Oh. And I said, I'll miss you too.
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She was badass. And then I came home.
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They sent you home. I was supposed to get you an Uber. I told her.
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I kind of fudged the truth. I told her. Because she said, do you have someone
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that can bring you home? And I said, no.
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And she said, well, we can arrange that for you. And I said, okay.
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So they did. so they arranged my ride home and stuff like that.
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Oh, and then the guy that wheeled me out there, the gay guy,
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when we were waiting for the UR, he goes, listen, you're a bit too energetic
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for someone who just got done with surgery.
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And I'm like, what is that supposed to be? And he goes, listen, listen carefully.
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It was like, it was like a guru speaking to you. Like Yoda. Like Yoda.
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He says, you have to milk this for all you can.
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Milk this for all you can. When you get home, you tell them,
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all your friends, that for the next few days, you can't cook, you can't clean,
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you can't do laundry, that you're going to need them to do all of that for you. You hear me?
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And I just put on this big old smile, and I was like, you're good.
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You are good. And he was like, I'm telling you, get what you can out of this.
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And I was like, thank you. So that's my big story for the day.
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That's what happened for the past 20 years. 48 hours I'm home and I'm feeling so much better yeah.
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Appendix they took a piece out of you they could have that thing I don't want
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it anymore alright so alright thanks for listening to us have fun check it out
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bye stay healthy love you.
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Uh, something inside me just said, go on in.
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It's an unusual pain. I never felt it before in my, in my belly,
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dumb, you know, the lower quadrant.
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And, um, good thing I came in because my gallbladder was swollen.
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And so they put me into surgery immediately and removed it.
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So here I am waiting for the doctor, hopefully, so I can be released because I'm ready to go home.
