WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:01.399 Show time is here. 2 00:00:02.279 --> 00:00:03.240 No time to fear. 3 00:00:03.680 --> 00:00:06.919 Corilla is so near because showtime is here. 4 00:00:07.120 --> 00:00:10.439 So on with the show. Let's give it a go. 5 00:00:11.080 --> 00:00:13.919 Carrilla is the one that you need to know. 6 00:00:15.919 --> 00:00:16.359 Now. 7 00:00:16.399 --> 00:00:18.519 It's show side. 8 00:00:20.359 --> 00:00:23.800 All right, in just sixty seconds. The most fabulous I 9 00:00:23.879 --> 00:00:28.719 mean he's really something, the best, most fabulous host will 10 00:00:28.760 --> 00:00:32.000 be here. He just tells the truth all the time, bigly. 11 00:00:32.560 --> 00:00:33.799 And he's funny, this guy. 12 00:00:34.200 --> 00:00:35.000 Have you heard him? 13 00:00:35.479 --> 00:00:40.600 Yeah, he's funny and smart, smart and funny, not like 14 00:00:40.640 --> 00:00:44.679 those nasty people on lamestream media. So don't go anywhere. 15 00:00:45.000 --> 00:00:47.920 He's almost here. I know he doesn't speak well of me, 16 00:00:48.320 --> 00:00:56.759 and that's okay because I mean, he's really quite fabulous. 17 00:01:00.200 --> 00:01:01.159 Show sign. 18 00:01:04.680 --> 00:01:08.159 All right. The rumors of my demise has been greatly overrated. 19 00:01:08.159 --> 00:01:11.120 We're gonna talk about that and pop stars in space. 20 00:01:11.560 --> 00:01:14.959 Plus we've got a new composter, and I saw a 21 00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:17.200 TV show which really scared me. So we're gonna talk 22 00:01:17.239 --> 00:01:20.079 about all those things today on the Correll Cast. 23 00:01:20.760 --> 00:01:27.840 Uncensored, Unfiltered, un Hinged. It's the cell Cast. Listen daily 24 00:01:27.920 --> 00:01:29.439 on your favorite streaming service. 25 00:01:34.959 --> 00:01:37.599 It is the cREL Cast. I am Corel and I 26 00:01:37.640 --> 00:01:42.000 am so very glad to be with you today, literally 27 00:01:42.200 --> 00:01:45.239 as in on the planet. I'm gonna be a little 28 00:01:45.280 --> 00:01:48.680 all over the place today. I'm sure there's probably hormones 29 00:01:48.760 --> 00:01:51.480 racing around inside of me. God knows there's meds. 30 00:01:52.000 --> 00:01:52.120 Uh. 31 00:01:52.359 --> 00:01:55.000 So we're gonna talk about why I wasn't here Thursday. 32 00:01:55.680 --> 00:01:57.920 Then we're gonna talk about pop stars on Well, first 33 00:01:57.920 --> 00:02:00.599 we'll talk about pop stars on the moon, and then 34 00:02:00.640 --> 00:02:03.680 we'll get to her in space, and then we'll talk 35 00:02:03.719 --> 00:02:04.120 about No. 36 00:02:04.480 --> 00:02:04.519 No. 37 00:02:04.879 --> 00:02:06.879 The most important thing on my mind is why I 38 00:02:06.959 --> 00:02:09.520 wasn't here Thursday, and I want to share that with 39 00:02:09.599 --> 00:02:13.280 you because I've learned so many lessons and maybe you 40 00:02:13.360 --> 00:02:16.360 will too, or if nothing else, it'll at least be 41 00:02:16.520 --> 00:02:21.680 a interesting story. So you all know that I've been 42 00:02:21.719 --> 00:02:25.240 spending a majority of my days crying and worrying about 43 00:02:25.280 --> 00:02:29.520 having als or ms or whatever because of the reaction 44 00:02:29.680 --> 00:02:33.479 to the shingles vaccine that started my muscles twitching and 45 00:02:33.520 --> 00:02:37.759 doing all of that. Well, I learned an important lesson 46 00:02:37.800 --> 00:02:42.159 about worrying. On Thursday morning, got up, did my yoga, 47 00:02:42.280 --> 00:02:46.319 had my breakfast with ember oatmeal fruit tea, you know, 48 00:02:46.400 --> 00:02:49.599 prepared the show, did all that, walked to the park 49 00:02:50.080 --> 00:02:54.719 or actually drove my motorcycle to the park, got off 50 00:02:54.719 --> 00:02:58.560 the bike started walking around the park. Right about it 51 00:02:58.639 --> 00:03:02.639 the half mile mark, Ember comes up and claws up 52 00:03:02.680 --> 00:03:05.639 my right leg. Now that's her trigger because she's a 53 00:03:05.680 --> 00:03:09.800 service dog, and I thought, what like, I'm not an 54 00:03:09.800 --> 00:03:14.479 aphib And then all of a sudden, the park started 55 00:03:14.520 --> 00:03:18.199 spinning and I grabbed the trash can. I was on 56 00:03:18.319 --> 00:03:21.879 the phone with my friend David Ethridge, and I said, David, 57 00:03:22.400 --> 00:03:26.719 something is very wrong, and he said nine one one 58 00:03:26.759 --> 00:03:32.240 wrong and I said yes, So I switch over to 59 00:03:32.280 --> 00:03:36.080 an empty line and I call nine one one and 60 00:03:36.479 --> 00:03:39.520 all I could do at that moment was lay down 61 00:03:39.800 --> 00:03:43.039 in the park. So there I lay with Ember on 62 00:03:43.120 --> 00:03:48.039 my lap, and I take an Apple watch EKG, and 63 00:03:48.120 --> 00:03:51.479 I wish I could show it to you because it 64 00:03:51.560 --> 00:03:55.439 was the most terrific EKG I've ever seen. My heart 65 00:03:55.520 --> 00:04:00.159 was beating at one hundred and ninety one beats a minute. 66 00:04:00.800 --> 00:04:04.159 If you get above two hundred, very real chance it'll stop. 67 00:04:05.919 --> 00:04:07.919 And it couldn't tell me if I was in a 68 00:04:08.000 --> 00:04:11.240 fib because it was above one hundred and fifty beats 69 00:04:11.280 --> 00:04:14.560 a minute. The watch will only detect aphib up to 70 00:04:14.599 --> 00:04:17.920 one hundred and fifty beats a minute. So I'm lying 71 00:04:17.920 --> 00:04:21.480 there on the ground in the park, not knowing if 72 00:04:21.480 --> 00:04:24.560 this is a heart attack. I was a little short 73 00:04:24.560 --> 00:04:27.360 of breath because of the racing of the heart. No pain, 74 00:04:27.560 --> 00:04:31.160 no chest pain, no arm pain, and it just didn't 75 00:04:31.160 --> 00:04:37.519 feel like aphib But there I lay, really wondering is 76 00:04:37.560 --> 00:04:43.240 this it? I mean truly, I'm lying in the park alone. 77 00:04:43.399 --> 00:04:46.600 Ember is on top of me. My heart is going 78 00:04:46.639 --> 00:04:50.120 almost two hundred beats a minute, and I was just 79 00:04:52.040 --> 00:04:57.240 I just I just thought, well, this might be the 80 00:04:57.319 --> 00:05:01.360 last place you see on Earth. So the ambulance and 81 00:05:01.439 --> 00:05:05.759 fire trucks arrive. They take my poltse on the ground 82 00:05:05.800 --> 00:05:11.040 and immediately swoop me onto the gurney and Ember and 83 00:05:11.160 --> 00:05:14.639 David is in my ear on my AirPod. He's calling Steve, 84 00:05:14.720 --> 00:05:17.360 telling Steve that he's got to get to Spring Valley 85 00:05:17.399 --> 00:05:23.120 Hospital for Ember and me. And so they put me 86 00:05:23.160 --> 00:05:25.319 in the back of the ambulance. Like on my TV shows, 87 00:05:26.279 --> 00:05:28.800 you never really realize how scary the back of an 88 00:05:28.800 --> 00:05:32.600 ambulance is. You can watch it a billion times on TV, 89 00:05:33.720 --> 00:05:38.279 but you never really notice until you're in it. So 90 00:05:38.399 --> 00:05:41.560 there I am. They're suddenly up lifting up my shirt 91 00:05:41.639 --> 00:05:45.279 and putting ekg leads all over my body. They're getting 92 00:05:45.399 --> 00:05:49.800 venus access, they're doing it all and then, of course, 93 00:05:49.839 --> 00:05:52.360 once they get me situated, they try to have me 94 00:05:52.439 --> 00:05:55.279 do these exercises that can sometimes slow down your heart. 95 00:05:55.399 --> 00:05:59.759 My heart says, f you, and so it's still beating 96 00:05:59.759 --> 00:06:02.879 at eighty beats a minute. They take off lights and 97 00:06:02.920 --> 00:06:06.439 sirens Code three. They tell me they're gonna give me 98 00:06:06.480 --> 00:06:10.000 some medicine to slow down my heart, but first they 99 00:06:10.040 --> 00:06:12.519 have to put on the pads to shock my heart 100 00:06:13.639 --> 00:06:16.920 in case the medicine they give me stops my heart. 101 00:06:18.360 --> 00:06:20.199 That's a lot to take in while you're in the 102 00:06:20.240 --> 00:06:24.480 back of an ambulance. Okay, they give me the shot. 103 00:06:24.959 --> 00:06:29.319 It doesn't work at all, and I'm like, guys, I 104 00:06:29.360 --> 00:06:31.680 really don't want to die today. I really don't so 105 00:06:31.800 --> 00:06:34.560 could And I said this, So I'm also could we 106 00:06:35.680 --> 00:06:38.279 you know what's gonna happen here? Am I having a 107 00:06:38.319 --> 00:06:41.079 heart attack? So they were going to give me a 108 00:06:41.120 --> 00:06:44.639 second dose of this drug, but they said, because it's 109 00:06:44.639 --> 00:06:47.160 the second dose, that it really could stop my heart. 110 00:06:48.120 --> 00:06:50.720 But don't worry. They've got the shock pads on me. 111 00:06:51.680 --> 00:06:53.680 And I looked at him and I said, so you're 112 00:06:53.680 --> 00:06:56.240 gonna give me a shot? That could kill me, and 113 00:06:56.279 --> 00:07:00.399 he goes, well, yes, but we have great results starting 114 00:07:00.399 --> 00:07:05.279 the heart. That's not comforting. We're then at the hospital, 115 00:07:05.319 --> 00:07:08.000 so he says, well, I'll hold this and the hospital 116 00:07:08.040 --> 00:07:11.199 has better drugs. They get me an Ember in the 117 00:07:11.439 --> 00:07:16.240 er and right into a room and suddenly there's thirty 118 00:07:16.240 --> 00:07:21.120 people in the room and Ember is there on my lap. 119 00:07:21.160 --> 00:07:23.480 You know, she's a service dog. She's allowed. She's there 120 00:07:23.480 --> 00:07:26.920 on my lap. Stephen not gotten there yet. And I 121 00:07:27.040 --> 00:07:31.519 was terrified. Terrified He because your heart beating that fast 122 00:07:31.519 --> 00:07:34.959 can make you terrified, and b because I ain't ready 123 00:07:35.040 --> 00:07:40.959 to go. And my troponin levels were very high. They 124 00:07:40.959 --> 00:07:44.720 were critical. That could mean a heart attack. Now no 125 00:07:44.720 --> 00:07:48.319 one's told me I had a heart attack, but those 126 00:07:48.399 --> 00:07:50.879 levels being that high could mean that I had a 127 00:07:50.879 --> 00:07:55.839 heart attack. Although also a fib with it being that 128 00:07:55.959 --> 00:08:01.240 high can release traponin. So but I mine were ninety eight, 129 00:08:01.600 --> 00:08:04.759 which you're not supposed to have any and that signifies 130 00:08:04.800 --> 00:08:07.800 it could be hard damage. So that's not looking good. 131 00:08:08.639 --> 00:08:11.480 They give me a shot. My heart goes from one 132 00:08:11.560 --> 00:08:15.000 eighty to one thirty. They're happy about that. Still out 133 00:08:15.040 --> 00:08:17.839 of rhythm. Two beats, one beat, three beat, four beats, 134 00:08:18.759 --> 00:08:23.399 Steve arrives. They more doctors come and see me, and 135 00:08:23.600 --> 00:08:26.439 they've decided I'm in a fib with URVR, that's what 136 00:08:26.480 --> 00:08:30.000 they called it. They still can't get it to drop 137 00:08:30.040 --> 00:08:33.360 below one thirty, so they're going to admit me to 138 00:08:33.440 --> 00:08:38.360 the ICU. I hear that, and now I'm really terrified. 139 00:08:39.080 --> 00:08:43.000 Like the ICU, but they said because of the amount 140 00:08:43.039 --> 00:08:45.639 of medication I was on, it had to be in 141 00:08:45.679 --> 00:08:49.759 the ICU. They didn't want to let ember in the ICU. 142 00:08:49.960 --> 00:08:52.320 But then Emberg got a vouching from the fourth floor 143 00:08:52.360 --> 00:08:55.279 where I was with the meningitis. The nurses there said, 144 00:08:55.320 --> 00:08:58.039 oh no, she's wonderful. So the ICU made an exception, 145 00:08:59.360 --> 00:09:03.039 so they transfer me up. They don't feed me all 146 00:09:03.120 --> 00:09:05.960 day Thursday because a vegan diet for this hospital is 147 00:09:07.039 --> 00:09:11.519 like I'm from Mars. All hospitals should have plant based diets, FYI, 148 00:09:12.120 --> 00:09:14.440 and this one does. They just couldn't get their act together. 149 00:09:16.120 --> 00:09:19.519 So the ice you is a busy place and it's scary, 150 00:09:19.600 --> 00:09:22.600 and there's nurses coming in at all hours, and my 151 00:09:22.720 --> 00:09:26.080 heart just would not convert. It's called convert. So now 152 00:09:26.120 --> 00:09:28.840 they're talking about shocking me in forty eight hours. They're 153 00:09:28.879 --> 00:09:32.039 talking They put me on heprin, a blood thinner. They 154 00:09:32.039 --> 00:09:36.480 put me on this horrible drug called amiodorone, which the 155 00:09:36.519 --> 00:09:39.840 side effects are horrific. They put me on dijocts and 156 00:09:39.879 --> 00:09:42.919 they're they're throwing everything at my heart. What if my 157 00:09:42.960 --> 00:09:48.960 heart say, f you stays above one ten? Beating weirdly? 158 00:09:51.399 --> 00:09:54.399 The ICU nurses poked me so many times and they 159 00:09:54.440 --> 00:09:56.200 missed half the time and then had to call for 160 00:09:56.240 --> 00:09:59.559 the bottomists. That was really annoying. The blood pressure cuff 161 00:09:59.600 --> 00:10:02.440 every fifth ten minutes. No sleep at all. You can't 162 00:10:02.440 --> 00:10:04.679 sleep with the blood pressure cough every fifteen minutes and 163 00:10:05.000 --> 00:10:09.159 people coming in every two hours. So how did this 164 00:10:09.200 --> 00:10:13.039 all resolve? How did it all turn out? And what 165 00:10:13.159 --> 00:10:17.080 did I learn? Where to tell you about that? We're 166 00:10:17.080 --> 00:10:20.279 going to talk about people in state. We're going to 167 00:10:20.320 --> 00:10:23.240 talk about composting. If we have to talk, don't go 168 00:10:23.320 --> 00:10:29.519 anywhere right back, hopefully she'll be standing here. Don't go 169 00:10:29.600 --> 00:10:34.279 anywhere there. Oh good. 170 00:10:34.279 --> 00:10:36.600 I want to support the Corell cast, then like and 171 00:10:36.679 --> 00:10:40.360 subscribe the YouTube videos at the really Correl channel. Just 172 00:10:40.440 --> 00:10:43.519 go to YouTube dot com forward slash Really Correll, that's 173 00:10:43.639 --> 00:10:47.399 kr L and subscribe to the most exciting YouTube stream 174 00:10:47.480 --> 00:10:48.600 available today. 175 00:10:49.120 --> 00:10:53.240 If you're not visiting really corell dot com daily, you're 176 00:10:53.279 --> 00:10:56.879 missing out. Get the podcast videos and the blug including 177 00:10:56.919 --> 00:11:08.799 recipes at reallycorrel dot com. 178 00:11:13.440 --> 00:11:16.720 So there I am in the ICU, crying a lot 179 00:11:16.879 --> 00:11:20.480 because I didn't want to die and the hospital had 180 00:11:20.480 --> 00:11:25.480 my prognosis marked as fair. And as my friend Sean Devereux, 181 00:11:25.559 --> 00:11:31.039 who drove from Long Beach to get up here, drove 182 00:11:31.279 --> 00:11:34.320 from Long Beach. I hope you all have a friend 183 00:11:34.360 --> 00:11:38.399 like Sean Devereux and Steve Cabral who walked over for 184 00:11:38.639 --> 00:11:40.720 me offered to take her for the night, but he 185 00:11:40.799 --> 00:11:43.919 knew neither. All my friends after this had been like 186 00:11:43.960 --> 00:11:46.679 that dog can't be without you. She can't. I can't 187 00:11:46.679 --> 00:11:50.000 be without her. And literally, when she's without me, she howls, 188 00:11:50.000 --> 00:11:53.120 she cries. If they take her out to poor Pee, 189 00:11:53.159 --> 00:11:55.440 she does her business and then be line's right back. 190 00:11:55.879 --> 00:11:59.519 She knows the hospital floor layout, the e R or 191 00:11:59.559 --> 00:12:02.080 the ic You nurses loved her, so that didn't turn 192 00:12:02.080 --> 00:12:06.120 into a problem. But having someone there to take her out, Oh, 193 00:12:06.159 --> 00:12:08.519 my friend Sherry from the park, God bless her. She 194 00:12:08.720 --> 00:12:12.600 came over Heath my savior took my motorcycle from the 195 00:12:12.679 --> 00:12:15.000 park and brought it to his house, came and walked 196 00:12:15.080 --> 00:12:18.840 Ember on Friday morning at six am. Oh, just these 197 00:12:19.000 --> 00:12:25.080 these angels in human form. And so Friday morning, after 198 00:12:25.159 --> 00:12:29.279 no sleep, no food, now I'm on a NPO because 199 00:12:29.279 --> 00:12:31.360 they say, oh, we're going to shock your heart. Then 200 00:12:31.360 --> 00:12:33.759 another cardiologist comes in and says, no, we're not. We're 201 00:12:33.799 --> 00:12:37.320 gonna try meds and send you home. So that was encouraging. 202 00:12:37.639 --> 00:12:40.320 But then they don't have any orders for it. So 203 00:12:41.000 --> 00:12:47.360 we In my brain a lot was going on. Okay, 204 00:12:48.679 --> 00:12:54.440 in my brain, I realized that all the medical anxiety 205 00:12:54.480 --> 00:13:03.519 I've had all my life is basicly useless because I 206 00:13:03.639 --> 00:13:06.600 never worried about aphib sending me to the ICU. Ever, 207 00:13:06.720 --> 00:13:09.919 it never has. It's never been that bad. When it 208 00:13:09.960 --> 00:13:12.039 comes on, I'll take two pills. It'll go away in 209 00:13:12.080 --> 00:13:16.000 an hour or two, and that's that. So I was 210 00:13:16.039 --> 00:13:18.519 googling every drug they wanted to give me, and I 211 00:13:18.600 --> 00:13:21.600 refused several. I'm like, I'm not taking that, there's horrible 212 00:13:21.639 --> 00:13:25.440 side effects. Well you need it, I'm like, find another drug. 213 00:13:27.919 --> 00:13:30.519 My blood pressure was one hundred over sixty and they 214 00:13:30.559 --> 00:13:32.399 wanted to give me a blood pressure pill. I said, 215 00:13:32.440 --> 00:13:36.000 if it's any lower, I'd be dead well, and you 216 00:13:36.000 --> 00:13:38.399 know what they kept saying to that, Well, you're in 217 00:13:38.440 --> 00:13:40.919 the ICU, so if anything happens, it's okay. I go 218 00:13:41.039 --> 00:13:44.960 not to me. It's not okay, you know, so we 219 00:13:45.000 --> 00:13:47.679 can manage it. Yeah, no, let's just not cause it 220 00:13:49.000 --> 00:13:53.480 so various doctors whatever. Then finally Friday morning comes and 221 00:13:53.519 --> 00:13:55.600 they say we're not doing it. So I called down 222 00:13:55.639 --> 00:13:57.399 and cuss out the dietician and they get me a 223 00:13:57.480 --> 00:14:01.159 vegan tray up for breakfast right away. My heart is 224 00:14:01.200 --> 00:14:03.320 not converted, it's still in a fib and still above 225 00:14:03.320 --> 00:14:05.240 one hundred. At night it went down to fifty because 226 00:14:05.279 --> 00:14:07.320 of these drugs they gave me. When the drugs were off, 227 00:14:07.360 --> 00:14:11.840 it went right back up. It was not encouraging. I 228 00:14:11.919 --> 00:14:14.480 made a joke. I was in pain. I made a 229 00:14:14.559 --> 00:14:17.360 joke from airplane. The nurse said, how are you? And 230 00:14:17.399 --> 00:14:19.279 I said, well, I picked a bad week to quit heroin. 231 00:14:19.720 --> 00:14:22.080 She put in my chart I was reformed heroin addict. 232 00:14:22.759 --> 00:14:24.879 I have to call today and get that taken out 233 00:14:24.919 --> 00:14:28.679 of my chart. She took my joke seriously, and so 234 00:14:28.840 --> 00:14:32.440 Sean stayed the night and or well, Friday day he 235 00:14:32.559 --> 00:14:35.559 got here. No one stayed the night Thursday, night. I 236 00:14:35.639 --> 00:14:38.440 was alone and afraid, hugging Ember, not knowing if I 237 00:14:38.480 --> 00:14:41.519 was going to see the sunrise. And I realized so 238 00:14:41.639 --> 00:14:43.440 much about my life that I can't tell you all 239 00:14:43.480 --> 00:14:46.679 on the show. I can't explain to you everything that 240 00:14:46.720 --> 00:14:50.679 I realized about what a great life I have, about 241 00:14:51.639 --> 00:14:54.440 while it's not the career that I had or maybe 242 00:14:54.480 --> 00:14:57.440 we'll have in the future, there's nothing wrong with a 243 00:14:57.480 --> 00:15:00.000 show that makes you, you know, nine hundred bucks a month. 244 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:04.399 There's nothing wrong with that that. There's nothing wrong with 245 00:15:04.600 --> 00:15:07.840 my life right now. There's a lot wrong with the world, 246 00:15:07.879 --> 00:15:09.639 and I don't want to be in Vegas and all 247 00:15:09.639 --> 00:15:14.080 of that, but that's just superficial at its core. There's 248 00:15:14.120 --> 00:15:18.200 nothing wrong with my life. And the same with medical anxiety. 249 00:15:18.279 --> 00:15:21.200 Stress can be an aphim trigger. I know what triggered 250 00:15:21.240 --> 00:15:24.600 my aphib and you all are going to think I'm crazy. Tuesday, 251 00:15:24.639 --> 00:15:27.679 I had a brain MRI which came back unremarkable for 252 00:15:27.759 --> 00:15:30.279 a man of my age. I think my brain's remarkable, 253 00:15:30.279 --> 00:15:36.639 but whatever, And they did this injection of this doterim 254 00:15:36.799 --> 00:15:42.720 contrast in after market reports. According to the Dotorim website, 255 00:15:43.639 --> 00:15:48.320 in after market reports, there have been cardiac side effects 256 00:15:48.759 --> 00:15:56.240 of arrhythmias, superventricular tachycardia or bracketcardia. I had SVT and 257 00:15:56.279 --> 00:16:00.679 then aphib two days forty eight hours after I got 258 00:16:00.679 --> 00:16:04.000 this injection. I'm the same guy that took the shingle 259 00:16:04.039 --> 00:16:08.080 shot and got shinkles. So you can't tell me that 260 00:16:08.159 --> 00:16:10.559 it wasn't that. Because I've gone without aphib for two 261 00:16:10.639 --> 00:16:13.639 years and then two days after I get this contrast 262 00:16:13.919 --> 00:16:18.399 that in aftermarket reports has caused APHIB, I go into 263 00:16:18.399 --> 00:16:21.480 the worst bout of it I've ever had. So I 264 00:16:21.559 --> 00:16:25.000 realized my life, I'm bad. Sometimes I let the haters 265 00:16:25.039 --> 00:16:29.639 get to me from TikTok mostly. And I also realized 266 00:16:29.639 --> 00:16:34.440 that my medical anxiety does not serve me because anxiety 267 00:16:34.480 --> 00:16:37.320 through the roof can trigger a fib or make it worse. 268 00:16:37.799 --> 00:16:42.120 It can also trigger the benign muscle fisticulations. So I 269 00:16:42.360 --> 00:16:45.960 vow that Thursday night, in bed with Ember in the ICU, 270 00:16:47.440 --> 00:16:52.440 I vow to try to stop the medical anxiety, to 271 00:16:52.559 --> 00:16:55.679 kill it. I also watched the finale of The Pit. 272 00:16:56.080 --> 00:16:59.919 How weird I'm in an ICU on my iPad watching 273 00:17:00.120 --> 00:17:03.559 the season finale of a show about an ear. That's 274 00:17:03.600 --> 00:17:08.039 such a meta moment. Really so Friday, this one gorgeous 275 00:17:08.039 --> 00:17:10.319 cardiologist that no one on the floor knew who he was. 276 00:17:10.359 --> 00:17:12.200 We wondered if he was a rando off the street. 277 00:17:13.119 --> 00:17:16.480 Comes in and says, I'm gonna try dijoxin because sometimes 278 00:17:16.480 --> 00:17:19.920 that helps you convert. So they give me dijoxin me 279 00:17:19.960 --> 00:17:23.480 and we don't think anything of it because it hasn't converted. Finally, 280 00:17:23.480 --> 00:17:25.200 at two in the afternoon, I look up at the 281 00:17:25.240 --> 00:17:29.359 monitor and my heart rates fifty five and in normal 282 00:17:29.440 --> 00:17:36.119 sinus rhythm. I cried. I couldn't believe it. I thought 283 00:17:36.200 --> 00:17:39.400 I was going to leave there with aphib It stayed 284 00:17:39.400 --> 00:17:42.160 in rhythm for four hours. So they determined to let 285 00:17:42.240 --> 00:17:46.079 me go home with medicines, and they over medicated me. 286 00:17:46.680 --> 00:17:49.519 They want me to go on Eloquist, they want me 287 00:17:49.599 --> 00:17:52.279 to go on amiotoone, and they want me to go 288 00:17:52.359 --> 00:17:56.920 on a metropolol, which lowers your heart rate, and they 289 00:17:56.960 --> 00:18:00.880 want me to take fifty milligrams a day. My resting 290 00:18:00.920 --> 00:18:04.039 heart rate is fifty five. If I take that much metropolol, 291 00:18:05.279 --> 00:18:08.319 I may die. So I haven't taken any of the 292 00:18:08.359 --> 00:18:12.200 medications until I talked to my cardiologists later today or tomorrow. 293 00:18:13.000 --> 00:18:17.279 My heart has maintained normal rhythm. It has not thrown 294 00:18:17.279 --> 00:18:21.680 any PVCs and I'm here with you. But I learned 295 00:18:21.759 --> 00:18:24.720 so much. First of all, I know why Nevada's number 296 00:18:24.759 --> 00:18:26.839 forty ninth in healthcare and they're trying to be fifty. 297 00:18:27.720 --> 00:18:31.240 My care was, you know, it was great to have 298 00:18:31.359 --> 00:18:34.359 access to it, and I'm so grateful that they were there, 299 00:18:34.920 --> 00:18:38.440 but not feeding me, not knowing who the doctors were 300 00:18:38.440 --> 00:18:40.480 that were treating me, and the ICU they had no 301 00:18:40.559 --> 00:18:42.839 idea who the two doctors were. I had to call 302 00:18:42.880 --> 00:18:45.119 my pharmacy and get the name of the prescribing doctor 303 00:18:45.160 --> 00:18:48.039 of the meds so they could then page her to 304 00:18:48.079 --> 00:18:52.480 find out what her orders were. I mean, no communication. 305 00:18:53.640 --> 00:18:56.079 The nurses are nice, but they couldn't hit a vein 306 00:18:56.160 --> 00:19:00.000 to save their lives and that hurt. No sleep because 307 00:19:00.039 --> 00:19:02.160 they got to take blood at four so doctors can 308 00:19:02.160 --> 00:19:07.920 have it at six. It was an ordeal, but I've 309 00:19:07.960 --> 00:19:12.519 come out of it changed forever, changed, I hope for 310 00:19:12.559 --> 00:19:16.599 the better. I did obsess a little yesterday about the 311 00:19:16.599 --> 00:19:19.000 whole als thing. Oh and they called me from Cedars 312 00:19:19.039 --> 00:19:21.359 to say they could see me today, and I'm like, 313 00:19:21.480 --> 00:19:23.519 I don't think I'm gonna make that. You just leave 314 00:19:23.559 --> 00:19:28.920 me on the cancel list. But yesterday my right left 315 00:19:29.640 --> 00:19:33.119 calf where it all started, cramped up. And I read 316 00:19:33.160 --> 00:19:36.759 that benign festiculations can do that, but of course for me, 317 00:19:37.000 --> 00:19:40.200 it was the ultimate symbol of als. And so yesterday 318 00:19:40.599 --> 00:19:42.720 and when I started going down that path, I said, uh, huh, 319 00:19:43.240 --> 00:19:47.200 you ain't doing this again. Nope, I said. I tried 320 00:19:47.200 --> 00:19:50.440 to stop myself. I learned that I love you all 321 00:19:51.000 --> 00:19:55.200 that I love being with you every day. I love 322 00:19:55.240 --> 00:19:59.640 our communication. I love talking to you. I don't care 323 00:19:59.640 --> 00:20:04.839 how big the podcast is. It doesn't matter if five 324 00:20:04.880 --> 00:20:09.640 of you are listening. I love you. I learned I've 325 00:20:09.640 --> 00:20:13.720 missed you. Third, I wanted you with me. I really did. 326 00:20:13.960 --> 00:20:16.039 Hey Correll here, and I'd like to take a moment 327 00:20:16.079 --> 00:20:19.160 to thank all the patrons at Patreon. Your support means 328 00:20:19.200 --> 00:20:22.000 the absolute world to me and the show. 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So please listen on all streaming services, watch 340 00:20:58.519 --> 00:21:00.880 and subscribe on YouTube, and so support the show through 341 00:21:00.880 --> 00:21:05.119 Patreon at Patreon dot com. Forward slash, Really Correl, Thanks 342 00:21:05.160 --> 00:21:07.599 for almost thirty years of support for the loudest, craziest, 343 00:21:07.640 --> 00:21:10.319 most unhinged gay guy and his little dog. And let's 344 00:21:10.359 --> 00:21:26.440 keep the party going as long as we can. So 345 00:21:26.559 --> 00:21:28.839 all of this was very traumatic and I really should 346 00:21:28.839 --> 00:21:30.880 take a few days off and just do nothing, but 347 00:21:30.960 --> 00:21:33.880 that's not in my nature. Questions from the YouTube chat 348 00:21:33.960 --> 00:21:36.759 room YouTube dot com forward slash Really Carrell, and a 349 00:21:36.759 --> 00:21:41.200 couple comments from TikTok at really Carrell. James says, wasn't 350 00:21:41.200 --> 00:21:45.720 the contrast cleared for two days? Actually? Data lineum based 351 00:21:45.720 --> 00:21:50.000 contrast stays in your body for decades. It is a 352 00:21:50.039 --> 00:21:56.240 heavy metal wrapped and shelated, so it shouldn't escape. But 353 00:21:57.279 --> 00:21:59.799 it says the side effects can be anywhere from when 354 00:21:59.799 --> 00:22:03.359 they inject you to a hour or two later to 355 00:22:03.559 --> 00:22:07.440 up to a couple days later. I fully believe it 356 00:22:07.519 --> 00:22:10.839 was the contrast, because I haven't gone into a fib 357 00:22:10.920 --> 00:22:14.720 like that ever, and so I fully believe that I 358 00:22:14.759 --> 00:22:18.240 am now very sensitive after having a reaction to that vaccine, 359 00:22:19.559 --> 00:22:23.240 very sensitive. And when I came home very stressed. I mean, 360 00:22:23.279 --> 00:22:25.839 that's stressed. Thirty six hours of your heart beating above 361 00:22:26.079 --> 00:22:28.319 It's like being on a treadmill for thirty six hours. 362 00:22:28.759 --> 00:22:31.680 My body was stressed and my muscles were all twitching, 363 00:22:32.000 --> 00:22:36.720 and I was convinced it's because I have als, and really, honestly, 364 00:22:37.319 --> 00:22:41.039 I think it's it was because, oh damn, the TikTok 365 00:22:41.119 --> 00:22:45.160 video went out. Hold on, hold on, it's not to 366 00:22:45.200 --> 00:22:49.000 go with that audio. I really believe it was because 367 00:22:50.400 --> 00:22:58.799 of the contrast. Let's see what else. In the chat room, 368 00:23:00.880 --> 00:23:04.680 I had a lot of emotions. I love my life, 369 00:23:04.839 --> 00:23:07.160 I love my dog. I do not love Las Vegas. 370 00:23:07.279 --> 00:23:10.440 I realized that if I had the money to move 371 00:23:10.480 --> 00:23:14.240 back to Long Beach, I would, but I don't love Vegas. 372 00:23:14.279 --> 00:23:16.960 I don't love the heat, and I have built a 373 00:23:16.960 --> 00:23:22.039 community here. Heath and Sherry, they were beyond helpful, but 374 00:23:22.279 --> 00:23:26.160 still I don't love it here. I haven't found my tribe. 375 00:23:26.680 --> 00:23:29.799 I don't have enough in my inner circle. The fact 376 00:23:29.839 --> 00:23:32.519 that I was alone Thursday night and there was nobody 377 00:23:32.519 --> 00:23:36.079 to be with me. No, I need to find a community. 378 00:23:36.920 --> 00:23:39.880 So that'll be making a change of location here, hopefully 379 00:23:39.920 --> 00:23:43.440 in the next year. I also realized that my life 380 00:23:43.480 --> 00:23:47.200 ain't crap. I have food, I have a roof over 381 00:23:47.240 --> 00:23:50.920 my head at the moment, I have an income, and 382 00:23:51.000 --> 00:23:53.799 so things aren't as bad as I like to paint them. 383 00:23:54.599 --> 00:23:58.680 And as for medical anxiety, it serves me not like 384 00:23:58.920 --> 00:24:03.519 it doesn't help a thing. And I have it because 385 00:24:03.559 --> 00:24:07.519 I want to control what's gonna happen to my body. 386 00:24:08.519 --> 00:24:13.279 Well I just learned you can't control it. You can't. 387 00:24:14.799 --> 00:24:17.079 Whatever's gonna happen is gonna happen. You're gonna get the 388 00:24:17.119 --> 00:24:20.759 diseases you're gonna get. You can't worry about them because 389 00:24:20.799 --> 00:24:24.720 there's over fifteen thousand conditions you could get, and you're 390 00:24:24.759 --> 00:24:29.119 going to No one gets out of this alive, and 391 00:24:29.240 --> 00:24:33.759 no one stays completely healthy until they die. Okay, they 392 00:24:33.799 --> 00:24:36.519 can die healthy, meaning they die as healthy as a 393 00:24:36.559 --> 00:24:42.440 person can be, but no one dies healthy completely. Something 394 00:24:42.559 --> 00:24:45.799 was going to kill you. I learned a lot and 395 00:24:45.920 --> 00:24:48.119 over the Next week we'll be talking about some more 396 00:24:48.119 --> 00:24:51.240 of my life lessons. But let's talk about billionaires and 397 00:24:51.279 --> 00:24:54.680 millionaires in space. Katy Perry and Gail King went up today, 398 00:24:55.680 --> 00:25:00.720 Oprah did not. And at first I thought, three hundred 399 00:25:00.799 --> 00:25:04.279 thousand dollars a seat six people, So that's one point 400 00:25:04.279 --> 00:25:09.119 eight million dollars that they get for this. I'm sure 401 00:25:09.160 --> 00:25:11.200