WEBVTT - #139: A Visit From The NJ Sharing Network 0:00:01.080 --> 0:00:11.280 Elvis drand presents Off Air Show Scary Jones and Greg 0:00:11.360 --> 0:00:18.959 Tea Episode nine. Yeah it is, it's the Off Fair Show. 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:24.919 I'm scary. That's Greg Tea here. Now you are hyper man, well, 0:00:24.960 --> 0:00:27.319 you know, but I usually am very hype and I 0:00:27.360 --> 0:00:28.920 am and that's a little That's as much as you're 0:00:28.920 --> 0:00:31.040 gonna get today, because today we're gonna do something a 0:00:31.040 --> 0:00:33.080 little different. Yeah, we're gonna change it up, you know, 0:00:33.240 --> 0:00:35.240 the Off Fair Show. We've learned over the last couple 0:00:35.240 --> 0:00:38.680 of weeks. It can be many different things. Oh, yes, 0:00:38.840 --> 0:00:41.360 we want to experiment. We're gonna experiment throughout the summer. 0:00:41.400 --> 0:00:45.200 It doesn't have to necessarily be crazy off the wall stuff. 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:48.560 It could be some of that like we had yesterday. Yeah, 0:00:48.680 --> 0:00:52.159 it could be like some love advice stuff when shares 0:00:52.200 --> 0:00:55.440 here with chair Nose. It could be whatever. Whatever. We 0:00:55.480 --> 0:00:58.880 could be public service. We're transitioning. We're trying to figure 0:00:58.880 --> 0:01:01.680 out exactly where the show goes. Yeah, because, by the way, 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:05.720 but I don't the rumors. Don't believe the rumors. The 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:08.920 show's not going away. It just might be reinvented. We 0:01:09.000 --> 0:01:11.119 might change the title. I wouldn't even say, Mike, I'm 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:13.280 saying that it's going to be reinvented. Okay, we are 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:16.160 gonna Okay, we we might be changing the titles. You're transitioning. 0:01:16.160 --> 0:01:18.800 We might be bringing newcast, math and members on God 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:22.160 Bless whatever. We might split into two or three different podcasts. 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:24.880 Sounds good to me. But the point is the Affair Show, 0:01:24.920 --> 0:01:27.360 Scary Jones and Greg T will be here on the 0:01:27.480 --> 0:01:30.120 podcast in some way, shape or form. We are the 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:33.479 We are the pillars that holds up the colosseum. You've 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:35.280 always say that you we are the tent poles of 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:38.320 the morning. We are You're you are a pole because 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:40.880 you are Polish. Where would the show be without Scary 0:01:41.000 --> 0:01:42.720 Jones and Greg T. I don't know where. Would it 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:46.400 be in a better shape than it is today? Elvis 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:48.160 would say it would be, but I would I would 0:01:48.160 --> 0:01:50.240 beg to differ. All Right, you want to take the 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:52.880 task on that we can play back to audio anyway. 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:56.080 So where I was going with that was today we 0:01:56.120 --> 0:01:58.320 want to do something serious. We're gonna throw our format 0:01:58.400 --> 0:02:00.960 out the window, and again in coming days we might 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:02.720 do other things. We might have fun interviews, we might 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:05.560 have more bands up. We're just gonna open ourselves up 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:09.120 this podcast is going to be everything that's right. Just 0:02:09.160 --> 0:02:11.639 when you thought we were focusing in on one theme, 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:15.200 it's not. We're gonna be several different shows as to 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:17.240 as the days and weeks and months go by, and 0:02:17.240 --> 0:02:19.240 if there's something that we talked about today that you 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:21.440 can really relate to, we'd love to hear about this, 0:02:21.800 --> 0:02:25.400 so scary tell them right exactly, go to email email 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:27.320 us at the Affair Show at gmail dot com. We 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:29.400 always want your feedback. You can tweet us at the 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:33.720 fair Show or email us uh Instagram all of it 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:37.359 at the fair Show Facebook page two. Although someday it 0:02:37.440 --> 0:02:39.000 might not be called the Afair Show, then we're gonna 0:02:39.000 --> 0:02:41.720 have a real problem. But really think about that part. 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:44.160 If we changed the logo and we changed the name. 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:46.799 So as what I was leading up to is the 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:49.600 fact that today we're gonna do something completely different, something 0:02:49.600 --> 0:02:51.799 we've never done an off fair show, and that's due 0:02:52.400 --> 0:02:55.480 like a public service. This is not a public service announcement. 0:02:55.520 --> 0:02:56.799 It's more of like a public so if we want 0:02:57.000 --> 0:02:58.920 kind of like an in the no informative thing, we 0:02:58.960 --> 0:03:01.320 did something similar to this when Dr Fatlawis came up 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:04.480 that time. But now we have our friends from the 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:08.440 New Jersey Sharing Network. It's correct, and today will be 0:03:08.520 --> 0:03:10.400 just about that. We're not going to try and do 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:12.519 the usual wacky stuff you're normally here here on the 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:14.920 affair show. So great t Since you brought this to 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:17.680 my attention, why don't you take it away and introduce 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:21.040 me and all the listeners to our friends here. Okay, 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:23.720 So about six years ago I was introduced to this 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:26.760 really great charity and uh it's called, like you said, 0:03:26.760 --> 0:03:29.200 the New Jersey Sharing Network And you can check them 0:03:29.200 --> 0:03:32.000 out at NJ Sharing Network dot org and get more 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:34.920 information on what exactly they do or you might be 0:03:34.960 --> 0:03:36.960 interested in, but we'll let you know today. So what 0:03:37.040 --> 0:03:41.520 they what they specialize in is uh donating and sharing 0:03:42.080 --> 0:03:45.480 organs and tissue donating. Am I right there? John? All right? 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:47.760 So that's John sitting to the left of me is 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:51.200 John Valentine from the New Jersey Sharing Network and he's 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:53.800 their marketing at communications manager. And I've known John now 0:03:53.840 --> 0:03:55.880 for I guess about four or five years, four years 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:58.120 I think four years. And um, you know, the New 0:03:58.200 --> 0:04:02.480 Jersey Sharing Network is very active within the community, um 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:05.920 and and they do so many great charity events and 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:09.240 the events that I partake in is their national kickoff event, 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:11.680 and then also all of their five k run walks 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:13.760 that I always host and I run and I do 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:15.840 those things. Tell us a little bit about the New 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:19.240 Jersey Sharing Network, how it came to be and your 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:23.280 main mission statement. Yeah. Sure. So at New Jersey Sharing Network, 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:26.279 we save lives through organiz tissue donation. As Greg mentioned 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:35.279 um on my technique a break So anyway, so we 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:37.480 save lives through organ and tissue donation, and what that 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:40.880 means is we actually work with and comfort the families 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:44.279 at the time that donation is possible. So when someone 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:46.440 has the potential to be an organ and tissue downer, 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:48.920 we step in and we make that gift happen. For 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:52.520 transplant recipients. Um, right now, there are over a hundred 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:55.440 twenty people in the country waiting for a life saving 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:58.400 organ transplant, and so we work every day to make 0:04:58.440 --> 0:05:01.240 sure that those people get that gift that they're waiting for. 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:04.520 That's pretty heavy, I mean, honestly, it's it's it's um 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:07.520 it's tough for someone to actually go and register themselves, 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:09.440 you know, to to think about that. You know, do 0:05:09.560 --> 0:05:11.720 I want to be a donor? You know, that's a 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:15.000 tough thing to want to do. Is this similar to 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:18.000 when I get a new driver's license. I signed the 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:20.960 back that says I'm going to be an organ donor 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:23.839 because I've signed mine, and I think that means that 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:27.280 if and when I pass well, we will pass all 0:05:27.320 --> 0:05:31.159 of us, right, they get to donate my You don't 0:05:31.400 --> 0:05:33.560 think that is that? What that is is as similar? 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:36.200 Is it tied in with that when you register on 0:05:36.240 --> 0:05:38.960 your license or online at our website, there's a national 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:42.440 register you can register register with online. That means that 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:45.479 if you pass away and you are healthy enough that 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:47.760 you can give organs or tissue to someone else that 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:50.080 you would like to do that. So that is um, 0:05:50.120 --> 0:05:52.240 you saying, this is my wish when I pass away. 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:55.520 If it's possible, please make this happen. If somebody doesn't register, 0:05:55.640 --> 0:05:58.520 then it's up to their family to decide. Ok. Yeah, 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:00.279 that's a very good point. It's up to your family. 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:02.400 Here's the thing for me. So my wife and I, 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:04.720 so Trice and I were just home one day and 0:06:04.760 --> 0:06:06.560 we had gotten married, and see, she had to change 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:09.120 her driver's license because we lived in New Jersey now 0:06:09.320 --> 0:06:11.400 and she's from New York. It's all of us, and 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:17.480 she comes on it k New York, give us the 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:21.400 Brooklyn scary Come on, We're not gonna do Brooklyn giving 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:23.800 the Beastie Boys from Brooklyn. I got better, something bad. 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:26.840 Are you gonna mentioned Brooklyn without saying Beastie Boys? Come on? Now, 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:28.440 that's something better than this is what we do to 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:30.280 our first show, Johnny. What we do is all of 0:06:30.320 --> 0:06:39.680 a sudden break, So yeah, I'm going from Brooklyn to 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:42.159 New Jersey. Was was tragic as it was for me, 0:06:42.200 --> 0:06:43.640 and I had to get rid of my license. So 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:45.919 as you you're gonna play the Beastie Boys when you 0:06:45.960 --> 0:06:48.719 say Brooklyn, you gotta play the Beastie Boys today? Oh 0:06:48.800 --> 0:06:52.160 my god, anyway, continue with you. We we all we 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:54.120 do is get sidetracked here. That's what it's part of 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:56.040 our party, thinks I have add I just don't want 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:57.960 going to have this kind of show today. We weren't 0:06:58.000 --> 0:06:59.880 opposed to, but I mean, before he went on, were like, 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:02.080 we're gonna do very serious, We're gonna do something totally different. 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:03.719 We are gonna be serious. But all of a sudden, 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:11.720 the out anyway comes home and she goes, hey, just 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:14.080 so you know, I'm now an organ donor and I 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:16.320 go what. So she's like yeah, and I said, well, 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:18.440 this is this something we should talk about, like we 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:20.640 should discuss this, and she's like, no, this is my 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:22.400 body is what I want to do. And I said 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:24.960 I know. But now we both said I do. And 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:27.480 now I have to know these things. All of a sudden, 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:29.960 something could tragically happen. You know, I need to tell 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:31.680 your mom and dad, like, what's going on here? You 0:07:31.680 --> 0:07:34.080 know why? Uh? You know they're doing the things they're doing. 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:37.119 So anyway, so trish Um talked to me about after 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:40.680 the fact, and now I was so intrigued that now 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:43.400 I too am a part of being an organ donor, 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:46.160 which is good. That doesn't mean you take my arms. Though, 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:47.800 if I could just interrupt here for a second, I 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:49.520 was going to say, that's something really important that you 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:52.160 just said. So we tell people to register all the time, 0:07:52.200 --> 0:07:54.040 but you have to take that extra step and actually 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:55.960 let your family know that that's what you did. And 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:57.880 it's gonna be a surprise at that moment. But wait 0:07:57.920 --> 0:07:59.880 when they see your license. You see you sign that's 0:07:59.880 --> 0:08:02.080 an that like an official document, it is, but you 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:04.920 don't want to surprise um your family. Let's say something 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:07.240 does happen and they find out at that moment as 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:10.640 opposed to knowing for years, might well could you imagine 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:12.320 of Also, the doctor goes, oh, and by the way, 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:15.240 so she's a donor. So we're we've now called New 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:17.760 Jersey Sharing Network to let them know. And I'm like, 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:19.600 what are you talking about? Like, I mean that could 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:21.600 you imagine? Because here I am now going to try 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:23.480 to cope with the loss. But now all of a sudden, 0:08:23.480 --> 0:08:25.119 on top of it, I think I I've just found 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:27.720 out that you know, we're we're donating organs and tissue. 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:29.720 You know, I'm like, you're the kidding, Not that I 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:32.559 wouldn't want that, because now I've learned so much. So 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:36.720 continuing on, you know, you the New Jersey Sharing Network 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:39.280 and what you guys do with with the organs and 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:42.960 the tissues. It goes to people who really need it. 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:45.560 And how do how does one sign up to be 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:49.280 an applicant to be qualified for somebody else's So when 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:51.360 someone is in a certain medical condition that they need 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:54.560 a transport, they get for organs. Yeah, they get listed 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:57.080 at a transplant center. God, and so they're put on 0:08:57.120 --> 0:08:59.960 the national waiting list. And when an organ becomes available. 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:03.400 Let's say a heart. Organizations like ours, look at the 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:06.400 list and UM it determines based on how long someone's 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:09.720 been waiting, their current medical condition, and UM the location 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:13.080 they are in relations to UM the available. So there's 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:16.240 a different list for each organ. What's the number one 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:20.280 organ that people need right now? Lungs? No, give me, 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:23.920 give me the come on man, nothing for a contest. 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:26.199 We're not playing this game today. They got to have 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:29.040 some sound effects. Ready, I have the sound effects. Ready, 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:31.880 let's start again. Ready, what's the number one organ needed? Gets? 0:09:31.920 --> 0:09:35.640 Say it again? Lungs, give me? Give me another one? 0:09:36.760 --> 0:09:47.200 Um heart, come on, hold on, wait, um liver, give 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:52.480 me come on, hold on, hold on? How about this 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:56.040 is three? Or ready? Three structs around? One more? One more? 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:04.520 You can't even think of different? Brain? Brain, try again, seriously, 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:07.600 that's the kind of answer. Well, after working very close 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:10.520 to the New Jersey Sharing Network again, go to information, 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:12.760 go to NJ Sharing Network dot org, and you two 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:18.439 can find out the number one organ is a kidney. Yes, 0:10:18.520 --> 0:10:21.040 you are right? How about that? And at anything point 0:10:21.080 --> 0:10:23.720 the big kidney at heart at any I like that joke. 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:26.800 That's pretty funny. I'm a kidney use it for your 0:10:26.800 --> 0:10:30.760 next commercial. And at any kind of point, anybody can 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:33.880 just go to their doctor, right and they could sign 0:10:33.920 --> 0:10:36.560 themselves up get tested and they can donate an order 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:39.120 donate a kidney at any time, right right, So someone 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:40.720 can just sign up to be a living donor to 0:10:40.760 --> 0:10:43.840 someone else. Sometimes it's family members, friends, and sometimes people 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:45.319 just step forward and say, I want to give a 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:48.120 kidney to a stranger. How about that? Because you know 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:49.680 you have two and you really don't need to know. 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:52.520 I understand that you could operate on one. Why don't 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:55.240 you get one next week? Just don't neate a kidney? Yeah? 0:10:55.240 --> 0:10:57.640 Why do you live a happy, successful, healthy life? We 0:10:57.760 --> 0:11:01.400 just don't any peop do. Yeah, people are so scared, 0:11:01.400 --> 0:11:02.680 like you think you can't do it and if that 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:05.600 one goes bad late in life. Actually, no, it's funny 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:09.440 you bring that up. What happens to this? And so 0:11:09.480 --> 0:11:11.640 if you are a living donor to someone else, um, 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:13.960 and you do somehow down the road need a kidney, 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:18.160 you will go to the top of the list or yeah, 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:20.000 but they don't have enough, so it doesn't matter the 0:11:20.080 --> 0:11:22.559 top of listening. You still might not get one. Wow, 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:26.160 that has to be a perfect match. Right or kidneys right. 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:28.000 So they do that. So it's more than UM just 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:30.560 blood type. It's UM something called h l A typing 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:33.120 so UM. I don't remember what h l A stand. 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:34.440 I don't know, but there's a lot of letters. Man. 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:36.160 This is where the doctors come in and I get 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:38.880 out out. I don't know either. That is so our 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:42.080 lab actually um at our organization does the matching for that, 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:45.640 so we do the actual testing between transplant recipient and 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:48.240 the available This is this is actually very fascinating. Now, 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:51.040 but wait, if you're if if you two are fascinating, 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:53.320 remember you can always drop us an email to first 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:57.280 show at Gmail have a plugging their website. I did 0:11:57.320 --> 0:11:59.199 a felly times already, John, how many times if I 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:02.760 set and just sharing? Okay, come on the thing. The 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:06.840 thing is a hole. On the second them to our 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:09.440 email address. I'm just saying we don't have the answers. 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:11.360 What I'm saying. If something relates that with them that 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:13.800 we're talking about, any of our off air heads, can 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:15.560 you know, can drop us in the email word, tweet 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:17.520 us and let us know. You know, you never know. 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:19.720 I have to redeem myself here with the lab staff. 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:23.959 If they're listening human Lucasite and antigen gonna throw it 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:25.240 out there. I don't want to hear it later. I 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:30.480 didn't even say in his pocket. So you have some 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:32.840 guests here with you, we do. So the reason why 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:35.120 John is here from the New Jerseys Sharing Network and 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:37.720 get jay sharing Network dot organ You too can figure 0:12:37.760 --> 0:12:40.480 it all out five times, thank you very much. Um. 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:44.000 So John has brought with us a a friend that 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:48.520 is literally a walking miracle. So this is Tom. You 0:12:48.600 --> 0:12:50.880 gotta help me. Your name is it? Is it Eliza 0:12:53.000 --> 0:12:59.360 eli Liaiser, Tom Eliaser, And with much respect that we are, 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:02.400 we should really at the name right, Tom Iliaser. And 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:05.000 Tom is from Little Falls, New Jersey, and he's here 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:08.440 with his wife. Solely right, I'm getting them. I'm getting 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:15.240 everything correct now, coating there, slowly getting solely correct, slowly 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:19.200 getting I'm trying to rhyme. His wife's fair. He's trying 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:21.800 to call her Sally, but I don't know why. If 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:24.480 you say it slowly, he'll come up with solely slowly, 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:29.040 solely I got that, And you don't even know because 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:34.360 they're longfellows, hio. So so what he's a walking miracle? 0:13:34.440 --> 0:13:36.880 Tom's a walking Why don't you tell your story? Explain 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:39.080 why what you have in common with the New Jersey 0:13:39.080 --> 0:13:41.559 sharing network and how everything came to be and how 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:45.320 you've benefited from them. Okay, Um, I'm gonna give you 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:46.920 the short version because I don't want to be here 0:13:46.960 --> 0:13:51.600 all day. Guys, here all day, all fairheads. They hate 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:54.120 it when we cut short. They want longer. They want 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:55.720 to listen for an hour and a half. Phil Jeany 0:13:55.760 --> 0:13:57.880 dookey House of Music. Scre give us some operating music, 0:13:57.920 --> 0:14:00.520 give us something I have, graces, anatomies, guess that hospital. 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:05.000 Here we go, Tom, that's for you. I was born short, 0:14:05.080 --> 0:14:12.000 fact class. I won't quite that back. Okay, all right, Um. 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:15.000 I had a major heart attack and that was the 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:21.400 start of my of my heart situation. Uh that was 0:14:21.480 --> 0:14:26.680 May soon after that, playing this This is good? Yes, 0:14:26.800 --> 0:14:29.360 this is good. You continue. Hey, do you have a deflibrillator? 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:33.680 I don't have a defibulator. And it's a cla Clair. 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:37.680 Come on, Clair, Sorry all of you, sorry about this. 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:40.840 Used to have that thing that he said, okay, you 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:43.280 have any heartbeat? We do. I didn't get to that. 0:14:43.800 --> 0:14:46.440 He was helping that. Let Tom tell a story, all right, Tom, 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:50.120 get ahead, Okay, Yeah, So I had a major heart 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:55.040 attack in that caused extensive damage and that was the 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:59.160 start of my heart issues. Um. Six months after that 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:01.920 at heart figure, they had to put in a defibrillator 0:15:01.960 --> 0:15:05.920 like you said before. Yeah, and uh that didn't work 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:08.520 so well. They had to put in a defibrillator pacemaker 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:12.200 to kind of keep my heart going. And uh, soon 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:14.320 after that, I had a mitro valve replaced because my 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:17.920 heart was so weak. And this is all within eight 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:21.920 months of each other, and uh or year actually, and 0:15:23.280 --> 0:15:27.320 after the mitro valve open heart surgery, I was in 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:30.360 I was in hospital for about ten days. I had 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:34.280 my heart kept failing and kept getting weaker and weaker, 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:36.320 to the point where my cardiologist said there was nothing 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:37.640 they could do and I had to go to Nork 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:41.120 and get on the heart transplant list. And actually it 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:46.480 was a test that I took in a hospital called 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:49.560 I think it was an echo slowly was it the 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:52.880 echo echo? And and my injection fraction, which is the 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:58.880 amount your heart volume humps, was that ten ten, ten 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:02.680 to twelve, which is real it should be fifty. At 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:04.800 that point they said, you know, I went right to 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:07.880 Beth Israel, where they did a work up on me 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:10.800 and they and they actually kept me there because I 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:13.840 was that bad. I was not tom you know. You 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:16.760 know it doesn't just happen overnight, am I right? I 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:20.080 mean there's gotta be signs. There's gonna be something that 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:22.520 leads you up to where you're at. And I mean, 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:24.400 is it is it just like that? I mean, did 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:28.520 something terrible happen to you? You know what? Condition? You 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:33.800 know what? I can't blame my heart disease on anybody, 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:36.960 but you know myself, I guess, but it's in my family. 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:39.640 Prior to my heart attack, I didn't have any signs 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:43.560 that was healthy guy, working like an animal. Um, live 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:45.720 in life, you know. And I and I had a 0:16:45.760 --> 0:16:49.160 major heart attack that in a lot of cases kills people. 0:16:49.200 --> 0:16:53.280 You know. My main arty was blo, oh my god. Yeah. 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:57.080 And I was just you know, I U I lasted, 0:16:57.120 --> 0:17:00.120 you know, I mean, I got treated, um, not the 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:03.840 most timely fashion. But and that caused a lot of damage. 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:08.120 You know. Um, my original heart attack caused a lot 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:11.280 of damage to my heart. And h I wasn't taking 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:13.240 care of abruptly like it like it should have been. 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:16.439 That's a different story. Um. And from that point on. 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:19.600 I had a series of things that led to the 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:21.600 fact that I needed a heart, you know, And when 0:17:21.640 --> 0:17:25.600 I went to Beth Israel, I was what they could 0:17:25.640 --> 0:17:28.359 consider like the Toyota camera of hearts. I was typed 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:34.080 a positive blood pounds. It was in February, which the 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:36.800 spring was coming, where there's a lot of motorcycle accidents, 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:39.800 a lot of car accidents. I was supposed to get 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:42.119 a heart right away, but I had to wait for 0:17:42.160 --> 0:17:44.119 a heart three and a half months in Beth Israel, 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:46.800 and uh I went through three pumps. I was on 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:50.119 my third pump and my health was failing so bad 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:52.600 that they're going to do an open heart surgery on me. 0:17:52.920 --> 0:17:55.679 Oh my god. I went through what they called balloon 0:17:55.720 --> 0:17:59.439 pump than have entrifical pump with actually I had a 0:17:59.480 --> 0:18:02.920 defibulate on this side. They actually went into my chest 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:06.840 on the right side, went into my heart and put 0:18:06.840 --> 0:18:10.360 a turbine kind of pump to spin just to keep 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:13.159 it breach, just to keep me alive. And and and 0:18:13.200 --> 0:18:17.520 the doctor said, this is gonna be your pump that's 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:20.439 going to bridge the gap before a transplant, you know, 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:22.840 before a heart comes in. They said, it's your last 0:18:22.840 --> 0:18:26.840 thirty days, well, twenty eight days after they put it in, 0:18:27.359 --> 0:18:30.840 my numbers plummeted, and I was feeling awful, and I 0:18:31.680 --> 0:18:33.560 never forgot I'm getting chill, was talking about it. I 0:18:33.600 --> 0:18:36.480 woke up and I was in tears. And you know 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:38.679 what I always thought when I went to the hospital 0:18:38.720 --> 0:18:41.320 and I was waiting for a heart, I always thought 0:18:41.320 --> 0:18:44.200 everything was gonna be okay. And then that last day, 0:18:44.200 --> 0:18:46.600 I didn't feel that way anymore. Tom, take me to this. 0:18:47.040 --> 0:18:49.960 You sit down with your doctor, right and he says 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:53.000 to you, I gotta put you on a list. There's 0:18:53.000 --> 0:18:57.080 nothing else I could do. Yeah, take me if you 0:18:57.119 --> 0:18:59.840 can take me to that spot. When you hear the 0:19:00.160 --> 0:19:03.679 words what goes what goes through somebody's head? I can't. 0:19:03.920 --> 0:19:06.200 You know. Sometimes people will say something, oh yeah, I understand, 0:19:06.200 --> 0:19:10.080 I understand. This is one of those situations. I can't say, 0:19:10.280 --> 0:19:13.160 oh yeah, yeah, I know, I can imagine. I can't imagine. 0:19:13.640 --> 0:19:16.199 Take me to that spot. And I don't mean to 0:19:16.200 --> 0:19:18.640 bring you there. But let's be real. Let's I mean, 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:20.639 the one thing for the All Fair Show is that 0:19:20.680 --> 0:19:23.239 we really try to get real. So I want to 0:19:23.840 --> 0:19:26.600 ask you what goes through your mind when the doctor 0:19:26.640 --> 0:19:29.080 says to you, there's nothing else I could do. Well, 0:19:29.200 --> 0:19:32.440 you know what. First of all, I want to thank 0:19:32.440 --> 0:19:34.800 you for asking me, because you know this is this 0:19:34.840 --> 0:19:36.439 is good stuff. Believe you want to tell you. I 0:19:36.440 --> 0:19:39.600 was nervous asking the question I had. I had my 0:19:39.640 --> 0:19:42.280 stomach gotten not ask him. When should I not know? 0:19:42.440 --> 0:19:44.399 You could ask? You could speak to me about anything. 0:19:44.440 --> 0:19:46.120 My wife will vouch for that. You know, you could 0:19:46.119 --> 0:19:47.760 talk to me about anything. And I do want to 0:19:47.800 --> 0:19:49.159 mention I want to talk to your wife as well 0:19:49.160 --> 0:19:51.760 about like what goes through her mind? When where is 0:19:51.760 --> 0:19:53.399 she at this whole thing? But but please tell me 0:19:53.960 --> 0:19:57.280 what goes through your mind. Originally, when my cardiologist said it, 0:19:57.680 --> 0:20:00.680 I didn't react to it. I waited. I waited because 0:20:00.680 --> 0:20:03.240 I was saying, my wife's we gotta go, you know that. 0:20:03.600 --> 0:20:05.359 I said, it's gonna be okay. I'm not at that 0:20:05.400 --> 0:20:09.000 point yet. You know, it's heart transplant. Is there's a 0:20:09.040 --> 0:20:13.439 lot to swallow? Yeah, And uh, I said, I'm not 0:20:13.560 --> 0:20:15.240 at that point yet. I didn't think I was that 0:20:15.359 --> 0:20:19.120