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December 16, 2019 15 mins

We got to catch up on everything Nate has been through since his stroke.

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
What would you talk about on your on your podcast
Firm Represents Minute Morning Show. I love it when all
the kids are home for Christmas like that, sitting around
the penis table is a Gandhi and Brody and Garrett

(00:24):
and Froggy is here, there's Scary, and there's Danielle and
straight Nate is back. I'm so glad to be back.
I'm so glad, And I said, I was like, what
are we gonna talk about on our fifteen minute morning
show podcast? And then Nate says, do you want me
to talk about my lowest moment in the hospital. I'm like, oh,
how fun? It involve a bedpan? Don't take away people, punchline.

(00:46):
He's been through so much. Give him this. He doesn't
have much left the last time, I barely has life left.
Take that away from him. All right, So the floor
recognizes Nate, Well, thank you all. I just want to
get to anybody that wasn't listening to the Big Show,
which you can listen to the on demand podcast. But
I love all of you guys, and I'm so glad
to be back here. I think once you go through

(01:08):
something like that, you really kind of figure out what's
important to you. And you guys are a huge part
of my life. And I just don't realize or didn't
realize how lucky I was to have all of you
in my life. Um, and I realized that as I
was reaching my lowest point, I think in my entire life. Okay, well,
before you give us the lowest point, what's like another

(01:28):
low point to like get us ready for the lowest
probably breaking my fifteen years streak of not vomiting that proud,
I beg your pardon. I mean, so you totally forgot
what it felt like, and so and then you experience
vomiting again for the first I hate it? Who loves it?

(01:49):
You know, it's like it's awful and and I can't eat.
So when you're sick, and you don't get sick very often,
you're probably thinking about that thing that you threw up
and you never want to eat that again. You can't
touch a yogurt bowl for the next twenty years. Okay, good,
So I love all right? Well that was a low,
a low fifteen year streak of throwing up, all right,

(02:10):
So you can take us lower than that. Yeah, So
it was when you have a subarac annoid hemorrhage, all
of the blood that's surrounding your brain has to get
reabsorbed back into your your system somehow, right, So it goes,
as was explained to me, because I'm not a doctor,
down your spinal column and it gets absorbed into your
spinal fluid and distributed throughout your body. So they say

(02:30):
it takes about ten days for that blood to get
to the back of your brain. And that's when the
pain really comes back, because there's the initial pain and
then you kind of subside, and then it ramps back
up like a roller coaster, and then it comes back down.
And they told you to expect more pain. To expect
more pain go right around thanks Giving. It started on Thanksgiving,

(02:52):
if I remember correctly, and it was just it started
like on a tense scale of pain. It was like
a five headache, then a six, then a seven, and
then it got to like an eight, almost to nine.
And that was in the early morning hours of Saturday
of Thanksgiving weekend, and it was excruciating. It was I
was grabbing my head and just holding it and just

(03:15):
crying in the dark because I couldn't have any sort
of light source. Um, the nurses would come in and
they'd give me a hot pack or cold pack because
I thought one of them would give me some relief.
They were trying to give me some drugs that wasn't working.
So when you're in the hospital like that, you uh
can't really get up to go to the bathroom. So
at night you have a p jug, which is just

(03:37):
a little jug urinate in and they also have to
measure your fluid output versus your fluid input. And I
was at a um, this is more more of a
problem I was getting. I was putting out too much fluid,
so they were giving me medication to stop stop doing that.
So at some point throughout the night, I used the
p jug and I didn't tell the nurse to empty it,

(03:59):
uh and then I will go up where I was
up the whole night. And then a few hours later
I just realized I had to go again because they
were giving me v fluid but they hadn't emptied it,
so I couldn't wait, and so I hit the call button,
but the nurse was busy doing something else. They said, oh,
she'll be in in a second, but I couldn't wait.
I couldn't hold it. So it was this balancing act
of pain in my head and trying to maneuver my

(04:22):
body to pee into this p jug which I successfully
managed to do, leaving about a quarter of an inch
from the top. However, there's a handle on the p
jugged and I don't know if you use this froggy,
so putting it on the bed on the side of
the bed as I'm about to get it on their
successfully without spilling a drop, it locks on the railing

(04:44):
and p just goes everywhere. And so the nurse at
that point walks in and I just I just turned
into a sniveling, bawling mass because of the pain, and
I'm just covered in pe and she goes, what happened?
I go to and so yourself exactly. I was expecting that.

(05:09):
I was expecting pooh, no, no. Well that's the other problem.
So when they give you these heavy we're moving on
to opioids, you can't go to the bathroom. So they
give you they'll give you I know, if you've probably
had this froggy, they'll give you a stool softener, which
every time I took pills, I took one of those,
and then they give you mirror lax and if that

(05:30):
doesn't work, they give you this thing called lactulose, which
I nicknamed lact You lose because you lose every time
you give that, so you do this little shot and
pills are terrible for blocking you. Oh my god. But
when that volcano finally erupted, you got lift off. It
was seriously left off. And you know, you go in

(05:51):
the room of which they need to keep the door
open in case something happens. So it was I just
I feel so bad for that. And those nurses at
Westchester Medical Center are the best nurses I've ever had,
and they've seen everything. They've seen everything, and they remind
you of that. Oh yeah, they and I would I
would profusely apologize whoever was helping. I'm like, I'm so sorry.
They're like, this is nothing, this is our job, and

(06:13):
this is nothing compared to what we've had to do
with in the past. I remember I had to go
after one of my surgeries. They said, before you can
go home, you have to go Pete to make sure
everything's working okay. And she said, I'm gonna have to
stand in the bathroom with you. And I told her,
I said, listen, if I hadn't paid in a week,
and you stand in here with me, I'm never gonna go.
You're gonna have to leave the room for me to go.
I couldn't go. So even when she left the room,

(06:34):
I still could not go. And I wanted to go
home so bad. So I ran water in my hands
in the sink really quietly, and I dribbled it in
the toilet so she could hear it through the door.
I'm like, I'm going, I'm going. She heard it. I
got to go home. Second got home. Guess what problems? Still,
that's not good. There. Your wife Lisa just walked in,

(06:56):
so I have a question. She wants to come to say,
how Tony, what's your question? Scary? The nurses in the hospital,
they are they fans of the Elvis Fanning. He's hugging Lisa.
How about the one that had to deal with the
p jug They became fans so and actually Mike, one

(07:17):
of the nurses, had called in on our show. He
came over. He wasn't my nurse, but he was working
on the other side of the I c U. And
he came over one morning when he was done, he goes, hey,
I just want to say hi, I'm a big fan.
I called in when you guys were talking about long
distance or no shift. You know, we were talking about
working at different schedule as your significant other, and I said,

(07:38):
tell elvis it didn't work out. Yeah, so that's a
sad story from the hospital. But yeah, there's a lot
of fans and they all, you know, they just took
such good care. When when my dad was there, I
had announced it on the air that he was there,
and I didn't think about it. I just wanted to
say thank you to those great people. The next morning,
they go, we'd just like to thank you for us

(07:59):
having to add extra security to the hospital. I go, why, well,
now that everyone knows you're here, I don't believe me
we're extra security. Nobody's but the listeners started sending cards.
Apparently you could call downstairs and they have like a
card that they could generic card and they would send
them up to the room and stuff, and it was

(08:20):
very sweet. But I really wasn't worried about someone coming
and like lifting my dad and taking them out. Did
you catch up on any You didn't watch a lot
of TV to watch to watch, so how did you
spend the day of the hours? I guess when you're
kind of left up on pills, you don't really. It's
kind of the calendar goes fast, right, really, and it
goes it goes fast. It's funny you don't know where

(08:42):
the days go. Because even coming back here, I couldn't
even believe it was it's been a month since I've
been here. I can't believe it. Completely out of your life.
But at times when you're in that pain, seconds or
like minutes, and minutes are like hours, and hours are
like days. When I was in that really bad had
pain on that Friday and Saturday, I would open my

(09:04):
eyes just briefly and there's this clock on the wall,
and it would say like two fourteen, and I would
close my eyes and just pray that the pain got
better and hope the time passed and I would get
out of this pain. And then I would open my
eyes from what seemed like five hours and it would
say to sixteen minutes had gone by, and I felt
like it was hours. Maybe it was twelve hours, so

(09:26):
maybe it could have been, but I I just I
never want to go through that again. How about some
deeply rooted philosophical or life changing thoughts or I promise
as you made to yourself, or possibilities I there's there's
things like buying a house, for instance. I've always wanted

(09:46):
to have a house, a place to call my own
at home. I want to do that. Um, I want
to do things in my relationship. I want to go
to places that I haven't been before. But as far
as like massive revelations, like I was saying on The
Big Show, I kind of figured out life one morning.
And I know they had given me some drugs, but

(10:06):
that aside, and think it takes something to put you
in that position to realize things. And I'm I'm just
I'm meant to do something greater. I I don't know.
This is so stupid to tell you guys this, But
counting the heart surgery I had when I was five
months old, which I probably shouldn't have survived because that
was the infancy of open heart surgery, the stroke I

(10:29):
had last year, the heart surgery I went through this year,
and then this stroke I'm just four, and oh, like
why am I still alive? So you feel like there
there is a message coming to you from a higher
source by being God, the universe, whatever, something is telling you.
You need to pay attention to something. But are you

(10:50):
quite I'm not just what it is, Yet I what
I want to do. I want to find ways to
help people that have gone through what I've gone through.
And that's exactly what Froggy wanted to do when the
sting you. I just feel like everything happens for a reason,
and so like, for example, my disease is on one
in a million disease, Well, there's a reason I got it.
So then I wanted to help people. And that's why

(11:11):
I wanted to talk about it and do whatever I
could to raise awareness and and and people have now
that listened to the show have realized, wait a second,
I'm going through the same things. They've realized they had
it because it's not easy to get diagnosed. So absolutely,
there's a reason that you have come through this four times.
And helping other people is what you're here for. That's
at the end of the day. If you can help
somebody else go through less than what you've been through,

(11:34):
and then you're succeeding. Yeah, and even people that haven't
had my exact situation with suboracnoid hemorrhage or heart surgery.
Maybe you beat cancer, maybe you you you you know
you had a diabetes or whatever in a life threatening situation.
You're you're one and oh you know you you beat it.
You only have to lose once. You can win a
thousand times. But you just have to keep focus on

(11:55):
the fact that you haven't lost yet. You're very motivating.
You go on tour with my mom, I swear because
I want my mom to go and like talk about amyoidosis,
which is what got my dad, which nobody really knows about.
It's something something that they're just starting to learn about.
And I said, you should become an advocate for something
like that. So I feel like you guys can team up.

(12:17):
I tell you listening, you have on board something that
got you through it, so it's sharing that with you. Know,
I had a facelift. I'm gonna help others. I'm gonna
help others who have had to like watch their face
get tied and more pretty. I was with Lisa when
she got breast implants. I could go around and talk
to and help people with that. Oh my god, Lisa,

(12:37):
you know what exactly? You know what, Daniel, when we
first learned what your father was going through with this part,
we I had never heard of that either, And so
there are other people that they're going through that yeah, people,
and and there's no cure for it, there's no you know,
the life. Can you describe to people what that was.
It's the thing that it's something that hardens your heart
and makes it um just a tough and the blood
flow doesn't get to it enough, and it will attack

(13:00):
other parts of your body. It's like a protein and
it attacks on the part of your body, so your
kidneys start to fail in different things, and you don't
have the life expectancy is not very long. If they
catch it in the beginning, there's things they can do
to prolong your life, but you're still only going to
have a couple of years to live. And for him,
they found it too late, and you know, we know

(13:20):
the end result unfortunately. So but it's something. I mean,
when they said what it was, I'm like, what what
the hell is that? Right? You could have chosen not
to come back here. I know you could have chosen
to go ahead, and I'm going to go out there
and take a chance and just live my life in
a whole different way with less strong about that. It's
stressful to work here. I thought about that. I thought

(13:42):
about you still can't you you can walk out anything,
No I'm not going to because You're in my life
for a reason. Elvis, Danielle in my life for a reason.
Gandhi's in my life for reason. I love all of
you guys, and I'm not going to give that up.
I love you guys, and it just really makes you
feel that all of the good in your life is

(14:05):
there for a reason and you need to appreciate it more.
And you guys are the good in my life. And um,
I don't want to waste the time that I have
left because like you said, I do have that feeling
and whether or not it's true or not, it's you
got that ticking time bomb feeling, and uh, we should
all be living, yes, knowing that we all have a
ticking time I hope nobody ever has to go through this,

(14:26):
but it's sad that it takes something like this a
lot of times for to kick your gear, you know,
to make you realize how short life is. Okay, then
let me ask you the question. We know exactly somewhat
what Nate has been through, what he's going through, and
he's sitting here right in front of us telling us
we need to respect life and understand it because it
could go away. At any moment. Have we learned our
lesson yet? Scary, you haven't learned your lessons. I want

(14:49):
to learn as I want to learn a lesson from
you know. Come on, learn the lesson fifteen minute morning
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