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July 24, 2023 12 mins
We get to finally hear from our Gandhi from being out over the past few weeks. Gandhi explained EVERYTHING she's been dealing with over the last couple of weeks.

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Today's Daily Highlight from Elvis Duran in the Morning Show.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
This has been a weird couple of weeks for our show.
Having Gandhi out and in the hospital for the entire
two weeks and plus has been really, really strange, and
we miss her so much and we could not wait
to get her back on the air. And she says
she may be back with us Wednesday. We're not one
hundred percent certain, but we have her on the phone.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
Is that cool? You only hear from Gandhi? Yes, good morning, Gandhi.
Oh there you are. Oh my gosh, can.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
You stop clowning around and get back to work.

Speaker 4 (00:39):
I know I've been partying. It's been crazy over.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Here, so I mean, we've been very careful not to
say too much about what you've been going through in
the hospital these past two weeks plus because basically we
don't fully know exactly what's going on. Can you tell
everyone why if you want why? You've been out for
over two weeks.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
So not only did you guys not really know what
was going on, I didn't, and neither did the doctors.

Speaker 4 (01:05):
They were baffled by what was happening.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
It seems like it's been a pile of things that
hit me all at the same time. So first they
definitely narrowed it down to a kidney issue. I had
a really bad kidney infection that had to be surgically
drained twice, and then I had a scent put in
and I have massive kidney stones.

Speaker 4 (01:25):
One of them is still there, so hopefully that won't
go away soon.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
Then on top of that, we had appendicitis severe dehydration,
and then pneumonia decided to show up.

Speaker 4 (01:36):
So it was all of.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
That happening at the same time that was causing all
these different issues in different areas.

Speaker 4 (01:42):
That was then affecting my heart and they weren't sure why.
Now my heart was beating weirdly, so it was freaking
everybody out. Everybody was trying to figure out what is this?
Is this some unknown illness.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
They've never heard of. There was a moment where I
opened my eyes and I was talking to my sister
about it yesterday, and it looked like a team of
doctors that were like the Avengers had assembled.

Speaker 4 (02:02):
Around my bed. There were so many of them and
so many different departments just trying to figure out together
what is this. And we're still not one hundred percent
sure but I feel so much better.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
So whatever it is, they're doing everything they can to
at least fight the symptoms and to keep you, you know, alive,
and thank God for them. And by the way, once
you are out of the hospital, we have to talk
about what a wonderful experience this has been for you.

Speaker 4 (02:27):
I would love to Hackensack Meridian.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
Okay, you can tell you can call them out now
if you want.

Speaker 5 (02:33):
That's right now, you don't, Yeah, well, well, Hma, Tack
and Sack Meridian Health is part of the it's the
whole umbrella. But she's that one specific hospital which you know,
maybe I don't know if you want to say the
hospital yet or you know you.

Speaker 4 (02:47):
Wait, we can okay, actually I okay.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
I got out of the hospital yesterday, so I've been
we're staying somewhere close by.

Speaker 4 (02:57):
Just in case, because I don't want to go too
far and then, you know, in case something happens.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
I have said, come all the way back here, so
saying pretty close, but I had I have.

Speaker 4 (03:05):
This is going to make Scotty barf. I love it.
I have a pickline installed in my inches. Yes, it
goes from my arm all the way.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
It threw my body into my heart, and I have
to inject myself with medicine so that it's delivered more
quickly and efficiently.

Speaker 4 (03:21):
And it works that way. But you can see the
little pipe sticking out of me.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
Well, let's bring Scotty on and just talk to him
about it. Scotty, you know, stuff like this really freaks
you out. Stuff like this freaks you out. But you
heard her describe what you're going to be looking at
in a few days, right the pickline?

Speaker 6 (03:35):
Oh no, no, I turned it down.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
Yep, I turned it down so you couldn't hear about
the pickline.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
While she texted me about the pickline, and I stopped
reading it. And I don't want to hear it. I
don't even know.

Speaker 4 (03:44):
I don't know, but.

Speaker 3 (03:46):
The pickline could be saving her life.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
I'm super I'm super happy about the pickline, but I
don't want to see it.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
Please don't show it.

Speaker 7 (03:53):
To me now, Scotty, what if she needed you to
administer medicine into the pickline one day?

Speaker 6 (03:57):
You were her only hope.

Speaker 3 (03:59):
I guess how probably have to do it, but I
don't want to. Like Gandhi, do you hear this? I
don't know.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
He's freaked out, so gandhi, now is there Do you
think there's a bug you got Wild on vacation or
there's no way to track this down?

Speaker 3 (04:14):
Is there?

Speaker 4 (04:15):
There isn't any real way to track it down.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
They really wanted to with you know, all the blood
cultures and rain cultures and everything when I first got there,
but they said there's no way to tell if it's
something that had to do with traveling.

Speaker 4 (04:27):
They don't think it did, so. I mean, we've had
the infectious disease team on.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
It for the entire time and they're saying, no, I
don't think so.

Speaker 4 (04:36):
But where it actually came from with no clue?

Speaker 2 (04:39):
Well, I mean I do see video of you Wild
on vacation rolling around an elephant dung.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
I mean, I tell you that is My boyfriend is
convinced that that's what WATS is.

Speaker 4 (04:48):
Like you and those elephants. Those elephants tried to kill you.

Speaker 6 (04:51):
Now you know, Oh my gosh.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
Well, Danielle, anything you want to talk to your sister
about it.

Speaker 1 (04:59):
I'm just happy to hear.

Speaker 5 (05:00):
I mean, I've heard her voice, but I'm just happy
to hear that she's sounding so much better because before
she was, like, you know, she didn't sound so great,
and she's kept telling me all, I'm ten percent, I'm
fifteen percent. Yesterday she said I'm seventy five percent, and
that made me so okay.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
Now, now, how has it been with your mom and
dad in town? Oh?

Speaker 4 (05:18):
I got so much more stressful than ever should be.
But it's okay because I know they love me.

Speaker 3 (05:23):
Well, of course she did.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
And we've got to say that your sister Priya has
been such a superstar during all of this.

Speaker 3 (05:30):
I mean Priya.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
We were on the phone with her when we couldn't
even talk to you in the very beginning, when you
were very, very ill, and Priya was just incredible. She
was on top of everything, and she did not hesitate
in asking if we could help do this or do that,
or connect her with whoever she needed to be connected with.
You've got a great, a great friend in her.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
By the way, she's my favorite person in the whole world.
And I don't know what I would have done without her.
And I know it sounds so gorning, but she legitimately
saved my life in so many ways.

Speaker 4 (05:58):
And as soon as I told her, I was taking
a day off of work because I wasn't feeling fairy well.

Speaker 1 (06:03):
She just booked a ticket to be here because she said,
I've never heard you say that, And as long as
you've been working, you haven't taken a day off of
work for being sick, so I know it's bad. And
I just woke up in the emergency room and she
was just sitting there right by my side, like all
my sister's the best person in the world, and and
all of this, you guys have been so I'm going

(06:24):
to cry, amazing and helpful and generous with your time
and resources, and everyone has been wonderful. Danielle picked my
parents up and she took them around to do things
like get some laundry done and take my mom to
run errand and Nate has been pulling strength to help
me out with everything he possibly can out if you
have asked me a million times everything I need and

(06:45):
comparing with everything.

Speaker 4 (06:47):
And Andrew brought me a pillow to the hospital, and
I just I don't know how I would have done
this by myself out here.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
So I love you guys. Is there any has there
been a moment or two during this long situation where
you you were actually scared, You actually like we're saying,
this could turn into something really wrong.

Speaker 4 (07:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (07:13):
As soon as I went to my doctor, my regular
like PCP, and she took one look at me and
she said, well, you're going to the emergency room. You
can call an uber or I will call you a squad,
but that's the only option I'm giving you. I sort
of panicked for a second. I'm like, wait, what. I
didn't think it was happened.

Speaker 4 (07:30):
I thought you guys were just gonna give me some medicine,
send me on my.

Speaker 1 (07:33):
Way in the er, and then I certainly didn't expect
it to turn into what it has turned into. And
a lot of times seeing the doctor's faces and their
confusion and how just don't know what's happening. I'm so sorry.
I wish we had an answer.

Speaker 4 (07:48):
I you know, you want doctors to have every answer
in the world, and they are.

Speaker 1 (07:51):
Great and thank God for modern medicine, and they do
their best. But hearing doctors say knowing what was happening
here and definitely freaky.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (08:02):
Wow, yeah, no.

Speaker 7 (08:02):
I remember I had a doctor say to me one time,
I've never seen anything quite like that before, and I'm like, uh,
that's not encouraging.

Speaker 3 (08:11):
Calling people in, Hey, look at this one.

Speaker 7 (08:12):
Have you ever I want thee all that. Oh yeah,
we deal with that all the time. We'll take care
of that, like well you want, We'll leave it.

Speaker 2 (08:20):
Leave it to Gandhi. Leave it to our Gandhi to
try to be unique. It will be different anyway. Yes, Cary,
what's up?

Speaker 3 (08:28):
God? I just want to say I love you, I
miss you.

Speaker 8 (08:30):
You're needed here, especially they've been breaking all the rules
to all the contests and games that we're doing.

Speaker 3 (08:35):
You need you back for some laws.

Speaker 6 (08:37):
Not wrong, He's not wrong.

Speaker 2 (08:40):
It's been Actually, the contesting has been quite pleasant without
you here.

Speaker 6 (08:43):
To be honest, Shandy, everybody's winning.

Speaker 1 (08:46):
They're not.

Speaker 6 (08:46):
They're not answering questions. It's bad. You got to get
under the bus.

Speaker 3 (08:50):
Getty recovery plase.

Speaker 8 (08:52):
Yes, Nate, what's up? I just want to point something
out here. Okay, So Gandhi's going through this this big
medical thing right now. Uh, Elvis, your retina has detached,
Daniel's had thyroid cancer, Froggy's head and aneurism.

Speaker 3 (09:05):
I've had two strokes. I think Scary's bad luck.

Speaker 8 (09:11):
I really, because I'm the only person that had any Seriously,
Gandhi's fighting for her life right now, and you're the
only person.

Speaker 3 (09:18):
You've never taken a sick day, You've never been ill.

Speaker 6 (09:20):
Oh, I don't jink, then don't jink.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
During the height of COVID, he was like a rave
parties overnight.

Speaker 6 (09:27):
And I have the most healthy in every handrail he
could find.

Speaker 3 (09:33):
Unhealthy habits. Maybe you also like me.

Speaker 2 (09:35):
Well, okay, look, gandhi, A lot of people are texting
in and sending you their love, and there's some thankful
tears to hear your voice, and people are crying, and
I mean it's it's we miss we miss you so much.
And and uh, you know, look, you know every everyone's
chipping in and everyone's doing a great job, but we
need you back here. I know you mentioned you mentioned
possibly being on Mike from somewhere on Wednesday, but look,

(09:59):
you know you you do that when you're ready and
or when they say you're ready. It's really not up
to you, really, is it, or is it?

Speaker 1 (10:07):
It is to a certain extent. The doctor said that
they think once they will be fine, just not to
push it too hard.

Speaker 4 (10:14):
And they also said if I jump the gun and.

Speaker 1 (10:16):
Go back too early and something happens, they're going to
have way less empathy for me.

Speaker 6 (10:20):
And they do.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
It's always good to hear the medical professionals say we
have zero empathy for you.

Speaker 3 (10:26):
Okay, don't push it too hard.

Speaker 1 (10:29):
So yeah, one day is my day that I'm really
hoping for.

Speaker 4 (10:33):
And I was saying this to.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
My sister the other day too, like, you know, you're
very lucky and you have a great job when you
actually miss your co workers and the thing that you
want the most is to go back to work.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
All right, we miss you too, and and we and
we definitely need you. I mean, we're having decent shows.

Speaker 5 (10:50):
But you know, it's it feels like is missing when
someone's missing.

Speaker 2 (10:55):
Yeah, it feels like a tire is flat. So why
why you will get some rest. Let's stay in contact
and whatever you need let us know.

Speaker 4 (11:04):
Okay, Okay, Well, I love you, Thank.

Speaker 3 (11:07):
You for we love you. We love you. To tell
Ganda you love her.

Speaker 2 (11:11):
All right, We'll talk to you later, okay, all right,
bye bye, I mean until next time.

Speaker 6 (11:18):
Wow, that's crazy.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
Yeah, you know, hey, we need to do this, in
this and this to you. We need to put you
in this and do that too, and then do a procedure.
But we don't know what's wrong with you. Okay, but
that's it. It sounds like, no matter what's going on
with her, she's in fantastic hands at Hackensack Meridian. So
we're so thankful for that.

Speaker 5 (11:40):
We say the name of the hospital or no, we shouldn't.

Speaker 3 (11:42):
Yeah, because she's out.

Speaker 5 (11:43):
Oh so it was a Hackensack University Medical Center. They're
amazing and yeah, I'm so happy that she got to
go there.

Speaker 2 (11:50):
And here's the thing. We we have lots of connections
with Hackensack Meridian.

Speaker 3 (11:55):
We we do.

Speaker 4 (11:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (11:56):
Uh, it amaze me.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
So some phone calls were made on Gandhi's behalf, but
you know what, not everyone in the world has a
connection with the medical centers out there. So all you
can do is just take our advice. If you live
in New Jersey or in the New York area, Hacking,
take Meridian. We know for a fact we'll take very
good care of you if you need it, So keep

(12:19):
that in mind. We need to take a break. We'll
be back right after this.

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