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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
So you know, yesterday I had the day off and
I was with my wife who had her first colonoscopy.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
She's not off work yet, so I can get away
with it.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
I was going to ask, did you clear this conversation
with her, because I don't want to have to guard
you getting home tonight.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
I forget what it was, but she did something yesterday,
and you know, I go, she goes.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
You're talking about that on the air. You know, I
was like, no, yes, and then she's.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Like, oh, yeah, cause she's to the point now where
she tries to kind of guard or if some stuff happens,
and she'll like, you can see the wheels turning, and
then you know, maybe we're a half hour later, we're
in the car going somewhere or something.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
She'll go, please don't bring that up on me. Please.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
She's like, I do want some things that are not
on and I'm like, what, no, okay, I won't with
that request.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Jenny.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
I wish you the best of luck.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
I did her.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
I did read her what you had sent, and she
said that was very sweet that you know, the the
text that you had.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Say, somebody else must have been texting from my phone.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
I'm never sweet, that's never you never ever she said
that was you know, that was really nice, and so
on and so forth.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
You know, it was her first one.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
She's forty five, and there's a history of GI stuff,
gastro intestinal stuff, without getting too specific, but in her
family genealogy, if you will. So as a result, they
have begun the testing earlier than what they previously would
have just been doing with regard to colonoscopy's now, I
(01:34):
don't know that, and I and if you've told me,
forgive me, because I don't know that you've ever been
down this road. I think you have. But okay, and
Zach has too. He's been doing it for quite a while.
And those are things that you guys have told me.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
He does it for fun. It's different.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
When I was a kid, I had to do him.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
But now pure pleasure.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Can't get King's Island passes this season, But I can
schedule a couple of these.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
I don't even know how to react to. You just
do them now for the heck of it, Like, oh,
I like it now.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
I just you know, depends on who you go to
to get it done. But a lot of options out
there for self pay.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Do you reckon they use a different type of wand
for the WNBA, given what's happening lately with regardless stuff
on the courts. Anyway, So with my wife, I was
making jokes even like that, which I'll just leave it
at that. If you got it, you got it. If
you didn't, then you don't got it. But but I
kept saying to her because she's like h and I said, listen,
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this wand they use is like really small, and I go,
that's on purpose and all of this. And so they
found two polyps and they removed them, and I asked
the nurse specifically, I said what, because you know she
comes out of it and she's goofy.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
I'm back there with her.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
And later on, dude, first thing she wanted to do,
because you know how you have to go without eating,
she's like telling me.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
I mean she's like prepared on Saturday. She's like, we are.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Going to get a steak. As soon as I'm I'm
like staring at her, going are you serious. She's like, yeah,
I want steak, I want potentia. I want a salad.
I have never wanted a salad so bad in my
life because you're not supposed to have. I guess rough
age or fiber and all that leading up to it.
And so she and I said fine, and we ended
up at outback at ten to eleven yesterday because it
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was over. But I was like still babysitting her because
she's like staring at me, and I'm like, nobody's home.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
It was. It was really kind of weird.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Ten am. Yes, we ain't even brought the cows in
from the pasture yet. Yes, yeah, I wanted that stage. Yes,
good for you girl.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
And so we ended up there before they even opened
and waited to get in.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Yes we were.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Those people were unlocking the doors and we're walking in
and uh. But anyway back to so the whole thing,
the way that it all went down was, you know,
they removed to polyps. They told me, the nurse described
they look like zits almost, if you will, for lack
of a better comparison, I don't know if you guys
have heard any of this. I'm sure Zach you probably have,
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but maybe you have. Her haven't chucked. But they removed
two of those. One was like two millimeters, one was
like four and she was complaining of like internal pain
from that, and they said there's kind of some blood,
and she's like, did you have pain? I'm like, no,
because I had I had five polyps that ended up
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being pre cancerous on my first one when I was fifty.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
So six years ago.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Then I had another one last year. No polyps, none completely,
you know. And so they do things differently now. They
use CO two when they blow up your all of
it to kind of blow up the GI tract and
it smooths out the wall so it's easier to look
at you understand.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
What I'm so, Yeah, I usually bring my own gas,
but if they're going to provide it, that's kind of nice.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
So they they used like and that there's a lot
of absorption there and then a lot of it they
can actually suck back out, I guess on their way out,
so there's.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Not remember, you know, fart room if you will, is where.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
People are sitting around after and it's you know, and
it's just the air that they fucked you full up.
Sorry I'm so graphic about it, but look, everybody goes
through this. And the reason I'm even talking about it
is because today she said, they told her, well, well,
we'll send these out for pathology and then we'll let
you know, probably.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
In a week.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Well, this morning she said, they came back pre cancerous.
And I said, honey, try to take it easy here.
I know it's hard to utter the words cancerous. You know,
even though it's pre cancerous, you don't have cancer. I go,
but those things were headed that direction had you not
had them removed.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
It the reason now to make sure that you are
diligent in getting this done on a regular basis.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
That's it, man. And so she goes, and I said,
now all this will determine is.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
How often you get them, as opposed to if you didn't,
if these weren't pre cancerous, or if you had none,
then they might say we can wait ten years.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Or I don't.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
I don't know how what they tell her about frequency
every couple of years now.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
So now they she's not gotten the official how often
she has to do it now. But she was concerned,
and I was like, take it easy. Everything's you know,
I said, look, you you live with a guy who
I had five and they were pre cancerous.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
You know, please take it easy. And so she is.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
She wasn't like crazy or whatever, but you know, it's
a little concerning. You got somebody who's experienced all this
for the first time. So look, the coli guard thing,
I some people will get by with that.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
They told her, we strongly suggest you don't do.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
This, given your gi history with your family and so
as a result, and look, I don't know that coli
guard will pick up on you have some polyps.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
I don't think it. I don't know though, for sure.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
I think there's got to be something that is causing blood.
It's it's and if it catches blood, it could give
you a false reading because it could be hemorrhoid for
all you know, right, But if it catches blood in
the stool, it will give you a false reading.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
That's the colon guard, then yes, okay.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
And if it doesn't catch any blood, which is you
know is possible even if you've got those pull ups
and gives you the all clear, you walk around all
happy about everything when you probably should be at the doctor.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
See, that's the scariest part of the way, you know. Gosh,
there's so many different ways, it seems like, with just
those two different ways to assess that, you know, with
each individual person and everybody's everybody's snapshots different, you know.
But I'm so happy, I'm thankful to God that she
did this, and that she went through it and she.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Had those removed.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
And even though she's hearing what she didn't really want
to hear that, I'm like, honey, it's just a matter
of staying with it now, because you know that is
oftentimes colon cancer when it gets to stage three and four,
when you start having those symptoms, then it's a lot
of times too late or your terminal and you know
you're given whatever how much time.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
And so I said, I'm just I'm thankful that you
did this.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
You know, I do want to say, just because I've
had these kolonoscopy since I was a kid, because I
have a gastro intestinal thing. I'm glad she went and
when they found them, she went, and they found.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Him early enough.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Now the frequency of what she has to get them
going forward, it's not going to be like overburied and
awful like every six months or Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
She just has to do them.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
And as long as they stay on top of it
and she goes when she's supposed to, she'll be fine.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Right, And that's a great thing.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
So they caught them yet, scary, but that's great that.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
What are we supposed to do?
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Well, I'm every five I'm every five.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
I think I think they told me ten years, but
I'm not sure did you wasn't all clear?
Speaker 2 (08:52):
There was no you were all clear? Yeah, So there
it is. That's why because they and I guess you
know at this point, if you had symptoms or something
along those lines, and they start and they're like, oh,
you have some you know, some polyps or some growths
or whatever. That's the thing where you go, geez, you
told me ten years. I took your word for it.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Yeah, that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Always hearing that story that makes me want to go
back early. I think it's been six if I'm not mistaken,
maybe five, But I hearing this story makes me want
to go back early because I mean that well you
get that is I don't want to use the word miraculous,
but there is something very spiritual to these days. You
find out something ahead of time, when you can act
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on it and prevent bad things from happening. That's wonderful
because every day everybody everywhere seems to get bad news
about one thing or another. And she came out of
this with good news, and I'm just I'm really thrilled
about that.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Yeah, And you don't you want nobody wants to hear
the words that you have it. But what it also
can do is this type of thing can get ahead
of it to where it's stage one or between one
to and then it's treatable and you know your prognosis
is really good and way better than stage four and
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you're so far gone and oh my gosh, we hope
it doesn't spread. I mean, there's so many different ways,
and I'm not trying to scare anybody or hopefully nobody's
taken this this way. I'm just talking about it because
first of all, I feel like everybody can relate. You
get to a certain age and you know, father Time's undefeated,
and you're going to have to deal.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
With this at some point.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
If you haven't dealt with it yet or you have,
you know loved ones who are dealing with it, maybe
they're teetering and going, I don't know if I want
to do that or what have you. And I'm also
not trying to take anything away from Cooligard. They they
have their spot, they have their place in our society,
and clearly it's huge. I have loved ones who actually
use that. So it was my choice to go ahead
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and get this done when I was fifty. I'm like,
I'm just gonna do it, and then I'm so happy
that I did, and it was not difficult at all.
My wife's having a little more trouble with it today.
She's having some internal like like cramps and pain and
some stuff that she's like, did you have that? I'm
like no, but she goes reading, Oh, it affects twenty
percent of the people and blah blah blah.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Did you pick her up any bino? No, that may help, honestly, yeah,
just it just could be gaseous pressure in there from
probably this is This is gonna sound crazy, but I
actually asked the nurse when I did my like, when
they're up there doing what they're doing, how come they
just don't run like a back up there and clean
you out. That way, you don't have to go do
a colon cleanse or any of that stuff. Just get
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whatever's left out. I imagine you leave the hospital just
feeling really good. Yeah, it just seems since you're there already,
you might as well.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
I don't know that you have a whole lot left
by the time you get there. As a matter of fact,
I can't imagine you have any based on what I
went through, and you drink.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
It's a whole bottle of miral axe and four docal acts.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
I mean, but you the way you told me. They're
taking it now, which is so much. I like this
the powder as opposed to that's it. I had a
big gall and jug of yack piece I had to drink.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
That was my first They changed it.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Now and now you just put the powder in your
bottle of gatorade or something and drink it.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Sixty four ounces of gatorade, you do, thirty two ounces,
you do four thirty You do four eight ounce classes,
you know, for your first your first session. Then a
few hours go and you get up in the middle
of the night at three or four in the morning,
depending on when your you know when your colonoscoby is
four hours ahead, and you finish off the four eight
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ounce classes again. Now, I'm not going to say that
across the board.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
That works.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
That's what they do for everybody, zach To. I don't
know that, do you. Is that the way you proceed
or you still have to do that pre whatever.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Stuff they give you.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
No, I just do the drinking thing with me, relax
or whatever. Okay, I'm not giving advice here. I do
things maybe a tad differently because I've had them a
million times. So I don't like get up in the
middle of the night and drink whatever whatever I have
to drink. I start that the before, say, at like noon,
one o'clock, and then I just finish it all. Then
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I just don't eat anything, and then what did I get?
I'm cleaned out. So and again, follow your doctor's directions.
But I've done this so much that I kind of
it's different for me.