January 5, 2026 • 30 mins
Talking pneumonia.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I am smechma, no, bechma. I'm sorry. What did you
hear him? No, I'm just gonna say bachma back?
Speaker 2 (00:07):
What is it? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:09):
I got it, I got it, Henry whatever. Diane doesn't
get it.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Just hi, Elliott in the morning.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Hello, Hello, Oh.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
You probably think you're still talking to Vecna. I'm sorry. Yes,
who is this?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Hi?
Speaker 4 (00:24):
This is Oldie?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Who?
Speaker 5 (00:27):
Oldie?
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Oldie?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
That's your name?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Yes, shut up? Really Oldie, but a goodie. It's u
l b b y oh alb Oldie.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Oh, I've never even heard of old I've never heard
of that. What is what is that?
Speaker 1 (00:45):
What are you?
Speaker 6 (00:47):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (00:47):
It's from what I've been told, it's a Middle Eastern name.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Really, yes, Oldie, I've never heard of that.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
I think I kind of like it. Are you?
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Are you? Are you middle Eastern?
Speaker 4 (01:00):
My grandfather is yet?
Speaker 7 (01:01):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (01:01):
No kidding? Oh, well, you know what. It's nice to
meet you. You're my very first olbie. Nice to meet you. Hey,
can I ask you this real quick?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Well, I've got you on the phone. Diana mentioned earlier
about flu about how bad the flu numbers are right now,
not just not just here, but are all around the country.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Flu numbers are really really.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Big, and I asked a question as to whether or
not flu can lead to pneumonia, and I believe at
the moment, in that moment, I was told, yes, flu
can lead to pneumonia.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Is it a high percentage? Have you ever had obi?
Have you ever had? Have you ever had pneumonia?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
No?
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yeah, No I haven't either. I don't think I well,
I know, I don't. I don't think I fear pneumonia.
I don't think I respect pneumonia. I don't think I've
ever had pneumonia.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Well, I think you would know.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
I do know. I do know, like once you get pneumonia,
like and then like the next time you get sick,
you have to be careful that it doesn't like come
back and they could go straight from like the flu
to pneumonia or like like skip the flu and just
go to pneumonia.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Is that true? Were you kind of making that up?
Speaker 4 (02:07):
No?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
No.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
The only reason I say that is because at some
point my husband did get pneumonia, okay, and we we
happened to get him to the hospital early enough, but
they told us the next time he gets sick, like
you might want to just bring him in instead of
just thinking or assuming it's the flu.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Hey, so when you had to take him to the hospital,
how did you know that you had to take him
to the hospital.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
He was really sick like and it was like a
long he had He had a cough and then he
was like burning heart fever and I was like, you
know what, we should take you in and he was like, no, no, no,
it's you know, it's nothing, it's just a cold. And
I was like, let's just go in. And so we
just happened to take him in and then they were like, well,
we're glad you're here. He actually has pneumonia.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
And what did they what did they do to treat
it at the hospital?
Speaker 4 (02:54):
How they did some they did some breathing treatments. This
was years ago, but they did some breathing treatments and
and honestly just kind of observed him and gave him.
I think there was if I don't recall my recall correctly,
it was like a steroid.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Yeah, like a like a like a breathing steroid or something.
Speaker 8 (03:12):
Like like that with the nebulizer.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Is that what they said?
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Azer? Yeah, Yeah, one of my kids used to have
to get a nebulizer for the group exactly exactly, So
are you ready for this? So, buddy of mine this
over the break, buddy of mine had to go to
got called to go to New York for a meeting,
right and he worked remotely. He doesn't work out of
New York, but the company has has offices in New York,
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so he was told he had to go. So he
was getting ready to go to the airport. It's like,
I don't feel great, but whatever, I'll go. So anyway,
he flies up there. I think he was there less
than less than forty eight hours.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
I know that.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
But it was like got him one afternoon, had meetings
the next day, and was like out the next morning,
flies out the next morning, feels horrible, like horrible at
the airport, and was like I can't like and I
don't know how. I've never had pneumonia, so I don't
know how it makes you feel at all. And I
don't know I don't know the difference between walking pneumonia regular.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
I don't know all the pneumonias.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
So anyway, he gets to the he gets to the
airport when he lands, and again he feels like crap,
and in his head he's like, I didn't really feel
good going up there, and then I got back. Maybe
I'm exhausted, maybe it was from the flight and the change.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Whatever. He gets back and he realizes I'm not going
to make it to.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
My car to get back to Yeah. So he sits
down at the at the airport and they come over
and they're like, are you okay? And he's like, I
don't think so, Like I feel really bad. Anyway, fast forward,
they run, they get him to the hospital.
Speaker 8 (04:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
And they get him checked into the hospital and the
doctors are like, you have a really severe case of pneumonia.
Now I don't know what the treatment is, but here's
the part that I'd.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Never heard of before.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
They were like, we're going to do and again, I
don't know how you treat it.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
But whatever they were getting.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Ready to do, they were iffy as to whether it
was gonna work or not because they called a dude
in to read him his last rights.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Oh my god, my goodness.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
And he said excuse me, and they were like, yeah,
we're gonna have somebody come in to read you your
last rights.
Speaker 9 (05:31):
Jeez.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Now, I wouldn't classify my buddy as the overly religious type,
but he knows what that means. He's definitely like a
good Catholic. So anyway, the guy comes in, I kid
you not to read him his last rights?
Speaker 1 (05:49):
H And he went out halfway through it passed out. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Now he has since obviously come back, and he was like.
The last thing I remember is I'm laying in the
hospital and there's a priest in there reading me my
last rights and I woke up two days later.
Speaker 7 (06:11):
Is it a deeply affiliated hospital system within a religion
where they do this for many procedures or treatments?
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Oh? Like they always like, listen, I always welcome surgery,
but I know they always go.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Well, there's a chance you don't come out.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Yeah, this big the So are you saying like, even
before you would go in for that, they would lead
you read you your last rights just in case.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Oh I would never want that done. I just can't
believe that you're faced with that.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
I never heard of that. I've never heard of anybody
surviving last year. Yeah, of course he's got a fac.
Speaker 8 (06:48):
Was he like calling his loved one saying like, oh
my god, or cast out, yeah I'm meeting.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Up or could he not speak? Is he that weekend?
Speaker 6 (06:59):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (06:59):
I'm sure, I'm sure he reached out to somebody on
the way to the hospital.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
I can't spak. We didn't nine in the World Championships
sist year, but.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
We didn't find out about it until afterwards. And he
was like, I had somebody read me my last rights.
Speaker 8 (07:17):
So obviously the treatment worked thankfully.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Well, yeah, of course he was able to tell us.
That's a great question though.
Speaker 8 (07:24):
And how does he feel now, like is he still
kind of weak or I mean he.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Was texting with us over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
No that he didn't say anything, like, you know, and
by the way, I don't know what I don't know
if there's like a regular is there a speech for
last rights? Is it like our Father who are in heaven.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
You're anointing the sick in a lot of cases. What
does that mean? Last rights?
Speaker 7 (07:47):
Is a essentral peace to that sacrament our Father who
aren't hell anointing the sick?
Speaker 8 (07:57):
I don't I don't know what it means either, you're sick.
Speaker 7 (08:01):
Catholic ritual where a priest anoints a seriously ill, elderly
or dying person with blessed oil offering it so it's
like but they did in the end zone at the
Steelers game.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
It worked worked on my buddy too, offering.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
The spiritual healing, strength, peace, and forgiveness of sins through prayer.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
So my buddy's clear now.
Speaker 7 (08:20):
But there is I I don't not all last rites
are the anointing of the sick, but all anointing of
the sick I do believe includes last round.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Oh this is like whiskey and bourbon.
Speaker 10 (08:33):
Dying.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
By the way, I we were talking about, I knew
a Jesuit priest who used to have to go do
the last rights routine a lot.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
It's like it sucks.
Speaker 7 (08:46):
So this wasn't a chaplain your friend had who was
on campus of this hospital. What many hospital systems have
chaplains that are inside all the time.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
My buddy was at the at the airport and they
were like, we're taking.
Speaker 7 (09:01):
Your friend the Jesuit No, the one when he got
to the hospital, the person who read him last rites.
Did they call him in from a nearby parish or
is he on the campus of the hospital.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
We were trying to get to the bottom of this, Like,
what what if I went to Sibley. I drove by
there over the weekend. I was going to meet our
friend the CID. Who's anyway, the.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
If I went through, If I if I just end
up at Sibley right we're driving by.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
I tell Jackie and the boys I think I got pneumonia,
and they rushed me in there.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
They got somebody coming in to give me last rights.
Speaker 7 (09:38):
I wouldn't think so, but your story, obviously this guy did,
makes me believe differently. How about that that says most
Catholic connected hospital systems have somebody on staff who was
able to do last rights.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
But that is so Like my kids were born in
Holy Cross, not because I'm religious, but that's where Jackie's
guy I know, did the did her work to the.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Would they have somebody?
Speaker 2 (10:05):
You would think so, only because it's already a religious hospital.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
But I can't believe he had to be so scared.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Yeah, I'm scared of he's and he and he I mean,
he didn't realize at the time he had passed out,
but when he woke up, he was like freaked out.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
And like I said, my buddy's not a religious guy
like I know him, but he did grow up Catholic.
He went to Catholic school, like I think his kids
got I don't know what you guys do, but whatevs.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
It's what I got the shots done at Glamour shots
my confirmation.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
But he was like, as he found he found religion
real quick. Yeah, man, but I'd never heard of anybody
getting last rites and surviving it.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
No, that's a wild story. Isn't that crazy?
Speaker 2 (11:05):
It really is scary.
Speaker 10 (11:09):
One.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Like you said, now he's forgiven of his sins. He
is clean.
Speaker 6 (11:14):
Dude.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Do you know how out of control I would be?
Speaker 8 (11:17):
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
But that also is the first time I realized pneumonia
in some cases may not be a joke.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
I feel like it's always serious.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
I have zero respect for him, especially.
Speaker 8 (11:30):
Like when older people get it, you know, yeah, like in.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Their eighties and nineties, sixty in your eighties and nineties,
and you're in your cooked.
Speaker 7 (11:42):
Laura writes, I had a procedure recently that they said
was routine, but they offered the last rites.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Are you serious?
Speaker 1 (11:49):
He gave me the IX? Wait wait did she get them?
But but is that is that what you said? Though?
It's in case you don't come out of it, we're
signing away.
Speaker 7 (11:59):
We're being told yeah, yeah, yeah, we're kind of doing
this legally.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Is this just the religious side of it.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
What was her like she I don't know what it
was for, but I guarantee you she didn't go in
for a routine.
Speaker 8 (12:13):
PAP and you get your last routine, see surgery. Maybe
it's like your consels. Yeah, something like that. That's pretty routine.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Yeah, but they put you out right, bring in your
last rights for tonsils.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
You could die from that.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
You could go in for you go into just to
get surgery on your ankle, and next thing, you know,
your last right.
Speaker 8 (12:35):
All of the times I've been put under anesthetia, I've
never had the last rights offered to me.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
No, I haven't either. But have you gone to a
to a to an affiliated.
Speaker 8 (12:44):
Hospital, maybe I wouldn't be surprised if there's like if
there was somebody Alexandria that had a their job as
the chapel or chaplain chaplain.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Yeah, I couldn't have that job. That's sad.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Plus you imagine somebody's going in for I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Again, I don't know what her routine thing was exam
and then you're like, oh, before you go to your father,
who are in heaven hallowed. I don't know the I
don't know all the words, so you should just stop.
Speaker 7 (13:15):
Yeah, but are you thinking it's only for being put under,
because not every surgery.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Are you put under.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
I don't know what procedure you get for pneumonia. I
don't know what procedure my buddy was getting right, but
he survived last rights. It is clean.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Oh man, I can't believe this.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
You gotta feel great once you finally out, you're like,
and I'm.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Forgiven for everything.
Speaker 7 (13:45):
Yeah, but how is your heart health leading up to that?
You said he passed out for two days the heart attack?
Speaker 2 (13:51):
He was out for two freaking days.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Where am I going?
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Christian Line one hill in the morning. So there's two
people who served, does he?
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Who's this?
Speaker 6 (14:03):
Hi?
Speaker 9 (14:03):
This is Lauren. Yes, we didn't get our last rights red.
But in early December all three of my boys got
flew a and it was miserable. But my middle one
got pneumonia, which triggered something called status asthmaticus, which sounds
totally faked, made up. But we went to a Nova
Loudon and his pneumonia was so bad they said, hey,
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we have to transfer him to the picqu in Fairfax,
and I was like, uh, okay, I'll drive him there
and they're like, no, man, he has to go through
be an ambulance. And I was like why, and they
were like, he's in respiratory failure.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Jesus Christ from pneumonia.
Speaker 9 (14:37):
Yes, from pneumonia, which triggered some asthma thing which he
didn't even have.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
That asthma, that'spaticus or whatever it is.
Speaker 9 (14:46):
It sounds fake and made up, but I didn't believe it.
But they're like, ma'am, you have to take this series.
But he's actually really sick.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
No kidding, How was I hope he's doing now?
Speaker 9 (14:55):
Yeah, he's great. He missed like a whole month of school,
so he's really upset. How much worky to make up?
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Yeah, he's kind of pissed.
Speaker 9 (15:01):
But Peter flu shot I guess.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
But no, but they didn't last right to them, right.
Speaker 9 (15:07):
They did not last right to them. But they're very
very serious about it.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Yeah he did that.
Speaker 9 (15:11):
I would have lost my mind.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Oh I can't even imagine. All right, very good, very good.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
I appreciate it, Thank you, ma'am, Thank you. Where am
I going? Line four?
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Hi?
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Elliot, the morning, Good morning?
Speaker 6 (15:25):
Hey, who's ass it's this Nancy from passa Daena.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Hey, how are you.
Speaker 6 (15:31):
I'm good. I wanted to let you know I got
pneumonia in the hospital.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Well, they do say sometimes people get sick in the hospital.
I get that. No.
Speaker 6 (15:42):
I had a hip replacement, was supposed to leave in
three days. I end up being in the hospital.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Ten Are you serious?
Speaker 6 (15:52):
I am dead ass serious?
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Right? Hey, did dy?
Speaker 2 (15:55):
I was?
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Did they last right to you?
Speaker 9 (15:58):
No?
Speaker 1 (15:58):
But a priest did come in for what like just
to check on you?
Speaker 6 (16:03):
Yeah, and a prayer, you know, because the big the
hip replacement, I had to go under, right, And it
seems like any time you go under for anesthesia, if
you're a Catholic, they send a priest.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
No, they don't.
Speaker 6 (16:19):
They got them on called, they stay there. They do not.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
They excuse me, excuse me, they do not.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
They do not.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Anytime somebody's going under in a hospital, they don't send
a priest.
Speaker 8 (16:34):
Di She say which hospital?
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Which hospital?
Speaker 6 (16:36):
Well, I was in anna Arundel for that one.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
It's not a religious hospital.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
No, but there's there's a priest there all the time.
They have a chapel there.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Did you It sounds like you still may have some
fluid build up, huh Elliott.
Speaker 6 (16:53):
Yeah, yeah, I've had a damn cold.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Yeah, huh, you got pneumonia. You got pneumonia, Marlborough.
Speaker 6 (17:02):
Yeah, camel hello, yeah, we got to have the camel now.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Oh, dear father, I.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
Just finished radiation. Oh god, and I told him from
beginning I smoke and I don't plan on Quinton.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Amen, that's right, deal.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
With it, you know what I mean, y'all have to
deal with me.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
But I'm sorry.
Speaker 6 (17:33):
You better give me a good doctor with a good
personality or yes, can't deal with me.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
All right, Very good, very good, Thank you, ma'am, thank you.
Speaker 7 (17:43):
Yes, I'm sending it over that. Explain During the pandemic,
the Vatican change the rules to allow for last rites
to be done over video. It must have required an
in person for best.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
So they would wheel a TV in in the in
the hospital.
Speaker 7 (18:05):
Assuming then the nurse has all protective gear on. Yeah,
especially during the early days.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Yeah, are they questioned?
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Is what?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
But like is that being done by a live.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Priest that.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Like an iPad?
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Right, just make a video?
Speaker 1 (18:20):
I don't remember that. Oh you mean.
Speaker 8 (18:24):
Aren't that they just replay? That seems kind of cold,
isn't it. I mean, if you're talking about last rights
for somebody, let.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Me ask my buddy, if it was on zoom, you
wouldn't know give a cool background.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Look at all the Bibles, the no you know what
I mean?
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Like would you wouldn't know? Like can I ask this
for last rights?
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Do they do.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
They change it for the person? I would assume it's
the same spiel. And I'm not I'm not being flipping
about saying the spiel, but it's like the prayer.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Is the prayer. U.
Speaker 7 (18:56):
There is a format, for sure, but there's also a
name of the patient or.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
So they address you by name.
Speaker 7 (19:04):
I like to believe that there is some customization, do.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
You Edgar line seven? Hi, Elliot in the morning, it
was mean, Yeah, Hi, who's this?
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Hey, my name is Chris. I'm an infectious to these doctors.
I just wanted to talk about the flu and pneumonia.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Yeah. By the way, I understand Ammonia's no joke.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Dude, especially after the flu. That's like one of the
biggest risks of getting the flu is developing what's called
a superimposed pneumonia on top of it. And this is
why I pushed so hard for flu vaccines because I'm
you know, I'm thirty years old and I've seen people
you know my age, you know, completely just crump from
(19:51):
the flu. Can you know, be dead within a matter
of hours. So I know, you know, the fo is
typically not you know, something super you know, people take
super seriously. And you know, similarly with you know, pneumonia.
But you know, I've seen people, you know die, I've
seen people be put on echmo after getting pneumonia with
(20:15):
the flu can definitely be no joke.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Hey what is the and so so once it gets
to pneuma pneumonia, like you said, pneumonia, Pneumonia's bad.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Yeah, it can be you know, pneumonia's it's very you
know broad term. You can get you know, bacterial pneumonia,
which is what it is in this case. You can
get you know, viral pneumonias. You can get other like
like walking pneumonias essentially, which are bacterial but you know
caused by like you know, punier bacteria. Will say, right,
(20:46):
but yeah, can can be absolutely terrible and you can
get you know, especially after the flu, you can get
you know what's called a you know, staff pneumonia what
you think of like staff infections, MRSA infections with your skin, right,
but you can get that in your lungs essentially, and
you know that can be absolutely devastating.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Hey do you do your work like I know you
said you're an infectious disease doctor. Are you at are
you at a hospital location or are you like in
a lab facility? No?
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Yeah, hospital?
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Hey do you do people get are there?
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Like?
Speaker 1 (21:19):
I understand people who are like they're.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Done though, right, but do you do you see are
people getting last rights?
Speaker 1 (21:26):
All the time?
Speaker 3 (21:29):
I will say, we don't have like a where I'm at.
We don't have like a super like Catholic, you know,
I would say population compared to other denominations. But yeah,
it's not uncommon to see like they have like a
chaplain that's on service here twenty four to seven essentially,
So it's not uncommon to see them pretty frequently. It's
(21:50):
not like as common as that one lady said, like
before every procedure.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Good lord, Yeah, that's crazy, that's crazy to me.
Speaker 10 (21:58):
It happens.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
It happens pretty frequently.
Speaker 9 (22:00):
I guess.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
I mean, listen, if I were, if if I were,
if I were a surgeon, right, and I'm getting ready
to operate on you know, anybody doesn't matter, Hank, I'm
going to operate on Hank, and Hank's religious and he's
very nervous. I would have a priest come in, like
you want to do everything you can to comfort somebo.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
And that's like a lot of the reasons they comment.
It's not so much as like you're gonna you know,
you're gonna die or something. It's more like just for comforting.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
So why would they have, like my buddy didn't ask
for why would they have, last, writes my buddy.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
I don't know, I like, it depends on how I mean.
I I don't think I've ever like gotten a chap
in to comfort someone that's like a cute, super acutely sick,
and especially in someone who sounds like he's pretty fairly young,
maybe not young, but also not like he's just trying.
He's like just traveling to New York. I probably wouldn't,
(22:52):
you know, think he's gonna die. The man he walked
in the.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Door, and he said it was weird.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
And he said, by the way, like when somebody, hey,
thank you sir, thank you doctor, somebody like you think
you're going in like again, he felt like he felt
bad enough that he went to the hospital.
Speaker 8 (23:08):
Does it ever dawn on you, like like you may
feel like you've got a really bad flu. You do,
you feel like absolute dog crap. But I don't think
in any way would I ever thought like, oh my god,
I'm dying, you know?
Speaker 1 (23:18):
And he didn't think so.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Yeah, And he said, when somebody is standing there going hey,
before we take you in for whatever procedure they were
going to do, it's not like they were putting him
out or anything. Let's have a priest come in and
read you your last rite.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Now, then your thought is I am dying.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
I'm done, Diane, thank you? Oh gosh, Oh I need him,
not right now, but I need Josh. I need Josh
Line three, Hi Elliott in the morning. Hey, Hi, who's
this Richmond? Yes, Sophie, what can I do for you?
Speaker 5 (23:56):
Yeah? So my son was two years old and took
him into a pediatrician thinking that he just had like
RSV or something, and they put the little O two
sensor on his finger, and they had another doctor come in,
and then they had another doctor come in, and I'm
sitting there going, okay, what is going on? And then
they got another O two censor and they're like, his
(24:17):
O two is eighty six and apparently between ninety five
and one hundred is normal. The eighty six is super
duper low. And you know he's two, he's hot as hell,
and you know he's really sick. And I'm like, okay,
well what do I do this. We're going to have
to get him into the PICQ you immediately, and I
was like, okay, just like the other lady, I'll like,
I'll drive him. So like, absolutely not. He has to
(24:39):
go in an ambulance.
Speaker 10 (24:41):
It was horrible.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
We get there and not only did he have regular pneumonia,
but he had something called man and let me see,
I can't remember it, mono clonal pneumonia, which basically really yeah,
like they you treat them both extremely different. So if
they had just treated him for pneumonia regularly, that would
have continued, right, and that would have made it even worse. So, like,
(25:06):
I learned a lot, let's just say, because I always
thought a pneumonia was just like okay, yeah, you get
some antibiotics and you're done.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Yeah he was for like four days.
Speaker 10 (25:14):
Horrible.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Yeah, No, I'm telling you I had I didn't respect pneumonia.
I had no respect for pneumonia because I looked at
it the same way cold flu pneumonia. It's all kind
of the same garbage. The but I'm telling you it
wrecked my buddy. It's so he was horrible for your kid.
That's four days.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
That's bad.
Speaker 5 (25:32):
Yeah, poor little thing. But he's back with terror ways.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Yeah, well no, good, good, good goods. All right, very good,
Thank you, ma'am. We grabbed line seven real quick.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Hi Ellie in the morning.
Speaker 10 (25:44):
Hey man, how you doing good?
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Who's this?
Speaker 10 (25:47):
Hey? This is doc Hey. I I've been in medicine
for a long time. Beca's a lot of hospitals. I've
also trained as a chaplain. Oh one thing, real quick.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
I'm sorry you're trained. Is this a bit? You don't
have to be a precedent?
Speaker 10 (26:00):
Not a bit. This is real important. Last rights Yeah,
can you hear me?
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (26:06):
I got you, go ahead, father, Okay. Last rights isn't
like you're gonna die, okay. Last rights is you're unburdening
yourself just in case you're dying. Okay. And if you
look at it that way, you're going to surgery and
you're nervous about this, you're gonna want to unburden yourself
because pretty much anytime they put you down there there's
(26:27):
a chance you could die. The only thing I can
think about with your buddy is they had someone right
there or is in a really Catholic hospitals there are
you know, there aren't hospitals where they have people there
training to administer to folks. And you know, it's a
good place to do it if you're talking to somebody.
It's a little more in depth than what you're comfortable
with as a you know, a clergy member or something
(26:48):
like that.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
So you think this may be like when I was
in eighth grade and I got food poisoning at the
Magic Time Machine in Austin, and I got taken to
the hospital, I got a proctology exam, and because it
just so happened to be it was it was a
student student learning hospital that it was just whatever I
am is that it was like, it was just it
was practical. It was butt whole day. And so you
(27:11):
think my buddy may have been there and they were
just training this guy and they were like, hey, let's
just walk from room to room. What a horrible thing
for training.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Everybody thinks they're wait a.
Speaker 10 (27:20):
Minute, approach it the different way. Approach it. Not that
you're about to die, but is there anything you'd like
couldn't talk about. Is there anything you'd like to unburden
your yourself about anything like that. And if you're not Catholic,
you may hear that and go, holy crap, I'm getting
last rights. I'm gonna die. If you're really Catholic, you're
gonna hear it. And this is going to be the
kind of thing like you just checking in with your friend. Hey,
(27:43):
I'm having a big deal done tomorrow. We good your
friend being the religious guy. I am not Catholic in
the slightest. I do this because I don't want my patients.
I don't want my patients having any discomfort, any problems
if they're going through a horrible day.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Is it is it? Is it the same spiel to everybody?
Or do you got to like jujit for each one.
Speaker 10 (28:07):
I've only been asked to do last Rights three times,
and all three times it wasn't only one time was
it really last rights? We read from the Bible or
we read from a from a book. The other times
they really just wanted to talk, and it really was
you know, we we said the words, but it was
really sitting for a couple of hours while these folks passed.
(28:28):
They knew they were going to die and that you know,
it was that time and this was the time they elected.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
I couldn't do that.
Speaker 10 (28:35):
It's hard funerals.
Speaker 8 (28:39):
You can't ye go sit in a few that's the
only thing you need to do, and you can't do that.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
I couldn't do it.
Speaker 10 (28:44):
Supported me while my wife was passing, and she very
much had a kind of a similar thing. And you
know it's at the end the stuff that's important not
always about medicine. In fact, frequently it's not.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
I'm sorry, did you say did you say your wife
had passed?
Speaker 10 (29:00):
Yeah, yeah, I call I call you a fair amount.
My my wife had had turmo cancer and you folks,
we were talking to you about everything she was going through.
How great the folks.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Were, Oh okay.
Speaker 10 (29:11):
It was like chaplain, Yeah, no, it's no, I'm not.
I want to be really quick. I am like the
chaplain of last resort. I'm the doctor of last res
If you're seeing me, you're having a bad day, and
I'm gonna do the best I can for you. But look,
we got to get you to the hospital.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Buddy, I got you. Hey, well, I appreciate the info.
Thank you, my friend, Thank you You're welcome.
Speaker 7 (29:33):
Man.
Speaker 10 (29:33):
You need a medical correspondent, I'll send you an email
whenever you want.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
All right, very good, thank you, sir, thank you.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
That's a lot there, last right.
Speaker 7 (29:42):
It's also maybe the key to getting more time with
your just general practitioner at a physical Are they watching
in and out?
Speaker 1 (29:51):
If you go, you know what?
Speaker 2 (29:52):
You should give me a last real quick.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
I just want to quick. I can talk a little
bit more.
Speaker 7 (29:57):
We can do so sort of in the context of
a for a peaceful death, but it's just so I
can learn more about my lifestyle and how it affects
my health.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
By the way, that reminds me, Yes, went on break.
How was your blood pressure?
Speaker 3 (30:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (30:11):
I didn't check it.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (30:12):
I thought you were still I thought you were going
to do it all the time.
Speaker 7 (30:15):
Yeah, but I didn't really like have the healthiest of
breaks when it came to.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Food and beverage.
Speaker 7 (30:23):
So you have no idea it worked out every day, right,
But I did not check once.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Twelve ounce skirls
I am smechma, no, bechma. I'm sorry. What did you
hear him? No, I'm just gonna say bachma back?
Speaker 2 (00:07):
What is it? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:09):
I got it, I got it, Henry whatever. Diane doesn't
get it.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Just hi, Elliott in the morning.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Hello, Hello, Oh.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
You probably think you're still talking to Vecna. I'm sorry. Yes,
who is this?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Hi?
Speaker 4 (00:24):
This is Oldie?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Who?
Speaker 5 (00:27):
Oldie?
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Oldie?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
That's your name?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Yes, shut up? Really Oldie, but a goodie. It's u
l b b y oh alb Oldie.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Oh, I've never even heard of old I've never heard
of that. What is what is that?
Speaker 1 (00:45):
What are you?
Speaker 6 (00:47):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (00:47):
It's from what I've been told, it's a Middle Eastern name.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Really, yes, Oldie, I've never heard of that.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
I think I kind of like it. Are you?
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Are you? Are you middle Eastern?
Speaker 4 (01:00):
My grandfather is yet?
Speaker 7 (01:01):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (01:01):
No kidding? Oh, well, you know what. It's nice to
meet you. You're my very first olbie. Nice to meet you. Hey,
can I ask you this real quick?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Well, I've got you on the phone. Diana mentioned earlier
about flu about how bad the flu numbers are right now,
not just not just here, but are all around the country.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Flu numbers are really really.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Big, and I asked a question as to whether or
not flu can lead to pneumonia, and I believe at
the moment, in that moment, I was told, yes, flu
can lead to pneumonia.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Is it a high percentage? Have you ever had obi?
Have you ever had? Have you ever had pneumonia?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
No?
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yeah, No I haven't either. I don't think I well,
I know, I don't. I don't think I fear pneumonia.
I don't think I respect pneumonia. I don't think I've
ever had pneumonia.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Well, I think you would know.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
I do know. I do know, like once you get pneumonia,
like and then like the next time you get sick,
you have to be careful that it doesn't like come
back and they could go straight from like the flu
to pneumonia or like like skip the flu and just
go to pneumonia.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Is that true? Were you kind of making that up?
Speaker 4 (02:07):
No?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
No.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
The only reason I say that is because at some
point my husband did get pneumonia, okay, and we we
happened to get him to the hospital early enough, but
they told us the next time he gets sick, like
you might want to just bring him in instead of
just thinking or assuming it's the flu.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Hey, so when you had to take him to the hospital,
how did you know that you had to take him
to the hospital.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
He was really sick like and it was like a
long he had He had a cough and then he
was like burning heart fever and I was like, you
know what, we should take you in and he was like, no, no, no,
it's you know, it's nothing, it's just a cold. And
I was like, let's just go in. And so we
just happened to take him in and then they were like, well,
we're glad you're here. He actually has pneumonia.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
And what did they what did they do to treat
it at the hospital?
Speaker 4 (02:54):
How they did some they did some breathing treatments. This
was years ago, but they did some breathing treatments and
and honestly just kind of observed him and gave him.
I think there was if I don't recall my recall correctly,
it was like a steroid.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Yeah, like a like a like a breathing steroid or something.
Speaker 8 (03:12):
Like like that with the nebulizer.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Is that what they said?
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Azer? Yeah, Yeah, one of my kids used to have
to get a nebulizer for the group exactly exactly, So
are you ready for this? So, buddy of mine this
over the break, buddy of mine had to go to
got called to go to New York for a meeting,
right and he worked remotely. He doesn't work out of
New York, but the company has has offices in New York,
(03:37):
so he was told he had to go. So he
was getting ready to go to the airport. It's like,
I don't feel great, but whatever, I'll go. So anyway,
he flies up there. I think he was there less
than less than forty eight hours.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
I know that.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
But it was like got him one afternoon, had meetings
the next day, and was like out the next morning,
flies out the next morning, feels horrible, like horrible at
the airport, and was like I can't like and I
don't know how. I've never had pneumonia, so I don't
know how it makes you feel at all. And I
don't know I don't know the difference between walking pneumonia regular.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
I don't know all the pneumonias.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
So anyway, he gets to the he gets to the
airport when he lands, and again he feels like crap,
and in his head he's like, I didn't really feel
good going up there, and then I got back. Maybe
I'm exhausted, maybe it was from the flight and the change.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Whatever. He gets back and he realizes I'm not going
to make it to.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
My car to get back to Yeah. So he sits
down at the at the airport and they come over
and they're like, are you okay? And he's like, I
don't think so, Like I feel really bad. Anyway, fast forward,
they run, they get him to the hospital.
Speaker 8 (04:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
And they get him checked into the hospital and the
doctors are like, you have a really severe case of pneumonia.
Now I don't know what the treatment is, but here's
the part that I'd.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Never heard of before.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
They were like, we're going to do and again, I
don't know how you treat it.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
But whatever they were getting.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Ready to do, they were iffy as to whether it
was gonna work or not because they called a dude
in to read him his last rights.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Oh my god, my goodness.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
And he said excuse me, and they were like, yeah,
we're gonna have somebody come in to read you your
last rights.
Speaker 9 (05:31):
Jeez.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Now, I wouldn't classify my buddy as the overly religious type,
but he knows what that means. He's definitely like a
good Catholic. So anyway, the guy comes in, I kid
you not to read him his last rights?
Speaker 1 (05:49):
H And he went out halfway through it passed out. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Now he has since obviously come back, and he was like.
The last thing I remember is I'm laying in the
hospital and there's a priest in there reading me my
last rights and I woke up two days later.
Speaker 7 (06:11):
Is it a deeply affiliated hospital system within a religion
where they do this for many procedures or treatments?
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Oh? Like they always like, listen, I always welcome surgery,
but I know they always go.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Well, there's a chance you don't come out.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Yeah, this big the So are you saying like, even
before you would go in for that, they would lead
you read you your last rights just in case.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Oh I would never want that done. I just can't
believe that you're faced with that.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
I never heard of that. I've never heard of anybody
surviving last year. Yeah, of course he's got a fac.
Speaker 8 (06:48):
Was he like calling his loved one saying like, oh
my god, or cast out, yeah I'm meeting.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Up or could he not speak? Is he that weekend?
Speaker 6 (06:59):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (06:59):
I'm sure, I'm sure he reached out to somebody on
the way to the hospital.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
I can't spak. We didn't nine in the World Championships
sist year, but.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
We didn't find out about it until afterwards. And he
was like, I had somebody read me my last rights.
Speaker 8 (07:17):
So obviously the treatment worked thankfully.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Well, yeah, of course he was able to tell us.
That's a great question though.
Speaker 8 (07:24):
And how does he feel now, like is he still
kind of weak or I mean he.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Was texting with us over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
No that he didn't say anything, like, you know, and
by the way, I don't know what I don't know
if there's like a regular is there a speech for
last rights? Is it like our Father who are in heaven.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
You're anointing the sick in a lot of cases. What
does that mean? Last rights?
Speaker 7 (07:47):
Is a essentral peace to that sacrament our Father who
aren't hell anointing the sick?
Speaker 8 (07:57):
I don't I don't know what it means either, you're sick.
Speaker 7 (08:01):
Catholic ritual where a priest anoints a seriously ill, elderly
or dying person with blessed oil offering it so it's
like but they did in the end zone at the
Steelers game.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
It worked worked on my buddy too, offering.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
The spiritual healing, strength, peace, and forgiveness of sins through prayer.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
So my buddy's clear now.
Speaker 7 (08:20):
But there is I I don't not all last rites
are the anointing of the sick, but all anointing of
the sick I do believe includes last round.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Oh this is like whiskey and bourbon.
Speaker 10 (08:33):
Dying.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
By the way, I we were talking about, I knew
a Jesuit priest who used to have to go do
the last rights routine a lot.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
It's like it sucks.
Speaker 7 (08:46):
So this wasn't a chaplain your friend had who was
on campus of this hospital. What many hospital systems have
chaplains that are inside all the time.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
My buddy was at the at the airport and they
were like, we're taking.
Speaker 7 (09:01):
Your friend the Jesuit No, the one when he got
to the hospital, the person who read him last rites.
Did they call him in from a nearby parish or
is he on the campus of the hospital.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
We were trying to get to the bottom of this, Like,
what what if I went to Sibley. I drove by
there over the weekend. I was going to meet our
friend the CID. Who's anyway, the.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
If I went through, If I if I just end
up at Sibley right we're driving by.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
I tell Jackie and the boys I think I got pneumonia,
and they rushed me in there.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
They got somebody coming in to give me last rights.
Speaker 7 (09:38):
I wouldn't think so, but your story, obviously this guy did,
makes me believe differently. How about that that says most
Catholic connected hospital systems have somebody on staff who was
able to do last rights.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
But that is so Like my kids were born in
Holy Cross, not because I'm religious, but that's where Jackie's
guy I know, did the did her work to the.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Would they have somebody?
Speaker 2 (10:05):
You would think so, only because it's already a religious hospital.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
But I can't believe he had to be so scared.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Yeah, I'm scared of he's and he and he I mean,
he didn't realize at the time he had passed out,
but when he woke up, he was like freaked out.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
And like I said, my buddy's not a religious guy
like I know him, but he did grow up Catholic.
He went to Catholic school, like I think his kids
got I don't know what you guys do, but whatevs.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
It's what I got the shots done at Glamour shots
my confirmation.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
But he was like, as he found he found religion
real quick. Yeah, man, but I'd never heard of anybody
getting last rites and surviving it.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
No, that's a wild story. Isn't that crazy?
Speaker 2 (11:05):
It really is scary.
Speaker 10 (11:09):
One.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Like you said, now he's forgiven of his sins. He
is clean.
Speaker 6 (11:14):
Dude.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Do you know how out of control I would be?
Speaker 8 (11:17):
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
But that also is the first time I realized pneumonia
in some cases may not be a joke.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
I feel like it's always serious.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
I have zero respect for him, especially.
Speaker 8 (11:30):
Like when older people get it, you know, yeah, like in.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Their eighties and nineties, sixty in your eighties and nineties,
and you're in your cooked.
Speaker 7 (11:42):
Laura writes, I had a procedure recently that they said
was routine, but they offered the last rites.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Are you serious?
Speaker 1 (11:49):
He gave me the IX? Wait wait did she get them?
But but is that is that what you said? Though?
It's in case you don't come out of it, we're
signing away.
Speaker 7 (11:59):
We're being told yeah, yeah, yeah, we're kind of doing
this legally.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Is this just the religious side of it.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
What was her like she I don't know what it
was for, but I guarantee you she didn't go in
for a routine.
Speaker 8 (12:13):
PAP and you get your last routine, see surgery. Maybe
it's like your consels. Yeah, something like that. That's pretty routine.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Yeah, but they put you out right, bring in your
last rights for tonsils.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
You could die from that.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
You could go in for you go into just to
get surgery on your ankle, and next thing, you know,
your last right.
Speaker 8 (12:35):
All of the times I've been put under anesthetia, I've
never had the last rights offered to me.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
No, I haven't either. But have you gone to a
to a to an affiliated.
Speaker 8 (12:44):
Hospital, maybe I wouldn't be surprised if there's like if
there was somebody Alexandria that had a their job as
the chapel or chaplain chaplain.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Yeah, I couldn't have that job. That's sad.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Plus you imagine somebody's going in for I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Again, I don't know what her routine thing was exam
and then you're like, oh, before you go to your father,
who are in heaven hallowed. I don't know the I
don't know all the words, so you should just stop.
Speaker 7 (13:15):
Yeah, but are you thinking it's only for being put under,
because not every surgery.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Are you put under.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
I don't know what procedure you get for pneumonia. I
don't know what procedure my buddy was getting right, but
he survived last rights. It is clean.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Oh man, I can't believe this.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
You gotta feel great once you finally out, you're like,
and I'm.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Forgiven for everything.
Speaker 7 (13:45):
Yeah, but how is your heart health leading up to that?
You said he passed out for two days the heart attack?
Speaker 2 (13:51):
He was out for two freaking days.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Where am I going?
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Christian Line one hill in the morning. So there's two
people who served, does he?
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Who's this?
Speaker 6 (14:03):
Hi?
Speaker 9 (14:03):
This is Lauren. Yes, we didn't get our last rights red.
But in early December all three of my boys got
flew a and it was miserable. But my middle one
got pneumonia, which triggered something called status asthmaticus, which sounds
totally faked, made up. But we went to a Nova
Loudon and his pneumonia was so bad they said, hey,
(14:24):
we have to transfer him to the picqu in Fairfax,
and I was like, uh, okay, I'll drive him there
and they're like, no, man, he has to go through
be an ambulance. And I was like why, and they
were like, he's in respiratory failure.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Jesus Christ from pneumonia.
Speaker 9 (14:37):
Yes, from pneumonia, which triggered some asthma thing which he
didn't even have.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
That asthma, that'spaticus or whatever it is.
Speaker 9 (14:46):
It sounds fake and made up, but I didn't believe it.
But they're like, ma'am, you have to take this series.
But he's actually really sick.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
No kidding, How was I hope he's doing now?
Speaker 9 (14:55):
Yeah, he's great. He missed like a whole month of school,
so he's really upset. How much worky to make up?
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Yeah, he's kind of pissed.
Speaker 9 (15:01):
But Peter flu shot I guess.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
But no, but they didn't last right to them, right.
Speaker 9 (15:07):
They did not last right to them. But they're very
very serious about it.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Yeah he did that.
Speaker 9 (15:11):
I would have lost my mind.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Oh I can't even imagine. All right, very good, very good.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
I appreciate it, Thank you, ma'am, Thank you. Where am
I going? Line four?
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Hi?
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Elliot, the morning, Good morning?
Speaker 6 (15:25):
Hey, who's ass it's this Nancy from passa Daena.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Hey, how are you.
Speaker 6 (15:31):
I'm good. I wanted to let you know I got
pneumonia in the hospital.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Well, they do say sometimes people get sick in the hospital.
I get that. No.
Speaker 6 (15:42):
I had a hip replacement, was supposed to leave in
three days. I end up being in the hospital.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Ten Are you serious?
Speaker 6 (15:52):
I am dead ass serious?
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Right? Hey, did dy?
Speaker 2 (15:55):
I was?
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Did they last right to you?
Speaker 9 (15:58):
No?
Speaker 1 (15:58):
But a priest did come in for what like just
to check on you?
Speaker 6 (16:03):
Yeah, and a prayer, you know, because the big the
hip replacement, I had to go under, right, And it
seems like any time you go under for anesthesia, if
you're a Catholic, they send a priest.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
No, they don't.
Speaker 6 (16:19):
They got them on called, they stay there. They do not.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
They excuse me, excuse me, they do not.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
They do not.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Anytime somebody's going under in a hospital, they don't send
a priest.
Speaker 8 (16:34):
Di She say which hospital?
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Which hospital?
Speaker 6 (16:36):
Well, I was in anna Arundel for that one.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
It's not a religious hospital.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
No, but there's there's a priest there all the time.
They have a chapel there.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Did you It sounds like you still may have some
fluid build up, huh Elliott.
Speaker 6 (16:53):
Yeah, yeah, I've had a damn cold.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Yeah, huh, you got pneumonia. You got pneumonia, Marlborough.
Speaker 6 (17:02):
Yeah, camel hello, yeah, we got to have the camel now.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Oh, dear father, I.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
Just finished radiation. Oh god, and I told him from
beginning I smoke and I don't plan on Quinton.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Amen, that's right, deal.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
With it, you know what I mean, y'all have to
deal with me.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
But I'm sorry.
Speaker 6 (17:33):
You better give me a good doctor with a good
personality or yes, can't deal with me.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
All right, Very good, very good, Thank you, ma'am, thank you.
Speaker 7 (17:43):
Yes, I'm sending it over that. Explain During the pandemic,
the Vatican change the rules to allow for last rites
to be done over video. It must have required an
in person for best.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
So they would wheel a TV in in the in
the hospital.
Speaker 7 (18:05):
Assuming then the nurse has all protective gear on. Yeah,
especially during the early days.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Yeah, are they questioned?
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Is what?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
But like is that being done by a live.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Priest that.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Like an iPad?
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Right, just make a video?
Speaker 1 (18:20):
I don't remember that. Oh you mean.
Speaker 8 (18:24):
Aren't that they just replay? That seems kind of cold,
isn't it. I mean, if you're talking about last rights
for somebody, let.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Me ask my buddy, if it was on zoom, you
wouldn't know give a cool background.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Look at all the Bibles, the no you know what
I mean?
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Like would you wouldn't know? Like can I ask this
for last rights?
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Do they do.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
They change it for the person? I would assume it's
the same spiel. And I'm not I'm not being flipping
about saying the spiel, but it's like the prayer.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Is the prayer. U.
Speaker 7 (18:56):
There is a format, for sure, but there's also a
name of the patient or.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
So they address you by name.
Speaker 7 (19:04):
I like to believe that there is some customization, do.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
You Edgar line seven? Hi, Elliot in the morning, it
was mean, Yeah, Hi, who's this?
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Hey, my name is Chris. I'm an infectious to these doctors.
I just wanted to talk about the flu and pneumonia.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Yeah. By the way, I understand Ammonia's no joke.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Dude, especially after the flu. That's like one of the
biggest risks of getting the flu is developing what's called
a superimposed pneumonia on top of it. And this is
why I pushed so hard for flu vaccines because I'm
you know, I'm thirty years old and I've seen people
you know my age, you know, completely just crump from
(19:51):
the flu. Can you know, be dead within a matter
of hours. So I know, you know, the fo is
typically not you know, something super you know, people take
super seriously. And you know, similarly with you know, pneumonia.
But you know, I've seen people, you know die, I've
seen people be put on echmo after getting pneumonia with
(20:15):
the flu can definitely be no joke.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Hey what is the and so so once it gets
to pneuma pneumonia, like you said, pneumonia, Pneumonia's bad.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Yeah, it can be you know, pneumonia's it's very you
know broad term. You can get you know, bacterial pneumonia,
which is what it is in this case. You can
get you know, viral pneumonias. You can get other like
like walking pneumonias essentially, which are bacterial but you know
caused by like you know, punier bacteria. Will say, right,
(20:46):
but yeah, can can be absolutely terrible and you can
get you know, especially after the flu, you can get
you know what's called a you know, staff pneumonia what
you think of like staff infections, MRSA infections with your skin, right,
but you can get that in your lungs essentially, and
you know that can be absolutely devastating.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Hey do you do your work like I know you
said you're an infectious disease doctor. Are you at are
you at a hospital location or are you like in
a lab facility? No?
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Yeah, hospital?
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Hey do you do people get are there?
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Like?
Speaker 1 (21:19):
I understand people who are like they're.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Done though, right, but do you do you see are
people getting last rights?
Speaker 1 (21:26):
All the time?
Speaker 3 (21:29):
I will say, we don't have like a where I'm at.
We don't have like a super like Catholic, you know,
I would say population compared to other denominations. But yeah,
it's not uncommon to see like they have like a
chaplain that's on service here twenty four to seven essentially,
So it's not uncommon to see them pretty frequently. It's
(21:50):
not like as common as that one lady said, like
before every procedure.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Good lord, Yeah, that's crazy, that's crazy to me.
Speaker 10 (21:58):
It happens.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
It happens pretty frequently.
Speaker 9 (22:00):
I guess.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
I mean, listen, if I were, if if I were,
if I were a surgeon, right, and I'm getting ready
to operate on you know, anybody doesn't matter, Hank, I'm
going to operate on Hank, and Hank's religious and he's
very nervous. I would have a priest come in, like
you want to do everything you can to comfort somebo.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
And that's like a lot of the reasons they comment.
It's not so much as like you're gonna you know,
you're gonna die or something. It's more like just for comforting.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
So why would they have, like my buddy didn't ask
for why would they have, last, writes my buddy.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
I don't know, I like, it depends on how I mean.
I I don't think I've ever like gotten a chap
in to comfort someone that's like a cute, super acutely sick,
and especially in someone who sounds like he's pretty fairly young,
maybe not young, but also not like he's just trying.
He's like just traveling to New York. I probably wouldn't,
(22:52):
you know, think he's gonna die. The man he walked
in the.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Door, and he said it was weird.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
And he said, by the way, like when somebody, hey,
thank you sir, thank you doctor, somebody like you think
you're going in like again, he felt like he felt
bad enough that he went to the hospital.
Speaker 8 (23:08):
Does it ever dawn on you, like like you may
feel like you've got a really bad flu. You do,
you feel like absolute dog crap. But I don't think
in any way would I ever thought like, oh my god,
I'm dying, you know?
Speaker 1 (23:18):
And he didn't think so.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Yeah, And he said, when somebody is standing there going hey,
before we take you in for whatever procedure they were
going to do, it's not like they were putting him
out or anything. Let's have a priest come in and
read you your last rite.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Now, then your thought is I am dying.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
I'm done, Diane, thank you? Oh gosh, Oh I need him,
not right now, but I need Josh. I need Josh
Line three, Hi Elliott in the morning. Hey, Hi, who's
this Richmond? Yes, Sophie, what can I do for you?
Speaker 5 (23:56):
Yeah? So my son was two years old and took
him into a pediatrician thinking that he just had like
RSV or something, and they put the little O two
sensor on his finger, and they had another doctor come in,
and then they had another doctor come in, and I'm
sitting there going, okay, what is going on? And then
they got another O two censor and they're like, his
(24:17):
O two is eighty six and apparently between ninety five
and one hundred is normal. The eighty six is super
duper low. And you know he's two, he's hot as hell,
and you know he's really sick. And I'm like, okay,
well what do I do this. We're going to have
to get him into the PICQ you immediately, and I
was like, okay, just like the other lady, I'll like,
I'll drive him. So like, absolutely not. He has to
(24:39):
go in an ambulance.
Speaker 10 (24:41):
It was horrible.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
We get there and not only did he have regular pneumonia,
but he had something called man and let me see,
I can't remember it, mono clonal pneumonia, which basically really yeah,
like they you treat them both extremely different. So if
they had just treated him for pneumonia regularly, that would
have continued, right, and that would have made it even worse. So, like,
(25:06):
I learned a lot, let's just say, because I always
thought a pneumonia was just like okay, yeah, you get
some antibiotics and you're done.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Yeah he was for like four days.
Speaker 10 (25:14):
Horrible.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Yeah, No, I'm telling you I had I didn't respect pneumonia.
I had no respect for pneumonia because I looked at
it the same way cold flu pneumonia. It's all kind
of the same garbage. The but I'm telling you it
wrecked my buddy. It's so he was horrible for your kid.
That's four days.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
That's bad.
Speaker 5 (25:32):
Yeah, poor little thing. But he's back with terror ways.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Yeah, well no, good, good, good goods. All right, very good,
Thank you, ma'am. We grabbed line seven real quick.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Hi Ellie in the morning.
Speaker 10 (25:44):
Hey man, how you doing good?
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Who's this?
Speaker 10 (25:47):
Hey? This is doc Hey. I I've been in medicine
for a long time. Beca's a lot of hospitals. I've
also trained as a chaplain. Oh one thing, real quick.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
I'm sorry you're trained. Is this a bit? You don't
have to be a precedent?
Speaker 10 (26:00):
Not a bit. This is real important. Last rights Yeah,
can you hear me?
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (26:06):
I got you, go ahead, father, Okay. Last rights isn't
like you're gonna die, okay. Last rights is you're unburdening
yourself just in case you're dying. Okay. And if you
look at it that way, you're going to surgery and
you're nervous about this, you're gonna want to unburden yourself
because pretty much anytime they put you down there there's
(26:27):
a chance you could die. The only thing I can
think about with your buddy is they had someone right
there or is in a really Catholic hospitals there are
you know, there aren't hospitals where they have people there
training to administer to folks. And you know, it's a
good place to do it if you're talking to somebody.
It's a little more in depth than what you're comfortable
with as a you know, a clergy member or something
(26:48):
like that.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
So you think this may be like when I was
in eighth grade and I got food poisoning at the
Magic Time Machine in Austin, and I got taken to
the hospital, I got a proctology exam, and because it
just so happened to be it was it was a
student student learning hospital that it was just whatever I
am is that it was like, it was just it
was practical. It was butt whole day. And so you
(27:11):
think my buddy may have been there and they were
just training this guy and they were like, hey, let's
just walk from room to room. What a horrible thing
for training.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Everybody thinks they're wait a.
Speaker 10 (27:20):
Minute, approach it the different way. Approach it. Not that
you're about to die, but is there anything you'd like
couldn't talk about. Is there anything you'd like to unburden
your yourself about anything like that. And if you're not Catholic,
you may hear that and go, holy crap, I'm getting
last rights. I'm gonna die. If you're really Catholic, you're
gonna hear it. And this is going to be the
kind of thing like you just checking in with your friend. Hey,
(27:43):
I'm having a big deal done tomorrow. We good your
friend being the religious guy. I am not Catholic in
the slightest. I do this because I don't want my patients.
I don't want my patients having any discomfort, any problems
if they're going through a horrible day.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Is it is it? Is it the same spiel to everybody?
Or do you got to like jujit for each one.
Speaker 10 (28:07):
I've only been asked to do last Rights three times,
and all three times it wasn't only one time was
it really last rights? We read from the Bible or
we read from a from a book. The other times
they really just wanted to talk, and it really was
you know, we we said the words, but it was
really sitting for a couple of hours while these folks passed.
(28:28):
They knew they were going to die and that you know,
it was that time and this was the time they elected.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
I couldn't do that.
Speaker 10 (28:35):
It's hard funerals.
Speaker 8 (28:39):
You can't ye go sit in a few that's the
only thing you need to do, and you can't do that.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
I couldn't do it.
Speaker 10 (28:44):
Supported me while my wife was passing, and she very
much had a kind of a similar thing. And you
know it's at the end the stuff that's important not
always about medicine. In fact, frequently it's not.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
I'm sorry, did you say did you say your wife
had passed?
Speaker 10 (29:00):
Yeah, yeah, I call I call you a fair amount.
My my wife had had turmo cancer and you folks,
we were talking to you about everything she was going through.
How great the folks.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Were, Oh okay.
Speaker 10 (29:11):
It was like chaplain, Yeah, no, it's no, I'm not.
I want to be really quick. I am like the
chaplain of last resort. I'm the doctor of last res
If you're seeing me, you're having a bad day, and
I'm gonna do the best I can for you. But look,
we got to get you to the hospital.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Buddy, I got you. Hey, well, I appreciate the info.
Thank you, my friend, Thank you You're welcome.
Speaker 7 (29:33):
Man.
Speaker 10 (29:33):
You need a medical correspondent, I'll send you an email
whenever you want.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
All right, very good, thank you, sir, thank you.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
That's a lot there, last right.
Speaker 7 (29:42):
It's also maybe the key to getting more time with
your just general practitioner at a physical Are they watching
in and out?
Speaker 1 (29:51):
If you go, you know what?
Speaker 2 (29:52):
You should give me a last real quick.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
I just want to quick. I can talk a little
bit more.
Speaker 7 (29:57):
We can do so sort of in the context of
a for a peaceful death, but it's just so I
can learn more about my lifestyle and how it affects
my health.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
By the way, that reminds me, Yes, went on break.
How was your blood pressure?
Speaker 3 (30:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (30:11):
I didn't check it.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (30:12):
I thought you were still I thought you were going
to do it all the time.
Speaker 7 (30:15):
Yeah, but I didn't really like have the healthiest of
breaks when it came to.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Food and beverage.
Speaker 7 (30:23):
So you have no idea it worked out every day, right,
But I did not check once.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
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