Pure Cruelty & New Bulge.

Jack Armstrong calls-in with a live report from his hospital bed for an update on his emergency gall bladder surgery.  

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, Jack, how are you? Yeah, I think tornadoes might

(00:03):
be a good one. That's that's a rough, rough story.
Oh it's sobering, in terrible and tragic in the rest
of it, but just yeah, amazing. Yeah. I've actually been
using the tornadoes as a way to make myself feel
better or less sorry for myself. Four straight days in
the hospital, still here. But I saw that stuff and thought,

(00:23):
you know, my family is not dead, haven't lost everything
I own? So quick, bitch and quick complaining. Yeah, I
realized it's the Uh, it's the most cliche of cliches.
But the house, the towns rather look like an atomic
bomb went off. I mean that the devastation is mind buggling.
It's incomprehensible. Really, it absolutely is. It absolutely is. And

(00:48):
I mean when they say people have lost everything, because
I actually have a friend who this happened to in
Kansas couple of years ago. You you got nothing. You
show up to where your house was and it's just
the cement slab and then just little pieces of stuff
spread out over miles and you think, now, what where
do I start? Yeah, and that's if all of you

(01:10):
are safe. Um, but yeah, brutal, brutal, anyway for me. Uh,
I was sound asleep about five minutes ago when they
came in to jab me again with a needle. I'll
kind of I think I feel like they hang outside
the door. He's just sleep, Let's go in. I think
I feel like that's the game. And they wait till
your sound asleep to come into jabul as a needle.

(01:31):
Is there anything in the needle or is it just
pure cruelty? I think it's pure cruelly. No, no, it's
I gotta tell you that it has been long enough now.
So five nights out of the last seven, I've been
in the hospital four straight and uh, nurses here, I
gotta go. I'll talk to you a little bit. Okay,

(01:52):
I have a good whatever it is. Yes, we will
inquire as to Jack's health, et cetera. Is Jack back,
he is all right? Stand by, my Les, gotta jump
over there, press that button, stand by, stand by, calling back,
got him Earth to Jack to Jack. Yeah. You know

(02:13):
what I should have done, is I should have I
should have stayed on with the nurse here because I
would have been fairly grammatic. Um so, uh, feeling was
I was going to get to go home today. Then
the nurse last night noticed a bulge in my side.
I she said, is this always been this way? And

(02:35):
then I started feeling it and I said, no, that
has not always been that way, and it did not.
It felt well, I felt like a bulge in my side.
So she just came in to check on it, and
she said, it's clearly bigger than it was last night.
So we're headed down to get some imaging done. Something's
going on. For good's sake. I was just talking about
how you're doing better. I'm pretty clearly not going home

(02:59):
when I thought of going home, So now I gotta
put a drain in me or or as my son said,
this is course I realized. But as my son said,
he said, would that be like a new butt hole? Actually?
Kind of kind of kind of like that sounds like
the lad has a future in medicine. A blunt description.

(03:21):
He wasn't trying to be he wasn't trying to be funny.
He was just trying to understand what was going on.
And you know that kind of what they're doing, an
extra orifice, a place to release that which is not
needed inside. Yeah, exactly exactly. But as I was saying
a little bit ago, I have been here so long
now that it's it's getting it's like days and nights.

(03:43):
What day is it? Didn't you just give me that
shot that we get once a day, you know, just
as like getting all out of whack. I can't tell
what's and it's still blending together. How do you feel physically?
I keep track of the time when it's time for
the shot in the belly. For some reason, that's my

(04:04):
demarcation of time. Was it time for the shot in
the belly? You know already? I didn't realize it was
shot in the belly o' clock me. Oh no, oh boy.
And that one doesn't hurt. Actually it hurts less than
many of the others. But um, it's just the idea
of it. It's awful. Well yeah, yeah, we're all cringing,

(04:26):
not because we're having it done, it's just it sounds terrible.
Do you remember, gosh, what was it? And when we
were kids, I'm sure you heard it on the schoolyard,
just like the story about was it uh tetness or
like uh if rabies? Yeah, if you got bit by
a dog with rabies, you had to get a series
of shots in your belly with needles that were like
a foot long and to hear it by the swing set. Yeah. Well,

(04:50):
I can tell childhood me that the shot in the
belly is not that big a deal. Um. But again
it doesn't mentally it's not that great. Um. And I
think I don't remember if I said this on Friday
or not, because I have been jabbed so many times
in the least four days. I mean just easily more

(05:11):
times than I have been cumulates lively in my entire
life have happened in the last four days. And uh,
and I'm getting almost numb to it. I mean not
I'm not there yet, but it's getting closer. But the
varying levels of talent at it are just amazing. People
can make it so some people do it and you

(05:32):
don't feel it. It's like it never even happened. And
then there's every gradation of that of where you can
tell that happened, but it didn't hurt. To Jesus, what,
who God are you? Did you heat that thing up? First?
What are you doing? Oh? No, well, I'll tell you
from remember I used to get allergy shots every week.
I'd get three shots um in the arm, but it

(05:57):
was almost always painless, and occasionally they hit a nerve
and and that was when it was bad. Um and
the and the same gal did it virtually every week,
and I think it was just, you know, sometimes you
get unlucky. I was just thinking about that because I
most of minor in the top of the hand, Um
in the belly, she's you're killing me. I know, I

(06:20):
know it's killing me, but uh, but I was thinking, Well,
maybe it's not the technique or talent that I've always thought.
Maybe it's just sometimes that happens and they have no
control over it. I don't know. I don't freaking know.
God dang it, I'm so over this, but apparently I'm
not over this. Uh anyway, So you know, it's it's funny,

(06:45):
not not funny, ha ha, but funny strange. Maybe it
is funny ha ha. You know your whole You look
at the Tornado victims and realize, you know, it could
be a lot worse. I have a lot of blessings
that sort of thing, which is a great way to
look at life. I for the first time since I
started getting my hip surgeries, walk Dighteen holds a golf
over the weekend, which doesn't sound like a big deal,
but I feel like I've been hit by I don't know,

(07:06):
a medium sized public transportation vessel, somewhere between a you know,
a bus and a train car. Um, But there are you?
I mean, I can't, I can't whine and feel sorry
for myself. There are you dealing with? Then you look
at the tornado victims. Somewhere out there listening is the
ultimate sad sack who I don't know if he's currently
on fire or or what, but he he can't do that,

(07:30):
And I feel for that man or woman, and I
wish them the best. I hope things improve rapidly. Right,
he's the one person who can't find someone else where
he can say, well, at least I'm not that guy, right, right,
somebody's got to be at the bottom. It's just his math.