June 3, 2026 • 13 mins
Sam is having only clear liquids today as he prepares for a FUN day at the doctor.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Murphy Salmon Jody After the Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Really behind the scenes today is that Sam had his
last solid snack for a while just a few minutes ago.
What was your snack?
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Banana?
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Okay, that's a soft food, man, You could have gone stronger,
but whatever. So you're having you have to go on
all liquids starting now.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Starting now, Wait for twenty four hours, well now, well,
yeah it is twenty four hours.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Oh wow, you're having a colonoscopy tomorrow around this time.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Yeah, yeah, around lunchtime tom The.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Thing about the reason I even bring it up, there's
so much to talk about, but that hole you can
only have liquids, Yeah, is never a good day for me.
Like I didn't enjoy it. I had jello and broth
last time, and after a while you're just like, i'd't
rather have nothing because this is not real food. That's
(00:54):
what was going on in my brain. But you don't
have a problem with it.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
It doesn't bother me because to me, it's only I
got to get through this afternoon and tonight and then
I'm good because tomorrow will take care of itself.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Yeah, certainly will.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Well, actually, tonight I'll take care of itself, if you
know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
I guess I just didn't realize that it had to
be twenty four hours. It's because I've had one done,
but I don't remember being a whole morning through. I
thought it was like it like in the afternoon. At
one point cut off, boom, I'm done nothing after twelve
pm or something like that.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
And then it was ten am that liquid diet started,
and then six o'clock tonight is the I have to
take the first bottle of drink. Drink clean out flow.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
You create the drink like you mix.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I have two bottles of it and I have to
pour it in. And they said I can mix it
with a carbonated drink or water.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Or whatever carbonated drink.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Wow, okay, I can't have dairy Like if I want
iced tea, that's good. Our coffee was good. I had coffee.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah, I can't have dirty.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
So I just can't put cream or anything like that
in it.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yeah, okay, and you can live without that.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
I bought some, you know, because I've been drinking those
Doctor Pepper the coconut creamy coconut. So I figured, well,
let me try to do something right. So I've got
iced tea and I've got a ginger ale drink very good. Yeah,
so at least that'll be semi clear ish.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I just honestly, I got gatorise and I got jell o.
Oh you're good with jello then, yeah. And but the
thing about it is it's the night of the prep
is not fun at all. The next day is not
fun at all. But once you're underway that thing, I
don't know how long it takes or how quickly it is,
how quickly it happens, but it's a blur to you
(02:37):
because you're going to be on the best sleeping medicine
there is. I had one, and I begged them to
let me keep sleeping when I was waking up in recovery.
I begged them. I was like, please let me sleep,
this is so good. And she was like, no, ma'am,
you gotta get Upsd's outside waiting for you. Yeah, you
were out there waiting for me, Murphy. Yeah, so you remember,
(03:01):
I don't think that Murphy is very good at only
being on liquid stuff. He doesn't like it. I don't
think that you're good at it.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Well, I mean I don't.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I don't remember, you know that. I honestly, I don't
know why I'm not remembering because it's been I guess
five years since the last time.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I had one day, that's why.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
And I mean I know that they I know that
they moved me last time to the little the pills
thing like Jody Dead, which was a lot easier than
drinking the liquid stuff because the liquid to me, and
again like it's different by my palate's different than your
Sam's just probably the same thing if I could take
a right because it's a salty, it's sort of a
salty just kind of an ego something about it does
(03:37):
so nasty. Yeah, I do, I just don't. I don't
like that. So the pills were easier because you had
to you would take the pills, but then you had
to drink a lot of water, you know, right after.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
I have to drink the bottle, which I think is
a six ounce bottle, but then I have to within
that first hour, I drink thirty two ounces of water,
and then another another bottle tomorrow morning it's seven I think,
and then drink thirty two ounces of water before eight,
so I may be in and out tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Okay. I guess there's never going to be a way
for this test to be done differently. There's no other
way to clean all that out. I just I wish
there would be. Well, there's just such a pain. People
don't want to do it, and it's important.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
I think it's better than it used to be because
they used to. I mean the first time that I
ever had it done, which was really at a very
young age. I don't know why I had it done
so young the first time, but the stuff was even
worse tasting. So at least they've improved that.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Now.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Even the liquid stuff that you're taking SAM is going
to be better than you know, the stuff that I
had to mix up and drink previously was.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
No Originally I did that home test. I can't remember
what the name of it is, but I did that
and I was good. You don't want to know, trust.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Me, banks No, I don't.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
And I was good. And then the next time I
had to do it, the home test showed it wasn't
a positive, but it wasn't a full.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Negative, meaning it wasn't colonoscopy.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
So it was like, okay, get you got to come in.
We got to make sure. And they did find a
few poll ups, took them off and all that stuff
so this time the doctor said you got to get
another one. I was like, well, can I do the
home thing? And he goes, now, once you get a
positive the first time, well, yeah, because once they're removing polyps.
I always thought that the you know, look, I'm not
saying it's not legit, but the first time you told
(05:21):
us about that, I'm like, that sounds really sketchy. Way
a mail in that sounds really sketch. You know, it's
not sketch. It's not a full diagnostic. I mean it's not.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
I would much rather have them go in, look, see
and then tell me all is clear, versus a test
that I hope something on my insides, you know what.
I mean that the test is not going to throw
a false negative or something.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
That's just me.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Though you know I'm a diagnostic.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
I think it's as far as your choice if you
wanted to take one.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
As far as colonoscopy goes, I don't really care about
it because it's like my mom was like, are you worried?
It's like, honestly, the only thing that worries me is
the needlestick in my hand. I don't because, like you said,
I'm going to be out for it, I don't care.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Well, you'll be super hydrated, so the needlestick should be easier.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Yeah, just look away.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Yeah, it literally plumps up your veins.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
You know. One time when I had a procedure done
on my teeth, the guy that put the needle or
whatever the IV in my hand, he sprayed it with
this freezy stuff first, so you didn't even feel it
when he stuck it in. And it's like, Man, I
wish everybody.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Used that me too. I wish you wouldn't have told
me that. I get stuck kind of a lot.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
It's not my favorite, but I guess I've had it
done so many times now you just kind of deal
with it, and it's is what it is.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
That part's done. I don't I'm good. It's just like
I'll sit there for an hour and a half and
wait until they take me back. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
But you know the thing is, once you get through
it again, you have a definitive answer, which to me,
and maybe that's my own obsessive about actually having answers
to the think it's the same reason that I do
the you know, the little lung scan or whatever kind
of stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
I don't. I love that.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Technology can make some things easier, but I want a
doctor's eyes on some things, you know, for me to
make sure that it's it's really that I'm getting an
actual answer versus something that you know, shows up as
red or green on a sheet of paper somewhere.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
I do have a couple of questions for him, the doctor,
tomorrow before we start, because it just out of curiosity.
I want to know how far they go.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Oh okay, just like is this like four.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Feet or is this like twelve inches?
Speaker 2 (07:25):
I guess that's a fair question.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
I mean, just personal curiosity. It won't affect anything to
do with the procedure, but it's just like I really
would like to know, Yeah, how far is it going?
What are you doing?
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Well? I guess they're just looking in your colon at
one point. They don't go to your long intestines, so
they're only going to however long the colon is. And
I'm trying to remember the picture of that from biology.
The length of the colon is only a couple of feet, right,
I mean it's the knit, the big thing that kind
of wraps around.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
That's the big thing.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Yeah, so I'm going to be tickling my throat right, No,
it's funny.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Now I know they have that endoscope at home. I
could do this all at home. Great, well, you know.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
And the thing is, last time I had done, I
had both done because they were going through my throat also,
which are two different you know, they're the same procedure
with two different hoses.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
They meet in the middle.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
They were looking at two different things, right, exactly. It's
not the same procedure exactly. But what's been funny is
these last couple of days, these here at work, Sam
keeps getting these calls and get leaving, leaving the room,
and some of them you've taken in this in this
room where they're asking you one hundred million questions. I
don't remember being asked this many questions for, you know,
(08:35):
unless I had serious surgery, like when I had foot surgery,
I had been asking you everything.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
What Murphy just said about not remembering all the stuff
because it was a few years ago. I mine was
three years ago according to my doctor, and I don't remember.
I remember the facility. I remember cracking a joke when
they said roll over on your side, and I did
all I remember, yeah, but I don't remember all these
phone calls. I've got a phone call from the surgery center.
I've got a phone call about my insurance questions, and
(09:03):
I got a phone call from the overall health company,
and they basically all asked the same questions, but.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Didn't they ask the unusual questions about like injuries, Oh,
what your home life is like?
Speaker 3 (09:16):
They asked me, you know, in these surgeries in the past,
we have these listed and I was like, yeah, that
pretty much is all the ones I have. And Okay, well,
if for any reason you happen to injure the area
that is going to be under the surgery or the procedure,
please let us know. And I was like, I don't
think I will, but sure.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Yeah, I'm guessing they're asking questions based on things that
actually happen all the time, you know. I mean they
are especially with people who are not comfortable. I mean,
some people have a real fear for any of these
kinds of procedures, or they're embarrassed and they don't want
to talk about certain things, or so. I think they've
just become more thorough over time. I think the other
part is insurance and the thoroughness of the you know,
(09:57):
what medications are you taking? And it's all risk management
part of everything associated with it, because you know, there's
so many medicines that people take now that procedures like
these that involve them removing a poly up. They don't
want you to bleed, and so that's why they don't
want you to taking aspirin. And they're going to verify
a couple of different times because it's too late to
ask that, and they will probably ask you again before
(10:19):
you get you know, when when they're when they're giving
to the ivs tomorrow. When was the last time that
you had any you know, thing to eat or drink?
It was the last time that you had because again,
they're verifying everything.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Is they've got to is they got see when one
of the UH calls, when she started going through my medication, Yeah,
you're taking this, and you're taking that. When she got
to the second one, I say, if you're reading this
from my chart, everything in there is correct. Yeah, but
because risk management or whatever, I still had Well I
understand that, but I still have to go over all
(10:49):
of them with you. Yeah, okay, And then she had
to give me instructions like don't do any of those.
You can take this one tomorrow, you know before, but
don't take the rest until after your procedure.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
I feel like I remember being told by a nurse
that maybe it was for yours murphy. I don't know.
I just remember being told that. Yeah, people who try
to tell you that they didn't have anything to eat
in twenty four hours, But do they try to fudge that.
Of course, it's a problem. They cannot do what they're
(11:19):
trying to do, and you waste everybody in schedule because
they can't. So you can't fudge it. You know, if
you accidentally drank some coffee with cream, you need to
let them know and you'll have to reschedule things like that,
Like it's that syrea.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Sometimes it changes the outcome of the test. But anytime
you're on any sort of sedation, they don't want anything
on your stomach because it's a real choking risk for you. Yeah,
you know, I mean you're going to sleep. You're not
under full anesthesia. If you were under full anesthesia, they
would have oxygen and everything else attached to you and
an anesthesiologist there, which now I'm not trying. I don't
remember if they actually do in this case or not.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
I guess they do.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
They're sedating you to the point where they've got the IVY. Yeah,
so you've got so that there is some it's having
to regulate, you know that there, but I.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Want to sleep after could but I guess.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
You know, you're not being put on anything that breathes
for you, and so as a result of that, you know,
they want to make sure that you don't have any
any food in your stomach.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Here's a weird one because I know this wasn't last time,
but she asked, you know when she was going over,
you have these medical conditions da da da da, And
she said appening And I was like, well, yeah, sleep apneing.
Do you have a seatpap, Yeah, sleep with a seatpath. Okay,
you're going to need to bring that with you. And
I was like, I didn't last time, and she says, well, no,
bring it with you because while you're yeah, maybe I
(12:36):
could choke myself awake. I don't know. I'm going to
bring it, but I'm going to talk to the doctor.
I do really need to hook this up and all
of this contraption while you're going the other way. Yeah,
that's the first I've never heard that.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
There's a reason they're updating policies though there's some reason Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
For me, I just always make sure that they know
keep me upright. That's the main thing for me. Don't
put me on my back, you know, I have to
be upright. On my side is fine, but I've got
to be on your side for the Yeah, on your
side is not a problem for me. But if they
were to wheel me back in and I'm and then
too much of a not an incline that I should be,
that's where the cheap pap thing becomes a problem for me.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
That's part of Murphy's claustrophobia.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
And by the way, well yeah, well, because well when
you when you have sleep apnea, you're you're literally your
airwaves closing off. So the farther you are back, you
can't breathe. So I guess it plays into claustrophobia for sure,
but it's a it's a it's a feeling of not
being able to breathe.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Yeah, so now you're underway. Liquids only, Yeah, don't worry.
Won't bring a pizza in here to tempt.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Oh you know what, I have a home in the
fridge leftovers berry of tacos and red beans and rice.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Oh well, at least you can eat them after the
procedures done, I could have some fun.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
No missed any part of the show.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Get it all on the Murphy Salmon Jody podcast.
Welcome to the Murphy Salmon Jody After the Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Really behind the scenes today is that Sam had his
last solid snack for a while just a few minutes ago.
What was your snack?
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Banana?
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Okay, that's a soft food, man, You could have gone stronger,
but whatever. So you're having you have to go on
all liquids starting now.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Starting now, Wait for twenty four hours, well now, well,
yeah it is twenty four hours.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Oh wow, you're having a colonoscopy tomorrow around this time.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Yeah, yeah, around lunchtime tom The.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Thing about the reason I even bring it up, there's
so much to talk about, but that hole you can
only have liquids, Yeah, is never a good day for me.
Like I didn't enjoy it. I had jello and broth
last time, and after a while you're just like, i'd't
rather have nothing because this is not real food. That's
(00:54):
what was going on in my brain. But you don't
have a problem with it.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
It doesn't bother me because to me, it's only I
got to get through this afternoon and tonight and then
I'm good because tomorrow will take care of itself.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Yeah, certainly will.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Well, actually, tonight I'll take care of itself, if you
know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
I guess I just didn't realize that it had to
be twenty four hours. It's because I've had one done,
but I don't remember being a whole morning through. I
thought it was like it like in the afternoon. At
one point cut off, boom, I'm done nothing after twelve
pm or something like that.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
And then it was ten am that liquid diet started,
and then six o'clock tonight is the I have to
take the first bottle of drink. Drink clean out flow.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
You create the drink like you mix.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I have two bottles of it and I have to
pour it in. And they said I can mix it
with a carbonated drink or water.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Or whatever carbonated drink.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Wow, okay, I can't have dairy Like if I want
iced tea, that's good. Our coffee was good. I had coffee.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah, I can't have dirty.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
So I just can't put cream or anything like that
in it.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yeah, okay, and you can live without that.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
I bought some, you know, because I've been drinking those
Doctor Pepper the coconut creamy coconut. So I figured, well,
let me try to do something right. So I've got
iced tea and I've got a ginger ale drink very good. Yeah,
so at least that'll be semi clear ish.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I just honestly, I got gatorise and I got jell o.
Oh you're good with jello then, yeah. And but the
thing about it is it's the night of the prep
is not fun at all. The next day is not
fun at all. But once you're underway that thing, I
don't know how long it takes or how quickly it is,
how quickly it happens, but it's a blur to you
(02:37):
because you're going to be on the best sleeping medicine
there is. I had one, and I begged them to
let me keep sleeping when I was waking up in recovery.
I begged them. I was like, please let me sleep,
this is so good. And she was like, no, ma'am,
you gotta get Upsd's outside waiting for you. Yeah, you
were out there waiting for me, Murphy. Yeah, so you remember,
(03:01):
I don't think that Murphy is very good at only
being on liquid stuff. He doesn't like it. I don't
think that you're good at it.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Well, I mean I don't.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I don't remember, you know that. I honestly, I don't
know why I'm not remembering because it's been I guess
five years since the last time.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I had one day, that's why.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
And I mean I know that they I know that
they moved me last time to the little the pills
thing like Jody Dead, which was a lot easier than
drinking the liquid stuff because the liquid to me, and
again like it's different by my palate's different than your
Sam's just probably the same thing if I could take
a right because it's a salty, it's sort of a
salty just kind of an ego something about it does
(03:37):
so nasty. Yeah, I do, I just don't. I don't
like that. So the pills were easier because you had
to you would take the pills, but then you had
to drink a lot of water, you know, right after.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
I have to drink the bottle, which I think is
a six ounce bottle, but then I have to within
that first hour, I drink thirty two ounces of water,
and then another another bottle tomorrow morning it's seven I think,
and then drink thirty two ounces of water before eight,
so I may be in and out tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Okay. I guess there's never going to be a way
for this test to be done differently. There's no other
way to clean all that out. I just I wish
there would be. Well, there's just such a pain. People
don't want to do it, and it's important.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
I think it's better than it used to be because
they used to. I mean the first time that I
ever had it done, which was really at a very
young age. I don't know why I had it done
so young the first time, but the stuff was even
worse tasting. So at least they've improved that.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Now.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Even the liquid stuff that you're taking SAM is going
to be better than you know, the stuff that I
had to mix up and drink previously was.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
No Originally I did that home test. I can't remember
what the name of it is, but I did that
and I was good. You don't want to know, trust.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Me, banks No, I don't.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
And I was good. And then the next time I
had to do it, the home test showed it wasn't
a positive, but it wasn't a full.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Negative, meaning it wasn't colonoscopy.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
So it was like, okay, get you got to come in.
We got to make sure. And they did find a
few poll ups, took them off and all that stuff
so this time the doctor said you got to get
another one. I was like, well, can I do the
home thing? And he goes, now, once you get a
positive the first time, well, yeah, because once they're removing polyps.
I always thought that the you know, look, I'm not
saying it's not legit, but the first time you told
(05:21):
us about that, I'm like, that sounds really sketchy. Way
a mail in that sounds really sketch. You know, it's
not sketch. It's not a full diagnostic. I mean it's not.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
I would much rather have them go in, look, see
and then tell me all is clear, versus a test
that I hope something on my insides, you know what.
I mean that the test is not going to throw
a false negative or something.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
That's just me.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Though you know I'm a diagnostic.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
I think it's as far as your choice if you
wanted to take one.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
As far as colonoscopy goes, I don't really care about
it because it's like my mom was like, are you worried?
It's like, honestly, the only thing that worries me is
the needlestick in my hand. I don't because, like you said,
I'm going to be out for it, I don't care.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Well, you'll be super hydrated, so the needlestick should be easier.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Yeah, just look away.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Yeah, it literally plumps up your veins.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
You know. One time when I had a procedure done
on my teeth, the guy that put the needle or
whatever the IV in my hand, he sprayed it with
this freezy stuff first, so you didn't even feel it
when he stuck it in. And it's like, Man, I
wish everybody.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Used that me too. I wish you wouldn't have told
me that. I get stuck kind of a lot.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
It's not my favorite, but I guess I've had it
done so many times now you just kind of deal
with it, and it's is what it is.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
That part's done. I don't I'm good. It's just like
I'll sit there for an hour and a half and
wait until they take me back. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
But you know the thing is, once you get through
it again, you have a definitive answer, which to me,
and maybe that's my own obsessive about actually having answers
to the think it's the same reason that I do
the you know, the little lung scan or whatever kind
of stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
I don't. I love that.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Technology can make some things easier, but I want a
doctor's eyes on some things, you know, for me to
make sure that it's it's really that I'm getting an
actual answer versus something that you know, shows up as
red or green on a sheet of paper somewhere.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
I do have a couple of questions for him, the doctor,
tomorrow before we start, because it just out of curiosity.
I want to know how far they go.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Oh okay, just like is this like four.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Feet or is this like twelve inches?
Speaker 2 (07:25):
I guess that's a fair question.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
I mean, just personal curiosity. It won't affect anything to
do with the procedure, but it's just like I really
would like to know, Yeah, how far is it going?
What are you doing?
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Well? I guess they're just looking in your colon at
one point. They don't go to your long intestines, so
they're only going to however long the colon is. And
I'm trying to remember the picture of that from biology.
The length of the colon is only a couple of feet, right,
I mean it's the knit, the big thing that kind
of wraps around.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
That's the big thing.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Yeah, so I'm going to be tickling my throat right, No,
it's funny.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Now I know they have that endoscope at home. I
could do this all at home. Great, well, you know.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
And the thing is, last time I had done, I
had both done because they were going through my throat also,
which are two different you know, they're the same procedure
with two different hoses.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
They meet in the middle.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
They were looking at two different things, right, exactly. It's
not the same procedure exactly. But what's been funny is
these last couple of days, these here at work, Sam
keeps getting these calls and get leaving, leaving the room,
and some of them you've taken in this in this
room where they're asking you one hundred million questions. I
don't remember being asked this many questions for, you know,
(08:35):
unless I had serious surgery, like when I had foot surgery,
I had been asking you everything.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
What Murphy just said about not remembering all the stuff
because it was a few years ago. I mine was
three years ago according to my doctor, and I don't remember.
I remember the facility. I remember cracking a joke when
they said roll over on your side, and I did
all I remember, yeah, but I don't remember all these
phone calls. I've got a phone call from the surgery center.
I've got a phone call about my insurance questions, and
(09:03):
I got a phone call from the overall health company,
and they basically all asked the same questions, but.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Didn't they ask the unusual questions about like injuries, Oh,
what your home life is like?
Speaker 3 (09:16):
They asked me, you know, in these surgeries in the past,
we have these listed and I was like, yeah, that
pretty much is all the ones I have. And Okay, well,
if for any reason you happen to injure the area
that is going to be under the surgery or the procedure,
please let us know. And I was like, I don't
think I will, but sure.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Yeah, I'm guessing they're asking questions based on things that
actually happen all the time, you know. I mean they
are especially with people who are not comfortable. I mean,
some people have a real fear for any of these
kinds of procedures, or they're embarrassed and they don't want
to talk about certain things, or so. I think they've
just become more thorough over time. I think the other
part is insurance and the thoroughness of the you know,
(09:57):
what medications are you taking? And it's all risk management
part of everything associated with it, because you know, there's
so many medicines that people take now that procedures like
these that involve them removing a poly up. They don't
want you to bleed, and so that's why they don't
want you to taking aspirin. And they're going to verify
a couple of different times because it's too late to
ask that, and they will probably ask you again before
(10:19):
you get you know, when when they're when they're giving
to the ivs tomorrow. When was the last time that
you had any you know, thing to eat or drink?
It was the last time that you had because again,
they're verifying everything.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Is they've got to is they got see when one
of the UH calls, when she started going through my medication, Yeah,
you're taking this, and you're taking that. When she got
to the second one, I say, if you're reading this
from my chart, everything in there is correct. Yeah, but
because risk management or whatever, I still had Well I
understand that, but I still have to go over all
(10:49):
of them with you. Yeah, okay, And then she had
to give me instructions like don't do any of those.
You can take this one tomorrow, you know before, but
don't take the rest until after your procedure.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
I feel like I remember being told by a nurse
that maybe it was for yours murphy. I don't know.
I just remember being told that. Yeah, people who try
to tell you that they didn't have anything to eat
in twenty four hours, But do they try to fudge that.
Of course, it's a problem. They cannot do what they're
(11:19):
trying to do, and you waste everybody in schedule because
they can't. So you can't fudge it. You know, if
you accidentally drank some coffee with cream, you need to
let them know and you'll have to reschedule things like that,
Like it's that syrea.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Sometimes it changes the outcome of the test. But anytime
you're on any sort of sedation, they don't want anything
on your stomach because it's a real choking risk for you. Yeah,
you know, I mean you're going to sleep. You're not
under full anesthesia. If you were under full anesthesia, they
would have oxygen and everything else attached to you and
an anesthesiologist there, which now I'm not trying. I don't
remember if they actually do in this case or not.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
I guess they do.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
They're sedating you to the point where they've got the IVY. Yeah,
so you've got so that there is some it's having
to regulate, you know that there, but I.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Want to sleep after could but I guess.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
You know, you're not being put on anything that breathes
for you, and so as a result of that, you know,
they want to make sure that you don't have any
any food in your stomach.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Here's a weird one because I know this wasn't last time,
but she asked, you know when she was going over,
you have these medical conditions da da da da, And
she said appening And I was like, well, yeah, sleep apneing.
Do you have a seatpap, Yeah, sleep with a seatpath. Okay,
you're going to need to bring that with you. And
I was like, I didn't last time, and she says, well, no,
bring it with you because while you're yeah, maybe I
(12:36):
could choke myself awake. I don't know. I'm going to
bring it, but I'm going to talk to the doctor.
I do really need to hook this up and all
of this contraption while you're going the other way. Yeah,
that's the first I've never heard that.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
There's a reason they're updating policies though there's some reason Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
For me, I just always make sure that they know
keep me upright. That's the main thing for me. Don't
put me on my back, you know, I have to
be upright. On my side is fine, but I've got
to be on your side for the Yeah, on your
side is not a problem for me. But if they
were to wheel me back in and I'm and then
too much of a not an incline that I should be,
that's where the cheap pap thing becomes a problem for me.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
That's part of Murphy's claustrophobia.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
And by the way, well yeah, well, because well when
you when you have sleep apnea, you're you're literally your
airwaves closing off. So the farther you are back, you
can't breathe. So I guess it plays into claustrophobia for sure,
but it's a it's a it's a feeling of not
being able to breathe.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Yeah, so now you're underway. Liquids only, Yeah, don't worry.
Won't bring a pizza in here to tempt.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Oh you know what, I have a home in the
fridge leftovers berry of tacos and red beans and rice.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Oh well, at least you can eat them after the
procedures done, I could have some fun.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
No missed any part of the show.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Get it all on the Murphy Salmon Jody podcast.
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