EITM: It's Not A Tumor 6/6/24

Or is it?

Episode Transcript

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Now, am I the only onethat knows what Tyler's doing on our day
off tomorrow? Did you tell Diane? No? I didn't. What are
you doing tomorrow? I'm an earlymorning workout and that's about it. I'll
probably just do stuff around the house. Got a girl. Good for you?
Ask Tyler what he's doing tomorrow?What are you doing tomorrow? I

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have a doctor's appointment four. Well, I don't know what it is.
What do we think it? Well? I don't think what do you think
it is? I think I havea brain tumor because you're having headaches or
like you have other symptoms. Howdo you come to that conclusion. I

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don't know if it's a tumor,but it's one of the possibilities. And
another person's tumor is what led meto make this appointment. So is somebody
that you reconnected with at the reunion? Yes, yes it is, and
they're like talking about here's what's goingon in my life? Yeah exactly,

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Yeah, and they have a tumor. They do, I do. It
is not life threatening. It hopefullywill shrink with medicine, and if that
doesn't work, it can be excisedin a relatively safe procedure, right,
and it's a brain tumor. Itis a brain tumor, how about yours.
It's also sort of in my neck, so I don't know what that's
called head neck head cancer. Ihad my cancer. No, I've had

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an issue with my uh lower headand neck. And I do want to
stress that I'm feeling it in myneck too. So I thought at first
it was just a bad night's sleep, and I do. Even though I
can fall a suit like that,I don't sleep in the most comfortable looking
positions. So if someone were tobe like, yeah, I know why

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your neck hurts. It's the wayyou're sleeping, right, I'd be like,
yeah, I get it. Iget it. So I changed my
pill I thought an adjustment to thepillow. When you changed your pillow,
I got pillow with a little moregive. Oh, like one of them
ergonomic things. Hi, I'm TylerLindell. I support my pillow or for

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the politics, not for the productitself. The product tics No, No,
So I just got a from fromthe guest room. It's not like
I got I switched the poll Okay, yes, and the I don't want
to call it a pain. Ifeel it, right, now, so

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it's not. It's pretty chronic andit's been going on for a few weeks.
It's just from the base of alittle higher but around the base of
my skull into my neck. Ifeel like something's there, isn't that,
We're honest question. Isn't that likethe base of the skull where it meets
the brain, like or the thestem rather like your spinal column where it

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meets the brain. Isn't that wheremost brain tumors are Elliott? I can't
tell if you're being serious or not. No, I think it is.
It's off. You can get themanywhere to the right. Well, it
could be anybody who's got lungs canget lung cancer. I also don't know.
It could be water on the brain. Elliott. These are serious concern

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I don't get water on the brain. I can't answer that because that's this
month's charity of the month. Thatdidn't help. That didn't help. That
put it in my head. Well, not the water, no, but
hydrit Listen, I'm not making funof anybody who's hydrocephalic. That is a
serious issue, as urine is tookay, but you you are not hydrocephalic.
No, it's it's worth pointing outbecause people tomorrow. It's also worth

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pointing out he doesn't know that hehas any of these. Do you like
how I have to wait for yourchild to graduate from high school to get
a doctor's appointment at No, ButI just want to say this is tomorrow
is more an exploratory appointment. Itis not a scan. So I don't
want people because I've gone into weekendsand breaks with cardiology appointments and others.

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That thing on your nuts, yeah, other concerns. That was Thanksgiving.
You're right, so we've we've almosthad cliffhangers for my health in the past.
I won't know enough after tomorrow's appointment. It's bright and early to be
able to share anything. My goalis to be told here your concerns are

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warranted. Here is a referral,and then you can go off and get
a scan. All he wants outof tomorrow because I even said a referral
is is do do you get asubscription for like prescription to go get a
cat scan? Yeah? Right,that's all he wants tomorrow. So I
said, why don't you just callyour doctor and go I want to go
get a cat scan. My headhurts almost. Also, I was talking

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to somebody they got a brain tumor. I'm a little bit weird like that,
I got a pain in my neck. Can I just go get a
cat scan? Just to clear mymind? And like, my I think
my doctor would do that. Tyler'slike, oh no, no, no,
no no, So he's going togo to this whole thing tomorrow.
I've had such a clean bill ofhealth at this doctor. I yes,

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they have my records what happened tome when I was seeing another GP.
But like, this isn't our familykind ofcologists. Like I'm not close enough
to get that next appointment, andI'm seeing someone tomorrow because it's a sick
visit. It's I mean it's notit's not a same visit. It's not
an annual SAM. So I'm noteven seeing the person I normally see.

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Are you seeing it on colleges?They know I'm just seeing a physician,
general physician. It's it's at mynormal doctor. They don't have a mischine
tomorrow. Listen, the front deskwas concerned and got me in as soon
as they could. Actually, totheir credit, they offered to get me

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in the next day and I hadto tell them I was going to Disney.
Sorry, I'm going to Disney forthe dead. Gets to make a
wish, That's that's where I'm at. So I if anything to wish,
talk me off the ledge to goto stay to stay in the suite that's
at the top of Cinderell's castle,like Tom Hanks and Tim Allen got to

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do. No, that would notbe mine. I would not abuse this
system like that. Stop. No, I'd want to meet John Cena.
So we're gonna know tomorrow. Yeah, No, No, Well we're gonna
know nothing because number one, youdon't know that you'll have the scan.
Number two, there's nothing there.Oh from your lips to God's ears.

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I just don't think that this doctorwill be able to say that without her
seeing yes it is female doctor,without her seeing the images the scans,
and and that's you're going to getscanned. But she tells me to go
to the er immediately because that's tooit takes a while to get in a

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specialist. I might call and thenthey're like, okay, we can get
you in a few weeks. It'slike, you know, I'm dying.
That's a bad time to take asip. Where am I going? No,
I can't do this, hi Elliein the morning. It makes me
seem crazy. There's not time forcalls. Even Milkman's like, oh my

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god, this is a hypochondriact.Very good, thank you. I didn't
even hear what he said. Ohit's a tuba. No, no,
it's not. At times, No, that is what he says, impressions.
Hi Ellie at the morning. It'ssee. No, that one's nice.
That just that one's that's somebody who'ssaying it's not a tumor, hi

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Ellie in the morning. Hey,this is John. I'm a physical therapist,
Tyler. I feel bad for you. That sounds like it sucks.
Which part the tumor or just theneck pain? Oh? His nexting,
Yeah, I want to help youout. I can uh give you a
treatment. You know, our clinic'sright next door to Harmony on Main Street.

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And here's the lock of your hairthat's going to fall out, Hi,
Yellie of the morning. Hell,yeah, Hi, who's this ma'am?
Yeah? I got you loud andclear. Hi. So I'm not

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trying to freak out Tyler further,but I recently experienced the same symptoms that
he's describing, and I was concernedabout the same thing. And I went
into the doctor and turns out Ihad skyrocket blood pressure and that was what
you had one kind of what kindof blood pressure? My blood pressure was
out of the out of control high. Oh skyron Yeah, like they want

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to sim me to the e er. I had the pain around the base
of my neck, around the backof my ears, and things like that,
And they said those yep, becausethat's something I don't normally check and
wouldn't think about. Can I askyou this like now like and and that's

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what it was. You had avery elevated blood pressure. Do you have
a Do you have a blood pressurecuff that you check yourself with? Now?
How many times a day do youcheck your blood pressure? I was
doing it like three times a day, but then I like realized there was
a whole psychological structor and I stressedout doing it. So I'm doing it

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less often and getting better like breeding, I guess people with blood pressure cuffs.
Yeah, no, with you.People with blood pressure cuffs, they
said, actually make themselves more stressedout because they take their blood pressure like
four or five, six, seventimes a day, and so and they
stress. They're like, oh wait, no, I feel that, and

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they'll take the and all they dois stress themselves out. I read an
article that said you should you shouldn'town like if you want to go check
it at a store or whatever whatever, Yeah, but you buy they're twenty
bucks on Amazon. But you're you'rebuying stress for twenty bucks. There's no
reason to do it. And thenlike I did this, I got my
blood pressure under control, but thenmy heart rate would be like ridiculous,

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Like I get like a scary,like flashing color explanation point. And that's
that's probably the stress of testing.Maybe you need value. I don't even
God, I love that. Idon't even know. I don't even know.
This morning, Hey, what didthey follow up? What did they
do next? What did they giveyou for your for your condition? Well
that's what I was. Godn't wantto scare Tyler worse. When I had

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the high blood pressure reading at thedoctors, he recommended that I go out
of the er and that they couldgive me something interveniently that would have flood
on my part rate, but Iopted not to because I'm not a hospital
person, and I went home tomy parents' house and then I ultimately ended
up getting immitted to e ar cathedure. Okay, but that was not what

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I What I want to know islike, are you on are you on
medication for it? Or something likethat? Now? So now I'm on
medication for like a anti epilectic medicationfor that purpose, just a be safe
which is controlling it slows the electricalactivity in the brain. So I think
that overall, No, that's good. But yeah, but I'm going back

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to my primary care to that andwe'll check blood pressure. Well, I
hope everything's okay. I hope everythingis okay. Good luck with that.
We all wish we could be apiece for our PCPs, but it's not
the way it works. What isI r L? What if? What
if that's it? You just havehigh blood pressure? When's the last time
you had your blood pressure check?At my exam in November? And did

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they say it was high? Yeah? But I always blame in a white
coat syndrome. They always ask me, oh, yeah, wait, but
did you have elevated blood pressure?It's nothing that concerns them enough to send
me or to the r But nowthat's all this stuff. This is why
i'm seeing someone because they will takeinto account, well, I don't really

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have any symptoms. I just well, then why are you here? Because
I can talk to somebody at thereunion. That happens so much like I
never can describe whether it was mytesticles or my frozen shoulder, or the
frozen shoulder, you know it wasa mental issue, or my not heart
attack heart attack. It's like Inever can describe stuff as pain. It's

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always sensations with me, and that'swhat leads you to believe it's all in
my real Like, no, it'snot pain, it's just discomfort. I'll
tell you why. You know why, because the way you describe it,
like oh no, no, no, no, there's no pain. I
don't feel anything. It's like adream, where like things happen to you
in a dream, but you don'tfeel it. That's every medical issue with
you. But I also I sayto them and I usually my go to

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is usually getting shot. I'm like, I feel like that person would be
in more pain than me. That'strue on a scale. I'm not a
ten. But are you in anypain now? I'm uncomfortable because I feel
it because you're hurt. It's justlike that shouldn't be there for weeks.
But there are people who just wakeup every day in their neck hurts.

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I know, I know, wakeup every day in their back hurts.
And to the credit of the personwho is okay, lindsay, am I
rolling emoji? Really, that's onlythe first one, the other party just
says pussy underneath it. To theperson that mentioned their own medical situation they

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await from the reunion, yeah,they said, he'll probably my corrector.
Yes, they'll probably tell you it'sjust old age stress and sleep deprivation,
which yeah, I gotta yeah,yeah, absolutely. At my examination a

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physical in November, I've told you, they told me this lifestyle is not
sustainable. I just didn't think itwould end with a brain tumor, would
end with a stroke ouss