Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 1 | The Holiday Heart Attack

Episode Date: January 8, 2019

Jeffy discuss the heart attack he had 10 days ago and the road to recovery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mama me, a piccolo. The albatross has a devil of a cross to bear. Wrong words. Wrong words. Hello and welcome. It's good to see you. You look great. It's good to see you guys again.

Happy New Year. I mean, there's so much. fat to get to chewing. You know, never mind the politics because, I mean, I try to, that will just drive you insane. And, you know, I try to avoid that at all costs on this show. We may drift into it once in a while, but there's so much more fat to get to chewing than just politics. I mean, since we last met, we got together. We got Kevin Spacey, we got Bill Cosby struggling in prison.

We got Megan Markle Family Affairs. We got the Oscars still haven't called me. Hello. I'm here for you. Been waiting for you. Just DM me at Jeffrey MRA. We got to go over movies and shows we've watched over the holidays. And tomorrow I'm going to tell you about a contest I want to have here on chewing the fat.

With prizes, by the way. Yeah, that's right. We're not going to have a contest without prizes. Duh. but I want to have our own chewing the fat bird box challenge. Okay. And I'll tell you more about that tomorrow because, you know, if you don't know what bird box is, you have until tomorrow. Do your homework.

It's a movie. And there's also challenges going on. And I could go into so much more, but I'll do that tomorrow for the, uh, for the, uh, chewing the fat bird box challenge. So, be ready for that. Thank you for coming along for the ride. I met what I said.

You look great. It's good to see you. At one point, I'm sure many people thought that I wasn't going to see you again. But, please. I was never a doubt. I mean, other people may have doubted it,

but not me. And that's a fact. And so, I might as well dive in dive into holiday heart attack the day after and the day after

Christmas I woke up the day after Christmas and I had this pain in my chest I didn't think much about it I just thought oh that's not right Oh man, that hurts.

Then it went away. I'm fine. The family's been sick. The kids have been sick. People running around. You know, it's Christmas. We've been going crazy. It's finally got some time to stop.

I'll be fine. The day after the day after Christmas, I wake up. A little pain in my chest. Oh, man, that hurt. What that's coming from? That's not right. Hindsight is always 20-20. I probably should have said something.

But I didn't. Goes away. Fine. So the 28th rolls around. That's the day after, the day after, the day after. You with me? I know you were. Please. Other people think you're not that bright, but I knew you were there.

I wake up pain in my chest. This time it's a lot stronger and it's not going away. And it continues. And I'm sitting on the side of the bed thinking to myself, this is not good, please go away. This is not good, please go away. And I start to sweat more than usual, more than my usual, Jeffrey sweat.

And I'm still kind of on the bed, half up. I can't get comfortable. I sit up. I can't get comfortable. The pain is still in my. my chest. I lean back. I try to lean back and lay back in the bed. I still can't get comfortable. The chest is still hurting. I'm starting to sweat. I'm trying to lean off to the left. I'll lay back over here on the pillows and just try to relax and try to get comfortable. No, it's not going

to get comfortable because the pain in your chest is still pounding. And my wife, by that time, it shot up and said, what's wrong? Nothing. She comes around the other side of the bed. I think I'm, I don't know. I think I'm having a hard attack. I'm not sure. All right, well, I'm to call 911. No, it'll go away. It'll be fine. Then I said,

I feel like I got to puke. I feel like I got to throw up. I don't feel good. I'm still sweating. White. I got no. Just, now that I can't get comfortable,

the pain in my chest is still breathtaking. And my wife said, all right, I'm going to call 911. Then I, no. But that no,

that particular no. When I answer like this, No. That meant, go ahead, call. Get somebody here. That was actually a no means yes. No. I won't go down all the no means yes jokes that I have,

but we'll just leave it at that no meant yes. She calls 911. And I'm still, you know, I'm cold sweats, hot sweats. The chest is just excruciating like a vices on my chest. I can't get comfortable. I'm leaning. Try to lean over here. Try to lean forward.

Okay, right here's fine. It's just a lot of pain. Just somebody coming. Did you call somebody? Well, she's on the phone with 911. Now, where we live, not too long ago was one city, and it just changed over to another city. But the post office will still deliver to us

whether whatever city is on the envelope. but doesn't matter. It's the zip code. But around the corner, just around the corner, two houses. Boop, poop, poop, around the corner. They actually have like two addresses, okay, because these cities decided that they were going to, and this is where we're going to split up the lines. And I guess what, you know, for now you'll get two. Two inches for you're good.

And, I mean, my backyard is really, for all purposes, in another city. So she calls 911, and, oh, that's not, you're going to be transatlantic. That's not us. Call 911. You're having a heart attack. Yes. We're trying to get somebody there. Oh, that's not us.

We're going to have to be transferred. So she gets transferred, you know, two or three times. And obviously, they got there, you know, but the EMTs and the fire rescue were there in a reasonable about a time. I couldn't tell you how long. My wife would be able to tell you, you know, the time. I'm guessing five to eight minutes. Okay? And that sounds like a long time.

So maybe it was faster. I don't know. They were there. I just know that finally she got through, talked to the people on the phone. They sent emergency rescuers. And they showed up. So I know that it was hard.

You know, when you're calling 911 and you get, oh, that's not us. Let me redirect you. You're already in a state of calling 911, right? So no matter how long it took to redirect you, it's too long. But it went, you know, they did, it did go by pretty fast. They have good things to say about them.

The bad things I could go on and say, I mean, we're still redirecting people for the 911. Are you kidding me? What are you doing? You know, you don't have this figured out. But I digress. So, and they come. And they're, you know, ripping my shirt and testing me out. You know, oh, you think you're having a heart attack, right?

Where does it hurt? My chest! Where the hell do you think it hurts? No, no, no, we know that, sir, but we just wondered it isn't hurt anywhere else. No, and that's why we called. I'm having a heart attack. Okay, that's the whole thing. They didn't have a lot of humor.

Where does it hurt? My chest! That's the guy goes, oh, no, we know that, sir, but I mean, there's any place that else we're like to be more specific. No, my chest, okay? So they put the, you know, they put all the meters on. They start taking blood pressure. They're putting, giving me meds under my tongue and nitro under my tongues.

And yep, you're having a heart attack. And we're going to get you out of here. And they had to rip the shirt off. And they cut one of my favorite sleeping shirts. It's very, very disappointed in the whole thing right there. That kind of ticks me off. I think the Fire Rescue owes me a shirt. apparently a couple days later when my wife finally came home, you know, after the hospital and stuff,

it was still on the floor wet. So it was just like the regular shirt. But it's all ripped up and I can't wear it anymore. Maybe I'll take a picture and post it online and let you see the former shirt that somebody at Fire Rescue owes me shirt. Okay. So now the way our house is set up is pretty difficult to get the gurney into our bedroom. I mean, you could obviously do it if it was at if you absolutely had to do it. But they brought in, you know, we've got 8,000 wheelchairs from the in-laws at the house.

And we've got, I don't even know if they used one of their wheelchairs or ours, to be honest with you. I just know that they brought a wheelchair into the bedroom so that they could back me out into the, past the dining area. And then the gurney was there in the family room area to shoot me out of the house. And I remember getting up and sitting on the, you know, in the wheelchair. Still with all the, you know, gadgets and bumming them, we're going to go. and we're going to go, and they're deciding where they're going to take me, as they're backing me out, what hospital they're going to go to. And they picked one that was the closest and had a cath lab,

ready for a heart surgery lab. Okay. Anyway, take me where they don't have one of those. So I have to be transferred. That's what I want, okay? So, anyway, because they had said originally, they told, they asked my wife, which hospital do you want to go to? and she was like, well, which one is the best and closest?

Best and closest. I mean, that's not a tough call, best and closest. And because they had originally, they had picked what hospital they were told was quite a ways away. And I probably, I would have never made that. I would have, I would, I never would have made that ride. So they said, well, this one here. And my wife was like, well, then that's the one you're going to. And so up on the gurney, I go.

and you know it's cold outside for texas on the 28th so i've still got my got my pants rolled up i've got uh because i was i think i was wearing shorts i was wearing my i was wearing my very comfortable long pants sweatpants that aren't really sweatpants they're just comfortable cash beer i've got those pulled up you know on my knees and uh no shirt on and all those stickers and we start wheeling outside and i'm like uh maybe a blanket what do you think A little cold out. Oh, you'll be fine. We'll get you in the ambulance.

You'll be fine. Whatever you say. So I'm still, you know, in this heart attack mode on the gurney, man. I'm still kind of freaking out. I know where I'm at. I know I'm in my house. I know they're taking me into the ambulance. But I, you know, I'm kind of not really with it.

I just want the pain to stop. They don't want the heart attack to stop. And, you know, I notice that they, I live on a little mound of dirt in Texas. So the road, when you turn out to the road, the one way, you're going uphill. And that's where the ambulance stopped. So when they pushed me out, there's three guys. Only two guys.

One guy goes around to the front. He's going through the front. The other guy goes along the side. He's throwing some stuff on the side. And they leave one guy holding me, starting to try to push me into the gurney. Only he's got to try to push me uphill. into the ambulance. There's a picture somewhere.

Actually, the picture is actually a little bit too late because he'd already kind of got a grip on it. Because at the beginning, he was, oh, guys? Guys? Somebody want to help me with this bad man? Because had he let go? I mean, when you think about it in retrospect,

how'd you let go and I'm left rolling down the road on the gurney in heart attack mode? I would say this, I would not recommend. that. I mean, it's funny to think about happening. It would be funny to see, you know, in a movie, because in a movie, it's not real. In real life, it would not be funny. So they got me in the ambulance, and I remember, I remember in the ambulance looking as they're taking off.

I remember them putting another nitro underneath my lip, underneath my tongue, and I remember them starting to freak out a little, and I remember looking out the window saying, oh, this is the way they're going out of my neighborhood. for what you know i mean i'm looking out the back one and going oh they're going out of the neighborhood this way and then i don't then the next thing i know we were getting out of the ambulance at the hospital apparently i've gone off the deep end uh in the ambulance it got a lot worse so when i got to the hospital their plan was there was no er there was no stop and check there was you're going straight into surgery uh the uncall heart surgeon is already on his way you're you know we're

making it happen now. So we get out of the ambulance at the hospital in the ER and they wheel me up to the sliding doors, only the sliding doors don't open. Now, hey, I still don't have my shirt on, by the way. It's cold. I've just had gone off the deep end, so I'm kind of still, I know where I'm at. I mean, I know you're laying on this gurney and you've, you know, you're free, you've having a heart attack, you've got all the stuff going on, so you kind of know what's going on, but you don't.

and so I know I'm at the I know I'm we're going to get you inside you know that those guys were great they're you know they're talking to you all the time and their whole thing is we're going to get you inside and I get you get you right in and they get it and then one guy says it's not it's closed what the hell and he starts banging on bus go and so I can remember seeing a nurse I remember laying on the gurney facing the door seeing a lady running up to the sliding doors you know inside and you know waving your arms so that the motion sensor would open them. So for whatever reason, the motion sensor either A wasn't working or they had it shut off

on the outside. And so there's, I mean, those seconds could have been, I mean, my life was in their hands at that point. And so then we go right into, right into surgery. And they're taking care of me. Hey, we're going to docks on his way. He's going to be here. And one nurse, I remember, I was laying there.

Get some of this pain going away. Hello, Jeff, I'm that someone so I'm going to be in there today. We're doing high surgery today. Dr. Someone's going to be doing it. This is what I'm listening. This is right here. Are you with me? I mean, yeah, I guess.

What do you want for me? You know, I won't fix it. And she goes, I just put a fentanyl patch on you. You don't probably know about fentanyl. You know, that's in the news lately. and a lot of big stories about fentanyl. And all the strength in me, A, I couldn't strangle her because my arms were down in the Ernest Kurni.

And B, I couldn't speak, which I'm sure was a good thing for them at that point. But, I mean, I just want to say, yeah, yeah, I just want to say, I don't care about your stupid fentanyl being in the news story. Okay, I know it's in the news story. I don't freaking care. Put 25,000 patches on me right now. I want this pain to stop. I don't care.

I don't care if you got it from the cartel on one side of the border or the cartel on this side of the border. I don't care. I don't care if you ordered it from Walgreens or if you ordered it from CBS. Just put it on me. Make the paint stop. I don't care. So I don't know if she knew who I was. I don't know if she was trying to, you know, if it was a news thing or if she was just being conversational,

trying to keep me involved in, you know, keeping me awake and alive. Either way. If that was the case, either way worked. Okay? Maybe both. They both worked. And then I remember the dock coming in. And what they do is they lay you flat and they go in the original, you know,

when they don't open your chest, when they don't open your chest, they go in through your groin. And they, you know, they hook it up through your blood vein through your groin. And you're up there. And then they're using, you know, using their little, that's what I'm calling up right now. That's the medical professional I am. They're using their little inside you, fixing your heart. And I'm sure that's what they call it.

It's 100%. I could be a doctor. And I remember afterwards, the doc, and I was told that I told the doctor this, and everybody started laughing. I barely remember it. But the doc showed me a picture and said, hey, this is what your heart looks like.

Before we went in, we got it all cleaned out. So I was gone then, right? Then I'm gone, and they're doing the surgery. Out gone. And they all, I mean, they obviously did wonderful work. I saw the post pictures. Thank you. I appreciate it.

I'm waking up after the surgery, and the doc says, hey, there's the picture of your heart. He shows me a picture, which I thought was my wife's phone because I wanted that picture so bad, and I still want that picture so bad. Apparently it was on the doc's phone,

and now I've got to go through records, and I've got to go through this, jump all through these hoops to get these pictures. I just want the picture. But it's a picture of my heart with the blockage, and it's this big black blob of where it was 100% blocked. And yes, that's correct. I had 100% blockage in one, 50% blockage in another one down a little bit farther to the left of off of that one.

And then on the right side, there were a couple that were 30, 40, maybe 50% blocked. But I just found that out yesterday, actually, because the heart dock was like, well, yeah, they put a stent in the 100%. they cleaned that out and put a stent in and then the 50% on the offshoot of that one they went in and cleaned that out and scraped it out and then the others the other two on the right side

they let go they didn't clean them out they just let them be they figure that you know because this was working so much better now that they'll just clean that out and with the medicines and everything so as stated on the Glenn Beck program radio program earlier today I have scrubbing bubbles in me now

and that is what's That is what's solving my heart clogged issues is scrubbing bubbles for the heart. So the doc wakes me up and he shows me that. He goes, this is your heart. It's what it looks like before. We fixed it. We went in there to scrape this out. He's pointed out.

And I'm still out. He's just talking to me to let me know what's going on. And then he comes around the other side of me. He goes, so not going to be any more cigarettes. I'm more smoking. And then I heard everybody last. Because when he told me that, I'm laying there half out of it. Half disemb-and-he, he said, no more smoking, no more cigarettes.

Fuck you. I mean, I thought it was funny. So did a lot of people in the surgery room. I don't know if the doc thought it was funny. And I really didn't mean that in a bad way. I meant that in a good way, you know, like, screw you. Why are you telling me that? I know I don't have to, I can't smoke anymore, all right?

I got it. but I don't know how well that went over as we move on to the recovery in the recovery room and they're taking me to the ICU while they're wheeling me to the ICU let me tell you that I appreciate you listening to chewing the fat and if you feel like it

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You can, you know, we'll give you the updates if you follow me on Twitter at Jeff Emory. Facebook and Instagram is Jeff Fisher Radio. And look forward to the contest coming up as we progress here the next few days with the Chewing the Fat Bird Box Challenge. more information on what you're going to need to do to win those prizes coming up tomorrow on chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher. So I wheel into the hospital bed and obviously, you know, now I've got to lay flat for three hours because you can't bleed out because they've gone in through your groin and that's a major artery.

And if it starts bleeding again, you can bleed out and die. You got to lay there, be still. I heard that so many times I wanted to choke somebody. I got it. So you got to lay flat. So finally after the three hours. You know, I never thought about this. Now, the bed, I don't remember moving when I had to lay flat.

So those people knew how to shut the bed off. And I'll tell you about that in just a second, because I never could get comfortable on the bed. But the only time that the bed wasn't uncomfortable, I was uncomfortable, the bed wasn't, when I was laying flat on the bed. I couldn't sit up. I had to lay flat and had to wait for, you know,

a little bit of the healing and a little bit of the drugs to go where they had made the incision to go in and work on the heart. So, you know, I get done with that. And then, you know, I can sit up and get on the bed. And they've got this bed that has these, it's, I don't know, air pockets. It's four people who are going to lay there. They don't want you to get bed sores. If you're going to lay there for a while,

they want you to keep the circulation going. so you know the it's got the little balloon air bubbles all through the bed so when you when you're laying there and you make a move

and you're rolling oh that's comfortable right there I could lay like this for a while and it blows up a bubble so it changes the way your body is so it's not comfortable now and it's it goes off

almost immediately I mean anytime you just a little. I just move my head a little bit. My legs are perfectly comfortable. I've got them leaning up against the back of the hospital bed. I'm sitting up just right. I got to move my right leg.

Okay, that's not comfortable. All right, so what if I, if I just pick up my arm and lead it on the side of the bed, to boom. All right, so maybe I'll just, if I can, maybe just kind of try to maneuver myself to roll just this way a little bit and get a little boom. Okay.

See if maybe the nurse knows how to shut the, this thing off. Hello, nurse. Yeah, I'm trying. Can you, I need, come in. I can't. I'm on their, I'm on their fall list, right? So I can't get up without one of them in the room.

And I've signed papers. Apparently, apparently if you sign papers, it makes it so you won't do it. I'm sure they, I'm sure that they, they have studies that show. If they make you sign the paper saying that you won't get up without calling them, that the odds are better that you. you won't do that. Because for me, I got it. You told me, don't get up without me in the room.

I don't, you know, I don't need to sign a piece of paper. I'm here for you to take care of me after my heart attack, after surgery. I don't feel good. If you tell me, don't get out of bed or don't move and don't get out and don't go move around without having one of us in the room with you, I won't. But apparently some people do. And there goes to bed. So, oh, she comes in. I was just trying to get comfortable.

I can't get comfortable in the bed. I'm trying to move around. Is there a way to shut this? Shut it off. I mean, watch. I mean, I'm trying to roll. I can't. It's never ending.

And, you know, she doesn't know. No, I don't know. There's no way to shut that off. Well, there's one way to shut it off, and that's get me out of this bed. So I'll just sit in the chair then. I'd rather sit in the chair and put a couple pillows behind me and sit up straight or lean back or whatever

and find a comfortable space there. doesn't have the bhr every 10 seconds when I move just a little bit. When I slightly roll to my right thinking this is a perfectly comfortable spot. It's agonizing. Whoever thought of this bed, I get it. Congratulations. You're keeping blood flow going. Keeping circulation going.

You're saving people from extra bed sores. But the people that don't want to move and are only there for a slight period of time, Please, for the love that all is holy, find a way to shut it off. So somebody can get some sleep. So I get out of bed. I get out of the bed and I sit up. And I thought it was happy. Okay, I'm good.

Good. It's not real comfortable, but it's better than. And, you know, the kids come. People come to visit. So since I'm sitting in the chair, they, you know, they have to sit in the bed. They're living in the bed. It's close and we can talk. But anybody that sits on the bed,

So it's ridiculous. Hey, I just want to come in to see you. I'll just sit out here and talk to you a little bit. The whole thing is insane. So then I'm like after a little while, you know, you think, well, I'll try to lay down. I've got to lay down a little bit. You know, I can't.

I can't lean back so far in his chair. I got to get up. And I can't get up. I can't get up to go to the bathroom to go number one without calling a freaking nurse. And then I figured out a way to do that, though. without calling her, so I'm good. Now they give you a little handcuff, and you don't have to actually leave the chair,

and you're good to go. And I'm all about that. All about it. So I don't have to call them every time I have to go to the bathroom, every time I have to go number one. And I'm sitting in the chair so I can still, I can lean back, lean forward, good. And, you know, people that come to visit,

I have them sit down by the end. But before I left, I mean, that was my enjoyment. People sitting on the bed, and they go, ooh, what's that? Oh, that's just the bed. Buh, get comfortable because you can't. So by the end, the last day, the last nurse actually did have know how to fix it a little bit better. She put it on some kind of night mode and it blows up all at once.

Like, I mean, they put it on some kind of night mode and they all go. And it all fills up. But then once you lay on it, it doesn't go off. Okay, something like that's kind of night mode. So it stays there. So it doesn't go off. So, but it still does. See, that's where that's a lay line.

to the nurse because it still does it doesn't go off as much you know like every so often you just get to sleep just be falling asleep it's perfect just a little down by the feet all right that's good I'm just gonna try not to move it's they're really comfortable killing me all right so I'm in this new house the new house brand new hospital I mean a million dollar hospital the room I live in is probably a million dollars. Whatever. 10 bucks for all I know. I don't know what they paid for the joint.

But it's a brand new hospital. And you'd think that A, the engineers would look at the bathroom. I can guarantee you not one of those engineers that designed those bathrooms ever used it. And I hope that they have to use the bathroom that I had to use when they go into the hospital. don't wish them bad. Well, maybe I do, but not right now. I just want them to use the restroom.

I don't care if they're sick or not. But, okay, so as you go in, it's a beautiful bathroom. A big beautiful bathroom. It's in the ICU. You know, it's in a private room in the ICU. It's got the corner bathroom. You open up the door and you can walk in. It's got a walk-in shower handheld back in the corner where there's plenty of room.

You know what I mean? So you can move around and you didn't get out of there. It's got the nice sink. It's got the motion sensor paper towels. The regular towels are off the side. The cleaning crew was excellent at this hospital. They all come in and write, you know, they put their goals up on the boards every day. And they come in and they write when they came through.

And they ask if you're awake if they can come in and empty the trash. They're great. Everybody was great. They have the nice elongated, beautiful big toilet over on this side of the bathroom to the left of the door. They've got the handles that you can hold on to, the long handle in the back to flush, the wife, the whole thing, everything's beautiful. But when you go to sit down on the beautiful elongated sit-up toilet,

right where your right leg is the holder for the toilet paper. See, there's no way to get comfortable. You're banging your leg as you can't sit on the toilet. Oh, sure. Sure, laugh at me that I'm complaining about that. I'm telling you, that's a creature comfort that they need to be dealt with right now. A million dollar idea. Move it up 10 inches.

What do you think? I mean, it can't be that big a deal that somebody's asking for 10 inches or more. You can take that home with you as a little joke from me. But it cannot be that big a deal. Now, I see where they've designed where the handrails are. All right, so you grab the handrails. and so if they can't really move it up a full the full 10 inches because of the handrails

so maybe you put it up above just above the handrails so that you could still use the handrails and then still reach the toilet paper from the dispenser but you would have room to you know sit down on the elongated toilet

and not have to worry about cramping your legs up against this thing. That's my bathroom complaint. I would say fix it. That's my complaint. And, you know, when they call and say, hey, I was everything in the hospital and I tell them that complaint,

oh, you know what they're going to do? The lady's going to, oh, yes, yes, we understand perfectly. Into the trash it goes. Guaranteed. All the nurses, all the doctors were great. Even the doctor that I told F off,

when I saw him the next day he came and checked up on me and was I said, I'm ready to go home. I got to go. And he was like, give me a break, man. You just had a heart attack. I was like, I know, but, you know, I got to get out of here, man.

And, well, we'll wait another day. We'll see how the echocardiogram goes, and we'll see, we'll wait another day. All right, good to see you. So he came to see me again. So I didn't make him too bad when I told him to F off. He did,

I did mention, he didn't say I told him to F off, but he did mention again, No smoking. So that was his little way back at me again. Piss me off. So then I had, you know, the visits with all the air, the breathing guys and the nurses and the docs. And they all told me their big concern was no smoking, period. No smoking cigarettes, no vaping, nothing. You can wear a patch.

You can chew the gum, but no smoking. Period and the heart guy yesterday told me the same thing No you know just no smoking which is you know look and I haven't I haven't smoked for how many days is it what is it 10 days now? 11 days You know I'm fine. I you know I Has it only been like 11 days? I guess so, yeah It's miraculous Miraculous that they the hospital you know they were ready the nurses were even like well he's he's fine just get him out of here, doc

We're sick of seeing them. We're sick of dealing with them. We don't like him. Get him out of here. And so as soon as I had the echocardiogram, and they realized that I was very fortunate that the damage to the heart wasn't as extensive as could have been, which is good, which means there's, you know, still some action going on with the heart.

Can still, you know, get a little bit stronger. So, you know, you're fine. That's what they were waiting to see. see is how much damage had been done to the heart during the heart attack and during the cleanup effect. But still pretty good. So at that point, it was like, okay, get out. And I had, you know, I was hungry. I wanted to eat something. I was really glad to eat anything. I wasn't hungry. So the nurse, I'm called the original nurse, said, hey, I knew you'd be hungry, so I just, I knew you'd be hungry, so I just ordered you a fruit plate. And the fruit plate was actually really good.

And it's just big fruit. It's tough to screw up a fruit plate. Right? It's got apples. It brought me some yogurt. You know, some vanilla Greek yogurt, which is really good to go with it. And the blueberries and the pineapple and the cantaloupe and the bananas. It was great.

I will say that Jason Butchell came to visit me. He came in to see me. And so I'm sitting there laying in this bed. And I've got the, I'm just opening up the tray of the fruit tray. Jason walks in and looks at me and he's just like, that's the saddest thing I've ever seen in my life. You with a fruit tray, sad. I thought I told him, just get out.

I mean, why'd you even come? But the fruit tray was actually good, but then I decided, well, that's good, right? I said, you can't screw up a fruit. Well, maybe the food is going to be good, too, then, right? I mean, the fruit chair was tremendous. Ah, no. I don't know who is hiring the cooks or what are they doing at the new million-dollar hospital,

but the food is not good, period. I don't know what they used, that they said were eggs, but those were not eggs. They did not taste like eggs. They were horrible. When I asked for toast, I want bread toasted,

not just warmed and old. They want it toasted. Then I thought, okay, well, maybe, I mean, you can't screw up a steak, right? Boy, that's wrong. That is wrong. Just so you know. It's so you know it is wrong.

You can screw up a steak. So I just ordered another fruit. This is going to bring me another fruit play with a couple more yogurts. Fine. Let's just live through that, okay? I don't see, I can't eat this stuff. My wife actually brought me some stuff from a local place that we go to that's close to that hospital. That's pretty good.

And so I did have a little substance from some food that was actually made off campus. And then, you know, all the, we had plenty of visitors and the downtown. doctors and the nurses, they all were really, really nice. And they went out of their way. And I know it's the ICU, and I know that's what they do. But they all, whether they did or not, made you believe they cared. And that was most important. When you're in that situation, I know I heard some other people hollering and yelling and screaming.

I don't know if it was from their pain or if they were mad about the nurse or mad about their coverage or whatever it was. but I had no reason to yell, scream, or holler. They were great and did a wonderful job, and I really appreciate it. And speaking of all of that, I mean, the outpouring on social media, and Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, phone calls to my wife, emails, coworkers, Blaze family friends you you

went out of your way to like a story and comment on it that my wife kept you updated on you went out of your way to send me messages I came in today and there's a stack of mail old-fashioned snail mail from people who have sent

letters and cards I can't thank you enough I'll reply to all the all the mail that was sent. It was overwhelming. It meant so much to me and so much to my family. And fortunately, you know, the kids were home, obviously. It's the holidays and they're homeschooled. But they weren't, we had been up late the night before.

And we had talked about getting up at the time that I was leaving on a gurney and I was going to make them smoothies. We were going to get up and have breakfast. and they didn't get up then. Apparently the alarms went off and they both that morning shut the alarms off and didn't get up. So they didn't see me being gurneyed out of the house

was good. They were not meant to see me being girding out of the house. So that was one of the good things. The other thing is, you know, I never thought Everybody talks about You know, running through the wheat field And your life passing before your eyes And, you know, everything that's going to happen

I never once, as scary as it was, as much as it hurt And I never once thought I was going to die At once, I didn't think it was, I didn't think I was going to die ever I was going through, I had this horrible thing I was happening And we were going to get a fix and we were going to move on I never thought, oh, this is it. This is it. I'm going to die.

It's all over. I'm so sorry for doing this to you. Oh, wait. I'm not sorry. I didn't mean that. It was just a joke. Of course, I'm not going to be sorry about anything. What?

You silly? Oh, no. Anyway, it was just, it was a very, very, that whole situation was, when I think about it was kind of strange because I never did think at all that it was it. It was just something that was happening. I didn't have any out of fat experiences. Any of that. It was just down to business.

This was happening and we were going to get it fixed and get it out of there. And my wife was, you know, outstanding, as always. And, you know, your well wishes and thoughts and prayer. were, you know, obviously used because I'm here. So, thank you for listening to Chewing the Fat, and thank you for all your well-wishes, thoughts, and prayers. And we'll be back tomorrow with another Chewing the Fat.

At this time, we'll actually chew some fat. I just wanted to share the day after Christmas heart attack.