December 10, 2024 • 33 mins
Tyler got his scan done and now we wait, but for what?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Did you get the did you get the the IV?
I did get the did you have to drink it? Ivy? Oh,
we sort of knew that was going to happen because
the one I called in timing when you arrived exactly
exactly two hours ahead, So it was going to be intravenous.
And I did. I did drink. They had to drink
water thirty two to forty ounces thirty minutes ahead of
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the appointment. But you're allowed to pee. You were allowed
to pee, but they didn't tell you, like what the
window was for drinking it. So in the five minute
drive from the studio to the office, I had it.
And then signing the documents and paperwork, my hand was
shaking from drinking that much water.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Quickly excuse yourself and tell them that you have to
use the restaurant.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
No, it wasn't because I had to go to the
bathrooms because you're sodium levels drops. I already had stomach pain. Oh,
it was shaking from pain. Yes, I was then that
much water. Uncomfortable times too because of all that water.
And then yeah, they're like before the exam, they're like
they make sure you go to the bathroom so you're comfortable.
Did you go yeah, all right, and they said I could.
(01:06):
But it was just I should have asked what the
window was for drinking that much water instead of pounding
a Stanley tumbler. This is what I did. So the
so you went in, went in, got in the gown.
Oh so they gowned you. They well they didn't. I
would have appreciated the help, because at one point the
guy knocked on the door to make sure I was okay.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
I've been sorry, I'm still dressing.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
I couldn't. I couldn't tie it from vine.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
How did you not be able to tie it?
Speaker 1 (01:34):
It's only the second time I've ever been in a gown.
The other time was a colonoscopy, and I feel like
that wrapped around more so the ties were almost in front.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Do you wear a gown during a colonoscopy?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Yes, I don't remember putting a gown on. Oh they
just pulled down your cargo short.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
I just feel like they treated it like panties and
just kind of moved them aside or a diaper.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
If it's an old folks, it's open to the back,
so your asses hanging there.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
The I don't remember wearing a gown.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Oh, but maybe you don't tie it if it's a
for the for the colonoscopy.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
I'm pretty sure I did, because they got to get
in there. Wait, so you had you struggled with the tie.
You know.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
The other thing you could do is kind of push
and clench. That'll also hold it together.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
I got your butts and chip clip. I got the
one near my hip. I couldn't get the one near
my neck, right, I just don't wear enough necklaces. I guess.
All right, so you okay, But so you struggled. Yeah,
and the guy so he's like already in his.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Head, let me give you a hand hunting.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
And I liked that he George wasn't He was cool.
He's a cool tech. He's he's very friendly, right, because
sometimes you go into these offices for imaging and it's
it's impersonal because they want it that way in case
it's a sensitive area. Right, Well, I don't want to
deliver bad news. Well no, I'm just saying like, oh,
it's in a sensitive area. Yeah, so if you're getting hey,
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good to see you, Sorry about your testing. That's my
scribbled scrubble ultrasounds.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
Right.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
The woman was nice, but she was indifferent to me.
As a human being. All right, So he helped you
with your gown. He did not help me. He just
asked if I needed assistance.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
And would you tell him. I'll just struggle.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
What I needed help with was the lock for my
personal clothing that I couldn't figure it out. Well, where
you put your clothes? I startled a lot in the
closet they had me change in because the little safe
that I had to put my clothes and I couldn't.
I couldn'tigure out the lock.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Why are you locking it? Just put your crap in there.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
So my phone and yeah, the wallet, Yeah, I just
put it in there. There were two lockers in there.
That room is used by multiple go okay.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
I thought it was like you were in one area
and you just put your stuff in there like a cubby.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Because when I got the kolonoscopy five years ago, you
put all your clothes in a bag. Yeah yeah, and
carried it with you to each part of the exam.
But that's not how this worked. And then we went
into the the big room with all the warning sign
you're allowed to leave your shoes on, which threw me off.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Oh well, I guess so they're not doing anything down there.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Yeah, but your your shoes as you're going back and forth.
I feel like it's pretty close. What if you have
a lot of metal on your shoes, like.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Like you're wearing steel toed boots.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
No, or like your gibbits. I don't know, Kristin Kristen
has the snowplows for the winter, right, that would have
been trouble.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Oh the lights, the okay, so but you kept your
shoes on.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
So shoes, underwear, socks, and then the gown.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Wait, so you're wearing shoes with underwear and socks. You
got to take your shoes off to get your pants off,
just leave.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
And put them back on to walk to the examination room.
Oh whatever, Oh you just walked in your socks. I
guess you could have.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
I would have taken my socks off and just walked
to my bare feet. Oh like Dick Van Dyke, I
love that video so much. That is that was the sweetest,
is very sweet. What a tribute to his life and legacy.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
It is a very nice video.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
I was thinking about it a lot yesterday during my exam. God, okay,
well you just you revisit your interpretation of the word
love when.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Oh, dear God, anyway anyone.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
When life comes up at you that way. So George
has me laid down and he says, so you're here
for abdominal discomfort, so that's right. What are your other symptoms?
That's it? You know what he said? No, he said, oh,
this is going to be stress. George sees it all
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the time. Yeah, this is going to be a stress case.
And I said, oh, it's been bothering me not yet.
Oh good, because why would I need to tell him
about that? You're saying because he said, when you have
a tummy ache for my stomach.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
No, but he said, do you have any other symptoms?
Speaker 1 (05:51):
You also didn't bring up my testicular cyst We probably
saw it. It's internal.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
No.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
No, But wouldn't you say, like I'm already being treated
for shoulder.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
That's not true. I went to physical therapy for almost
three years. It was Danish, Danish whatever. So Jorge, see,
no names matter, his name is George. George has me
laid out, and he's telling me that when he first
moved here, he was stressed a lot too and developed
some IBS like symptoms. Oh yes, but then he realized
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there's a lot of things in life you just can't
control and he got he got over it.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
God, George is like a therapist.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
He was great, which is where Tyler ends up after
all of them. When I get the survey, I'm gonna
definitely uh single him out as as a as a
big help. So then he explains that there's going to
be instructions that you hear the machine shout out. Uh,
I just need to put my hands above my head
against the board. And that's where I had to bring
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up frozen shoulder.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Oh I can't.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
I can't, so just like above you, yes, as I
can't do I can't.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
I have a mental block.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
And you When I told him why you could hear,
his eyes rolled back in his head because he had
already diagnosed me without even seeing the scan yet, that
that it's going to be stressed. And I said, I,
I physically can't do that because I have frozen shoulder
like most middle aged women. And he said, oh, okay,
well we have an alternate position.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
So what on your side or no?
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Because we needed to see the full.
Speaker 7 (07:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
So it looked like, honestly, all I could do is
picture old women having to do this. But so this
is as far as my hands can go. Are you serious? Yeah,
in terms of being in line with my body.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Well, those three years paid often.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
So you did you see me before I started? I
couldn't go parallel to the ground. Look at this proger, God,
look at it. So so he says, put your hands
above your chest and your your arms above your chest,
and then your palms together. It actually it was very
fin's leg He should you know what, George? Word that
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into your your stick and then hold them together and
just make sure you're clear of your Torso right, and
I came out because I'm already worried because you know,
in situations where they tell you to hold your breath,
you can't hold your breath even though it's fifteen seconds.
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So I'm thinking there's already pressure now on my lungs
because of my arms having to be held up in
the air. This takes exertion.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Are you also worried that your gown has written up?
Speaker 7 (08:45):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (08:45):
I had a micro mini I had on, you know,
my boxer briefs, which I switched two years ago because
of the sist. So my arms are up and now
I'm worried about the instructions. He leaves the room, so
I know it's almost game time. Yeah, he put the
IVY in and then he said feel because so then
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he says to me as he's about to leave, he says,
the same thing you guys warned me of. You might
feel a metallic taste in your mouth, you might feel
a warmth of your body, you may feel like you
have to urinate, but that's all normal. So then the
exam starts or the scan starts. I'm not feeling any
of those things. Awesome, no taste, no sensation, no urge
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to pee, nothing, So I'm thinking wrong. I'm thinking my
hands in this position. No, no, have pulled the iv
out and I'm gonna and just covered it ink covered
in the contrasting agent. And he did at some point
come back in and kind of adjust my arm. But
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I do think at that point he would have noticed
if the IVY wasn't everywhere. So it's a couple of
times back and forth and back and forth. It's not
loud like an MRI. Yeah right, Well I didn't know
that because I hadn't done it. But it's not like
they said bring headphones or anything. And you know, hold
your breath breathe normally again, hold your breath, breathe, normally
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again and like it's pretty quick like that, you're done.
And George just says to me, are you on the portal?
And I said yes. He said, then your results should
be there by tomorrow. Oh that quick? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (10:25):
Oh? Why do I remember cat scan results take? Like
I remember when they did it on my head. I
remember they were like, we don't see anything obvious.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
There's like all for migrains.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
So they were like, we don't see anything immediately, like like.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
I don't know if they were looking for tumors or
whatever it could be.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Yeah, but they But I feel like after they said
we don't see anything obvious, that it was going to
take a while.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
I thought cat scan results took a bit.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Maybe George was able to see some sort of image himself,
but is not supposed to comment on it.
Speaker 7 (10:57):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Wait, so you don't know what it is.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
I haven't seen my findings and my interpretation of the scans,
so that of course things he knows what it is. Oh,
this is going to be stressed.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Wait, so did they say when it would be? When
it when it would be on the portal?
Speaker 7 (11:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Bye today? Did you check? I have the log and
saved at home?
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Oh so you can't check from here.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
But I don't know. It's like one of those the
password was suggested by the Apple computer. Yeah, so I
guess we could like reset my password, but I've never
accessed it outside of the home computer. It's a very
early Yeah, well you know that they're not When does
the main radiologists come in and like read that stuff
last night?
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Last night? They would have done it last night.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
You don't think there's somebody that works at night that's
going over that stuff.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Are the people that screwed up your ankle?
Speaker 4 (11:48):
They didn't screw it up, but they had a radiologist
come in the morning and go over all the and.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Tell you, actually, it is broken, yes, after the people
overnight said it wasn't it was just severely sprained. Yeah,
they said it was sprained. Yeah, And they were like, oh,
we didn't see we didn't really check the tibby. The
tibby has got a really good crack in it. But
you want me to default to those people. I mean,
if it's up there, I would just want to see
what it is. Oh, you think you could see the
image and and give me a diagnostic take.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Oh, but would even if it's in there wouldn't they say,
we found nothing, it's just stress.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
They don't find stress. Well, no, but if there's nothing there,
that's what they're going to default to. But I also
want it to be sent and discussed with me by
my guess or entrologist. So yes, Uh, the radiologists may
type up their findings from the image. Oh, but you
want it set to Donnish, and Donnish will go over
with you. But I don't know who your other got.
(12:42):
You're so Hall doctor, Sohall. Yeah, so he will get it,
I'm assuming. And then I hope his office calls me.
I don't know if I talk to him directly, or
maybe he sends me a message on the portal.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Stress, no need to come in.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
But it was funny, like they stress, Hey, why don't
you chill out? They would they stress is being on
the portal and having a log in, And it's like,
what if the radiologists found something terrible, wouldn't you rather
get a phone call than stumble on just a typed
up report.
Speaker 8 (13:13):
I wonder if it's terrible, whether they would not put
it on there, because then they would want nobody speak
to you directly.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Well, when I had, by the way, I feel horrible.
I don't even check the portal.
Speaker 7 (13:23):
Ever.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
When I had my physical and they gave me the
results of my because my doctor's office just got online
in Damascus, they made sure to talk to me about
just my regular blood panel work before posting it to
the portal that they're on, because they found when they
were posting results of your blood work from one or
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two weeks before ahead of your appointment, people were seeing
numbers and calling and writing and asking what is going on?
Do I need to look into this?
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:56):
And it's like, okay, we were going to discuss this
with you, So now they wait into they can consult
with you right and then.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
But that makes sense because you're going right after that,
right for like blood work and stuff that they were
going to see you.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
That makes total sense.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
But before because a lot of times blub work's done
at an independent lab, right it was just being uploaded
and they didn't even know and they're getting these worried
calls about cholesterol or whatever it may be organ function,
and so I think if it was something the news
on the.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Portal, I don't think. So I really don't like.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Well, how bad will it get? Like they're not going
to tell you you've got cancer on the portal? No,
do you know that?
Speaker 3 (14:33):
I'm why would they do that?
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Could you see cancer in a scan like that? Or
would you need follow up testing like a biopsy? Probably biopsy.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
They'd be able to see a tumor.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
No, no, if that's what they like for in my head,
a big mass.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
They look a tumor doesn't mean cancer, no exactly, but
they would be able to see that.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Then you would have to get a biopsy. But yeah,
they'd be able to see that, sure, or some kind
of growth.
Speaker 8 (14:57):
I just think that they wouldn't want to deliver what
could be for something traumatic to you, just for you
happenstance on the portal.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
Can I tell you how spoiled I am. I would
never even think to check the portal. I would just
think if it's bad, Yeah, you.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Get an email, it's like you've got a new message.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
George gave me a QR code on a little card yesterday,
right to be able to access the portal. Yeah, I
would just whether it's Mure or in Nunziata, I'm getting
a text.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Well, okay, they have a texting relationship.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Relationship I have with that is our former gynecologist. I
didn't see him personally for a lot of stuff. You
may be based on this last one, based on what
George says. You may oh, men can't be stressed the
no no, But like I would just that's how I
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think you would get it.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
You'd get a phone call or a text.
Speaker 8 (15:53):
Now I think they're going to make sure they talk
to you in person before they put anything.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
But like why, I mean cancers the go to But
couldn't that be anything like a minor finding not minor,
like oh you've got stage one?
Speaker 1 (16:08):
No no, but not yet no no.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
But I can't even think of I can't even think of,
like what another diagnosis would be that they would keep off.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Of the portal? Oh, keep off of the portal, Like
you don't get diagnosed with I'm guessing because I have
no idea how it works. But like you don't go
in for a test and they're like, well, we diagnosed
you got Parkinson's. Like they're not just throwing that up
on the portal Parkinson's from a CT scan or anything
where it.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Just shows up on the portal.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
What about like if you had a parcel blockage of.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
Something portal, Well, I think it depends on how far,
like we got to get in there and do open
heart surgery. No, that's not going on the portal now.
But if it's like we got to get you in
here in Stenia, maybe.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
So if it's something maybe tied to normal aging, it
may be listed. It may be listed as something on
the portal, but not something that they feel they need
to call you about immediately. I think it depends on
how bad well we noticed, like tears in your heart, yeah,
I mean I.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Don't think pretty devastating.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
I also don't know if that's a real thing. No,
but if you had, if but like if you if
you had, if you had there were some renal issues,
not not in totality.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Is that what you're afraid of? You got a kidney problem?
Speaker 1 (17:24):
No, I'm afraid. I'm afraid of everything. I don't have
a specific worry in mind. I would just like to
stop having a stomach ache.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
But if stones, would they would they tell you on
the on the portal you've got stones? So I think
would they see stones in a cat scan?
Speaker 1 (17:36):
I think so?
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Didn't you get a scanned for the goals golf stone
gall stones?
Speaker 6 (17:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (17:44):
I had a Lesion.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Yeah, there was.
Speaker 8 (17:46):
Yeah, I don't I don't remember if it was a
CT or an MRI, but they were able to see it.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
How about the stroke I just had? Would that be
up on the portal? Where am I going?
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Mine?
Speaker 4 (17:56):
Eight?
Speaker 5 (17:57):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Elliott? So you don't I mean other than that, you
don't know. You know, you have no idea what the
result is other than the text diagnosis the yeah no, no, yeah,
of him saying stress, you have no clue what happened.
But I also want to talk to my guesstruentrologists to
help me interpret it right what they find, because there
may be something on there that would scare me. But
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then the my specialists would say, that's not you know,
we can work on that and manage that.
Speaker 7 (18:24):
That's not.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
That's not what's causing your pain. That's gonna be the
best part when whatever it is is not tied directly
to my discomfort. Okay, but at least you'll know.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
What it is.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
No, I'm saying, well, they found we found tears in
your heart, but that should be cause of abdominal issues.
Can you just come in, hi, Elliott in the morning.
Speaker 7 (18:48):
Hey, the thing?
Speaker 6 (18:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Hi, who's this?
Speaker 5 (18:51):
Hey?
Speaker 9 (18:51):
Marny Miami, Spenser Local, DC cancer survivor here. Just wanted
to ease Tower's anxiety. You will not get bad news
on the portal. They will definitely call you deeper. Have
you come in or talk over to the phone?
Speaker 7 (19:03):
Good?
Speaker 1 (19:03):
So I get that. But how far?
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Like cancer is the extreme? It's easy.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
I don't want to say it's easy to go to cancer.
And by the way, good for you for being a survivor.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
The but like, how far will they go?
Speaker 1 (19:15):
I mean, like, how soon was he called? No, no,
that's a good question. I'd like to know, probably immediately.
How soon were you called after my biopsy?
Speaker 5 (19:26):
I was called within two days?
Speaker 3 (19:29):
That's that long? Two days?
Speaker 1 (19:30):
No, it's not.
Speaker 9 (19:31):
It was a very long two days because I discovered
the tumor of myself. Long story, but yeah, it was.
Speaker 7 (19:35):
It was kind of.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Two days. Okay. Can I ask how old you are?
Speaker 5 (19:42):
I was thirty one when I was diagnosed. I'm thirty three.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Now, okay, So what's thirty one times three sixty five?
Speaker 6 (19:52):
Man? Right?
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Okay, Well that's how many days he's been alive. Two
days is nothing.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Here when you've got a potential diety.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
May I finish?
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Please?
Speaker 4 (20:02):
May I finish that while you're waiting on it. Sure,
it seems like a long time. It's like waiting to
find out if you got to like you got accepted
for a job or something. But in the grand scheme
of things, two days is not that long. I've been
a cast for a month and a half feels like forever,
but I've been alive more than more than a month
and a half.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
So yes, it seems like the longest, of course, of course.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
But for others it's not. That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
The yeah, absolutely, the the the where was I?
Speaker 4 (20:35):
No?
Speaker 1 (20:35):
But two days to have them go over everything, like
you want it to be complete? Like I get that.
That's not to me, that's not long.
Speaker 9 (20:46):
Yeah, No, that's totally fair, especially in the medical field
where they have other patients, other things to do.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
It's just it's an internal anxiety type thing.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Sure, sir, if you had the cancer, don't let Elliott
convince you of your truth. The No, I'm just saying
that two days. If somebody said, hey, we just did
this test, it's going to take two days to find out,
I would think, like that's pretty quick to know in
two days if I've got something that's severe anyway back
to you? What is the how is that? What's the
furthest they'll go? Will they tell you that you've got
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like kidney stones? Yeah, they'll tell you got kidney stones
on the portal.
Speaker 5 (21:19):
Yeah, I would imagine. So, I mean I haven't personally
had them, but yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Good for you, Good for you. I'm happy for you.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Sir, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
I appreciate guys, you got it, talk to you later.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
What's wrong? Christin is saying that she knew she had
to get surgery before the doctors talked to her because
she saw it on the portal? Are you serious? Christ
turn yourself on?
Speaker 7 (21:40):
Like?
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Is she? I can't tell? But is she saying? Word
for a word? She knew that was the next step?
Speaker 2 (21:46):
What they tell you?
Speaker 6 (21:46):
Well, the I.
Speaker 10 (21:47):
Got my CT scan, got wheeled back to the uh room, right,
and my phone because they left my phone in the
room and it the results are already on the portal.
I got a text from the portal saying your results
are here.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
So I looked that quick.
Speaker 10 (22:00):
Yeah, so the doctor nurses hadn't like told me anything
like officially. And then so I sent a picture of
it to my mom.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
I'm like, does this mean?
Speaker 10 (22:10):
Because I think it's aid appendicitis blah blah blah. It
wasn't word for word that, hey we got a preppy
for surgery, but that was the next step. So when
the doctor came in, hey we got a preppy for surgery.
You know you're you do have appendicitis, And I'm like,
yeah the portal said that.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
She's like, oh, you got it already.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Oh, I bet your phone was in your locker right
the okay, so you found out quick.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
I bet your stuff's already up there. I bet your
stuff's up there, but.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
I haven't got a notification about it. The Oh, that's
a good point too.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Yeah, sometimes that can be a bit of a delay.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
I've also heard that in certain cases it could take
two days.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
So I never got from CVS Photo a confirmation that
my holiday cards are ready, and I had to log
in again to see that they were there to pick up.
And that was after they were misprinted at another location
after how many days it was the laston day it
was the same day pick up. Oh, okay, good good,
So cancer two days cards one day? Well, you know
what's great, I'm holding sixty misprinted cards and I can't
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bring myself to throw them out. You threw out perfectly good,
not my own. No, that's true, that's true, fair point. Oh,
just like I'm like the cancer call.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Out, all right, very good?
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Where am I going?
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Christian line five?
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Hi Ellie at the morning.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Me, Yeah, Hi, here's this.
Speaker 6 (23:30):
Is Daniel from Chantilly. Yes, sir, So, I had a
lump in my throat for like fifteen twenty years, didn't
really ask my doctor about it, and I really wanted
to go to the doctor. Finally brought it up and
he was like, yeah, it's not normally you should probably
go see a E and T.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
So I went to the NT.
Speaker 6 (23:46):
You got a biopsy, the portal results showed up the
next day saying that the mass was cancerous. Well, I
got a call from the doctor two days later saying
everything's fine, it's normal, no cancer. And then I got
a call back a few days later after that and
they're like, oh, we messed up.
Speaker 5 (24:05):
Actually it is cancer. And ended up having to get
surgery for that.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Oh my god.
Speaker 6 (24:12):
And then when I went so went, I got a
second opinion. I went to another practice and there were
those two practices were linked. And when I met with
a surgeon's who's like a top knock.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
Surgery around here.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
She I told her what had happened, and she turned
and looked at her staff that like she was so
disappointed and everything because they were the same practice.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
Oh that's rough, that's rough. How are you, by the way, dude,
twenty years with a lump in your throat?
Speaker 6 (24:42):
Yeah, I mean I'm just not a doctor guy. And
yet hindsight definitely should have asked about it before.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Yes, of course, you're like the ones who go to
pimple popper and she like pulls her pants down.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
He's like, how long had that been there? About twelve
years exactly? Oh all right, very good, thank you?
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Starting out as just a small bump and wait.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Line three, Hi Ellie at the morning. Hello, Yeah, Hi,
who's this him?
Speaker 11 (25:07):
My name is Julie. I'm the engagement by the dumpster girl.
Speaker 12 (25:10):
Remember.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Oh yeah, I remember you in Columbia.
Speaker 11 (25:14):
Yeah. So I've been dealing with like stomach issues for
like nine months. Then they told me it was like
my liver was this, and then my liver was that,
and then I that is. I went to the specialist
and he like sent me a poorttle message. He's like, hey, yeah,
your blood works sucks. But like, just keep taking the
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medicine we gave you. Oh yeah, by the way, they're
gonna go see a specialist because you might need a
liver transplant. And I was like, okay them until the Yeah,
I'm not schedule to see them until Friday. And this
was like last maybe like a week and a half ago.
But I'm just like, if it's there, it's gonna be there.
(25:56):
Like I'm not gonna trust the word.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Wait a minute, you're this is going on right now?
Speaker 11 (26:02):
Yeah, I'm wanting to go see you a specialists on
Friday because they sent me a message.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
I think it was.
Speaker 11 (26:06):
Mondays Friday last week. Now, those two weeks ago, I
was in the hospital for the same thing and they
sent me a message and they said, hey, like he says,
what's going on, and make sure you go see the specialists.
I'm like, yeah, I have an appointment. They're like, yeah,
because you might need a liver transplant in the future,
but just the.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Well, hell, we all may need a liver transplant in
the future.
Speaker 11 (26:31):
Oh my god, I've been dealing with this for so
long that I'm just like.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
And that's why you can't You can't stress over the
days you can't stress over the days.
Speaker 11 (26:48):
Oh and I was like I was stressing before, like
November and then fin only November. I just kind of said, hey, man, listen,
I could get hit by a bus walking out this hospital.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
I like that attitude. I like that attitude. Hey, will
you well keep us posted. I didn't realize this was
going on right now, but yeah, keep us posted, all right?
Speaker 5 (27:09):
I will.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Jeez, I wis between the last two callers. I wished
through osmosis I could get some of that energy. How
about that I found out I needed liver transplant. Did
Josh's sister find out on the portal? I don't know
that she needed a kidney? Asked him to come in?
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Did Josh respond on the kidney?
Speaker 1 (27:29):
I got you. I almost had to reach out to
Josh last night for a transplant. No, first, please take
his other kidney. For information on buying a funko, Oh
Jesus Christ, I wanted to know the best place to
get tho my room?
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Did his wait? What was I a Josh KM here?
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Oh? What what am I doing? Can you follow up
with my funco question? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Okay, hi, Josh?
Speaker 4 (28:08):
The how did your sister find out on the portal
that she had to get a kidney.
Speaker 13 (28:11):
No, she knew since she was probably sixteen years old
when we found out that she had a kidney disease,
right problem, Oh so that was life long and with yeah,
with that disease, you know you're gonna need a transplant eventually, eventually,
Like my grandfather had it, right, and he couldn't get
a transplant. He was on dialysis and that's how he
passed away. But if you can't get a kidney, then
obviously you have to go on diaces. We knew at
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some point she.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Would and she would need one.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
How did you know?
Speaker 7 (28:36):
How did say it with my mom and saying with
my other.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Sister, well, you got bad kidneys.
Speaker 7 (28:39):
I'm the only one with the healthy kidneys.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Barely you only got one the what is the what
is health?
Speaker 6 (28:45):
No?
Speaker 1 (28:45):
No?
Speaker 2 (28:45):
But how like how did how did she know?
Speaker 4 (28:47):
Like I get that they said you had that she
knew eventually she'd have to get a kidney.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
How did they know it was time to get a kidney?
Speaker 13 (28:54):
The masses on her kidney right got to the point
where like they're like, you got it, it's gonna go yeah,
I like you've got to get them out of you
or you're either going to die or you're going to
have to force to be on dialysis.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
And then eventually and then you go, what is the
And you weren't you weren't eligible to give your mama kidney?
Speaker 13 (29:11):
I don't think I was at the time, or we
I don't recall this being a match, but I think
one of I think her cousin gave.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Gave her all right, very good.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Hey, the other really important question, Tyler needs to buy
a function.
Speaker 7 (29:22):
I was curious, which one do you need?
Speaker 1 (29:24):
It is Bart Simpson with the skateboard, okay, do you
have that one.
Speaker 7 (29:28):
I don't collect sipsons.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
I don't collect that. Idiots idiots who collects losers?
Speaker 13 (29:37):
The well, it depends on which one it is.
Speaker 7 (29:39):
Is it a collector, is it a new one?
Speaker 5 (29:40):
Like?
Speaker 7 (29:40):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (29:42):
I think it is recently added to the canon.
Speaker 13 (29:44):
If it's somewhat new, then you can get on the
Funko site. So just a hot topic or any of
those places.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
But what I was asking, like, in terms of retail,
what are the best spots?
Speaker 13 (29:53):
Oh, hot topic? I always go to box Lunch, Amazon,
What Entertainment Earth on topic.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
It's also where he gets his clothes, so you're saying
them all the mall. Yes, all right, what's the last
funko you bought? Oh?
Speaker 7 (30:11):
Aj Brown from the Eagles?
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Very good?
Speaker 5 (30:13):
All right, go down the hall.
Speaker 7 (30:14):
Okay, go down the hall. Gobert Gombert got to hell.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
Well spent.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Hi Elliot in the morning.
Speaker 12 (30:26):
Hi is this mean?
Speaker 5 (30:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Real quick?
Speaker 2 (30:28):
What can I do for you?
Speaker 12 (30:30):
Real quick? I just wanted to dispel all of your
fairy tales of portal knowledge. I found out that I
had stage three cancer on the portal.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Oh my god, oh my, you didn't dispel anything. You
made it worse. Well.
Speaker 12 (30:47):
You kept saying they would never tell you that on
the portal, and I'm just here to say, yeah they would.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
So what did what did you do?
Speaker 1 (30:56):
What does the portal sake like? Do you open it
up and it's like, oh, let's see last of appointment. Oh,
here's the note from my doctor. Do you study that? Off?
Speaker 12 (31:07):
You open it up and there's just a link to
your biopsy and it says it and it has all
this mumbo jumbo. But it's not that you understand the
stage three okay. And then you don't get another note,
you don't get another message. You have to call in
and pry information out of them, and then okay, I
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had to have a hysterectomy. I never talked to the
doctor before I got discharged from the hospital. Two weeks later,
I kid you not. I get another note on the
portal that says all of the findings look good. The
very next day, I get another message that says, no, actually,
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we found themselves on some other things. We had to
remove and there and their stage three. And by the way,
you won't see your doctor for two more weeks.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Well, awesome, I got nothing going on. Oh my god,
that's horrible.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Well multiplayer age by three sixty five and then fourteen.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
You lived fourteen days? Fourteen days is two weeks is
a why? Oh okay, you admit that, yes, two weeks
as wow? Two days like that? That's not that bad. Hey,
let me ask you this now. And I realize, like,
patient privacy, how are you doing now?
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Are you good?
Speaker 12 (32:32):
I just finished my chemo yesterday, I got to ring that.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Bell good for you, and.
Speaker 12 (32:39):
I am on my way to my radiation simulation where
they're going to show me what that's like. I do
that for five weeks, right, and then I should be
okay with some immunotherapy.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Excellent, excellent, good news. Hey, listen, and I know those
appointments are long, and those days are are long, and
they start early. Make sure you bring your AirPod so
you can to listen to the show.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Amen, brother, thank you, thank you. All right, very good,
very good.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Thank you, ma'am.
Speaker 4 (33:06):
Wait man, oh, so you may get really bad news
in the mortal That's what I learned, Jesus Chris
Did you get the did you get the the IV?
I did get the did you have to drink it? Ivy? Oh,
we sort of knew that was going to happen because
the one I called in timing when you arrived exactly
exactly two hours ahead, So it was going to be intravenous.
And I did. I did drink. They had to drink
water thirty two to forty ounces thirty minutes ahead of
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the appointment. But you're allowed to pee. You were allowed
to pee, but they didn't tell you, like what the
window was for drinking it. So in the five minute
drive from the studio to the office, I had it.
And then signing the documents and paperwork, my hand was
shaking from drinking that much water.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Quickly excuse yourself and tell them that you have to
use the restaurant.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
No, it wasn't because I had to go to the
bathrooms because you're sodium levels drops. I already had stomach pain. Oh,
it was shaking from pain. Yes, I was then that
much water. Uncomfortable times too because of all that water.
And then yeah, they're like before the exam, they're like
they make sure you go to the bathroom so you're comfortable.
Did you go yeah, all right, and they said I could.
(01:06):
But it was just I should have asked what the
window was for drinking that much water instead of pounding
a Stanley tumbler. This is what I did. So the
so you went in, went in, got in the gown.
Oh so they gowned you. They well they didn't. I
would have appreciated the help, because at one point the
guy knocked on the door to make sure I was okay.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
I've been sorry, I'm still dressing.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
I couldn't. I couldn't tie it from vine.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
How did you not be able to tie it?
Speaker 1 (01:34):
It's only the second time I've ever been in a gown.
The other time was a colonoscopy, and I feel like
that wrapped around more so the ties were almost in front.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Do you wear a gown during a colonoscopy?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Yes, I don't remember putting a gown on. Oh they
just pulled down your cargo short.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
I just feel like they treated it like panties and
just kind of moved them aside or a diaper.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
If it's an old folks, it's open to the back,
so your asses hanging there.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
The I don't remember wearing a gown.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Oh, but maybe you don't tie it if it's a
for the for the colonoscopy.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
I'm pretty sure I did, because they got to get
in there. Wait, so you had you struggled with the tie.
You know.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
The other thing you could do is kind of push
and clench. That'll also hold it together.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
I got your butts and chip clip. I got the
one near my hip. I couldn't get the one near
my neck, right, I just don't wear enough necklaces. I guess.
All right, so you okay, But so you struggled. Yeah,
and the guy so he's like already in his.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Head, let me give you a hand hunting.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
And I liked that he George wasn't He was cool.
He's a cool tech. He's he's very friendly, right, because
sometimes you go into these offices for imaging and it's
it's impersonal because they want it that way in case
it's a sensitive area. Right, Well, I don't want to
deliver bad news. Well no, I'm just saying like, oh,
it's in a sensitive area. Yeah, so if you're getting hey,
(02:57):
good to see you, Sorry about your testing. That's my
scribbled scrubble ultrasounds.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
Right.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
The woman was nice, but she was indifferent to me.
As a human being. All right, So he helped you
with your gown. He did not help me. He just
asked if I needed assistance.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
And would you tell him. I'll just struggle.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
What I needed help with was the lock for my
personal clothing that I couldn't figure it out. Well, where
you put your clothes? I startled a lot in the
closet they had me change in because the little safe
that I had to put my clothes and I couldn't.
I couldn'tigure out the lock.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Why are you locking it? Just put your crap in there.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
So my phone and yeah, the wallet, Yeah, I just
put it in there. There were two lockers in there.
That room is used by multiple go okay.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
I thought it was like you were in one area
and you just put your stuff in there like a cubby.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Because when I got the kolonoscopy five years ago, you
put all your clothes in a bag. Yeah yeah, and
carried it with you to each part of the exam.
But that's not how this worked. And then we went
into the the big room with all the warning sign
you're allowed to leave your shoes on, which threw me off.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Oh well, I guess so they're not doing anything down there.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Yeah, but your your shoes as you're going back and forth.
I feel like it's pretty close. What if you have
a lot of metal on your shoes, like.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Like you're wearing steel toed boots.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
No, or like your gibbits. I don't know, Kristin Kristen
has the snowplows for the winter, right, that would have
been trouble.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Oh the lights, the okay, so but you kept your
shoes on.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
So shoes, underwear, socks, and then the gown.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Wait, so you're wearing shoes with underwear and socks. You
got to take your shoes off to get your pants off,
just leave.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
And put them back on to walk to the examination room.
Oh whatever, Oh you just walked in your socks. I
guess you could have.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
I would have taken my socks off and just walked
to my bare feet. Oh like Dick Van Dyke, I
love that video so much. That is that was the sweetest,
is very sweet. What a tribute to his life and legacy.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
It is a very nice video.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
I was thinking about it a lot yesterday during my exam. God, okay,
well you just you revisit your interpretation of the word
love when.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Oh, dear God, anyway anyone.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
When life comes up at you that way. So George
has me laid down and he says, so you're here
for abdominal discomfort, so that's right. What are your other symptoms?
That's it? You know what he said? No, he said, oh,
this is going to be stress. George sees it all
(05:33):
the time. Yeah, this is going to be a stress case.
And I said, oh, it's been bothering me not yet.
Oh good, because why would I need to tell him
about that? You're saying because he said, when you have
a tummy ache for my stomach.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
No, but he said, do you have any other symptoms?
Speaker 1 (05:51):
You also didn't bring up my testicular cyst We probably
saw it. It's internal.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
No.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
No, But wouldn't you say, like I'm already being treated
for shoulder.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
That's not true. I went to physical therapy for almost
three years. It was Danish, Danish whatever. So Jorge, see,
no names matter, his name is George. George has me
laid out, and he's telling me that when he first
moved here, he was stressed a lot too and developed
some IBS like symptoms. Oh yes, but then he realized
(06:26):
there's a lot of things in life you just can't
control and he got he got over it.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
God, George is like a therapist.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
He was great, which is where Tyler ends up after
all of them. When I get the survey, I'm gonna
definitely uh single him out as as a as a
big help. So then he explains that there's going to
be instructions that you hear the machine shout out. Uh,
I just need to put my hands above my head
against the board. And that's where I had to bring
(06:56):
up frozen shoulder.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Oh I can't.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
I can't, so just like above you, yes, as I
can't do I can't.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
I have a mental block.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
And you When I told him why you could hear,
his eyes rolled back in his head because he had
already diagnosed me without even seeing the scan yet, that
that it's going to be stressed. And I said, I,
I physically can't do that because I have frozen shoulder
like most middle aged women. And he said, oh, okay,
well we have an alternate position.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
So what on your side or no?
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Because we needed to see the full.
Speaker 7 (07:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
So it looked like, honestly, all I could do is
picture old women having to do this. But so this
is as far as my hands can go. Are you serious? Yeah,
in terms of being in line with my body.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Well, those three years paid often.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
So you did you see me before I started? I
couldn't go parallel to the ground. Look at this proger, God,
look at it. So so he says, put your hands
above your chest and your your arms above your chest,
and then your palms together. It actually it was very
fin's leg He should you know what, George? Word that
(08:11):
into your your stick and then hold them together and
just make sure you're clear of your Torso right, and
I came out because I'm already worried because you know,
in situations where they tell you to hold your breath,
you can't hold your breath even though it's fifteen seconds.
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So I'm thinking there's already pressure now on my lungs
because of my arms having to be held up in
the air. This takes exertion.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Are you also worried that your gown has written up?
Speaker 7 (08:45):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (08:45):
I had a micro mini I had on, you know,
my boxer briefs, which I switched two years ago because
of the sist. So my arms are up and now
I'm worried about the instructions. He leaves the room, so
I know it's almost game time. Yeah, he put the
IVY in and then he said feel because so then
(09:05):
he says to me as he's about to leave, he says,
the same thing you guys warned me of. You might
feel a metallic taste in your mouth, you might feel
a warmth of your body, you may feel like you
have to urinate, but that's all normal. So then the
exam starts or the scan starts. I'm not feeling any
of those things. Awesome, no taste, no sensation, no urge
(09:28):
to pee, nothing, So I'm thinking wrong. I'm thinking my
hands in this position. No, no, have pulled the iv
out and I'm gonna and just covered it ink covered
in the contrasting agent. And he did at some point
come back in and kind of adjust my arm. But
(09:50):
I do think at that point he would have noticed
if the IVY wasn't everywhere. So it's a couple of
times back and forth and back and forth. It's not
loud like an MRI. Yeah right, Well I didn't know
that because I hadn't done it. But it's not like
they said bring headphones or anything. And you know, hold
your breath breathe normally again, hold your breath, breathe, normally
(10:13):
again and like it's pretty quick like that, you're done.
And George just says to me, are you on the portal?
And I said yes. He said, then your results should
be there by tomorrow. Oh that quick? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (10:25):
Oh? Why do I remember cat scan results take? Like
I remember when they did it on my head. I
remember they were like, we don't see anything obvious.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
There's like all for migrains.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
So they were like, we don't see anything immediately, like like.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
I don't know if they were looking for tumors or
whatever it could be.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Yeah, but they But I feel like after they said
we don't see anything obvious, that it was going to
take a while.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
I thought cat scan results took a bit.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Maybe George was able to see some sort of image himself,
but is not supposed to comment on it.
Speaker 7 (10:57):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Wait, so you don't know what it is.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
I haven't seen my findings and my interpretation of the scans,
so that of course things he knows what it is. Oh,
this is going to be stressed.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Wait, so did they say when it would be? When
it when it would be on the portal?
Speaker 7 (11:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Bye today? Did you check? I have the log and
saved at home?
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Oh so you can't check from here.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
But I don't know. It's like one of those the
password was suggested by the Apple computer. Yeah, so I
guess we could like reset my password, but I've never
accessed it outside of the home computer. It's a very
early Yeah, well you know that they're not When does
the main radiologists come in and like read that stuff
last night?
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Last night? They would have done it last night.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
You don't think there's somebody that works at night that's
going over that stuff.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Are the people that screwed up your ankle?
Speaker 4 (11:48):
They didn't screw it up, but they had a radiologist
come in the morning and go over all the and.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Tell you, actually, it is broken, yes, after the people
overnight said it wasn't it was just severely sprained. Yeah,
they said it was sprained. Yeah, And they were like, oh,
we didn't see we didn't really check the tibby. The
tibby has got a really good crack in it. But
you want me to default to those people. I mean,
if it's up there, I would just want to see
what it is. Oh, you think you could see the
image and and give me a diagnostic take.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Oh, but would even if it's in there wouldn't they say,
we found nothing, it's just stress.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
They don't find stress. Well, no, but if there's nothing there,
that's what they're going to default to. But I also
want it to be sent and discussed with me by
my guess or entrologist. So yes, Uh, the radiologists may
type up their findings from the image. Oh, but you
want it set to Donnish, and Donnish will go over
with you. But I don't know who your other got.
(12:42):
You're so Hall doctor, Sohall. Yeah, so he will get it,
I'm assuming. And then I hope his office calls me.
I don't know if I talk to him directly, or
maybe he sends me a message on the portal.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Stress, no need to come in.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
But it was funny, like they stress, Hey, why don't
you chill out? They would they stress is being on
the portal and having a log in, And it's like,
what if the radiologists found something terrible, wouldn't you rather
get a phone call than stumble on just a typed
up report.
Speaker 8 (13:13):
I wonder if it's terrible, whether they would not put
it on there, because then they would want nobody speak
to you directly.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Well, when I had, by the way, I feel horrible.
I don't even check the portal.
Speaker 7 (13:23):
Ever.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
When I had my physical and they gave me the
results of my because my doctor's office just got online
in Damascus, they made sure to talk to me about
just my regular blood panel work before posting it to
the portal that they're on, because they found when they
were posting results of your blood work from one or
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two weeks before ahead of your appointment, people were seeing
numbers and calling and writing and asking what is going on?
Do I need to look into this?
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:56):
And it's like, okay, we were going to discuss this
with you, So now they wait into they can consult
with you right and then.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
But that makes sense because you're going right after that,
right for like blood work and stuff that they were
going to see you.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
That makes total sense.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
But before because a lot of times blub work's done
at an independent lab, right it was just being uploaded
and they didn't even know and they're getting these worried
calls about cholesterol or whatever it may be organ function,
and so I think if it was something the news
on the.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Portal, I don't think. So I really don't like.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Well, how bad will it get? Like they're not going
to tell you you've got cancer on the portal? No,
do you know that?
Speaker 3 (14:33):
I'm why would they do that?
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Could you see cancer in a scan like that? Or
would you need follow up testing like a biopsy? Probably biopsy.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
They'd be able to see a tumor.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
No, no, if that's what they like for in my head,
a big mass.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
They look a tumor doesn't mean cancer, no exactly, but
they would be able to see that.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Then you would have to get a biopsy. But yeah,
they'd be able to see that, sure, or some kind
of growth.
Speaker 8 (14:57):
I just think that they wouldn't want to deliver what
could be for something traumatic to you, just for you
happenstance on the portal.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
Can I tell you how spoiled I am. I would
never even think to check the portal. I would just
think if it's bad, Yeah, you.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Get an email, it's like you've got a new message.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
George gave me a QR code on a little card yesterday,
right to be able to access the portal. Yeah, I
would just whether it's Mure or in Nunziata, I'm getting
a text.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Well, okay, they have a texting relationship.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Relationship I have with that is our former gynecologist. I
didn't see him personally for a lot of stuff. You
may be based on this last one, based on what
George says. You may oh, men can't be stressed the
no no, But like I would just that's how I
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think you would get it.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
You'd get a phone call or a text.
Speaker 8 (15:53):
Now I think they're going to make sure they talk
to you in person before they put anything.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
But like why, I mean cancers the go to But
couldn't that be anything like a minor finding not minor,
like oh you've got stage one?
Speaker 1 (16:08):
No no, but not yet no no.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
But I can't even think of I can't even think of,
like what another diagnosis would be that they would keep off.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Of the portal? Oh, keep off of the portal, Like
you don't get diagnosed with I'm guessing because I have
no idea how it works. But like you don't go
in for a test and they're like, well, we diagnosed
you got Parkinson's. Like they're not just throwing that up
on the portal Parkinson's from a CT scan or anything
where it.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Just shows up on the portal.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
What about like if you had a parcel blockage of.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
Something portal, Well, I think it depends on how far,
like we got to get in there and do open
heart surgery. No, that's not going on the portal now.
But if it's like we got to get you in
here in Stenia, maybe.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
So if it's something maybe tied to normal aging, it
may be listed. It may be listed as something on
the portal, but not something that they feel they need
to call you about immediately. I think it depends on
how bad well we noticed, like tears in your heart, yeah,
I mean I.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Don't think pretty devastating.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
I also don't know if that's a real thing. No,
but if you had, if but like if you if
you had, if you had there were some renal issues,
not not in totality.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Is that what you're afraid of? You got a kidney problem?
Speaker 1 (17:24):
No, I'm afraid. I'm afraid of everything. I don't have
a specific worry in mind. I would just like to
stop having a stomach ache.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
But if stones, would they would they tell you on
the on the portal you've got stones? So I think
would they see stones in a cat scan?
Speaker 1 (17:36):
I think so?
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Didn't you get a scanned for the goals golf stone
gall stones?
Speaker 6 (17:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (17:44):
I had a Lesion.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Yeah, there was.
Speaker 8 (17:46):
Yeah, I don't I don't remember if it was a
CT or an MRI, but they were able to see it.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
How about the stroke I just had? Would that be
up on the portal? Where am I going?
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Mine?
Speaker 4 (17:56):
Eight?
Speaker 5 (17:57):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Elliott? So you don't I mean other than that, you
don't know. You know, you have no idea what the
result is other than the text diagnosis the yeah no, no, yeah,
of him saying stress, you have no clue what happened.
But I also want to talk to my guesstruentrologists to
help me interpret it right what they find, because there
may be something on there that would scare me. But
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then the my specialists would say, that's not you know,
we can work on that and manage that.
Speaker 7 (18:24):
That's not.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
That's not what's causing your pain. That's gonna be the
best part when whatever it is is not tied directly
to my discomfort. Okay, but at least you'll know.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
What it is.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
No, I'm saying, well, they found we found tears in
your heart, but that should be cause of abdominal issues.
Can you just come in, hi, Elliott in the morning.
Speaker 7 (18:48):
Hey, the thing?
Speaker 6 (18:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Hi, who's this?
Speaker 5 (18:51):
Hey?
Speaker 9 (18:51):
Marny Miami, Spenser Local, DC cancer survivor here. Just wanted
to ease Tower's anxiety. You will not get bad news
on the portal. They will definitely call you deeper. Have
you come in or talk over to the phone?
Speaker 7 (19:03):
Good?
Speaker 1 (19:03):
So I get that. But how far?
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Like cancer is the extreme? It's easy.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
I don't want to say it's easy to go to cancer.
And by the way, good for you for being a survivor.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
The but like, how far will they go?
Speaker 1 (19:15):
I mean, like, how soon was he called? No, no,
that's a good question. I'd like to know, probably immediately.
How soon were you called after my biopsy?
Speaker 5 (19:26):
I was called within two days?
Speaker 3 (19:29):
That's that long? Two days?
Speaker 1 (19:30):
No, it's not.
Speaker 9 (19:31):
It was a very long two days because I discovered
the tumor of myself. Long story, but yeah, it was.
Speaker 7 (19:35):
It was kind of.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Two days. Okay. Can I ask how old you are?
Speaker 5 (19:42):
I was thirty one when I was diagnosed. I'm thirty three.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Now, okay, So what's thirty one times three sixty five?
Speaker 6 (19:52):
Man? Right?
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Okay, Well that's how many days he's been alive. Two
days is nothing.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Here when you've got a potential diety.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
May I finish?
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Please?
Speaker 4 (20:02):
May I finish that while you're waiting on it. Sure,
it seems like a long time. It's like waiting to
find out if you got to like you got accepted
for a job or something. But in the grand scheme
of things, two days is not that long. I've been
a cast for a month and a half feels like forever,
but I've been alive more than more than a month
and a half.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
So yes, it seems like the longest, of course, of course.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
But for others it's not. That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
The yeah, absolutely, the the the where was I?
Speaker 4 (20:35):
No?
Speaker 1 (20:35):
But two days to have them go over everything, like
you want it to be complete? Like I get that.
That's not to me, that's not long.
Speaker 9 (20:46):
Yeah, No, that's totally fair, especially in the medical field
where they have other patients, other things to do.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
It's just it's an internal anxiety type thing.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Sure, sir, if you had the cancer, don't let Elliott
convince you of your truth. The No, I'm just saying
that two days. If somebody said, hey, we just did
this test, it's going to take two days to find out,
I would think, like that's pretty quick to know in
two days if I've got something that's severe anyway back
to you? What is the how is that? What's the
furthest they'll go? Will they tell you that you've got
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like kidney stones? Yeah, they'll tell you got kidney stones
on the portal.
Speaker 5 (21:19):
Yeah, I would imagine. So, I mean I haven't personally
had them, but yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Good for you, Good for you. I'm happy for you.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Sir, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
I appreciate guys, you got it, talk to you later.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
What's wrong? Christin is saying that she knew she had
to get surgery before the doctors talked to her because
she saw it on the portal? Are you serious? Christ
turn yourself on?
Speaker 7 (21:40):
Like?
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Is she? I can't tell? But is she saying? Word
for a word? She knew that was the next step?
Speaker 2 (21:46):
What they tell you?
Speaker 6 (21:46):
Well, the I.
Speaker 10 (21:47):
Got my CT scan, got wheeled back to the uh room, right,
and my phone because they left my phone in the
room and it the results are already on the portal.
I got a text from the portal saying your results
are here.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
So I looked that quick.
Speaker 10 (22:00):
Yeah, so the doctor nurses hadn't like told me anything
like officially. And then so I sent a picture of
it to my mom.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
I'm like, does this mean?
Speaker 10 (22:10):
Because I think it's aid appendicitis blah blah blah. It
wasn't word for word that, hey we got a preppy
for surgery, but that was the next step. So when
the doctor came in, hey we got a preppy for surgery.
You know you're you do have appendicitis, And I'm like,
yeah the portal said that.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
She's like, oh, you got it already.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Oh, I bet your phone was in your locker right
the okay, so you found out quick.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
I bet your stuff's already up there. I bet your
stuff's up there, but.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
I haven't got a notification about it. The Oh, that's
a good point too.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Yeah, sometimes that can be a bit of a delay.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
I've also heard that in certain cases it could take
two days.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
So I never got from CVS Photo a confirmation that
my holiday cards are ready, and I had to log
in again to see that they were there to pick up.
And that was after they were misprinted at another location
after how many days it was the laston day it
was the same day pick up. Oh, okay, good good,
So cancer two days cards one day? Well, you know
what's great, I'm holding sixty misprinted cards and I can't
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bring myself to throw them out. You threw out perfectly good,
not my own. No, that's true, that's true, fair point. Oh,
just like I'm like the cancer call.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Out, all right, very good?
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Where am I going?
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Christian line five?
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Hi Ellie at the morning.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Me, Yeah, Hi, here's this.
Speaker 6 (23:30):
Is Daniel from Chantilly. Yes, sir, So, I had a
lump in my throat for like fifteen twenty years, didn't
really ask my doctor about it, and I really wanted
to go to the doctor. Finally brought it up and
he was like, yeah, it's not normally you should probably
go see a E and T.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
So I went to the NT.
Speaker 6 (23:46):
You got a biopsy, the portal results showed up the
next day saying that the mass was cancerous. Well, I
got a call from the doctor two days later saying
everything's fine, it's normal, no cancer. And then I got
a call back a few days later after that and
they're like, oh, we messed up.
Speaker 5 (24:05):
Actually it is cancer. And ended up having to get
surgery for that.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Oh my god.
Speaker 6 (24:12):
And then when I went so went, I got a
second opinion. I went to another practice and there were
those two practices were linked. And when I met with
a surgeon's who's like a top knock.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
Surgery around here.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
She I told her what had happened, and she turned
and looked at her staff that like she was so
disappointed and everything because they were the same practice.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
Oh that's rough, that's rough. How are you, by the way, dude,
twenty years with a lump in your throat?
Speaker 6 (24:42):
Yeah, I mean I'm just not a doctor guy. And
yet hindsight definitely should have asked about it before.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Yes, of course, you're like the ones who go to
pimple popper and she like pulls her pants down.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
He's like, how long had that been there? About twelve
years exactly? Oh all right, very good, thank you?
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Starting out as just a small bump and wait.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Line three, Hi Ellie at the morning. Hello, Yeah, Hi,
who's this him?
Speaker 11 (25:07):
My name is Julie. I'm the engagement by the dumpster girl.
Speaker 12 (25:10):
Remember.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Oh yeah, I remember you in Columbia.
Speaker 11 (25:14):
Yeah. So I've been dealing with like stomach issues for
like nine months. Then they told me it was like
my liver was this, and then my liver was that,
and then I that is. I went to the specialist
and he like sent me a poorttle message. He's like, hey, yeah,
your blood works sucks. But like, just keep taking the
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medicine we gave you. Oh yeah, by the way, they're
gonna go see a specialist because you might need a
liver transplant. And I was like, okay them until the Yeah,
I'm not schedule to see them until Friday. And this
was like last maybe like a week and a half ago.
But I'm just like, if it's there, it's gonna be there.
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Like I'm not gonna trust the word.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Wait a minute, you're this is going on right now?
Speaker 11 (26:02):
Yeah, I'm wanting to go see you a specialists on
Friday because they sent me a message.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
I think it was.
Speaker 11 (26:06):
Mondays Friday last week. Now, those two weeks ago, I
was in the hospital for the same thing and they
sent me a message and they said, hey, like he says,
what's going on, and make sure you go see the specialists.
I'm like, yeah, I have an appointment. They're like, yeah,
because you might need a liver transplant in the future,
but just the.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Well, hell, we all may need a liver transplant in
the future.
Speaker 11 (26:31):
Oh my god, I've been dealing with this for so
long that I'm just like.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
And that's why you can't You can't stress over the
days you can't stress over the days.
Speaker 11 (26:48):
Oh and I was like I was stressing before, like
November and then fin only November. I just kind of said, hey, man, listen,
I could get hit by a bus walking out this hospital.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
I like that attitude. I like that attitude. Hey, will
you well keep us posted. I didn't realize this was
going on right now, but yeah, keep us posted, all right?
Speaker 5 (27:09):
I will.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Jeez, I wis between the last two callers. I wished
through osmosis I could get some of that energy. How
about that I found out I needed liver transplant. Did
Josh's sister find out on the portal? I don't know
that she needed a kidney? Asked him to come in?
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Did Josh respond on the kidney?
Speaker 1 (27:29):
I got you. I almost had to reach out to
Josh last night for a transplant. No, first, please take
his other kidney. For information on buying a funko, Oh
Jesus Christ, I wanted to know the best place to
get tho my room?
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Did his wait? What was I a Josh KM here?
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Oh? What what am I doing? Can you follow up
with my funco question? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Okay, hi, Josh?
Speaker 4 (28:08):
The how did your sister find out on the portal
that she had to get a kidney.
Speaker 13 (28:11):
No, she knew since she was probably sixteen years old
when we found out that she had a kidney disease,
right problem, Oh so that was life long and with yeah,
with that disease, you know you're gonna need a transplant eventually, eventually,
Like my grandfather had it, right, and he couldn't get
a transplant. He was on dialysis and that's how he
passed away. But if you can't get a kidney, then
obviously you have to go on diaces. We knew at
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some point she.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Would and she would need one.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
How did you know?
Speaker 7 (28:36):
How did say it with my mom and saying with
my other.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Sister, well, you got bad kidneys.
Speaker 7 (28:39):
I'm the only one with the healthy kidneys.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Barely you only got one the what is the what
is health?
Speaker 6 (28:45):
No?
Speaker 1 (28:45):
No?
Speaker 2 (28:45):
But how like how did how did she know?
Speaker 4 (28:47):
Like I get that they said you had that she
knew eventually she'd have to get a kidney.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
How did they know it was time to get a kidney?
Speaker 13 (28:54):
The masses on her kidney right got to the point
where like they're like, you got it, it's gonna go yeah,
I like you've got to get them out of you
or you're either going to die or you're going to
have to force to be on dialysis.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
And then eventually and then you go, what is the
And you weren't you weren't eligible to give your mama kidney?
Speaker 13 (29:11):
I don't think I was at the time, or we
I don't recall this being a match, but I think
one of I think her cousin gave.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Gave her all right, very good.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
Hey, the other really important question, Tyler needs to buy
a function.
Speaker 7 (29:22):
I was curious, which one do you need?
Speaker 1 (29:24):
It is Bart Simpson with the skateboard, okay, do you
have that one.
Speaker 7 (29:28):
I don't collect sipsons.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
I don't collect that. Idiots idiots who collects losers?
Speaker 13 (29:37):
The well, it depends on which one it is.
Speaker 7 (29:39):
Is it a collector, is it a new one?
Speaker 5 (29:40):
Like?
Speaker 7 (29:40):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (29:42):
I think it is recently added to the canon.
Speaker 13 (29:44):
If it's somewhat new, then you can get on the
Funko site. So just a hot topic or any of
those places.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
But what I was asking, like, in terms of retail,
what are the best spots?
Speaker 13 (29:53):
Oh, hot topic? I always go to box Lunch, Amazon,
What Entertainment Earth on topic.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
It's also where he gets his clothes, so you're saying
them all the mall. Yes, all right, what's the last
funko you bought? Oh?
Speaker 7 (30:11):
Aj Brown from the Eagles?
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Very good?
Speaker 5 (30:13):
All right, go down the hall.
Speaker 7 (30:14):
Okay, go down the hall. Gobert Gombert got to hell.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
Well spent.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Hi Elliot in the morning.
Speaker 12 (30:26):
Hi is this mean?
Speaker 5 (30:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Real quick?
Speaker 2 (30:28):
What can I do for you?
Speaker 12 (30:30):
Real quick? I just wanted to dispel all of your
fairy tales of portal knowledge. I found out that I
had stage three cancer on the portal.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Oh my god, oh my, you didn't dispel anything. You
made it worse. Well.
Speaker 12 (30:47):
You kept saying they would never tell you that on
the portal, and I'm just here to say, yeah they would.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
So what did what did you do?
Speaker 1 (30:56):
What does the portal sake like? Do you open it
up and it's like, oh, let's see last of appointment. Oh,
here's the note from my doctor. Do you study that? Off?
Speaker 12 (31:07):
You open it up and there's just a link to
your biopsy and it says it and it has all
this mumbo jumbo. But it's not that you understand the
stage three okay. And then you don't get another note,
you don't get another message. You have to call in
and pry information out of them, and then okay, I
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had to have a hysterectomy. I never talked to the
doctor before I got discharged from the hospital. Two weeks later,
I kid you not. I get another note on the
portal that says all of the findings look good. The
very next day, I get another message that says, no, actually,
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we found themselves on some other things. We had to
remove and there and their stage three. And by the way,
you won't see your doctor for two more weeks.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Well, awesome, I got nothing going on. Oh my god,
that's horrible.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Well multiplayer age by three sixty five and then fourteen.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
You lived fourteen days? Fourteen days is two weeks is
a why? Oh okay, you admit that, yes, two weeks
as wow? Two days like that? That's not that bad. Hey,
let me ask you this now. And I realize, like,
patient privacy, how are you doing now?
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Are you good?
Speaker 12 (32:32):
I just finished my chemo yesterday, I got to ring that.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Bell good for you, and.
Speaker 12 (32:39):
I am on my way to my radiation simulation where
they're going to show me what that's like. I do
that for five weeks, right, and then I should be
okay with some immunotherapy.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Excellent, excellent, good news. Hey, listen, and I know those
appointments are long, and those days are are long, and
they start early. Make sure you bring your AirPod so
you can to listen to the show.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Amen, brother, thank you, thank you. All right, very good,
very good.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Thank you, ma'am.
Speaker 4 (33:06):
Wait man, oh, so you may get really bad news
in the mortal That's what I learned, Jesus Chris
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