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Welcome back! This week, after the rigamarole, Ron tries to convince us that clerics are worthless and paladins are the true best class in DnD. Chris talks about his cancer treatment. As always, please like, subscribe, and share with your friends. Come join the discussions on the Discord Channel (https://discord.gg/TbxA7gcUky) and follow us on Twitter, @cltruitt22. Thanks and take care!
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Ron's Medical Misadventures
00:00:07
Chris
Welcome back to another episode of the Mythic Giraffe Podcast. I'm Chris.
00:00:11
thewifeissoloud
And I'm a very inconvenienced Ron. i am I have gone through some sort of medical nightmare last week, and I cannot tell you the tell you people the amount of pain I've been in.
00:00:22
thewifeissoloud
i had the splinter. It was terrible.
00:00:29
Chris
Is it in your toe?
00:00:30
thewifeissoloud
Oh, no. It's like right in the meat of my arm. It's
Thoughts and Prayers: Efficacy or Illusion?
00:00:34
Chris
Hmm.
00:00:34
thewifeissoloud
terrible.
00:00:34
thewifeissoloud
ah
00:00:35
Chris
Hmm. Yeah.
00:00:36
thewifeissoloud
I just need sympathy. Well-wishing and sympathy would be nice.
00:00:39
Chris
Thoughts and prayers.
00:00:46
Chris
And there's a part of me that understands why people post that stuff. Oh, thoughts and prayers. But i'm like, that doesn't help anyone.
00:00:54
thewifeissoloud
It's never worked, as far as I know.
00:00:56
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. ah
00:00:59
thewifeissoloud
had It hasn't worked once, right?
00:01:03
Chris
Did it?
00:01:04
thewifeissoloud
It's like, statistically, I pray for rain every day. It's going to rain one of those days.
00:01:10
Chris
Yeah, but correlation doesn't equal causation.
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thewifeissoloud
No, but you know. It's what you want
Firefighters' Grueling Schedules
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thewifeissoloud
to think, I guess. I don't know.
00:01:20
Chris
Yeah.
00:01:23
thewifeissoloud
ah I will say i have utmost sympathy for all of my fellow firefighters who work 24-48 schedules because I have to work on Sunday this week.
00:01:35
Chris
Ugh.
00:01:36
thewifeissoloud
And I don't know how you people do it because I just got off work at 7 a.m. this morning. i already feel like I'm turning around and going back to work, even though I don't have to do it till Sunday morning.
00:01:43
Chris
Yeah.
00:01:47
Chris
Yeah.
00:01:48
thewifeissoloud
I don't know how I'm anything done this week.
00:01:50
Chris
And that's like, but the problem is those maniacs that work that schedule are brainwashed.
00:01:56
thewifeissoloud
And they love it.
00:01:56
Chris
Cause like, Oh, this great. yeah Yeah. Yeah. I get a Kelly day every 17th Tuesday under Aquarius.
00:02:01
thewifeissoloud
yeah
00:02:05
Chris
It's like, God, no.
00:02:08
thewifeissoloud
They try to sell me on that. They're like, well, once you get paid 30% more, I'm like, yeah, because you're working 30% more.
00:02:12
Chris
Work. Yeah, that's yeah.
00:02:15
thewifeissoloud
i I'm over here kicking back one day on, three days off. It's pretty good.
00:02:20
Chris
Yeah. Right.
00:02:22
thewifeissoloud
I think, really, the Fire de Department
00:02:23
Chris
And you're still working more than a normal person works because you're working six days a week.
00:02:28
thewifeissoloud
Yeah. Yeah. I think the fire department should go to a one in six schedule. One day on, six off. You know, I think that would be beneficial to my mental health.
00:02:37
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:02:40
thewifeissoloud
I'd be a lot less upset about our time off situation if it was a one in six. Like, I haven't been able to off, but I'm, you know, I'm off area every day.
00:02:48
Chris
Yeah.
00:02:49
thewifeissoloud
Most days.
00:02:50
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. I'd say before I went out, yeah, the, uh, what lays at the front office was, you know, your time's creeping up there. I'm like, I, I don't know what to tell you.
00:03:01
Chris
I got nothing.
00:03:02
thewifeissoloud
Yeah. I look, well, but now this is old guys bitching about things.
00:03:08
Chris
Yeah.
00:03:09
thewifeissoloud
I have to take 16 shifts off next year.
00:03:15
Chris
Wow.
00:03:16
thewifeissoloud
i think, think it's that. And that's to still be at full at the end of the year. Right?
00:03:26
thewifeissoloud
Like it' it's a,
00:03:28
Chris
Yeah, so...
Firehouse Kitchen and Team Morale
00:03:34
Chris
Yeah, you have to take almost 20% of the year off.
00:03:34
thewifeissoloud
It's And
00:03:38
Chris
Wow.
00:03:40
thewifeissoloud
and I can tell you this. There ain't 20% of the year ah available take off.
00:03:44
Chris
Right, that's the thing.
00:03:46
thewifeissoloud
Yeah. Yeah.
00:03:48
Chris
Right, and always like the... You could take off this shift, starting at midnight. say No, no, I don't want to do that. Yeah, the time is so I can take off when I want to take off.
00:04:01
thewifeissoloud
You have the former fire chief with his famous, well, people aren't taking off Tuesdays in February.
00:04:08
Chris
Yeah, there's a reason.
00:04:09
thewifeissoloud
You're right, chief. Nobody takes off the Tuesdays in February. Why is that? Well, I don't want to hear people complain about their time when nobody took February the 3rd off.
00:04:14
Chris
Yeah.
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Chris
Yeah.
00:04:23
thewifeissoloud
Just the day I was...
00:04:24
Chris
I mean, you got take February 2nd off, but.
00:04:26
thewifeissoloud
Well, yeah, i mean, you got to watch movies all day.
00:04:29
Chris
Yeah.
00:04:33
Chris
Yeah.
00:04:34
thewifeissoloud
Look, that's, again, I'm i'm fully cognizant of um I'm bitching about having too much time off.
00:04:41
Chris
Yeah. It's definitely one of those first world problems, but
00:04:43
thewifeissoloud
Yeah, there are much worse things than I have in this world. But just buy my time back.
00:04:50
Chris
yeah.
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thewifeissoloud
Just buy my time.
00:04:53
Chris
Yeah.
00:04:53
thewifeissoloud
But I do not understand why they won't. it It makes... I don't... It doesn't seem to make any sense to me. Because inevitably, you're going to have to pay the time out.
00:05:07
Chris
I mean, maybe the local will bargain for it this time around.
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thewifeissoloud
Maybe. I don't think they're worried about it.
00:05:14
Chris
Really? They got their finger on the pulse.
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thewifeissoloud
It's a difficult job.
00:05:22
Chris
Yeah.
Paramedic Supply Challenges
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thewifeissoloud
You know, it is... it You and I have been around the city long enough to know that the local has to fight to preserve stuff more than it does to change things.
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Chris
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
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thewifeissoloud
You know. Because you get a maniac mayor and there's like, you guys are going to forty eight
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Chris
Yep. Yeah.
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thewifeissoloud
Well, 40% of the people quit. Now what, chief?
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Chris
Yeah.
00:05:51
thewifeissoloud
You know.
00:05:52
Chris
Yeah. We'll just transfer some people from the zoo over.
00:05:54
thewifeissoloud
It ain't like... Right. It ain't like they're knocking on the doors to come work here.
00:05:59
Chris
Yeah. Hmm.
00:06:01
thewifeissoloud
And it's never happened. But it allll we always have the threat. Because we always get... It seems like every other cycle is a maniac mayor mayor coming in saying crazy shit.
00:06:11
Chris
Yeah.
00:06:13
Chris
Yeah.
00:06:16
thewifeissoloud
And it's, you know...
00:06:18
Chris
Yeah. You guys in between calls should be picking trash up.
00:06:22
thewifeissoloud
Yeah, yeah, I can't disagree with you there, Mr. Meyer.
00:06:27
Chris
Yeah.
00:06:28
thewifeissoloud
Except for all the mandatory training I get sent out by IT and home Human Resources and my own department and fire engine displays and, you know.
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Chris
Yeah.
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thewifeissoloud
Yeah, we were talking about the... we We finally have a kitchen. I'm not sure if I'm supposed to mention this. We finally had a kitchen
Firehouse Seating Preferences
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thewifeissoloud
at Station 1.
00:06:46
Chris
Yeah, yeah.
00:06:46
thewifeissoloud
and we you we're utilizing it. You're going to have to write me up. I had i cooked dinner in it last night. Don't care. It was the soul of the firehouse is back.
00:06:53
Chris
What?
00:06:57
Chris
Yeah.
00:06:58
thewifeissoloud
mate You know, I never... bought Well, I always believed in having, you know sitting around the kitchen table and being important in the firehouse. You don't realize how important that is when you don't have it.
00:07:04
Chris
Yeah.
00:07:07
Chris
Until it's taken away. Yeah.
00:07:10
thewifeissoloud
It is crazy. And...
00:07:12
Chris
Good, good.
00:07:15
thewifeissoloud
the dumbest thing it came out of my driver and she says it's just great to have my spot back and i was like of something that means nothing in the grand scheme of things brings you that bit of happiness that like i have my spot back at the table you know i was like
00:07:28
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Yep.
00:07:33
Chris
Yeah. Oh, yeah. Well, think about it. Like when you're on on the medic or something and you're running calls and you're trying to get back for dinner and you finally get back for dinner and there's like some student or, ah you know, ah holdover or a volunteer or somebody that's sitting in your seat when you get to the dinner table.
00:07:54
thewifeissoloud
Yeah, you're annoyed.
00:07:55
Chris
Yeah, you want to murder them.
00:07:56
thewifeissoloud
Yeah. it' ah And that's what she said. She's like, i I wouldn't fight somebody if somebody was in my spot. But it is my spot. and I'm like, well, it's your spot.
00:08:02
Chris
Oh, I would fight somebody.
00:08:04
thewifeissoloud
You know?
00:08:04
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:08:06
thewifeissoloud
I still remember, and sometimes when I go up say on and they're like sitting at the table and they're like like, you're in my spot. That's Chris Stewart's spot and this is my spot. Get to our spots.
00:08:15
Chris
Yeah.
00:08:16
thewifeissoloud
yeah You don't deserve this spot.
00:08:18
Chris
Right. Yeah.
00:08:22
thewifeissoloud
It's just a
00:08:23
Chris
but That was always the fun thing when you had somebody working over from another shift. Yeah, which bunks are open? Take whatever you want. yeah
00:08:33
thewifeissoloud
Yeah. It's, uh... Now we have the weird bunk. as say shahan You gotta sleep in the weird bunk if you're the guest star.
00:08:40
Chris
Oh yeah.
00:08:41
thewifeissoloud
Though the new guy sleeps in the weird bunk and i don't like it.
00:08:45
thewifeissoloud
I mean, I have to have a talk about that.
00:08:48
Chris
Wait, does it, cause he likes the weird bug?
00:08:50
thewifeissoloud
guess?
00:08:51
Chris
Huh.
00:08:52
thewifeissoloud
I don't know. I was, like, used to it. and He settled in and he's like... Yeah. Maybe.
00:08:57
Chris
Huh. It's like a Stockholm syndrome thing.
00:09:00
thewifeissoloud
Maybe. Yeah, it's it's another inside foot you know baseball thing for the fire department is that's your bunk.
00:09:08
Chris
Yeah.
00:09:08
thewifeissoloud
you know It's your only bunk for one day a week or one one day had of the rotation, but it's your bunk.
00:09:14
Chris
Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
00:09:15
thewifeissoloud
you know Don't sleep in somebody else's bunk.
00:09:18
Chris
No. It's just weird.
00:09:22
thewifeissoloud
Like if you were to...
00:09:22
Chris
God, I can't remember what shift what shift was it.
00:09:26
Chris
I think it might have been the old A shift. And one of those shifts, those maniacs would switch around like every other shift.
00:09:36
thewifeissoloud
No.
00:09:36
Chris
I was like, what, what, what, what what what are you doing?
00:09:36
thewifeissoloud
No, no, no.
00:09:42
thewifeissoloud
I've... Well, I've only been on one shift, basically.
00:09:46
Chris
Yeah.
00:09:46
thewifeissoloud
But we don't switch bunks.
00:09:48
Chris
No.
00:09:50
thewifeissoloud
I've had the same... Well... I'm trying to think. Because we tried to...
00:09:56
Chris
I mean, back in the day, we had to roll out cards.
00:09:58
thewifeissoloud
Well, yeah. what We tried to do, like, the ambulance crew slept on one bunk, and that didn't really last...
00:10:03
Chris
Yeah.
00:10:04
thewifeissoloud
Um, because I'm not, I'm getting up and annoying you people. If I'm calling on call, you guys are getting awoke.
00:10:08
Chris
Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
00:10:11
thewifeissoloud
Your, your little bed's getting kicked out.
00:10:14
Chris
Yep.
00:10:15
thewifeissoloud
Yeah.
Long Hours for Paramedics
00:10:16
thewifeissoloud
Cause you just make smart ass comments and you know what's coming after that.
00:10:19
Chris
Yeah, yeah. Make a smart-ass comment. Then it's, hey guys, we're going on a call.
00:10:22
thewifeissoloud
Right.
00:10:23
Chris
And then, hey guys, we're back from the call.
00:10:24
thewifeissoloud
Yeah. Yeah.
00:10:26
Chris
but
00:10:29
thewifeissoloud
Just so you all know, I'm getting up and so are you.
00:10:32
Chris
Yep.
00:10:32
thewifeissoloud
Yeah. Yeah.
00:10:34
thewifeissoloud
Though now at Station 1, I have no choice but to get up. Because, good lord, that, whatever that tone that comes out of that system is.
00:10:34
Chris
Mm-hmm.
00:10:45
Chris
rattles the fillings in your teeth.
00:10:46
thewifeissoloud
Yeah, and because it it goes off and you, it cuts off them saying the box area, if you like you have to like up and go, what the fuck, Terry, is that?
00:10:53
Chris
Oh, that's great.
00:10:56
thewifeissoloud
Oh, god. You know, and I'm pretty good at Station 1's first due. There's a few roads that I'm like...
00:11:04
Chris
Yeah.
00:11:05
thewifeissoloud
But at 3 o'clock in the morning, they could say Beagle Park, and I'm like, I've never heard of that road.
00:11:10
Chris
I mean, There was a time at two o'clock in the morning, my partner and I were leaving the ER and they dispatched us for a call on Waverly Drive. We put the ambulance in park, looked at each other and went, where the hell's Waverly Drive?
00:11:22
thewifeissoloud
That's... Yeah. Yeah. You were sitting on Waverly Drive by the time going, where the fuck? I've never heard of this road.
00:11:28
Chris
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So.
00:11:30
thewifeissoloud
Yeah. Yeah, which is about a... It's not a good sign.
00:11:34
Chris
No, no.
00:11:35
thewifeissoloud
Because then, 13 seconds later, you're expected to do drug calculations and save a bunch of life.
00:11:39
Chris
No, that was fine. Yeah, yeah.
00:11:42
Chris
By then I was awake.
00:11:44
thewifeissoloud
Yeah, yeah. I've totally done drug calculations. 100% awake every time.
00:11:53
thewifeissoloud
It's not scary at all.
00:11:54
Chris
How much of this do I give? Send it.
00:11:56
thewifeissoloud
Well, that's why everything's in boxes.
00:11:58
Chris
Yeah.
00:11:59
thewifeissoloud
How much do give? A box.
00:12:01
Chris
Yeah.
00:12:02
thewifeissoloud
What's the dosage? Read the box.
00:12:04
Chris
Yeah.
00:12:06
thewifeissoloud
Save the box for me so I know what to put in my report.
00:12:14
Chris
yeah yeah oh yeah hey you get back to the yeah you get to the er and you start writing a report you empty your pocket out and you have all the pre-filled syringes sitting next to you and you're like i did that then that then oh no that's out of order that one goes up there okay this i'll write this yep yeah yeah
00:12:15
thewifeissoloud
It's old school paramedic. It's not these new science-based paramedics.
00:12:30
thewifeissoloud
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Not saying I've ever done that, but...
00:12:37
Chris
no yeah
00:12:40
thewifeissoloud
I've been so tired that I've had to pull out the protocol book and look at the dosage for albuterol.
00:12:53
thewifeissoloud
Which only comes in one dosage.
00:12:55
Chris
yeah yeah
00:12:55
thewifeissoloud
ah I don't have to measure it. I've never had to It's not a thing. And i've I've been so tired going.
00:13:03
Chris
yeah how much of this do I give don't know yeah
00:13:04
thewifeissoloud
I have no idea what this person's... No, this isn't... Yeah. You know. The brain gets froggy at night the morning on your 16th call.
00:13:18
Chris
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
00:13:22
thewifeissoloud
There's a reason why these departments are going away from 24-hour paramedics on an ambulance.
00:13:27
Chris
Yeah.
00:13:28
thewifeissoloud
It takes maniacs out west to do 48 hours on an animals in a row.
00:13:31
Chris
and we I would kill somebody.
00:13:33
thewifeissoloud
Yeah.
00:13:34
Chris
And probably my partner.
00:13:35
thewifeissoloud
Yeah. Yes.
00:13:37
Chris
Because I remember there were days that, like, back in the day, working with Danny, we would get done and I'd look at him, he'd look at me be like, I don't like your face. I don't want to
EMS Inventory Woes
00:13:47
Chris
see you. i didn't know
00:13:49
thewifeissoloud
There's people who
00:13:53
thewifeissoloud
I'm borderline okay with. But then you put me in an ambulance with them for 24 hours and I'm literally plotting by hour 16 how to kill them and get away with dumping their body.
00:13:58
Chris
Yeah.
00:14:03
Chris
Yeah. Oh, yeah. oh Yeah.
00:14:05
thewifeissoloud
Like, I can think of one person who's on A-shift who, the times I've had to work with him in the past, I literally spent ways figuring out how I could choke him to death with a steering wheel.
00:14:18
thewifeissoloud
So...
00:14:21
thewifeissoloud
Yeah. You know, it's just...
00:14:24
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. There may have been some partners. We get to a somewhat sketchy call of it. Go ahead. I'm right behind you.
00:14:33
thewifeissoloud
I would never you know intentionally hurt that person.
00:14:37
Chris
No.
00:14:37
thewifeissoloud
But after 16 hours of it, you're like, can't deal it anymore.
00:14:39
Chris
Yeah.
00:14:42
Chris
Yeah.
00:14:45
thewifeissoloud
or the ah The worst you get is when it's like a mutual and they're covering for your normal person and and it's like, your driving is terrible.
00:14:52
Chris
Oh, yeah.
00:14:56
thewifeissoloud
What the fuck is going on?
00:14:56
Chris
Yeah.
00:14:58
thewifeissoloud
Who taught you to drive?
00:14:58
Chris
Yeah.
00:14:59
thewifeissoloud
The circus? What?
00:15:03
thewifeissoloud
Are you...
00:15:03
Chris
Donnie doesn't do it this way.
00:15:04
thewifeissoloud
Right.
00:15:04
Chris
What are you doing?
00:15:07
thewifeissoloud
My... or Or famously the sea chef paramedic Quillen who would come onto the ambulance and destroy it and you have to come in in the morning and de-Quillenize the ambulance.
00:15:17
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:15:21
thewifeissoloud
where's Where's the IV box? Oh, hes he tapes it to the roof. He likes it there.
00:15:25
Chris
Yeah. yeah
00:15:26
thewifeissoloud
What? Yeah.
00:15:29
Chris
Why do we have five glucometers in here? That's how he likes it. Yeah.
00:15:34
thewifeissoloud
Just in case of glucometer emergencies, I have a but bandolier of glucometers. Like, Chewy.
00:15:40
Chris
Yeah.
00:15:43
Chris
We're supportable radio. No idea. He doesn't worry about that.
00:15:46
thewifeissoloud
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Not important. ah You'd have been either proud of me or really annoyed with me the other day. it was Wednesday.
00:15:57
thewifeissoloud
or no, it was Tuesday. Because we were doing... We did... Because Pop's funeral, we did...
00:16:03
Chris
Hmm.
00:16:04
thewifeissoloud
inventory the day before so i i usually do inventory and then no exception did it that day and nothing drives me crazier than the maniacs that are just rat fucking the cabinets with more stuff so i literally had a pile of crap i was like air track air track blades
00:16:05
Chris
Yeah.
00:16:13
Chris
Yeah.
00:16:23
Chris
Oh, yeah.
00:16:32
thewifeissoloud
I was like, why do we have air track plates?
00:16:33
Chris
Wait.
00:16:33
thewifeissoloud
We don't even have an air track anymore.
00:16:33
Chris
We, we, yeah, what?
00:16:36
thewifeissoloud
So I took this whole pile of crap and went to the brand new EMS sergeant. and I said, I don't care where this goes. I don't care if you throw it in the trash can, but none of this is staying in my station any longer.
00:16:48
thewifeissoloud
And he's like, well, we might need, I said, nope, none of this is staying in my station.
00:16:50
Chris
We, oh. Yeah.
00:16:54
thewifeissoloud
I don't care what you do with it. Just out. Gone.
00:16:57
Chris
Yeah,
00:16:58
thewifeissoloud
Air track blades.
00:17:00
Chris
but we haven't used AirTrack in months.
00:17:02
thewifeissoloud
yeah as as as Why are we keeping this? what Well, we might. What? What possible? does They don't work without the air track.
00:17:10
Chris
Yeah.
00:17:11
thewifeissoloud
Well, we were ah throw it away.
00:17:15
Chris
Yeah. but its
00:17:19
thewifeissoloud
Well, the logistics chief, he's not going to get mad about us throwing away trash. We're a allowed to throw away trash, guys.
00:17:24
Chris
Yeah.
00:17:24
thewifeissoloud
We don't have fill paperwork to throw away trash. I promise you. He doesn't want it back at his office either.
00:17:32
Chris
Right, because that'll throw his count off.
00:17:34
thewifeissoloud
Somehow, and this is my favorite part of it. So our CPAP kits, right?
00:17:39
Chris
Yeah.
00:17:39
thewifeissoloud
They have the kit and then they have the media mask.
00:17:42
Chris
Right.
00:17:42
thewifeissoloud
And I'm assuming they must have used a large mask. So what do you think they did with the media mask?
00:17:48
Chris
Put it in the large. Put it in the kit with the large.
00:17:51
thewifeissoloud
Nope.
00:17:52
Chris
No.
00:17:53
thewifeissoloud
They saved the mask, brought it back to the station in a Ziploc bag and put it in supply.
00:17:59
Chris
What?
00:18:01
thewifeissoloud
And I said, well, this is not a sterile bag. This is just a Ziploc bag. throw with I literally sat there like five minutes of figuring out how this happened. was like, why why is this?
00:18:11
Chris
Yeah.
00:18:11
thewifeissoloud
Trash. Throw it away.
00:18:12
Chris
We're
00:18:14
thewifeissoloud
Throw it away. Wear it for Halloween. I don't care. Put it on your ass and plate cause play a fart kazoo.
00:18:19
Chris
here for Halloween.
00:18:21
thewifeissoloud
I don't care.
00:18:22
Chris
yeah
00:18:22
thewifeissoloud
Get it out of my station.
00:18:28
Chris
Yeah. Or the guys are like, yeah, i started in IV, so I got supplies. Then you look at the supplies.
00:18:33
thewifeissoloud
Right.
00:18:34
Chris
Two Jelcos, 17 alcohol pads.
00:18:34
thewifeissoloud
Sorry, 1 IV. Right. started,
00:18:37
Chris
It's like, no, no One, four one.
00:18:38
thewifeissoloud
I used, I I bought, i got back.
00:18:45
Chris
Yep.
00:18:47
thewifeissoloud
and And my favorite would be the the ones who would go through the IV box and be like, well, we only have 28 deans in here. We don't have enough. What are you, what are you going on?
00:19:00
thewifeissoloud
Are you storming the beaches of Normandy and starting IVs on the way?
00:19:01
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:19:04
thewifeissoloud
what do you what is
00:19:06
Chris
Are you starting 18 IVs on your way in? Yeah.
00:19:09
thewifeissoloud
What is going on with you people?
00:19:12
thewifeissoloud
You probably, if you don't suck at IVs, could get away with like three in the box.
00:19:13
Chris
Yeah.
00:19:19
Chris
Yeah.
00:19:20
thewifeissoloud
We probably throw away more 16s from expiration than we ever use.
00:19:26
Chris
Oh yeah. I'm sure.
00:19:28
thewifeissoloud
Right? Like 22s, we never use them.
00:19:31
Chris
No, we never use 22. mean, 18s and are ninety five percent
00:19:35
thewifeissoloud
Right.
00:19:37
thewifeissoloud
Right. And honestly... Most of the data I see says except for drug administration, we really shouldn't even be starting IVs. Because what are we doing to these people?
00:19:50
thewifeissoloud
Nothing?
00:19:51
Chris
Well, I mean... There you got. Skills.
00:19:54
thewifeissoloud
i i got I got increase their infection chance for an IV that the nurses aren't going to use anyways.
00:20:00
Chris
Yeah.
00:20:04
Chris
Yeah.
00:20:05
thewifeissoloud
Yeah, yeah.
00:20:06
Chris
I got news for you. These new Jelcos. don't know if I can use them.
00:20:10
thewifeissoloud
Oh, the... Yeah, the... I don't...
00:20:13
Chris
Grab the grey and pull the white and push the blue.
00:20:15
thewifeissoloud
Yeah.
00:20:16
Chris
Yeah.
00:20:17
thewifeissoloud
I only have two hands and I only use one for IVs. Yeah. One finger. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Rod doesn't like change. Yeah.
Humorous Firefighter Anecdotes
00:20:34
thewifeissoloud
It's okay. I don't and i'll start IVs. I visa just do IOs now.
00:20:37
Chris
yeah yeah when in doubt drill it out
00:20:38
thewifeissoloud
Yeah. Right, sir, you need a medication. I'm totally awake and alert, sir. Yes, sir, you are.
00:20:49
Chris
Sir, I'm to give you some Toradol for your pain. Oh, is that intramuscular? We could give it intramuscular, but I'm going to have to drill for it.
00:21:00
thewifeissoloud
I'm telling this story and it's not funny, but it was funny to me at the moment. So we worked on a rest yesterday. and People were dicking around, looking for IV sites.
00:21:13
Chris
Hmm.
00:21:13
thewifeissoloud
They ended up doing an EJ or whatever.
00:21:14
Chris
Hmm.
00:21:16
thewifeissoloud
And i was like, no, no, we're not, we're not doing this.
00:21:16
Chris
Mm-hmm.
00:21:19
thewifeissoloud
And so I ah go to cut his leg to do, an IOS site. He had a, he had a prosthesis. Like, I'm really halfway up cutting in his leg. I'm like, oh shit, that's not to work.
00:21:35
thewifeissoloud
So I'm explaining the cops later. I'm like, I cut both pants. They're like, well, why'd you cut both sides? I'm like, well, the one side had a fake leg.
00:21:35
Chris
yeah yeah yeah mean we're not taught to like you know knock and tap before we
00:21:49
thewifeissoloud
Yeah, you just look. Yeah. Yeah. Not a funny joke. It was funny to me. It's not funny.
00:21:55
Chris
oh yeah no that's funny at the time being
00:21:57
thewifeissoloud
It's not funny. haha It's funny.
00:22:00
Chris
yeah coincidentally yeah
00:22:00
thewifeissoloud
Ish. Yeah. Yeah.
00:22:06
thewifeissoloud
fun stories from the world of fire and EMS.
00:22:09
Chris
yes
00:22:11
thewifeissoloud
Yeah. Mostly fun stories at fire and EMS are when somebody falls on their ass.
00:22:16
Chris
oh god yes
00:22:17
thewifeissoloud
Which I have found out my new firefighter is very prone to fall on her ass. she has She's fallen in front of me like three times to the point I'm like, do you need a swift referral?
00:22:29
Chris
Or just like a bike helmet to wear around.
00:22:31
thewifeissoloud
Right.
00:22:32
thewifeissoloud
Like, you're... Oh, yeah.
00:22:32
Chris
oh one of those vests that inflates when you fall.
00:22:35
Chris
Oh
00:22:36
thewifeissoloud
You're in your 20s. You should not be falling this much.
00:22:39
Chris
my gosh.
00:22:40
thewifeissoloud
We haven't even hit winter yet, and we're going to have a bad winter. I'm calling it now.
00:22:43
Chris
Yeah.
00:22:45
thewifeissoloud
So, you know, be prepared for ice skating on roadways.
00:22:57
Chris
Well, you ready for topic one?
00:23:00
thewifeissoloud
Sure, I'm ready for topic
00:23:02
Chris
Uh-oh, that didn't sound very enthusiastic. ah
00:23:07
thewifeissoloud
I've had like 40 ideas and I keep losing them.
00:23:10
Chris
Oh. You gotta write them down.
00:23:14
thewifeissoloud
That would require organization. But yes, I am ready for topic one.
00:23:20
Chris
Okay.
00:23:22
thewifeissoloud
Oh, it's me.
00:23:23
Chris
Yeah. Hmm.
00:23:27
thewifeissoloud
So, it's not a great topic, but it is a topic. Have you... seen this new genre of books called lit RPG.
00:23:42
Chris
No.
00:23:44
thewifeissoloud
So I've read like, I've actually been interested in them.
00:23:44
Chris
Huh.
00:23:47
thewifeissoloud
It's interesting. there They're basically books written about people and their lives become video games. So the one that got me into it was one called Dungeon Crawler Caller. I think it Carl, I talked about before.
00:24:03
Chris
Yeah.
00:24:04
thewifeissoloud
And it literally is written like the person's in a video game. And it has become this thing that I've been reading these lit RPG books because they are easily digestible trash when I'm, you know, and I need a break from a hardcore history book.
00:24:23
Chris
Yeah.
00:24:24
thewifeissoloud
So I'm, I don't know, I'm way deep in the weeds in these things now. Very interesting series, but it has gotten me into, wanting the itch for an RPG again.
00:24:36
Chris
yeah right yeah
00:24:37
thewifeissoloud
So you and I texted the other day and I was talking about playing Baldur's Gate because, you know, I need an RPG to play.
00:24:47
thewifeissoloud
went to go play a cleric. I got... I don't know. I didn't get through the whole intro. But I was like, clerics suck.
00:24:58
thewifeissoloud
This is the... They just suck. They're not good at anything.
00:25:04
Chris
yeah they are they're good at healing
00:25:06
thewifeissoloud
Are they good at healing?
00:25:07
Chris
yes yes that's the whole point yeah oh the pallet oh lay hands
00:25:08
thewifeissoloud
Better than anybody else? They're better than a about another paladin.
00:25:16
thewifeissoloud
Yeah, they can lay on hands and wear armor and get punched in the face and hunt punch things back.
00:25:23
Chris
you can make a tanky cleric you just don't have to lay on hands and you can't use bladed weapons
00:25:25
thewifeissoloud
Then you're just playing a paladin.
00:25:31
thewifeissoloud
Another stupid thing that hurts you.
00:25:37
thewifeissoloud
it's it's
00:25:38
Chris
they can turn undead oh shit yeah they can
00:25:42
thewifeissoloud
They can turn undead. But Pound is gonna turn undead. Yeah.
00:25:49
thewifeissoloud
And druids can heal.
00:25:52
Chris
yeah but not as well
00:25:55
thewifeissoloud
And level three cleric can heal about as well as I can heal with no magic as a real person.
00:26:04
thewifeissoloud
I have to say, their spells suck. And maybe I'm going to stick it out and make level 20 and take all this back. But right now, it is terrible. And it caught me thinking, like, what's my favorite class? And it always defaults to Paladin.
00:26:17
thewifeissoloud
Because of... Play on hands.
00:26:22
thewifeissoloud
I mean, it is the best class.
00:26:27
Chris
See, I usually either go for a ranger or a cleric.
00:26:30
thewifeissoloud
Really? Ranger?
00:26:30
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:26:32
thewifeissoloud
So he's just, like, not being good at anything?
00:26:34
Chris
Wow. Rangers are great. They stay back. sniping people out they've got a animal companion yeah yeah it it is yeah yeah
00:26:39
thewifeissoloud
So they're like a bad rogue.
00:26:43
thewifeissoloud
Oh yeah, they bring their dog with them. Cool.
00:26:51
thewifeissoloud
But a warrior is this just as good as a ranger using a bow.
00:26:55
Chris
no no
00:26:56
thewifeissoloud
<unk> caught Yeah, co totally. You could totally build a warrior that does a bow way better than a ranger. You get double attacks.
00:27:07
Chris
Double attacks.
00:27:08
thewifeissoloud
You get double attacks.
00:27:11
Chris
Yeah, I will say that. What is it? um Action Surge.
00:27:15
thewifeissoloud
Yeah. That's a pretty good feat.
00:27:15
Chris
It's a pretty good feat.
00:27:17
thewifeissoloud
And you're like, oh, yeah. I hit you once, hit you twice. And I'm a warrior, so I actually hit you. Oh, and you shoot me back? I'm wearing plate mail. good Good job, bud.
00:27:31
thewifeissoloud
Oh, and Paladins can only wear, or Clerics can only wear chain mail. They can only wear chain mail.
00:27:36
Chris
You can get up that heavy armor though.
00:27:39
thewifeissoloud
Yeah, you gotta use a feat.
00:27:40
Chris
So?
00:27:42
thewifeissoloud
Right.
00:27:44
Chris
They have stronger spells. Paladin can't do Flamestrike.
00:27:51
thewifeissoloud
Uh, yeah, paladins get radiant strike whatever the hell that is. Divine smiter, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:27:56
Chris
Oh, Divine Smite. Yeah.
00:27:59
thewifeissoloud
And they're smite snacks. Smite snacks. Smite snacks.
00:28:04
Chris
Yeah.
00:28:07
thewifeissoloud
ah Look, I'm just saying a rogue is the best of the light armor classes.
00:28:16
thewifeissoloud
Pretty, pretty handily. Right? Stabby stabby in the back, detect traps, steal stuff.
00:28:22
Chris
Yeah.
00:28:28
thewifeissoloud
Pretty cool sub-specialization classes, you know assassin, stuff. Basically assassin.
00:28:35
Chris
Stuff.
00:28:38
Chris
We have what, like arcane turns, things like that, yeah.
00:28:40
thewifeissoloud
Arcane Trickster and that. ah Oh, I'm a light cleric. Or I'm Shadowheart, who's a shadow cleric.
00:28:53
Chris
Oh, she shouldn't be a cleric.
00:28:54
thewifeissoloud
She's terrible. She's terrible cleric.
00:28:55
Chris
Yeah. She is. and She can't hit with her... Was it Flame... Not Flame... Flame Strike? No, not Flame Strike. Whatever. Firebolt?
00:29:05
thewifeissoloud
Yeah, she's terrible.
00:29:06
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:29:07
thewifeissoloud
She's awful. She's said like the first character you dump because she's terrible. Yeah.
00:29:13
Chris
Or you re-specker.
00:29:15
thewifeissoloud
Can you respec? Whoa.
00:29:17
Chris
Yeah. Yeah,
00:29:18
thewifeissoloud
she's still cleric.
00:29:21
Chris
yeah but I think you can... Make her into something else.
00:29:24
thewifeissoloud
Can you?
00:29:25
Chris
Yeah. Yes. I think I have.
00:29:29
thewifeissoloud
Oh.
00:29:31
thewifeissoloud
So I can make her into a useful class instead of a cleric.
00:29:33
Chris
Yeah.
00:29:37
thewifeissoloud
I was just taking a clarits.
00:29:38
Chris
Let's see. Yeah, you just. Yeah, you take her to. What's his face?
00:29:46
thewifeissoloud
The mummy dude?
00:29:48
Chris
Yeah.
00:29:50
thewifeissoloud
anyway
00:29:51
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:29:53
thewifeissoloud
I never thought about doing that.
00:29:54
Chris
Yep. Yeah. Withers.
00:29:56
thewifeissoloud
Yeah. This is why I'm bad at video games, because I never think of like that outside the box thinking of like, oh yeah, you can do that on your NPC companions.
00:30:00
Chris
Yeah.
00:30:06
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Because if you do that ah minor tweak, you can change her from trickery to life domain so she can actually heal people.
00:30:14
thewifeissoloud
Well, that would be useful. That's what information I would have loved before.
00:30:16
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. oh
00:30:23
thewifeissoloud
Also, Baldur's Gate on hardcore mode is damn near impossible at, like, level one.
00:30:27
Chris
Oh god. Yeah. Yeah, it's crazy.
00:30:32
thewifeissoloud
Yeah, like, those stupid brain things are damn near unkillable.
00:30:37
Chris
Yep.
00:30:38
thewifeissoloud
Yeah. Yeah. So I had to go back to normal because I'm a fancy.
00:30:44
thewifeissoloud
But then I got halfway through and said, this cleric stuff sucks. Gonna be back to being paladin.
00:30:48
Chris
Yeah, I'm looking at this. This person has Shadowheart as a multi-class fighter wizard.
00:30:58
thewifeissoloud
Whoa.
00:30:59
Chris
Yeah.
00:31:00
thewifeissoloud
You really rocked my world with that one, because did not know you could do that at all. Oh, and the bard is a better hero than a cleric too. hey like that? Bard's got better party appeal.
00:31:13
Chris
Yeah, but all the bard wants to do is bang a dragon.
00:31:17
thewifeissoloud
and heal their party while doing it.
00:31:24
Chris
Crooning out a gentle song.
00:31:26
thewifeissoloud
That's what I did my first run through Baldur's Gate, that was a bard.
00:31:29
Chris
Yeah.
00:31:30
thewifeissoloud
And it was pretty bo pretty awesome. Yeah.
00:31:32
Chris
Yeah.
00:31:36
thewifeissoloud
I haven't tried the new classes yet.
00:31:37
Chris
Yeah, there's what, like 10 new subclasses?
00:31:39
thewifeissoloud
Yeah, yeah. that's So, that's why I need to get into it, stuck into it.
Baldur's Gate Strategies
00:31:44
thewifeissoloud
Because, well, now that I know that I can re respect the stupid NPCs, I just take the...
00:31:48
Chris
Yeah.
00:31:54
thewifeissoloud
What's her name? God damn it. The flame chick. The demon chick.
00:31:57
Chris
Oh, Carlac.
00:31:57
thewifeissoloud
Yeah, let's take Carlack and then respect everybody else on the good stuff.
00:32:01
Chris
yep he's a decent rogue yeah yeah oh yeah he's not good at combat up front up close
00:32:02
thewifeissoloud
Get rid of the stupid vampire boy. His...
00:32:08
thewifeissoloud
He's fine. He's good for finding traps. Cool. But if you could... Yeah.
00:32:21
thewifeissoloud
Yeah. Like, I gave him a bow, but he has no specialty with his bows. He sucks at it. Yeah.
00:32:26
Chris
yeah
00:32:29
thewifeissoloud
I, like, never take him after level 10. Yeah.
00:32:32
Chris
Really.
00:32:33
thewifeissoloud
Yeah. I think I did his little vampire thing, got that out of the way. And I was like, I'm cool.
00:32:38
Chris
Yeah.
00:32:40
thewifeissoloud
Yeah.
00:32:40
Chris
Yeah. Yeah, usually don't keep Lazell in my group.
00:32:45
thewifeissoloud
No, she's just annoying.
00:32:46
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:32:47
thewifeissoloud
Yeah.
00:32:48
Chris
Yeah. Karlek, definitely. I would deal with Shadowheart. And I would usually take Will over Gale. But
00:32:58
thewifeissoloud
Yeah. Yeah. Will's cool.
00:33:01
Chris
yeah.
00:33:01
thewifeissoloud
I mean, he's a warlock. Warlocks cool.
00:33:07
thewifeissoloud
Gale's fine. His ability is annoying.
00:33:10
Chris
yes it is yeah i've got to eat magical stuff every now and again do you
00:33:10
thewifeissoloud
Or his, not ability, his flaw.
00:33:17
thewifeissoloud
Right. Do you have to do that? Yeah. Yeah.
00:33:25
thewifeissoloud
I just, uh...
00:33:25
Chris
yeah carlac's probably the one that's just got the best build out from the beginning yeah
00:33:28
thewifeissoloud
Yeah, she just kicks the crap out everybody. Yeah. She's a beat stick. And her burning heart thing is cool.
00:33:41
thewifeissoloud
Beat stick.
00:33:41
Chris
Yeah. yeah here's a so Here's a soul coin. Go make Havoc.
00:33:45
thewifeissoloud
Right. Here's this thing that i have really no other use for. Go do cool shit.
00:33:49
Chris
Yeah.
00:33:51
thewifeissoloud
Yeah, I collected a bunch of those things and I was going to need them.
00:33:54
Chris
Yeah, that's what I thought. I was like, oh man, something's going to happen with all these. Nope.
00:33:58
thewifeissoloud
Nope. Nope. Nope. Yeah.
00:34:04
thewifeissoloud
And you can't keep what's her nuts, the ranger chick, right?
00:34:09
Chris
Jahira?
00:34:10
thewifeissoloud
Yeah.
00:34:11
Chris
I thought she could.
00:34:13
thewifeissoloud
Can you keep her?
00:34:13
Chris
don't know.
00:34:14
thewifeissoloud
I got her killed, so.
00:34:15
Chris
Yeah.
00:34:17
thewifeissoloud
My first playthrough, she died. Which, by the way, is a real problem later on.
00:34:25
Chris
Yeah, she's a druid.
00:34:27
thewifeissoloud
thought she was a ranger.
00:34:28
Chris
No, she's a druid.
00:34:29
thewifeissoloud
She died on my playthrough, so.
00:34:31
Chris
Yeah.
00:34:33
thewifeissoloud
No, she's not a druid. The other guy's a druid.
00:34:35
Chris
No, she's a druid.
00:34:37
thewifeissoloud
Really?
00:34:38
Chris
Yeah. Yeah, Halseen is a druid also, but yeah, she's a druid.
00:34:39
thewifeissoloud
ah The other guy's a druid.
00:34:42
Chris
Yeah, because she was a druid back in Baldur's Gate 2.
00:34:47
thewifeissoloud
I said, got her killed. That's my mistake.
00:34:51
Chris
Yeah. I don't think I've ever had Minthara in my party. Because
00:34:57
thewifeissoloud
No. No.
00:34:59
Chris
there's some weird way like you knock her out and then storm the Goblin Keep, and then she wakes up and it'll eventually come to you or something.
00:35:08
thewifeissoloud
Huh.
00:35:09
Chris
Yeah.
00:35:10
thewifeissoloud
Yeah, that's again where I'm not good at things.
00:35:12
Chris
Yeah.
00:35:13
thewifeissoloud
Because I don't like to think of that, if you do this end around, you can do this.
00:35:17
Chris
Yeah.
00:35:18
thewifeissoloud
course, side tangent, my brother and I are playing another RPG game. where Again, I'm playing a paladin, kicking ass as a paladin. And
00:35:31
thewifeissoloud
my paladin is like the super tank. And he's like, somebody plays a lot of video games. You don't think really tactically. And then three seconds later, he walks into a trap and dies.
00:35:39
Chris
that That's karma.
00:35:41
thewifeissoloud
I was like, oh, what was that comment you made?
00:35:44
Chris
Yeah.
00:35:44
thewifeissoloud
Tactically thinking. As I walk through the trap with my 600 armor. What's wrong you?
00:35:52
thewifeissoloud
Stupid sorcerer.
00:35:54
Chris
Is that what he's playing a sorcerer?
00:35:56
thewifeissoloud
Yes, he's a stupid sorcerer.
00:35:57
Chris
Oh my gosh.
00:35:57
thewifeissoloud
He's like, I just can't take a hit. I'm like, yeah, because you got like 100 points, bro.
00:36:02
Chris
Yeah, you stub your toe upb your toe and you're in an iron lung for a week.
00:36:06
thewifeissoloud
Yeah. Yeah. At least play a warlock where you have to, you know, sell your soul for power.
00:36:12
Chris
yeah
00:36:14
thewifeissoloud
Ooh, you can shoot lightning bolts out of your fingers with your sorcerer. Ooh. Cool. Yeah.
00:36:23
thewifeissoloud
Really, all of it does is I just want to play D&D constantly.
00:36:27
Chris
yeah yeah I'm sure there's like groups of retired firefighters that play yeah
00:36:27
thewifeissoloud
Yeah. It's another reason why I want to retire from the fire department is so I can play D&D.
00:36:36
thewifeissoloud
Do you know how hard is?
00:36:41
thewifeissoloud
I'm sure there are, but you know hard it is to be in a game, to get in a ah game with normal people when you're like, i can't I can't do it Tuesdays and Wednesdays this week. I can't do it. you know it's just It's a nightmare.
00:36:51
Chris
Yeah.
00:36:52
thewifeissoloud
So I just don't do it.
00:36:53
Chris
Yeah. yeah
00:36:55
thewifeissoloud
And why and like people are always like, we'll do a one day event. I'm like i know' and not into a one-off.
00:37:00
Chris
yeah yeah Yeah.
00:37:01
thewifeissoloud
you know If I want to play a character, want to play a character.
00:37:05
Chris
Something that I'm revisiting at least every two weeks.
00:37:08
thewifeissoloud
Yeah. ah had a good group for a while, but their problem was like every three months they wanted to change games.
00:37:17
Chris
Oh.
00:37:18
thewifeissoloud
So we would play D&D and then we played GURP and then we played, you know, it was just like, like i only get to do like once a month, you know.
00:37:21
Chris
What? No. No.
00:37:26
Chris
Yeah.
00:37:28
thewifeissoloud
So when i fire when I retire from Fireborn, I'm getting a regular D&D group. Yeah.
00:37:32
Chris
Yeah. I was in one, but the problem is most of the guys were on West Coast. So they're like, yeah, we'll start at eight o'clock.
00:37:39
thewifeissoloud
Right.
00:37:42
Chris
I'm like, okay, so that's 11 for me. This is fun.
00:37:45
thewifeissoloud
Right, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's the stuff with the firefighter gaming groups are like, I'm in Nevada. Cool, dude, I'm going to be asleep well before you start.
00:37:57
thewifeissoloud
Yeah, i'm I'm in my 40s.
00:38:00
Chris
Yep.
00:38:00
thewifeissoloud
And yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:38:00
Chris
Go ahead, roll for initiative and I'll talk to you tomorrow.
00:38:05
thewifeissoloud
I like it asleep.
00:38:06
Chris
Yeah.
00:38:07
thewifeissoloud
Yeah. I haven't tried D&D on the tabletop tactics. I think that's a thing.
00:38:14
Chris
I'm sure it is.
00:38:14
thewifeissoloud
Hmm. Something have to think about. I'll have to roll a Paladin, the best class.
00:38:22
Chris
If you don't want to specialize in anything. and
00:38:24
thewifeissoloud
Yeah, but if you're going to specialize in something so something useful, like detecting traps,
00:38:28
Chris
Yeah, like healing.
00:38:36
thewifeissoloud
Oh, a pal oh ah a cleric at level four can unlock a door a day.
Gaming and Recovery
00:38:41
thewifeissoloud
Cool. One door.
00:38:41
Chris
See?
00:38:45
Chris
They can create water.
00:38:48
thewifeissoloud
Yeah, that's true. They can create water. Cool. And...
00:38:56
thewifeissoloud
no, they can create water once because then they have to take a short rest to do it again.
00:39:03
Chris
Hey, it takes a lot out of you.
00:39:04
thewifeissoloud
It takes a lot of make water out of nothing. That's fair.
00:39:06
Chris
Yeah.
00:39:07
thewifeissoloud
I can't... Well, I can make water. It takes me a couple hours and some drinks.
00:39:11
Chris
No,
00:39:16
thewifeissoloud
ah You could specialize in beating things to death with a big stick. That's called being a warrior.
00:39:25
Chris
it's a barbarian.
00:39:26
thewifeissoloud
That's true, too.
00:39:27
thewifeissoloud
I have a buddy who, whenever he plays games, he's like... He's the wheeziest little prick when it comes to rules.
00:39:27
Chris
Yeah.
00:39:36
Chris
Yeah.
00:39:36
thewifeissoloud
ah yeah He's the guy like, yeah, I just happen to play a kobold human warrior who specializes in pole arms. Oh, and I get reach advantage and it's like, what the fuck is
00:39:49
Chris
It's of those min-maxing crazy people.
00:39:51
thewifeissoloud
Yes, he is.
00:39:53
Chris
Yeah.
00:39:53
thewifeissoloud
Yes, he is. You cannot be the DM for him without realizing that you're going to deal with that.
00:39:59
Chris
Yeah.
00:39:59
thewifeissoloud
Yeah. Oh, I'm level one. I do 36 damage per hit. What?
00:40:05
Chris
Yeah.
00:40:05
thewifeissoloud
What? Yeah. And my AC is...
00:40:09
Chris
Clerics get Guiding Bolt?
00:40:11
thewifeissoloud
Oh, a buff spell.
00:40:14
Chris
Yeah.
00:40:15
thewifeissoloud
Bards do that all the time. I just play my harmonica and you get better.
00:40:24
thewifeissoloud
And, when say a bard, there's no bards and NPCs in Baldur's Grape they can take with you.
00:40:31
Chris
yeah that's true unless you turn one of your you turn lazelle into a bard
00:40:32
thewifeissoloud
Yeah. Yeah.
00:40:36
thewifeissoloud
Let's just turn Shadowheart into bard. Oh, God. Yeah. Yeah. It is tough being a bard in that game, though, because, like, you're pretty much a wimp at fighting.
00:40:50
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:40:50
thewifeissoloud
Yeah. Yeah. so you have to rely on your beat sticks to do the beat sticking.
00:40:56
Chris
Yeah.
00:40:58
thewifeissoloud
Yeah.
00:41:02
Chris
Trying to see if there's another. You speak with Deb.
00:41:07
thewifeissoloud
That spell is the... Yes. Once every 300 times you play, you're like, oh, cool, I got to speak with dead. And you have to take it as a slot.
00:41:20
thewifeissoloud
Like, you have to slot that in.
00:41:20
Chris
Yeah.
00:41:21
thewifeissoloud
So you have to be like, well, I'm going to kill something and speak with it.
00:41:25
Chris
Yes.
00:41:25
thewifeissoloud
And turn undead sucks as soon as somebody's like, well, there's no undead in this game. Cool.
00:41:29
Chris
Yeah.
00:41:31
thewifeissoloud
Cool.
00:41:31
Chris
Yeah.
00:41:34
thewifeissoloud
And you have Dazzle or whatever the hell of their stupid innate one is. It's not Radiant Light or whatever.
00:41:39
Chris
Dazzle. What?
00:41:41
thewifeissoloud
It'll tickle you for one hit point.
00:41:47
thewifeissoloud
What's the one thing?
00:41:47
Chris
Oh, Sacred Flame.
00:41:48
thewifeissoloud
Yeah, yeah, Yeah, here's one hit point. Cool, I can do that every turn. Meanwhile, Warrior's like, Greatsword, smash!
00:41:59
Chris
And then action surge to it all over again.
00:42:01
thewifeissoloud
Yeah, exactly.
00:42:01
Chris
Until
00:42:04
thewifeissoloud
Smash.
00:42:06
Chris
they get hurt.
00:42:11
thewifeissoloud
Well...
00:42:12
Chris
Yeah.
00:42:19
thewifeissoloud
Well,
00:42:20
Chris
ah For a minute, thought i lost you. I was like, ohho
00:42:22
thewifeissoloud
yeah I got distracted. Looking at my computer, looking at classes, and I just come back to Paladin. So I'm just going to restart my Baldur's Gate game and put Paladin.
00:42:34
thewifeissoloud
Side tangent, any good games you've been playing while you've been uncomfortably down with your splinter? You little, your boo-boo.
00:42:39
Chris
Yeah, I ah beat Ghost of Yote.
00:42:43
thewifeissoloud
Oh, fun.
00:42:44
Chris
It was a very fun game. I enjoyed it.
00:42:48
thewifeissoloud
Well, you'd like the first one, right?
00:42:50
Chris
yes yeah yeah the first one had like you had to switch stances for some things and this was just you had different weapons to use so
00:42:53
thewifeissoloud
And they just...
00:43:01
thewifeissoloud
So what you're saying is they made a game, realized that it was a good game, made a sequel to that game, and kept it such a good spiritual successor, you liked that game.
00:43:11
Chris
exactly yeah yeah they didn't change everything they also didn't just redo the first story there's a new story with
00:43:14
thewifeissoloud
Hmm.
00:43:19
Chris
building on the combat and the mechanics it was nice yeah crazy yeah yeah yeah it's almost like you shouldn't totally redo sequel in a weird way yeah yeah yeah
00:43:23
thewifeissoloud
That's a weird choice.
00:43:40
thewifeissoloud
Yeah. So you beat that. And what else have you since you have your...
00:43:44
Chris
yeah that's about it that and uh yeah started a couple of puzzles and Yeah. Watch some bad TV. Yeah.
00:43:56
Chris
I finally watched that Alien Earth.
00:43:58
thewifeissoloud
Oh, I heard it wasn't great.
00:44:00
Chris
It wasn't horrible.
00:44:03
Chris
But I finally watched, ah was it Predator Prey? whatever, the Native American one.
00:44:10
thewifeissoloud
Oh, yeah, yeah,
00:44:11
Chris
That was actually really good.
00:44:12
thewifeissoloud
Oh.
00:44:13
Chris
Yeah.
00:44:15
thewifeissoloud
That's fun.
00:44:16
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:44:19
thewifeissoloud
I watch no TV.
00:44:21
Chris
Yeah, that's...
00:44:23
thewifeissoloud
I've literally just been reading.
00:44:25
Chris
Yeah.
00:44:26
thewifeissoloud
Yeah.
00:44:27
Chris
Yeah, I've been reading some too.
00:44:29
thewifeissoloud
I've even been reading at work again, which is nice.
00:44:32
Chris
Nice.
00:44:33
thewifeissoloud
Yeah. Yeah.
00:44:38
thewifeissoloud
And... Cool. Break.
00:44:40
Chris
Yeah.
00:44:41
thewifeissoloud
Topic two.
00:44:43
Chris
Sure, topic two. We kind of hit on it a little bit. I was just going to talk highlights of my last couple weeks. Yeah.
00:44:50
thewifeissoloud
Oh.
00:44:51
Chris
Yeah.
00:44:51
thewifeissoloud
Highlights?
00:44:52
Chris
Yeah.
00:44:52
thewifeissoloud
Are they highlights?
00:44:54
Chris
There's some funny spots in there and some.
00:44:55
thewifeissoloud
Okay.
00:44:55
Chris
Yeah.
00:44:57
thewifeissoloud
Cool.
00:44:57
Chris
Yeah.
00:44:57
thewifeissoloud
I want to hear the funny part.
00:44:58
Chris
Yeah.
00:44:58
thewifeissoloud
don't want to hear the gross unfunny parts.
00:45:02
Chris
Well, you got to hear the gross parts. You're the funny parts.
00:45:03
thewifeissoloud
Oh, oh good.
00:45:04
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. um Yeah. So.
00:45:11
Chris
I'm trying to write a note down. um Yeah. For those of you out there listening who didn't know, I Yeah. had It's nice to be able to say that in the past term past tense. ah Prostate cancer.
00:45:23
Chris
Found out about it three years ago. And doctor finally said it's time to do something. So I had a surgery on it last week. I'm 10 days out of surgery.
00:45:35
Chris
i ah yeah it was Yeah, it's a normal nervousness of, you know you get there, which... You haven't had any, like, major, major surgeries, have you?
00:45:46
thewifeissoloud
Oh, my labrum tear.
00:45:48
Chris
Yeah. Yeah, but I'm saying, well, so this is my, two, this is my fourth abdominal surgery.
00:45:54
thewifeissoloud
two
00:45:55
Chris
Yeah. A hernia repair, two bowel obstructions, and now the prostate. So I have six more holes in my gut.
00:46:03
thewifeissoloud
By the way, people, he planned this so that he would be getting out of the hospital on his wife's birthday.
00:46:09
Chris
I did. I did. Yeah, it was awesome.
00:46:10
thewifeissoloud
He planned it that way.
00:46:11
Chris
Yep. I said, happy birthday to you. You get to take care of me. Yeah.
00:46:15
thewifeissoloud
Yeah.
00:46:17
Chris
yeah So, yeah, we go up there on Veterans Day, you know, and I'm stressed out little bit anyway, but I couldn't find a parking spot at
Ron's Prostate Surgery Experience
00:46:25
Chris
first. I was God damn I'm just park on the grass. No, not to park on the grass. You're going to park up So we walk in. They're super nice.
00:46:34
Chris
I mean, I like our local hospital, but they were a lot nicer up there. I walk in the desk and they're like, oh, hey how can we help you? Oh, Mr. Truett, here's your tag. Here's this. Please sit over here. Do you want a cup of coffee? Oh, wait, that's right. You're having surgery. You can't have coffee. Ma'am, do you want a cup of coffee? I mean, just like all this. i was like
00:46:51
thewifeissoloud
guess I didn't know. that Where did you have surgery at?
00:46:54
Chris
MedStar, Franklin Square MedStar right outside of Baltimore.
00:46:57
thewifeissoloud
Oh, okay.
00:46:58
thewifeissoloud
i I'm proud of you then because I thought you were doing it at the local Maniac Hospital.
00:46:58
Chris
Yeah.
00:47:02
Chris
No, no. I went across the bridge.
00:47:05
thewifeissoloud
Good, good.
00:47:06
Chris
Yeah. But ah yeah, they take back there. And, you know, she's like. Yeah, there's get my blood pressure and all that. And she's like, all right. No, the tech. She's like, here's your gown.
00:47:17
Chris
Now, remember, you got take everything off. And I mean, everything. I said, yeah, i got it, ma'am. Thanks. And she's just laughing about it.
00:47:24
thewifeissoloud
Whoa.
00:47:25
Chris
So she leaves. There was a window into my room with like little slides. And every now and again, i look over it and the slides were open and then they would shut and then somebody would come in.
00:47:36
Chris
So I guess they were just like watching me all the time. i know Yeah. So I get, yeah. Get all undressed and everything. She's like, ah, let me see, you know, let me see your belly. I was like, what? She's like, no, if I have to shave you or not. i was like, yeah, you do. She's like, okay.
00:47:54
Chris
And God bless her. She's like, I got start an IV. I was like, cool. She was like, where do you want it? i was like, I, you tell me. I said, i You can stick wherever you want.
00:48:05
Chris
I don't care. She's like, let's look at the hand. I'm like, okay. She like drug against the tendon in my hand, but she got it.
00:48:12
thewifeissoloud
Oh.
00:48:14
Chris
God bless her. Um, I think I had a total of four IVs while I was under. Cause I woke up and there were two more bandages on my right hand and i don't know how they got there. And I had two IVs next to each other in my left hand.
00:48:28
Chris
Um, But yeah, they do all that. And then I'm like, okay, you know, well, the team's going to come meet you. I'm like, oh, okay, cool. The team. you know, the guy comes in, anesthesiologist. He's like, yeah, talking about everything. You know, have ever had problem with anesthesia? I was like, when I come to, you know, I'm usually a little cold and it takes me a little bit. He's like, okay.
00:48:48
Chris
I said, are you using LMA are you using you know uh air cue or intubation he's like in the basin why are you asking was like i'm a medic i just want to know he's like oh you're a medic so he's like i'm like not that kind of medic bud
00:49:06
Chris
but it was cool he's like oh he ho yeah he like left he's come back he's like i forgot to get your malin patty hurry you know hurry up so i you know open my mouth say ah left and my wife looks over she's the hell's a malin patty it's like that's
00:49:18
thewifeissoloud
Mr. Malapati.
00:49:19
Chris
It's the greeting of your you know airway. She's like, oh, OK. And finally, the surgeon comes in. He's talking. He's like, oh, yeah, it's been a while. You know, haven't seen you. It's been a month or so. are you doing, doc? It's so good. Good. You're good. it So I guess so just going over your notes again and everything, you know, where you've had some abdominal surgeries before. It might get a little dicey in there, but we'll see what we can do. i say, I'm sorry. what It's well, just if there are some a adhesions and stuff, we may have to move some things around. was like, well, I figured you'd have to move around a lot because you're going from my belly down to the prostate. So game on.
00:50:00
Chris
But yeah, yeah. And then he was like, yeah surgery should take about an hour and a half. I mean, Ms. Truett, you might as well budget four hours just in case. She's like, that's a large window, doc.
00:50:14
thewifeissoloud
That's what i her and I were texting. And she's like, ah they told him 90 minutes to four hours. And I was like, what? And I mean, from my side of it, you took all of the four hours.
00:50:22
Chris
Yeah.
00:50:25
thewifeissoloud
Plus some because we're late.
00:50:26
Chris
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I took every bit of time I needed. um Yeah.
00:50:31
thewifeissoloud
Yeah.
00:50:35
thewifeissoloud
Well, you were like, i have the biggest prostate ever. No prostate has ever been gone.
00:50:37
Chris
but Yeah. Yeah. yeah They said it was the size of a grapefruit. No, I'm kidding.
00:50:43
thewifeissoloud
Did you get to keep it?
00:50:44
Chris
No, no, no. They sent it away to pathology.
00:50:45
thewifeissoloud
Huh.
00:50:46
Chris
That's why I was like, oh, do I get to put it up on the mantle? And there. Yeah. Because I was like, yeah, do I. get to take it home in a jar and they looked at me like i was a maniac. I was like, I'm joking. I know. um But the nice thing was they took me into the surgery suite and theesthesia the other anesthesiologist, he's like, okay, you know, verify your name, date of birth. did He's like, all right, slide over here to this table.
00:51:11
Chris
They put me on this table. My arms go to my sides. And before I can like even say anything, they are strapping my arms down.
00:51:21
thewifeissoloud
Whoa.
00:51:21
Chris
So I'm like, is this a prostate surgery? Am I about to become a super soldier? What is this? I mean, this is yeah. he's like And the next thing they're bringing out these leg things because the doc was like, yeah, when we when I do the surgery, you'll be inverted for most of the time.
00:51:37
Chris
So you'll be at like a 30 degree angle just to, you know, make everything kind of move out of the way and also go, okay, whatever. So they had like these leg braces they're about to put me in and all. And he goes, right, I'm gonna give you a little bit of verse set. I was like, oh, okay, that's, and then I woke up in recovery.
00:51:53
Chris
So that that was the nice thing with that. But um
00:51:57
thewifeissoloud
My one and only experience with anesthesiology was the guy said, I'm going to start an IV. And then I woke up four hours later.
00:52:05
Chris
yeah, yeah.
00:52:08
Chris
Yeah.
00:52:08
thewifeissoloud
that That countdown backwards, that never happened.
00:52:11
Chris
No, no, no.
00:52:11
thewifeissoloud
Yeah.
00:52:13
Chris
Yep. So yeah, i woke up with ah two tubes coming out of me and a bunch of bandages. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was ah interesting. So stayed overnight at hospital. they ah Again, i know they're trying to let you rest but also check on you, but a hospital is not a very restful area.
00:52:36
Chris
But yeah, they were, you I had those things that squeeze your legs with the air.
00:52:42
thewifeissoloud
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:52:42
Chris
All the time. So I heard them going on and off. And everything. The nice thing was I didn't have to get up to pee. Because I had a catheter with me. Got to keep that for a whole week.
00:52:53
thewifeissoloud
Mm-hmm.
00:52:54
Chris
That was interesting. Yeah. Yep. But yeah the next day. she PA or MP? I don't know. remember. Wendy.
00:53:05
Chris
That's all I can remember. Nice lady. Very nice lady. She's like alright. I'm going to take this drain out of you. I'm like oh okay. Does it like. Do you like numb it and then like pull it out and suture it? She's like, no, I'm just going to pull it out and we'll put a bandage over it. was like, oh, okay. I'm still expecting something to numb me or what?
00:53:25
Chris
Nope.
00:53:25
thewifeissoloud
Ah!
00:53:26
Chris
She all of a sudden says, take a breath and then pulls this tube out of my abdomen.
00:53:33
Chris
I, it was one of the worst things I've ever felt because I could feel it going through my guts.
00:53:40
thewifeissoloud
Ah, I'm getting the...
00:53:41
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:53:42
thewifeissoloud
I'm getting the ics in my... Oh, no.
00:53:45
Chris
Yeah. So, but once it was out, felt much better. Yeah.
00:53:50
thewifeissoloud
Hmm. Hmm.
00:53:50
Chris
yeah So, but then in the awkward conversations, because, you know, well, how's your pain? That's okay. You know, I'm a little sore and everything. Okay. We're, you know, we'll keep you you, know, every few hours on pain medicine. So that's good. And then again, this nice lady.
00:54:07
Chris
So how's the tip of your penis? Ma'am, I don't know. How is it? She's like, well,
00:54:13
thewifeissoloud
Would you rate it at scale one to ten for me, ma'am?
00:54:16
Chris
yeah she's like well with a catheter you know you really want to make sure that it's uh good and lubricated all the time i'll help you out this time i'm like okay my wife's sitting right there no she's she's sitting right there yeah so but yeah explain to me how to do that i was like okay i guess it makes sense because you know you got a tube going out of your willy that you know you don't want friction on that ah
00:54:27
thewifeissoloud
Wife! Wife! Oh, no. Oh. Oh.
00:54:42
thewifeissoloud
oh
00:54:43
Chris
yeah
00:54:44
thewifeissoloud
Knowing you, you took your pants off for her.
00:54:47
Chris
I didn't stop. My pants were already off. Yeah. And it for the ride home, i was an idiot. I packed a pair of sweatpants. My wife had bought me, but they're like the skinny sweatpants with like the cuff at the bottom.
00:55:04
Chris
That was not comfortable to get on. No. Yeah. Dumb. So yeah, the ride home was pretty bad. All those bumps around Baltimore, but, uh, Yeah, I took an extra oxycodone and don't remember a lot of the drive.
00:55:13
thewifeissoloud
Oh, I imagine that was awful.
00:55:21
Chris
But yeah, then it was just getting home and figuring out how to get up. And I mean, you don't realize how utilized your abs are until they're cut through a few times.
00:55:33
thewifeissoloud
Hmm.
00:55:34
Chris
Man, yeah. But and then yeah figuring out switching from a night bag to a day bag with the catheter and yeah.
00:55:43
thewifeissoloud
Thank you.
00:55:43
Chris
Yeah. Then getting the, yeah, getting the catheter out. I thought this was going to be another thing where I like lay back. They give me something and I wake up and it's gone. No, no. They took me in the doctor's office and it's a nurse and a tech.
00:55:56
Chris
And they said, okay. was like, can I, I said, should bring my wife? Oh yeah. Bring her. Like, okay. Off we go. So I'm standing there. was about to sit down. She's like, don't sit down. I was like, okay.
00:56:08
Chris
She's like, nope. Drop your pants. said, What? She's like, yeah So, i okay. So, and I figured out lounge pants were the smart thing to wear. That's what I've been wearing pretty much nonstop since last week.
00:56:20
thewifeissoloud
I just want to want kilt. Mm-hmm.
00:56:22
Chris
Yeah. So I dropped those and know, it's a, Oh, one thing there was a adhesive thing taped to my thigh with a click, like a clamp on it that I had to clap, clamp the catheter into.
00:56:38
thewifeissoloud
Mm-hmm.
00:56:38
Chris
So it wouldn't move around that. Some bitch came loose one day in the shower.
00:56:43
thewifeissoloud
Whoa!
00:56:44
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
00:56:45
thewifeissoloud
Ah!
00:56:46
Chris
Yeah. ah But yeah, so I get that, you this nurse and, you know she's undoes the day bag and everything. She's like, all right, you know, we got to pull some fluid off of it.
00:56:59
Chris
And she's like, well, sometimes the fluid will just come. But, you know, sometimes in the hospital, they put a little bit more extra fluid. I was like, OK, let's check. Yeah, it was supposed to be filled up with 12 cc's. It had 18 cc's of fluid in it.
00:57:10
Chris
Thank God she didn't just pull it.
00:57:11
thewifeissoloud
and Thank God. ah
00:57:14
Chris
But then I'm just standing there and she's like, all right, ready. I'm like, ready for what? She's like I'm going to take your catheter out. I was like, do I get the laid to lay the back or anything? She's like, no, just stand there. Take some deep breaths. And here's the other thing. This is a decent looking young lady that's down here about to pull this tube out of my willy. My wife's standing to one side and this nurse, I swear she's got popcorn and is watching.
00:57:39
Chris
Like, okay, here we go. and she's like, this might cause a mess. I'm like, what do you mean? She's like, well, sometimes the bladder will just release on its own after I pull this out. I'm like, that, this sounds delightful. Okay, let's do it.
00:57:52
Chris
I thought she was just gonna pull. It was like pulling, like a clown pulling handkerchiefs. It just kept coming. I was like, where did this thing end up? She's like, keep breathing. I'm like, I can't ma'am. I can't breathe right now. This is not normal.
00:58:08
Chris
she got stuck She got done. She's like, that wasn't that bad, was it? I said, we have different viewpoints on that. so But then it was literally, all right, pull your pants up and go home.
00:58:19
thewifeissoloud
Oh.
00:58:19
Chris
was like, is there anything else? She's like, no. She's like, if you can't pee on your own by two o'clock, come back. Don't call. Just come back. like I'm like, oh, my God. OK. So I'm you know scared to death about that.
00:58:32
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
Surgical Recovery Reflections
00:58:35
Chris
But.
00:58:37
Chris
Now it's the fun of getting used to being a normal person again, I guess. ah Of course, my old man sends me a text. If you need depends, they're on sale at Walmart. I got you.
00:58:52
Chris
Thanks, Pop.
00:58:54
thewifeissoloud
I mean, my only text to my friend was, I don't want to go through what you're going through. Choose not to have it. That's not going pass.
00:59:05
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. um Yeah. So now it's more just the psychological stuff and all that kind of fun stuff going on. But yeah.
00:59:15
thewifeissoloud
Well, thanks for your...
00:59:16
Chris
Yeah, it was a they definitely did. the i mean, it's amazing the surgery they do and yeah know how fast they do it.
00:59:21
thewifeissoloud
Oh!
00:59:22
Chris
The radical robot robot radical pro theteta prostatectomy.
00:59:22
thewifeissoloud
Hey! Hey!
00:59:30
Chris
Yeah.
00:59:31
thewifeissoloud
That sounds made up.
00:59:33
Chris
Yeah.
00:59:33
thewifeissoloud
Now you can say you're bald because you're a cancer survivor.
00:59:33
Chris
Yeah, does.
00:59:36
Chris
That's true.
00:59:37
thewifeissoloud
Yeah.
00:59:38
Chris
That's true. Yeah.
00:59:39
thewifeissoloud
Not because you've been bald for 20 years. It's because you're a cancer
00:59:41
Chris
Yeah. And that's actually, I haven't shaved since I haven't shaved my mustache since November 1st, but I haven't shaved at all since yeah. Veterans day. So 10 days now. Yeah. I've got a full beard, which is 90% white now.
00:59:58
Chris
Yeah. And I haven't shaved my head. So I've got hair all around except for, so I look like a Benedictine monk with my hair. Yeah. Last night, my daughter, she was like, look down. She's like, oh, my God, you are bald. i was like, what? This is why I've been shaving my head all these years, child. What do you think?
01:00:17
Chris
Yeah.
01:00:18
thewifeissoloud
I attempted to grow my mustache in solidarity with you, you it being Movember. And I got three days in, and I saw my mustache and said, nope, look like a pedophile, and shaved it off.
01:00:36
Chris
yeah yeah it's yeah yep i trimmed up around my beard the other day so like around the neck and the cheeks and everything but i don't know if i let it go through thanksgiving or not that's i don't know
01:00:39
thewifeissoloud
Yeah, I can't do it.
01:00:51
thewifeissoloud
You just like come back to work with a big scraggly beard be like, oh, it's doctor's orders. I can't <unk>t tell anything about it.
01:00:56
Chris
yeah yeah it gave me a hard time about i'm sorry did you go through cancer surgery because i did
01:01:01
thewifeissoloud
Right. did you Do you have cancer? Oh, okay. the Go talkie. Get a cancer sniffing dog or and take it to work.
01:01:14
thewifeissoloud
Yeah. Well, ah while you were going through this endeavor...
Family Health Scares
01:01:19
Chris
yeah oh god oh
01:01:20
thewifeissoloud
Almost exactly at the same time, my dumbass stepfather's appendix burst. And he ignored it for three days.
01:01:33
thewifeissoloud
So, you know, speaking of having a drain in him,
01:01:33
Chris
that's not good
01:01:36
Chris
Yeah.
01:01:37
thewifeissoloud
the yeah the doctor said, the surgeon, now, luckily, he happened to be pretty close to a pretty renowned surgical hospital.
01:01:48
Chris
Okay.
01:01:48
thewifeissoloud
You know, WVU, pretty good hospital. And the surgeon said, yeah, people your age don't usually survive this.
01:01:56
Chris
Wow. Wait, you said that to him like going in or coming out?
01:02:01
thewifeissoloud
Coming out.
01:02:02
Chris
Okay. Okay.
01:02:03
thewifeissoloud
Yeah. And then he got an infection and they were like, well, you probably won't be able to leave the hospital for three weeks because he had pooped and they were worried that, yeah, so...
01:02:11
Chris
Oh, gosh. Yeah. Yeah.
01:02:14
thewifeissoloud
Luckily, that resolved itself and he's out of the hospital now, but um here's what I'm going to tell everybody.
01:02:16
Chris
That's good.
01:02:18
thewifeissoloud
If you have appendicitis or think you might have appendicitis, so sharp abdominal pains for no real reason, go get checked out.
01:02:27
Chris
Yeah.
01:02:29
thewifeissoloud
Yeah, because sharp abdominal pains with no desirable cause, it's not that you got to poop, it's you got appendicitis.
01:02:29
Chris
Yeah. yeah
01:02:34
Chris
Yeah. yeah And if it's.
01:02:36
thewifeissoloud
Yeah.
01:02:38
Chris
ends up being gas pains. So you let out a big fart when you get to the hospital.
01:02:42
thewifeissoloud
Right. And you get up and leave.
01:02:42
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
01:02:44
thewifeissoloud
Yeah. He, uh, instead of have emergency surgery, it wasn't even an actionbo act appendectomy at that point because there was no appendix to a dectomy.
01:02:54
Chris
Yeah.
01:02:55
thewifeissoloud
Yeah.
01:02:55
Chris
That was just a clean out and... Mm.
01:02:57
thewifeissoloud
Yeah. Yeah.
01:02:58
Chris
Mm.
01:02:59
thewifeissoloud
They had to run his bowels, which is a fun experience, I would imagine.
01:03:03
Chris
Mm.
01:03:05
thewifeissoloud
Yeah.
01:03:05
Chris
Gosh.
01:03:06
thewifeissoloud
Yeah. Yeah.
01:03:07
Chris
That's awful. I'm glad he's doing better. Yeah.
01:03:10
thewifeissoloud
Eh, he's fine.
01:03:14
Chris
Yeah.
01:03:14
thewifeissoloud
Yeah.
01:03:14
Chris
That's always the awkward thing at the hospital before they let you leave. They're like, now, have you.
01:03:18
thewifeissoloud
Have you pooped?
01:03:19
Chris
No, have you. Yeah. Have you pooped?
01:03:21
thewifeissoloud
What did he look like?
01:03:22
Chris
Have you have you have you passed wind? I'm like, yes, I have. ah That's good. And then it was after that, everything still farting. Like, yes, ma'am.
01:03:33
Chris
Still am here. You want me a rip one for you now?
01:03:35
thewifeissoloud
Every 20 minutes on the hour, man, I'm passing gas.
01:03:38
Chris
yeah ah gosh yeah but yeah yeah yeah so I told my wife I said this better be the last surgery for a while yeah I'd like I'd like to
01:03:42
thewifeissoloud
Yeah. A lot of people are weird. The things that you find awkward, like, you know, her giving you basically a reverse handjob, they find normal.
01:03:55
thewifeissoloud
Yeah. Yeah.
01:04:02
thewifeissoloud
Yeah, let's try that. Let's go with that plan. Yeah. Yeah. I'd rather you avoid some surgeries.
01:04:12
Chris
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:04:14
thewifeissoloud
personally.
01:04:15
Chris
Yeah, I get the pathology report back in the middle of December. So that's, yeah.
01:04:18
thewifeissoloud
Oh. Well, we know it was cancer.
01:04:21
Chris
Yeah, I guess all the, I don't know.
01:04:26
thewifeissoloud
Pathology port, you had cancer.
01:04:30
Chris
Yeah, yeah.
01:04:30
thewifeissoloud
Cool.
01:04:30
Chris
Yeah.
01:04:32
thewifeissoloud
Thanks.
01:04:33
Chris
Well, I guess because they also took some of the lymph nodes all around.
01:04:33
thewifeissoloud
Yeah, my wife called me.
01:04:37
Chris
So I guess making sure that they don't have it.
01:04:39
thewifeissoloud
Sure. my ah My wife called me a bad friend.
01:04:42
Chris
Why?
01:04:44
thewifeissoloud
Well, she kept asking me questions and I didn't have answers to them. She's like, you didn't think to ask these questions? I'm like, no.
01:04:52
thewifeissoloud
I talked to his wife. She said he was out of surgery and he's fine.
01:04:56
Chris
Yeah. that Bingo bango.
01:04:57
thewifeissoloud
that's just And she's like, you didn't follow that up? I'm like,
Unusual Hospital Encounters
01:05:00
Chris
With what?
01:05:00
thewifeissoloud
no.
01:05:01
thewifeissoloud
Why would I follow that up? i I was a good friend. I didn't send the clown stripper to his room.
01:05:08
Chris
Yeah, that's true. Yeah, I was yeah looking out for that.
01:05:11
thewifeissoloud
well i I would sent it to the wrong hospital because I thought you were Salisbury. So there just would have been a clown stripper walking around.
01:05:18
Chris
Some poor bastard in Tidal. Oh, God, that's funny.
01:05:25
thewifeissoloud
If I had known you were a MedStar, I would have just put on my Pennywise outfit and driven down there myself.
01:05:25
Chris
Uh-huh. Yeah. Yeah. no
01:05:30
thewifeissoloud
And by buy your car when you get to leave.
01:05:33
Chris
Oh, God. Yeah. No. No. Yeah.
01:05:40
thewifeissoloud
not true. I was at work.
01:05:41
Chris
Yeah.
01:05:42
thewifeissoloud
Or was I?
01:05:45
Chris
Yeah. Did you secretly scrub in?
01:05:47
thewifeissoloud
Yeah. Is friend the marbles yet?
Cancer Awareness and Detection
01:05:58
thewifeissoloud
Well, I'm, for one, I'm glad you had the surgery. Because it is driving me nuts that for the last three years my friend has had cancer and nothing was being done.
01:06:08
Chris
definitely been weird just living with cancer but yeah francis is gone and now i can move on
01:06:14
thewifeissoloud
And I hope that people who are listening get checked out.
01:06:19
Chris
yes
01:06:20
thewifeissoloud
um Early detection is the only, basically the only thing you can guarantee yourself some success these days.
01:06:28
Chris
Yeah, yeah.
01:06:29
thewifeissoloud
You know, I talk to doctor friend of ours and I say, so what are we supposed to do? Well, I don't know. It's like, cool.
01:06:38
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
01:06:41
thewifeissoloud
You know. I hope we find a cure for cancer one day that's actually successful, but until then, my friend had to have surgery.
01:06:49
Chris
yeah Yeah. Early detection, know, early monitoring and not waiting for it to get ugly. So.
01:06:59
thewifeissoloud
Yeah.
Importance of Regular Check-Ups
01:07:01
thewifeissoloud
Oh, and just to go on with this, we had a patient yesterday who had basically never seen a doctor in their life.
01:07:09
Chris
Hmm.
01:07:09
thewifeissoloud
They were in their forty s
01:07:11
Chris
Okay.
01:07:12
thewifeissoloud
um that person is now sadly passed on but please go see a doctor you know once a year just have ah a friendly check-in with a doctor going to the ER doesn't count they don't care they're not your doctor yeah yeah and if that doctor wears a clown costume and scares you that's even better
01:07:16
Chris
Hmm.
01:07:19
Chris
Yeah. Yeah. Every year once a year.
01:07:24
Chris
Yeah.
01:07:27
Chris
No, no. No. Yeah. You need a doctor that knows you.
01:07:40
Chris
No, no, it's not. No. Yeah. Real quick side tangent to that. I dont can't remember if I told you
Pre-Surgical Confusions
01:07:46
Chris
this or not. I had to get a pre-surgical clearance from my regular doctor and my regular doctor wasn't available. So it was one of the other doctors she works with.
01:07:58
thewifeissoloud
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
01:07:58
Chris
This lady asked me, she's like, so looking at how long have you had the prostate? I said, since I was born.
01:08:09
Chris
And she goes, I meant the cancer, the cancer. i was like, okay, three years. Okay. She's like, did you, did you and the surgeon discuss any other treatment options before the surgery? Or i was like, we did. i said, but you know chemo and radiation. I've got a good head of hair and I don't want to mess that up. And she just kind of looked at me and said, okay. And then went back to her clipboard. i was like, I see you have zero sense of humor. So let's finish this up now.
Role of General Doctors vs Specialists
01:08:37
Chris
Yeah.
01:08:38
thewifeissoloud
glad you got a robot that is the weirdest i had to have the same thing when i had my shoulder surgery like you're a surgeon the surgeon says you you need this surgery the only thing my doctor should be doing is like hey he has a allergy to this anesthesia watch out for that like but why are you involved in the process more than that
01:08:41
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
01:09:01
Chris
Right. Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
01:09:06
thewifeissoloud
Right? this This person is a specialist in their field. They know what they're doing.
01:09:10
Chris
Right.
01:09:11
thewifeissoloud
i You, lady, by the way, are just some person who doesn't know that he's had a prostate his whole life. Don't get involved.
01:09:19
Chris
Yeah. Yeah.
01:09:20
thewifeissoloud
Yeah.
01:09:20
Chris
Yeah.
01:09:22
thewifeissoloud
Yeah.
01:09:22
Chris
What's it when they did the 12 lead on me at that pre-surgical? V1 and V2 were below my nipple line.
01:09:29
thewifeissoloud
Hmm.
01:09:30
Chris
Yeah.
01:09:30
thewifeissoloud
Hmm.
01:09:31
Chris
So this is going to be a great view of the bottom part of my heart. Let's get this rolling. Yeah. So, yeah. Yeah.
Doctor's Knowledge Gaps
01:09:40
thewifeissoloud
the weirdest thing that ever happened to me of the side tangent that was the doctor was i was in the ear one time and a doctor told me they didn't know how to read 12 lead and i was like what they were like yeah i don't read 12 leads i just send to cardiologist i'm like but how do you know which ones to send to the cardiologist well you guys tell me
01:09:49
Chris
What? What?
01:10:01
Chris
yeah
01:10:07
thewifeissoloud
Cool.
Thanksgiving Farewell
01:10:08
Chris
yeah that's that's comforting folks yeah but ah yeah yeah so ah hope everybody takes care this our next one will be after Thanksgiving so i hope people have a wonderful Thanksgiving dealing with nasty turkey some people might not
01:10:08
thewifeissoloud
Cool. Cool.
01:10:13
thewifeissoloud
Yep. That's good news.
01:10:28
thewifeissoloud
If we even have Thanksgiving. Yeah.
01:10:31
Chris
Yeah. Sad.
01:10:32
thewifeissoloud
Yeah. Sad.
01:10:34
Chris
That's all one person's fault, though.
01:10:35
thewifeissoloud
someone's It's one person's fault and no one else's.
01:10:41
Chris
But yeah, take care and talk to you next time.
01:10:44
thewifeissoloud
See you, folks.