Transcript
Chris: Welcome back to another episode of the Mythic Giraffe Podcast. I'm Chris.
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.
thewifeissoloud: i had the splinter. It was terrible.
Chris: Is it in your toe?
thewifeissoloud: Oh, no. It's like right in the meat of my arm. It's terrible.
Chris: Hmm.
thewifeissoloud: ah
Chris: Hmm. Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: I just need sympathy. Well-wishing and sympathy would be nice.
Chris: Thoughts and prayers.
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.
thewifeissoloud: It's never worked, as far as I know.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. ah
thewifeissoloud: had It hasn't worked once, right?
Chris: Did it?
thewifeissoloud: It's like, statistically, I pray for rain every day. It's going to rain one of those days.
Chris: Yeah, but correlation doesn't equal causation.
thewifeissoloud: No, but you know. It's what you want to think, I guess. I don't know.
Chris: Yeah.
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.
Chris: Ugh.
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.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: I don't know how I'm anything done this week.
Chris: And that's like, but the problem is those maniacs that work that schedule are brainwashed.
thewifeissoloud: And they love it.
Chris: Cause like, Oh, this great. yeah Yeah. Yeah. I get a Kelly day every 17th Tuesday under Aquarius.
thewifeissoloud: yeah
Chris: It's like, God, no.
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.
Chris: Work. Yeah, that's yeah.
thewifeissoloud: i I'm over here kicking back one day on, three days off. It's pretty good.
Chris: Yeah. Right.
thewifeissoloud: I think, really, the Fire de Department
Chris: And you're still working more than a normal person works because you're working six days a week.
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.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
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.
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: Most days.
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.
Chris: I got nothing.
thewifeissoloud: Yeah. I look, well, but now this is old guys bitching about things.
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: I have to take 16 shifts off next year.
Chris: Wow.
thewifeissoloud: i think, think it's that. And that's to still be at full at the end of the year. Right?
thewifeissoloud: Like it' it's a,
Chris: Yeah, so...
Chris: Yeah, you have to take almost 20% of the year off.
thewifeissoloud: It's And
Chris: Wow.
thewifeissoloud: and I can tell you this. There ain't 20% of the year ah available take off.
Chris: Right, that's the thing.
thewifeissoloud: Yeah. Yeah.
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.
thewifeissoloud: You have the former fire chief with his famous, well, people aren't taking off Tuesdays in February.
Chris: Yeah, there's a reason.
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.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: Just the day I was...
Chris: I mean, you got take February 2nd off, but.
thewifeissoloud: Well, yeah, i mean, you got to watch movies all day.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: Look, that's, again, I'm i'm fully cognizant of um I'm bitching about having too much time off.
Chris: Yeah. It's definitely one of those first world problems, but
thewifeissoloud: Yeah, there are much worse things than I have in this world. But just buy my time back.
Chris: yeah.
thewifeissoloud: Just buy my time.
Chris: Yeah.
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.
Chris: I mean, maybe the local will bargain for it this time around.
thewifeissoloud: Maybe. I don't think they're worried about it.
Chris: Really? They got their finger on the pulse.
thewifeissoloud: It's a difficult job.
Chris: Yeah.
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.
Chris: Oh, yeah. Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: You know. Because you get a maniac mayor and there's like, you guys are going to forty eight
Chris: Yep. Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: Well, 40% of the people quit. Now what, chief?
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: You know.
Chris: Yeah. We'll just transfer some people from the zoo over.
thewifeissoloud: It ain't like... Right. It ain't like they're knocking on the doors to come work here.
Chris: Yeah. Hmm.
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.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: And it's, you know...
Chris: Yeah. You guys in between calls should be picking trash up.
thewifeissoloud: Yeah, yeah, I can't disagree with you there, Mr. Meyer.
Chris: Yeah.
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.
Chris: Yeah.
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 at Station 1.
Chris: Yeah, yeah.
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.
Chris: What?
Chris: Yeah.
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.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Until it's taken away. Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: It is crazy. And...
Chris: Good, good.
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
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. Yep.
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.
thewifeissoloud: Yeah, you're annoyed.
Chris: Yeah, you want to murder them.
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.
Chris: Oh, I would fight somebody.
thewifeissoloud: You know?
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
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.
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: yeah You don't deserve this spot.
Chris: Right. Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: It's just a
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
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.
Chris: Oh yeah.
thewifeissoloud: Though the new guy sleeps in the weird bunk and i don't like it.
thewifeissoloud: I mean, I have to have a talk about that.
Chris: Wait, does it, cause he likes the weird bug?
thewifeissoloud: guess?
Chris: Huh.
thewifeissoloud: I don't know. I was, like, used to it. and He settled in and he's like... Yeah. Maybe.
Chris: Huh. It's like a Stockholm syndrome thing.
thewifeissoloud: Maybe. Yeah, it's it's another inside foot you know baseball thing for the fire department is that's your bunk.
Chris: Yeah.
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.
Chris: Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: you know Don't sleep in somebody else's bunk.
Chris: No. It's just weird.
Chris: God, I can't remember what shift what shift was it.
thewifeissoloud: Like if you were to...
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.
thewifeissoloud: No.
Chris: I was like, what, what, what, what what what are you doing?
thewifeissoloud: No, no, no.
thewifeissoloud: I've... Well, I've only been on one shift, basically.
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: But we don't switch bunks.
Chris: No.
thewifeissoloud: I've had the same... Well... I'm trying to think. Because we tried to...
Chris: I mean, back in the day, we had to roll out cards.
thewifeissoloud: Well, yeah. what We tried to do, like, the ambulance crew slept on one bunk, and that didn't really last...
Chris: Yeah.
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.
Chris: Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: Your, your little bed's getting kicked out.
Chris: Yep.
thewifeissoloud: Yeah. Cause you just make smart ass comments and you know what's coming after that.
Chris: Yeah, yeah. Make a smart-ass comment. Then it's, hey guys, we're going on a call.
thewifeissoloud: Right.
Chris: And then, hey guys, we're back from the call.
thewifeissoloud: Yeah. Yeah.
Chris: but
thewifeissoloud: Just so you all know, I'm getting up and so are you.
Chris: Yep.
thewifeissoloud: Yeah. Yeah.
Chris: Mm-hmm.
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.
Chris: rattles the fillings in your teeth.
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?
Chris: Oh, that's great.
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...
Chris: Yeah.
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.
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?
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.
Chris: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So.
thewifeissoloud: Yeah. Yeah, which is about a... It's not a good sign.
Chris: No, no.
thewifeissoloud: Because then, 13 seconds later, you're expected to do drug calculations and save a bunch of life.
Chris: No, that was fine. Yeah, yeah.
Chris: By then I was awake.
thewifeissoloud: Yeah, yeah. I've totally done drug calculations. 100% awake every time.
thewifeissoloud: It's not scary at all.
Chris: How much of this do I give? Send it.
thewifeissoloud: Well, that's why everything's in boxes.
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: How much do give? A box.
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: What's the dosage? Read the box.
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: Save the box for me so I know what to put in my report.
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
thewifeissoloud: It's old school paramedic. It's not these new science-based paramedics.
thewifeissoloud: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Not saying I've ever done that, but...
Chris: no yeah
thewifeissoloud: I've been so tired that I've had to pull out the protocol book and look at the dosage for albuterol.
thewifeissoloud: Which only comes in one dosage.
Chris: yeah yeah
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.
Chris: yeah how much of this do I give don't know yeah
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.
Chris: Oh, yeah. Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: There's a reason why these departments are going away from 24-hour paramedics on an ambulance.
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: It takes maniacs out west to do 48 hours on an animals in a row.
Chris: and we I would kill somebody.
thewifeissoloud: Yeah.
Chris: And probably my partner.
thewifeissoloud: Yeah. Yes.
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 see you. i didn't know
thewifeissoloud: There's people who
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.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah. Oh, yeah. oh Yeah.
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.
thewifeissoloud: So...
thewifeissoloud: Yeah. You know, it's just...
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.
thewifeissoloud: I would never you know intentionally hurt that person.
Chris: No.
thewifeissoloud: But after 16 hours of it, you're like, can't deal it anymore.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
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.
Chris: Oh, yeah.
thewifeissoloud: What the fuck is going on?
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: Who taught you to drive?
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: The circus? What?
thewifeissoloud: Are you...
Chris: Donnie doesn't do it this way.
thewifeissoloud: Right.
Chris: What are you doing?
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.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: where's Where's the IV box? Oh, hes he tapes it to the roof. He likes it there.
Chris: Yeah. yeah
thewifeissoloud: What? Yeah.
Chris: Why do we have five glucometers in here? That's how he likes it. Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: Just in case of glucometer emergencies, I have a but bandolier of glucometers. Like, Chewy.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: We're supportable radio. No idea. He doesn't worry about that.
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.
thewifeissoloud: or no, it was Tuesday. Because we were doing... We did... Because Pop's funeral, we did...
Chris: Hmm.
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
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Oh, yeah.
thewifeissoloud: I was like, why do we have air track plates?
Chris: Wait.
thewifeissoloud: We don't even have an air track anymore.
Chris: We, we, yeah, what?
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.
thewifeissoloud: And he's like, well, we might need, I said, nope, none of this is staying in my station.
Chris: We, oh. Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: I don't care what you do with it. Just out. Gone.
Chris: Yeah,
thewifeissoloud: Air track blades.
Chris: but we haven't used AirTrack in months.
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.
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: Well, we were ah throw it away.
Chris: Yeah. but its
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.
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: We don't have fill paperwork to throw away trash. I promise you. He doesn't want it back at his office either.
Chris: Right, because that'll throw his count off.
thewifeissoloud: Somehow, and this is my favorite part of it. So our CPAP kits, right?
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: They have the kit and then they have the media mask.
Chris: Right.
thewifeissoloud: And I'm assuming they must have used a large mask. So what do you think they did with the media mask?
Chris: Put it in the large. Put it in the kit with the large.
thewifeissoloud: Nope.
Chris: No.
thewifeissoloud: They saved the mask, brought it back to the station in a Ziploc bag and put it in supply.
Chris: What?
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?
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: Trash. Throw it away.
Chris: We're
thewifeissoloud: Throw it away. Wear it for Halloween. I don't care. Put it on your ass and plate cause play a fart kazoo.
Chris: here for Halloween.
thewifeissoloud: I don't care.
Chris: yeah
thewifeissoloud: Get it out of my station.
Chris: Yeah. Or the guys are like, yeah, i started in IV, so I got supplies. Then you look at the supplies.
thewifeissoloud: Right.
Chris: Two Jelcos, 17 alcohol pads.
thewifeissoloud: Sorry, 1 IV. Right. started,
Chris: It's like, no, no One, four one.
thewifeissoloud: I used, I I bought, i got back.
Chris: Yep.
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?
thewifeissoloud: Are you storming the beaches of Normandy and starting IVs on the way?
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: what do you what is
Chris: Are you starting 18 IVs on your way in? Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: What is going on with you people?
thewifeissoloud: You probably, if you don't suck at IVs, could get away with like three in the box.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: We probably throw away more 16s from expiration than we ever use.
Chris: Oh yeah. I'm sure.
thewifeissoloud: Right? Like 22s, we never use them.
Chris: No, we never use 22. mean, 18s and are ninety five percent
thewifeissoloud: Right.
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?
thewifeissoloud: Nothing?
Chris: Well, I mean... There you got. Skills.
thewifeissoloud: i i got I got increase their infection chance for an IV that the nurses aren't going to use anyways.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: Yeah, yeah.
Chris: I got news for you. These new Jelcos. don't know if I can use them.
thewifeissoloud: Oh, the... Yeah, the... I don't...
Chris: Grab the grey and pull the white and push the blue.
thewifeissoloud: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
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.
thewifeissoloud: It's okay. I don't and i'll start IVs. I visa just do IOs now.
Chris: yeah yeah when in doubt drill it out
thewifeissoloud: Yeah. Right, sir, you need a medication. I'm totally awake and alert, sir. Yes, sir, you are.
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.
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.
Chris: Hmm.
thewifeissoloud: They ended up doing an EJ or whatever.
Chris: Hmm.
thewifeissoloud: And i was like, no, no, we're not, we're not doing this.
Chris: Mm-hmm.
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.
Chris: yeah yeah yeah mean we're not taught to like you know knock and tap before we
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.
thewifeissoloud: Yeah, you just look. Yeah. Yeah. Not a funny joke. It was funny to me. It's not funny.
Chris: oh yeah no that's funny at the time being
thewifeissoloud: It's not funny. haha It's funny.
Chris: yeah coincidentally yeah
thewifeissoloud: Ish. Yeah. Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: fun stories from the world of fire and EMS.
Chris: yes
thewifeissoloud: Yeah. Mostly fun stories at fire and EMS are when somebody falls on their ass.
Chris: oh god yes
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?
Chris: Or just like a bike helmet to wear around.
thewifeissoloud: Right.
Chris: oh one of those vests that inflates when you fall.
thewifeissoloud: Like, you're... Oh, yeah.
Chris: Oh
thewifeissoloud: You're in your 20s. You should not be falling this much.
Chris: my gosh.
thewifeissoloud: We haven't even hit winter yet, and we're going to have a bad winter. I'm calling it now.
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: So, you know, be prepared for ice skating on roadways.
Chris: Well, you ready for topic one?
thewifeissoloud: Sure, I'm ready for topic
Chris: Uh-oh, that didn't sound very enthusiastic. ah
thewifeissoloud: I've had like 40 ideas and I keep losing them.
Chris: Oh. You gotta write them down.
thewifeissoloud: That would require organization. But yes, I am ready for topic one.
Chris: Okay.
thewifeissoloud: Oh, it's me.
Chris: Yeah. Hmm.
thewifeissoloud: So, it's not a great topic, but it is a topic. Have you... seen this new genre of books called lit RPG.
Chris: No.
thewifeissoloud: So I've read like, I've actually been interested in them.
Chris: Huh.
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.
Chris: Yeah.
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.
Chris: Yeah.
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.
Chris: yeah right yeah
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.
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.
thewifeissoloud: This is the... They just suck. They're not good at anything.
Chris: yeah they are they're good at healing
thewifeissoloud: Are they good at healing?
Chris: yes yes that's the whole point yeah oh the pallet oh lay hands
thewifeissoloud: Better than anybody else? They're better than a about another paladin.
thewifeissoloud: Yeah, they can lay on hands and wear armor and get punched in the face and hunt punch things back.
Chris: you can make a tanky cleric you just don't have to lay on hands and you can't use bladed weapons
thewifeissoloud: Then you're just playing a paladin.
thewifeissoloud: Another stupid thing that hurts you.
thewifeissoloud: it's it's
Chris: they can turn undead oh shit yeah they can
thewifeissoloud: They can turn undead. But Pound is gonna turn undead. Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: And druids can heal.
Chris: yeah but not as well
thewifeissoloud: And level three cleric can heal about as well as I can heal with no magic as a real person.
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.
thewifeissoloud: Because of... Play on hands.
thewifeissoloud: I mean, it is the best class.
Chris: See, I usually either go for a ranger or a cleric.
thewifeissoloud: Really? Ranger?
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: So he's just, like, not being good at anything?
Chris: Wow. Rangers are great. They stay back. sniping people out they've got a animal companion yeah yeah it it is yeah yeah
thewifeissoloud: So they're like a bad rogue.
thewifeissoloud: Oh yeah, they bring their dog with them. Cool.
thewifeissoloud: But a warrior is this just as good as a ranger using a bow.
Chris: no no
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.
Chris: Double attacks.
thewifeissoloud: You get double attacks.
Chris: Yeah, I will say that. What is it? um Action Surge.
thewifeissoloud: Yeah. That's a pretty good feat.
Chris: It's a pretty good feat.
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.
thewifeissoloud: Oh, and Paladins can only wear, or Clerics can only wear chain mail. They can only wear chain mail.
Chris: You can get up that heavy armor though.
thewifeissoloud: Yeah, you gotta use a feat.
Chris: So?
thewifeissoloud: Right.
Chris: They have stronger spells. Paladin can't do Flamestrike.
thewifeissoloud: Uh, yeah, paladins get radiant strike whatever the hell that is. Divine smiter, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Chris: Oh, Divine Smite. Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: And they're smite snacks. Smite snacks. Smite snacks.
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: ah Look, I'm just saying a rogue is the best of the light armor classes.
thewifeissoloud: Pretty, pretty handily. Right? Stabby stabby in the back, detect traps, steal stuff.
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: Pretty cool sub-specialization classes, you know assassin, stuff. Basically assassin.
Chris: Stuff.
Chris: We have what, like arcane turns, things like that, yeah.
thewifeissoloud: Arcane Trickster and that. ah Oh, I'm a light cleric. Or I'm Shadowheart, who's a shadow cleric.
Chris: Oh, she shouldn't be a cleric.
thewifeissoloud: She's terrible. She's terrible cleric.
Chris: Yeah. She is. and She can't hit with her... Was it Flame... Not Flame... Flame Strike? No, not Flame Strike. Whatever. Firebolt?
thewifeissoloud: Yeah, she's terrible.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: She's awful. She's said like the first character you dump because she's terrible. Yeah.
Chris: Or you re-specker.
thewifeissoloud: Can you respec? Whoa.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah,
thewifeissoloud: she's still cleric.
Chris: yeah but I think you can... Make her into something else.
thewifeissoloud: Can you?
Chris: Yeah. Yes. I think I have.
thewifeissoloud: Oh.
thewifeissoloud: So I can make her into a useful class instead of a cleric.
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: I was just taking a clarits.
Chris: Let's see. Yeah, you just. Yeah, you take her to. What's his face?
thewifeissoloud: The mummy dude?
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: anyway
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: I never thought about doing that.
Chris: Yep. Yeah. Withers.
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.
Chris: Yeah.
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.
thewifeissoloud: Well, that would be useful. That's what information I would have loved before.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. oh
thewifeissoloud: Also, Baldur's Gate on hardcore mode is damn near impossible at, like, level one.
Chris: Oh god. Yeah. Yeah, it's crazy.
thewifeissoloud: Yeah, like, those stupid brain things are damn near unkillable.
Chris: Yep.
thewifeissoloud: Yeah. Yeah. So I had to go back to normal because I'm a fancy.
thewifeissoloud: But then I got halfway through and said, this cleric stuff sucks. Gonna be back to being paladin.
Chris: Yeah, I'm looking at this. This person has Shadowheart as a multi-class fighter wizard.
thewifeissoloud: Whoa.
Chris: Yeah.
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.
Chris: Yeah, but all the bard wants to do is bang a dragon.
thewifeissoloud: and heal their party while doing it.
Chris: Crooning out a gentle song.
thewifeissoloud: That's what I did my first run through Baldur's Gate, that was a bard.
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: And it was pretty bo pretty awesome. Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: I haven't tried the new classes yet.
Chris: Yeah, there's what, like 10 new subclasses?
thewifeissoloud: Yeah, yeah. that's So, that's why I need to get into it, stuck into it. Because, well, now that I know that I can re respect the stupid NPCs, I just take the...
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: What's her name? God damn it. The flame chick. The demon chick.
Chris: Oh, Carlac.
thewifeissoloud: Yeah, let's take Carlack and then respect everybody else on the good stuff.
Chris: yep he's a decent rogue yeah yeah oh yeah he's not good at combat up front up close
thewifeissoloud: Get rid of the stupid vampire boy. His...
thewifeissoloud: He's fine. He's good for finding traps. Cool. But if you could... Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: Yeah. Like, I gave him a bow, but he has no specialty with his bows. He sucks at it. Yeah.
Chris: yeah
thewifeissoloud: I, like, never take him after level 10. Yeah.
Chris: Really.
thewifeissoloud: Yeah. I think I did his little vampire thing, got that out of the way. And I was like, I'm cool.
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah, usually don't keep Lazell in my group.
thewifeissoloud: No, she's just annoying.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah. Karlek, definitely. I would deal with Shadowheart. And I would usually take Will over Gale. But
thewifeissoloud: Yeah. Yeah. Will's cool.
Chris: yeah.
thewifeissoloud: I mean, he's a warlock. Warlocks cool.
thewifeissoloud: Gale's fine. His ability is annoying.
Chris: yes it is yeah i've got to eat magical stuff every now and again do you
thewifeissoloud: Or his, not ability, his flaw.
thewifeissoloud: Right. Do you have to do that? Yeah. Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: I just, uh...
Chris: yeah carlac's probably the one that's just got the best build out from the beginning yeah
thewifeissoloud: Yeah, she just kicks the crap out everybody. Yeah. She's a beat stick. And her burning heart thing is cool.
thewifeissoloud: Beat stick.
Chris: Yeah. yeah here's a so Here's a soul coin. Go make Havoc.
thewifeissoloud: Right. Here's this thing that i have really no other use for. Go do cool shit.
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: Yeah, I collected a bunch of those things and I was going to need them.
Chris: Yeah, that's what I thought. I was like, oh man, something's going to happen with all these. Nope.
thewifeissoloud: Nope. Nope. Nope. Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: And you can't keep what's her nuts, the ranger chick, right?
Chris: Jahira?
thewifeissoloud: Yeah.
Chris: I thought she could.
thewifeissoloud: Can you keep her?
Chris: don't know.
thewifeissoloud: I got her killed, so.
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: My first playthrough, she died. Which, by the way, is a real problem later on.
Chris: Yeah, she's a druid.
thewifeissoloud: thought she was a ranger.
Chris: No, she's a druid.
thewifeissoloud: She died on my playthrough, so.
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: No, she's not a druid. The other guy's a druid.
Chris: No, she's a druid.
thewifeissoloud: Really?
Chris: Yeah. Yeah, Halseen is a druid also, but yeah, she's a druid.
thewifeissoloud: ah The other guy's a druid.
Chris: Yeah, because she was a druid back in Baldur's Gate 2.
thewifeissoloud: I said, got her killed. That's my mistake.
Chris: Yeah. I don't think I've ever had Minthara in my party. Because
thewifeissoloud: No. No.
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.
thewifeissoloud: Huh.
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: Yeah, that's again where I'm not good at things.
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: Because I don't like to think of that, if you do this end around, you can do this.
Chris: Yeah.
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
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.
Chris: that That's karma.
thewifeissoloud: I was like, oh, what was that comment you made?
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: Tactically thinking. As I walk through the trap with my 600 armor. What's wrong you?
thewifeissoloud: Stupid sorcerer.
Chris: Is that what he's playing a sorcerer?
thewifeissoloud: Yes, he's a stupid sorcerer.
Chris: Oh my gosh.
thewifeissoloud: He's like, I just can't take a hit. I'm like, yeah, because you got like 100 points, bro.
Chris: Yeah, you stub your toe upb your toe and you're in an iron lung for a week.
thewifeissoloud: Yeah. Yeah. At least play a warlock where you have to, you know, sell your soul for power.
Chris: yeah
thewifeissoloud: Ooh, you can shoot lightning bolts out of your fingers with your sorcerer. Ooh. Cool. Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: Really, all of it does is I just want to play D&D constantly.
Chris: yeah yeah I'm sure there's like groups of retired firefighters that play yeah
thewifeissoloud: Yeah. It's another reason why I want to retire from the fire department is so I can play D&D.
thewifeissoloud: Do you know how hard is?
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.
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: So I just don't do it.
Chris: Yeah. yeah
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.
Chris: yeah yeah Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: you know If I want to play a character, want to play a character.
Chris: Something that I'm revisiting at least every two weeks.
thewifeissoloud: Yeah. ah had a good group for a while, but their problem was like every three months they wanted to change games.
Chris: Oh.
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.
Chris: What? No. No.
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: So when i fire when I retire from Fireborn, I'm getting a regular D&D group. Yeah.
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.
thewifeissoloud: Right.
Chris: I'm like, okay, so that's 11 for me. This is fun.
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.
thewifeissoloud: Yeah, i'm I'm in my 40s.
Chris: Yep.
thewifeissoloud: And yeah, yeah, yeah.
Chris: Go ahead, roll for initiative and I'll talk to you tomorrow.
thewifeissoloud: I like it asleep.
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: Yeah. I haven't tried D&D on the tabletop tactics. I think that's a thing.
Chris: I'm sure it is.
thewifeissoloud: Hmm. Something have to think about. I'll have to roll a Paladin, the best class.
Chris: If you don't want to specialize in anything. and
thewifeissoloud: Yeah, but if you're going to specialize in something so something useful, like detecting traps,
Chris: Yeah, like healing.
thewifeissoloud: Oh, a pal oh ah a cleric at level four can unlock a door a day.
Chris: See?
thewifeissoloud: Cool. One door.
Chris: They can create water.
thewifeissoloud: Yeah, that's true. They can create water. Cool. And...
thewifeissoloud: no, they can create water once because then they have to take a short rest to do it again.
Chris: Hey, it takes a lot out of you.
thewifeissoloud: It takes a lot of make water out of nothing. That's fair.
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: I can't... Well, I can make water. It takes me a couple hours and some drinks.
Chris: No,
thewifeissoloud: ah You could specialize in beating things to death with a big stick. That's called being a warrior.
Chris: it's a barbarian.
thewifeissoloud: That's true, too.
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: I have a buddy who, whenever he plays games, he's like... He's the wheeziest little prick when it comes to rules.
Chris: Yeah.
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
Chris: It's of those min-maxing crazy people.
thewifeissoloud: Yes, he is.
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: Yes, he is. You cannot be the DM for him without realizing that you're going to deal with that.
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: Yeah. Oh, I'm level one. I do 36 damage per hit. What?
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: What? Yeah. And my AC is...
Chris: Clerics get Guiding Bolt?
thewifeissoloud: Oh, a buff spell.
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: Bards do that all the time. I just play my harmonica and you get better.
thewifeissoloud: And, when say a bard, there's no bards and NPCs in Baldur's Grape they can take with you.
Chris: yeah that's true unless you turn one of your you turn lazelle into a bard
thewifeissoloud: Yeah. Yeah.
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.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: Yeah. Yeah. so you have to rely on your beat sticks to do the beat sticking.
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: Yeah.
Chris: Trying to see if there's another. You speak with Deb.
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.
thewifeissoloud: Like, you have to slot that in.
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: So you have to be like, well, I'm going to kill something and speak with it.
Chris: Yes.
thewifeissoloud: And turn undead sucks as soon as somebody's like, well, there's no undead in this game. Cool.
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: Cool.
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: And you have Dazzle or whatever the hell of their stupid innate one is. It's not Radiant Light or whatever.
Chris: Dazzle. What?
thewifeissoloud: It'll tickle you for one hit point.
thewifeissoloud: What's the one thing?
Chris: Oh, Sacred Flame.
thewifeissoloud: Yeah, yeah, Yeah, here's one hit point. Cool, I can do that every turn. Meanwhile, Warrior's like, Greatsword, smash!
Chris: And then action surge to it all over again.
thewifeissoloud: Yeah, exactly.
Chris: Until
thewifeissoloud: Smash.
Chris: they get hurt.
thewifeissoloud: Well...
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: Well,
Chris: ah For a minute, thought i lost you. I was like, ohho
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.
thewifeissoloud: Side tangent, any good games you've been playing while you've been uncomfortably down with your splinter? You little, your boo-boo.
Chris: Yeah, I ah beat Ghost of Yote.
thewifeissoloud: Oh, fun.
Chris: It was a very fun game. I enjoyed it.
thewifeissoloud: Well, you'd like the first one, right?
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
thewifeissoloud: And they just...
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.
Chris: exactly yeah yeah they didn't change everything they also didn't just redo the first story there's a new story with
thewifeissoloud: Hmm.
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
thewifeissoloud: That's a weird choice.
thewifeissoloud: Yeah. So you beat that. And what else have you since you have your...
Chris: yeah that's about it that and uh yeah started a couple of puzzles and Yeah. Watch some bad TV. Yeah.
Chris: I finally watched that Alien Earth.
thewifeissoloud: Oh, I heard it wasn't great.
Chris: It wasn't horrible.
Chris: But I finally watched, ah was it Predator Prey? whatever, the Native American one.
thewifeissoloud: Oh, yeah, yeah,
Chris: That was actually really good.
thewifeissoloud: Oh.
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: That's fun.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: I watch no TV.
Chris: Yeah, that's...
thewifeissoloud: I've literally just been reading.
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah, I've been reading some too.
thewifeissoloud: I've even been reading at work again, which is nice.
Chris: Nice.
thewifeissoloud: Yeah. Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: And... Cool. Break.
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: Topic two.
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.
thewifeissoloud: Oh.
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: Highlights?
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: Are they highlights?
Chris: There's some funny spots in there and some.
thewifeissoloud: Okay.
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: Cool.
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: I want to hear the funny part.
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: don't want to hear the gross unfunny parts.
Chris: Well, you got to hear the gross parts. You're the funny parts.
thewifeissoloud: Oh, oh good.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. um Yeah. So.
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.
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.
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?
thewifeissoloud: Oh, my labrum tear.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah, but I'm saying, well, so this is my, two, this is my fourth abdominal surgery.
thewifeissoloud: two
Chris: Yeah. A hernia repair, two bowel obstructions, and now the prostate. So I have six more holes in my gut.
thewifeissoloud: By the way, people, he planned this so that he would be getting out of the hospital on his wife's birthday.
Chris: I did. I did. Yeah, it was awesome.
thewifeissoloud: He planned it that way.
Chris: Yep. I said, happy birthday to you. You get to take care of me. Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: Yeah.
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 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.
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
thewifeissoloud: guess I didn't know. that Where did you have surgery at?
Chris: MedStar, Franklin Square MedStar right outside of Baltimore.
thewifeissoloud: Oh, okay.
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: i I'm proud of you then because I thought you were doing it at the local Maniac Hospital.
Chris: No, no. I went across the bridge.
thewifeissoloud: Good, good.
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.
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.
thewifeissoloud: Whoa.
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.
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.
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.
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.
thewifeissoloud: Oh.
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.
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.
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
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
thewifeissoloud: Mr. Malapati.
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.
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.
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.
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: Plus some because we're late.
Chris: Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I took every bit of time I needed. um Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: Well, you were like, i have the biggest prostate ever. No prostate has ever been gone.
Chris: but Yeah. Yeah. yeah They said it was the size of a grapefruit. No, I'm kidding.
thewifeissoloud: Did you get to keep it?
Chris: No, no, no. They sent it away to pathology.
thewifeissoloud: Huh.
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.
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.
thewifeissoloud: Whoa.
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.
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.
Chris: So that that was the nice thing with that. But um
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.
Chris: yeah, yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: that That countdown backwards, that never happened.
Chris: No, no, no.
thewifeissoloud: Yeah.
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.
Chris: But yeah, they were, you I had those things that squeeze your legs with the air.
thewifeissoloud: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
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.
thewifeissoloud: Mm-hmm.
Chris: That was interesting. Yeah. Yep. But yeah the next day. she PA or MP? I don't know. remember. Wendy.
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?
Chris: Nope.
thewifeissoloud: Ah!
Chris: She all of a sudden says, take a breath and then pulls this tube out of my abdomen.
Chris: I, it was one of the worst things I've ever felt because I could feel it going through my guts.
thewifeissoloud: Ah, I'm getting the...
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: I'm getting the ics in my... Oh, no.
Chris: Yeah. So, but once it was out, felt much better. Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: Hmm. Hmm.
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.
Chris: So how's the tip of your penis? Ma'am, I don't know. How is it? She's like, well,
thewifeissoloud: Would you rate it at scale one to ten for me, ma'am?
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
thewifeissoloud: Wife! Wife! Oh, no. Oh. Oh.
thewifeissoloud: oh
Chris: yeah
thewifeissoloud: Knowing you, you took your pants off for her.
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.
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.
thewifeissoloud: Oh, I imagine that was awful.
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.
thewifeissoloud: Hmm.
Chris: Man, yeah. But and then yeah figuring out switching from a night bag to a day bag with the catheter and yeah.
thewifeissoloud: Thank you.
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.
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.
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.
thewifeissoloud: I just want to want kilt. Mm-hmm.
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.
thewifeissoloud: Mm-hmm.
Chris: So it wouldn't move around that. Some bitch came loose one day in the shower.
thewifeissoloud: Whoa!
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: Ah!
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.
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.
Chris: Thank God she didn't just pull it.
thewifeissoloud: and Thank God. ah
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.
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.
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.
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.
thewifeissoloud: Oh.
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.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. But.
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.
Chris: Thanks, Pop.
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.
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.
thewifeissoloud: Well, thanks for your...
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.
thewifeissoloud: Oh!
Chris: The radical robot robot radical pro theteta prostatectomy.
thewifeissoloud: Hey! Hey!
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: That sounds made up.
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: Now you can say you're bald because you're a cancer survivor.
Chris: Yeah, does.
Chris: That's true.
thewifeissoloud: Yeah.
Chris: That's true. Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: Not because you've been bald for 20 years. It's because you're a cancer
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.
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?
Chris: Yeah.
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.
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
thewifeissoloud: Yeah, I can't do it.
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.
Chris: yeah yeah it gave me a hard time about i'm sorry did you go through cancer surgery because i did
thewifeissoloud: Right. did you Do you have cancer? Oh, okay. the Go talkie. Get a cancer sniffing dog or and take it to work.
thewifeissoloud: Yeah. Well, ah while you were going through this endeavor...
Chris: yeah oh god oh
thewifeissoloud: Almost exactly at the same time, my dumbass stepfather's appendix burst. And he ignored it for three days.
thewifeissoloud: So, you know, speaking of having a drain in him,
Chris: that's not good
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: the yeah the doctor said, the surgeon, now, luckily, he happened to be pretty close to a pretty renowned surgical hospital.
Chris: Okay.
thewifeissoloud: You know, WVU, pretty good hospital. And the surgeon said, yeah, people your age don't usually survive this.
Chris: Wow. Wait, you said that to him like going in or coming out?
thewifeissoloud: Coming out.
Chris: Okay. Okay.
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...
Chris: Oh, gosh. Yeah. Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: Luckily, that resolved itself and he's out of the hospital now, but um here's what I'm going to tell everybody.
Chris: That's good.
thewifeissoloud: If you have appendicitis or think you might have appendicitis, so sharp abdominal pains for no real reason, go get checked out.
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: Yeah, because sharp abdominal pains with no desirable cause, it's not that you got to poop, it's you got appendicitis.
Chris: Yeah. yeah
Chris: Yeah. yeah And if it's.
thewifeissoloud: Yeah.
Chris: ends up being gas pains. So you let out a big fart when you get to the hospital.
thewifeissoloud: Right. And you get up and leave.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
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.
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: Yeah.
Chris: That was just a clean out and... Mm.
thewifeissoloud: Yeah. Yeah.
Chris: Mm.
thewifeissoloud: They had to run his bowels, which is a fun experience, I would imagine.
Chris: Mm.
thewifeissoloud: Yeah.
Chris: Gosh.
thewifeissoloud: Yeah. Yeah.
Chris: That's awful. I'm glad he's doing better. Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: Eh, he's fine.
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: Yeah.
Chris: That's always the awkward thing at the hospital before they let you leave. They're like, now, have you.
thewifeissoloud: Have you pooped?
Chris: No, have you. Yeah. Have you pooped?
thewifeissoloud: What did he look like?
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.
Chris: Still am here. You want me a rip one for you now?
thewifeissoloud: Every 20 minutes on the hour, man, I'm passing gas.
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
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.
thewifeissoloud: Yeah. Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: Yeah, let's try that. Let's go with that plan. Yeah. Yeah. I'd rather you avoid some surgeries.
Chris: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
thewifeissoloud: personally.
Chris: Yeah, I get the pathology report back in the middle of December. So that's, yeah.
thewifeissoloud: Oh. Well, we know it was cancer.
Chris: Yeah, I guess all the, I don't know.
thewifeissoloud: Pathology port, you had cancer.
Chris: Yeah, yeah.
thewifeissoloud: Cool.
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: Thanks.
Chris: Well, I guess because they also took some of the lymph nodes all around.
thewifeissoloud: Yeah, my wife called me.
Chris: So I guess making sure that they don't have it.
thewifeissoloud: Sure. my ah My wife called me a bad friend.
Chris: Why?
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.
thewifeissoloud: I talked to his wife. She said he was out of surgery and he's fine.
Chris: Yeah. that Bingo bango.
thewifeissoloud: that's just And she's like, you didn't follow that up? I'm like, no.
Chris: With what?
thewifeissoloud: Why would I follow that up? i I was a good friend. I didn't send the clown stripper to his room.
Chris: Yeah, that's true. Yeah, I was yeah looking out for that.
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.
Chris: Some poor bastard in Tidal. Oh, God, that's funny.
thewifeissoloud: If I had known you were a MedStar, I would have just put on my Pennywise outfit and driven down there myself.
Chris: Uh-huh. Yeah. Yeah. no
thewifeissoloud: And by buy your car when you get to leave.
Chris: Oh, God. Yeah. No. No. Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: not true. I was at work.
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: Or was I?
Chris: Yeah. Did you secretly scrub in?
thewifeissoloud: Yeah. Is friend the marbles yet?
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.
Chris: definitely been weird just living with cancer but yeah francis is gone and now i can move on
thewifeissoloud: And I hope that people who are listening get checked out.
Chris: yes
thewifeissoloud: um Early detection is the only, basically the only thing you can guarantee yourself some success these days.
Chris: Yeah, yeah.
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.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
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.
Chris: yeah Yeah. Early detection, know, early monitoring and not waiting for it to get ugly. So.
thewifeissoloud: Yeah. Oh, and just to go on with this, we had a patient yesterday who had basically never seen a doctor in their life.
Chris: Hmm.
thewifeissoloud: They were in their forty s
Chris: Okay.
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
Chris: Hmm.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah. Every year once a year.
Chris: Yeah.
Chris: No, no. No. Yeah. You need a doctor that knows you.
Chris: No, no, it's not. No. Yeah. Real quick side tangent to that. I dont can't remember if I told you 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.
thewifeissoloud: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
Chris: This lady asked me, she's like, so looking at how long have you had the prostate? I said, since I was born.
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.
Chris: Yeah.
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
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
Chris: Right. Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: Right? this This person is a specialist in their field. They know what they're doing.
Chris: Right.
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.
Chris: Yeah. Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: Yeah.
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: Yeah.
Chris: What's it when they did the 12 lead on me at that pre-surgical? V1 and V2 were below my nipple line.
thewifeissoloud: Hmm.
Chris: Yeah.
thewifeissoloud: Hmm.
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.
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
Chris: What? What?
Chris: yeah
thewifeissoloud: Cool.
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
thewifeissoloud: Cool. Cool.
thewifeissoloud: Yep. That's good news.
thewifeissoloud: If we even have Thanksgiving. Yeah.
Chris: Yeah. Sad.
thewifeissoloud: Yeah. Sad.
Chris: That's all one person's fault, though.
thewifeissoloud: someone's It's one person's fault and no one else's.
Chris: But yeah, take care and talk to you next time.
thewifeissoloud: See you, folks.
