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(00:00):
Why is my hand swollen? Holdhim up? Can you tell? It
(00:05):
does look like like that meaty partby your thumb? Yeah, that's going
on. Can you can you seethat? But it's lone? It out
this colored, well, it isjust colored here, you know what?
What's wrong? It reminds me ofwhen my wrists blew up after two being
in austin the well. You knowwhat I want to do? The comparison?
Oh yeah, yeah no, AndI feel like it's going down a
(00:28):
little bit. You know, youhave too much salt yesterday? Okay?
Is that what it's going to beall day? You know what I think
it is? You know what Ithink it is? Honestly, I think
I have an infection from fish.From eating fish. The noight, the
no no, no no no,That solid's mercury. No no no.
(00:48):
Have you have you heard of thisbefore? Where? If you so?
On? What day was Steve?What day did Steve come over? Sunday?
Steve came over on Sunday and hehad a couple hours to kill,
so he's like, all over,some food, will make lunch and I'll
do it for like Jackie's parents andstuff. It'll be fine. So Steve
came over and he brought over likewhat are they called bronzinos, right,
(01:10):
whole fish and so he was like, but they were gutted in everything,
and he was like, listen,first thing we got to do is you
got to cut all of the likethe fins and everything off, like the
scale the no, like all theall the the little scales on the fish
were gone. But like just likewhere they have like the little the little
fins on their back and like onthere by their gills and stuff. So
he's like, just cut all thatoff that way, you don't have to
(01:32):
deal with it later. But becareful because if you if you puncture,
like if you the listen, Idon't deal with a lot of like cleaning
fish, but if you puncture yourselfon one of the little spiny like little
fins, you can get really infectedthat way. Now I'd never heard that
before. And so you didn't havegloves on or anything. The gloves kind
(01:53):
of I don't know, like theones you used, so again like the
shucking gloves. No, not shucking, no, they just like the little
like the little fins that run rightthere on. Oh now he's got the
no, tell me, there's nopussy no, no, no, and
so I was really good. Butthere was one little one that like kind
of pricked my thumb. That's whatI didn't. I didn't bleed, though,
(02:15):
but it pricked my thumb. Yougot something in there because it's swollen.
And then I thought maybe maybe Ihad because then I played hockey over
the weekend, so I thought maybedid I bang up my hand? But
I would know if I banged upmy hand playing hockey, I would have
remembered that. But there's no signof this yesterday morning. Oh yeah,
it's been swollen all weekend. Ohokay. You didn't put it out to
(02:36):
her? Yeah no, because Ithought, well, you know what,
maybe I banged and it'll go down. But then did you google it?
Does it go away on its own? Why am I gonna web MD?
I don't know if my hand wasall swoll up, I probably wouldn't.
Well, it doesn't. I mean, it hurts if I push on it,
but it doesn't. It doesn't feelbrutal swollen. Oh yeah, no,
it's very swollen. It's specific tothis type of fish, he said,
(02:58):
if you I don't know if it'sthis type of fish. I don't
fish. I don't know if it'sthis type of fish, or like fish
in general. But you know,like they all have like the little things
on their back. It's not likea big dorsal fin or anything, just
like little fins that run up anddown their back. It's not even fins.
Yeah, but do you even callthem fins? Maybe I don't know
what you're talking about, the likelittle spine that runs up and down their
(03:22):
back. I've never cleaned a fish. I haven't either. I mean i've
I've like gotten scales and stuff offof fish, but I've never cut the
backs off of a fish. Andso the but when I keep saying fins,
I think people think of like theirlittle flippers, the little tiny ones
you see coming off them. Yes, yes, yes, so I think.
But I didn't. I didn't getany I didn't get it, like,
(03:44):
I didn't bleed or anything. SoI thought, well, maybe I
just got like a little like maybejust the tip got in there and so,
but it won't go down, Andwhat would I bruise from that?
If you banged it? You saidyou did, but I don't think I
did. Oh, I don't thinkthey did. It made it worse?
No, if I if I pushon it I can feel it. But
if not, it doesn't, itdoesn't hurt. Have you tried a chin
(04:06):
tuck? The seems to be theflavor of the week when it comes to
treating conditions. No, that Ididn't try. By the way, does
that work him? Is it reallyexactly the same? Remember she did say
like in a month. Oh yeah, so you got to do that for
(04:27):
a long time. I did.I did it walking into the halls yesterday.
So you spend every waking hour duringmess, well, I remember the
and then you you tuck it away. But yeah, I don't know what
that is. And look how swollenit look, how black and blue it
is. Specific because and it wouldn'thave crossed my mind unless Steve was like,
don't puncture yourself with that, you'llget infected. But I don't know
(04:50):
if that's just like him saying,hey, don't eat undercook him what you
should do? Maybe he would know. No, I didn't ask him because
I didn't want to call him andgo, hey, remember you said don't
puncture yourself? Think I did.I don't understand why we have so many
people who fish and who handle fishall the time. We've never heard that,
We've never talked about it, andalso why is no one backing up
(05:12):
this hypothesis? Did they not know? It's also so Bronzeno was also some
kind of Sea Bass Okay, MediterraneanDiane City Sea Bass lessons the drunk it
passed out in the lobby of thebuilding. Would he know if he doesn't,
Whalon does the am I going toam? I going to line too?
(05:33):
Here we go, Hi Elliott inthe morning. By the way,
let me hit I'm great, holdtight one second, great recall on Sea
Bass's kids. Now that I remember, how do you remember that? I
don't know remember that. I thinkI think because Whalen was a very he
was very young, Yeah, andI think crawling. I was like,
(05:53):
that's the first person under the ageof like two i've met named Whalen.
Yeah, and he was remember SeaBass literally and I don't even remember his
real name. I don't even rememberwhy he was at the station, but
he was. I think he sowrong. I think he did just come
to hang out once, like eighto'clock in the morning drunk and passed out,
literally passed out in the lobby ofthe radio station, and nobody wanted
(06:14):
to babysit his kid, So Whalenjust climbed on his kid like he was
a jungle gym, like just wasclimbing all over sea bass. Anyway,
I'm sorry, yes, ma'am.Who is this? It is Allison are
Oh, I'm well, thank you? What can I do for you?
I was calling because this actually justhappened to us on Saturday. We caught
a yellowfish on the pier. Andyellowfish are also another species of fish where
(06:40):
if you were to prick your fingeron one of their smaller spines, your
hand would be tingly for like aweek. So there's some species of fish
where there's some kind of poison intheir fins and it'll just like it's like
a just like a nummy sensation thatyou'll get. It's just weird. Well,
(07:02):
it's weird. I don't feel numb, I don't feel tingly. I
am swollen, and I am uhwhat do you call it? I am
black and blue? Although o'kay,so maybe just yellow fish or a different
you know, striking poison. Butyeah, I just know like yellow fish,
there's like different types of fish whereyou're just you're just bound back.
(07:24):
Hey, what was the well,thank you, ma'am, thank you?
What was the yes, Tyler,I've been sent this link here from the
Virginia Department of Health. You havefish handler's disease. That doesn't sound made
up at all. What is it? What does it say? Does it
have a scent? The Diane pleaseoccurs when cuts or scrapes in the skin
(07:47):
become infected with the bacteria. Howdoes it go away? Let's see,
that's how you avoid it for awhile. Yesterday I was, I was,
I'm not a hypochondriac, but Iwas like, ooh, what if
I have like that, like flesheating disease? And they got to start
cutting out meat from my hand.Well, now, I hope you have
(08:07):
fish handlers. It seems a lot. So does it just go away?
Like my body's fighting it? Let'ssee the treatment is let's see. So
have you been using your antibiotic ointmentthree to four times a day? No,
I mean I washed my hands inthe morning. Have you been using
(08:28):
an oral antibiotic? M No,I mean I do take. I do
take like like what you call itadvil. Have you sought an intravenous antibiotic?
A lot of antibiotics? Oh,you can do tile in all our
advil? Oh? Sweet? SoI'm on it. Okay, good,
good, I'm on it, andI feel like it is better today than
yesterday. Still pretty swollen though,like you could see that, right,
(08:52):
that's really I mean, I wonderif you made fun of me a lot
after after tubing. But I alsowas in water when I came up with
my issue. Did you touch afish? It was very, very similar
in that part of my lower limbblew up. Look at look at how
swollen that looks though. Yeah,no, it looks like a balloon.
(09:16):
Yeah. I don't know what's goingon there. I got fish Antler's disease.
Look at me, go, lookat me. Go where's the too,
Where's where's that massive fish that was? It's been in the news for
like two days. That washed theshort what Oregon like some crazy fish that
washed I don't know what kind offish. It was. Sunfish. No,
that's what the that's what the womansaid. Oh, you used to
(09:37):
be able to get the sunfish inanimal crossing. Okay, where am I
going there? The seven footer washesup on the Oregon coast. Yes,
this sufish? Oh it is.Yeah, look at the size of that
thing. Look at the size ofthat That thing's enormous uh line too.
Hi elliot in the morning, Hey, how you doing? Watch this will
(09:58):
be what killed me? Is Igot? I stuck my finger on goddamn
bronzino. Yes, sir, unlessit was a Potomac River white fish,
what do you tilic bleed puparoxide onit and stopped trying the No, but
you know what, well, thankyou sir. Believe no. But that's
that's what I mean. Like ifit were a bug bite, you would
know where like the bug bit youthere's no there's no bite mark here in
(10:24):
the puncture I think was on mythumb. But I told you, I
don't even feel like I pierced theskin, so there's nothing to squeeze to
get out of it. Now,the condition of your nail tells a different
story. You haven't stopped gnawing onthis nose pickers disease. My thumb,
my hands is great. Look atmy thumbs. Look how bad that is.
(10:45):
I wonder if it got in thereor there or there And that's all
on one nail, one nail bed. No, my thumbs, My thumbs
are bad. My thumbs are atrue Oh, I'm sorry, there's you're
showings of your body that are grossa swollen, fleshy I know, but
that's I'll take that seven days aweek over what you always have going on
(11:07):
on your thumbnail. My thumbs arebad.
Why is my hand swollen? Holdhim up? Can you tell? It
(00:05):
does look like like that meaty partby your thumb? Yeah, that's going
on. Can you can you seethat? But it's lone? It out
this colored, well, it isjust colored here, you know what?
What's wrong? It reminds me ofwhen my wrists blew up after two being
in austin the well. You knowwhat I want to do? The comparison?
Oh yeah, yeah no, AndI feel like it's going down a
(00:28):
little bit. You know, youhave too much salt yesterday? Okay?
Is that what it's going to beall day? You know what I think
it is? You know what Ithink it is? Honestly, I think
I have an infection from fish.From eating fish. The noight, the
no no, no no no,That solid's mercury. No no no.
(00:48):
Have you have you heard of thisbefore? Where? If you so?
On? What day was Steve?What day did Steve come over? Sunday?
Steve came over on Sunday and hehad a couple hours to kill,
so he's like, all over,some food, will make lunch and I'll
do it for like Jackie's parents andstuff. It'll be fine. So Steve
came over and he brought over likewhat are they called bronzinos, right,
(01:10):
whole fish and so he was like, but they were gutted in everything,
and he was like, listen,first thing we got to do is you
got to cut all of the likethe fins and everything off, like the
scale the no, like all theall the the little scales on the fish
were gone. But like just likewhere they have like the little the little
fins on their back and like onthere by their gills and stuff. So
he's like, just cut all thatoff that way, you don't have to
(01:32):
deal with it later. But becareful because if you if you puncture,
like if you the listen, Idon't deal with a lot of like cleaning
fish, but if you puncture yourselfon one of the little spiny like little
fins, you can get really infectedthat way. Now I'd never heard that
before. And so you didn't havegloves on or anything. The gloves kind
(01:53):
of I don't know, like theones you used, so again like the
shucking gloves. No, not shucking, no, they just like the little
like the little fins that run rightthere on. Oh now he's got the
no, tell me, there's nopussy no, no, no, and
so I was really good. Butthere was one little one that like kind
of pricked my thumb. That's whatI didn't. I didn't bleed, though,
(02:15):
but it pricked my thumb. Yougot something in there because it's swollen.
And then I thought maybe maybe Ihad because then I played hockey over
the weekend, so I thought maybedid I bang up my hand? But
I would know if I banged upmy hand playing hockey, I would have
remembered that. But there's no signof this yesterday morning. Oh yeah,
it's been swollen all weekend. Ohokay. You didn't put it out to
(02:36):
her? Yeah no, because Ithought, well, you know what,
maybe I banged and it'll go down. But then did you google it?
Does it go away on its own? Why am I gonna web MD?
I don't know if my hand wasall swoll up, I probably wouldn't.
Well, it doesn't. I mean, it hurts if I push on it,
but it doesn't. It doesn't feelbrutal swollen. Oh yeah, no,
it's very swollen. It's specific tothis type of fish, he said,
(02:58):
if you I don't know if it'sthis type of fish. I don't
fish. I don't know if it'sthis type of fish, or like fish
in general. But you know,like they all have like the little things
on their back. It's not likea big dorsal fin or anything, just
like little fins that run up anddown their back. It's not even fins.
Yeah, but do you even callthem fins? Maybe I don't know
what you're talking about, the likelittle spine that runs up and down their
(03:22):
back. I've never cleaned a fish. I haven't either. I mean i've
I've like gotten scales and stuff offof fish, but I've never cut the
backs off of a fish. Andso the but when I keep saying fins,
I think people think of like theirlittle flippers, the little tiny ones
you see coming off them. Yes, yes, yes, so I think.
But I didn't. I didn't getany I didn't get it, like,
(03:44):
I didn't bleed or anything. SoI thought, well, maybe I
just got like a little like maybejust the tip got in there and so,
but it won't go down, Andwhat would I bruise from that?
If you banged it? You saidyou did, but I don't think I
did. Oh, I don't thinkthey did. It made it worse?
No, if I if I pushon it I can feel it. But
if not, it doesn't, itdoesn't hurt. Have you tried a chin
(04:06):
tuck? The seems to be theflavor of the week when it comes to
treating conditions. No, that Ididn't try. By the way, does
that work him? Is it reallyexactly the same? Remember she did say
like in a month. Oh yeah, so you got to do that for
(04:27):
a long time. I did.I did it walking into the halls yesterday.
So you spend every waking hour duringmess, well, I remember the
and then you you tuck it away. But yeah, I don't know what
that is. And look how swollenit look, how black and blue it
is. Specific because and it wouldn'thave crossed my mind unless Steve was like,
don't puncture yourself with that, you'llget infected. But I don't know
(04:50):
if that's just like him saying,hey, don't eat undercook him what you
should do? Maybe he would know. No, I didn't ask him because
I didn't want to call him andgo, hey, remember you said don't
puncture yourself? Think I did.I don't understand why we have so many
people who fish and who handle fishall the time. We've never heard that,
We've never talked about it, andalso why is no one backing up
(05:12):
this hypothesis? Did they not know? It's also so Bronzeno was also some
kind of Sea Bass Okay, MediterraneanDiane City Sea Bass lessons the drunk it
passed out in the lobby of thebuilding. Would he know if he doesn't,
Whalon does the am I going toam? I going to line too?
(05:33):
Here we go, Hi Elliott inthe morning. By the way,
let me hit I'm great, holdtight one second, great recall on Sea
Bass's kids. Now that I remember, how do you remember that? I
don't know remember that. I thinkI think because Whalen was a very he
was very young, Yeah, andI think crawling. I was like,
(05:53):
that's the first person under the ageof like two i've met named Whalen.
Yeah, and he was remember SeaBass literally and I don't even remember his
real name. I don't even rememberwhy he was at the station, but
he was. I think he sowrong. I think he did just come
to hang out once, like eighto'clock in the morning drunk and passed out,
literally passed out in the lobby ofthe radio station, and nobody wanted
(06:14):
to babysit his kid, So Whalenjust climbed on his kid like he was
a jungle gym, like just wasclimbing all over sea bass. Anyway,
I'm sorry, yes, ma'am.Who is this? It is Allison are
Oh, I'm well, thank you? What can I do for you?
I was calling because this actually justhappened to us on Saturday. We caught
a yellowfish on the pier. Andyellowfish are also another species of fish where
(06:40):
if you were to prick your fingeron one of their smaller spines, your
hand would be tingly for like aweek. So there's some species of fish
where there's some kind of poison intheir fins and it'll just like it's like
a just like a nummy sensation thatyou'll get. It's just weird. Well,
(07:02):
it's weird. I don't feel numb, I don't feel tingly. I
am swollen, and I am uhwhat do you call it? I am
black and blue? Although o'kay,so maybe just yellow fish or a different
you know, striking poison. Butyeah, I just know like yellow fish,
there's like different types of fish whereyou're just you're just bound back.
(07:24):
Hey, what was the well,thank you, ma'am, thank you?
What was the yes, Tyler,I've been sent this link here from the
Virginia Department of Health. You havefish handler's disease. That doesn't sound made
up at all. What is it? What does it say? Does it
have a scent? The Diane pleaseoccurs when cuts or scrapes in the skin
(07:47):
become infected with the bacteria. Howdoes it go away? Let's see,
that's how you avoid it for awhile. Yesterday I was, I was,
I'm not a hypochondriac, but Iwas like, ooh, what if
I have like that, like flesheating disease? And they got to start
cutting out meat from my hand.Well, now, I hope you have
(08:07):
fish handlers. It seems a lot. So does it just go away?
Like my body's fighting it? Let'ssee the treatment is let's see. So
have you been using your antibiotic ointmentthree to four times a day? No,
I mean I washed my hands inthe morning. Have you been using
(08:28):
an oral antibiotic? M No,I mean I do take. I do
take like like what you call itadvil. Have you sought an intravenous antibiotic?
A lot of antibiotics? Oh,you can do tile in all our
advil? Oh? Sweet? SoI'm on it. Okay, good,
good, I'm on it, andI feel like it is better today than
yesterday. Still pretty swollen though,like you could see that, right,
(08:52):
that's really I mean, I wonderif you made fun of me a lot
after after tubing. But I alsowas in water when I came up with
my issue. Did you touch afish? It was very, very similar
in that part of my lower limbblew up. Look at look at how
swollen that looks though. Yeah,no, it looks like a balloon.
(09:16):
Yeah. I don't know what's goingon there. I got fish Antler's disease.
Look at me, go, lookat me. Go where's the too,
Where's where's that massive fish that was? It's been in the news for
like two days. That washed theshort what Oregon like some crazy fish that
washed I don't know what kind offish. It was. Sunfish. No,
that's what the that's what the womansaid. Oh, you used to
(09:37):
be able to get the sunfish inanimal crossing. Okay, where am I
going there? The seven footer washesup on the Oregon coast. Yes,
this sufish? Oh it is.Yeah, look at the size of that
thing. Look at the size ofthat That thing's enormous uh line too.
Hi elliot in the morning, Hey, how you doing? Watch this will
(09:58):
be what killed me? Is Igot? I stuck my finger on goddamn
bronzino. Yes, sir, unlessit was a Potomac River white fish,
what do you tilic bleed puparoxide onit and stopped trying the No, but
you know what, well, thankyou sir. Believe no. But that's
that's what I mean. Like ifit were a bug bite, you would
know where like the bug bit youthere's no there's no bite mark here in
(10:24):
the puncture I think was on mythumb. But I told you, I
don't even feel like I pierced theskin, so there's nothing to squeeze to
get out of it. Now,the condition of your nail tells a different
story. You haven't stopped gnawing onthis nose pickers disease. My thumb,
my hands is great. Look atmy thumbs. Look how bad that is.
(10:45):
I wonder if it got in thereor there or there And that's all
on one nail, one nail bed. No, my thumbs, My thumbs
are bad. My thumbs are atrue Oh, I'm sorry, there's you're
showings of your body that are grossa swollen, fleshy I know, but
that's I'll take that seven days aweek over what you always have going on
(11:07):
on your thumbnail. My thumbs arebad.
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