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Speaker 1: I told my family. Welcome back. It's a brand new episode.
Speaker 1: This is Laugh with Me, a podcast of charity ode
Speaker 1: by your hosts. Jay Oh, I think mid mid intro there,
Speaker 1: I like, I think I lost my voice just a
Speaker 1: little bit, just a little bit. The nurse did say
Speaker 1: that was going to be a side effect, and you
Speaker 1: might be saying, jail what nurse, What the hell are
Speaker 1: you talking about right now? Well, we're going to get
Speaker 1: into that. It is officially story Time with j O season.
Speaker 1: I've got I've got a doozy for you. I was
Speaker 1: the talk of the hospital, uh just just today. And
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's interesting because in this business you
Speaker 1: want to be talked about like I do this podcast.
Speaker 1: It's not there before me. Okay, I'm not telling you
Speaker 1: my story and and you know, having fun guests on
Speaker 1: so that we can feel better about ourselves. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: And Johnny, he's not on the ones and twos, just
Speaker 1: so that he feels better about his day. Absolutely not.
Speaker 1: In fact, I promise you by the time he's done
Speaker 1: working with me, he feels worries about himself. That's true. No,
Speaker 1: we do this. We do this to get the people talk.
Speaker 1: And that is something that that I did today. The
Speaker 1: folks at the Bergen Mercy Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska, they
Speaker 1: they knew a little bit about me today. So it's that,
Speaker 1: you know, it's the holidays, It's that time of year
Speaker 1: where you know, I'm working. I'm working, I'm working retail,
Speaker 1: I'm working longer days, I'm working harder. You know, there's
Speaker 1: just a little more to do. You got to put
Speaker 1: in a little more effort just to make sure that
Speaker 1: the people get what they need, you know. And I've
Speaker 1: got the Crohn's disease, so sometimes that it's one of
Speaker 1: those things I'm working hard. On the other hand, I
Speaker 1: am depleting myself from what I've got in me just
Speaker 1: to go every day. So I'm tired, baby, I am tired.
Speaker 1: My iron got incredibly low again and had a little
Speaker 1: thing called the anemia and had the blood tested and
Speaker 1: they said, Jeremy, you your iron's low, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I know, that's that's why I came to you, and
Speaker 1: they said, let's let's hook you up with some iron.
Speaker 1: So I did. I did what I've done many a
Speaker 1: time before and set up the appointment, went in and
Speaker 1: got the old infusion, got the ivy hooked up, and
Speaker 1: spent uh spend an hour getting the iron pumping in
Speaker 1: the arm. First of all, I just want to give
Speaker 1: a shout out to the nurse that I had that
Speaker 1: put the iv in, because generally speaking, this is not
Speaker 1: an easy deal for some of the folks, and I
Speaker 1: take full blame for that. Sometimes they say, Jeremy, you're
Speaker 1: not hydrated, or Jeremy, are you nervous? Your veins are hiding,
Speaker 1: And I said, yeah, yeah, I am nervous. I am nervous.
Speaker 1: I don't like needles, I don't like being here. I've
Speaker 1: got shit to do, and you know, so sometimes it's
Speaker 1: a two to three, it's even been up to four
Speaker 1: five pokes to try and get the ivy hooked in.
Speaker 1: Shout out to the nurse. She got it in the
Speaker 1: very first time. I she goes, where do you want it?
Speaker 1: And instantly I'm like, well, I Sometimes I try to
Speaker 1: just give advice, you know, like Hey. Generally they'll put
Speaker 1: it in my left arm, but we've had to put
Speaker 1: it in my hand a couple of times because my
Speaker 1: veins have been tricky, and some nurses will be like,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'll do the deciding here, and then
Speaker 1: they'll go and try and then you know, then we're
Speaker 1: a couple pokes in. But this time she's like, well,
Speaker 1: do you want it in your hand? I go, I
Speaker 1: want it wherever you want it, Thank you, Johnny. And
Speaker 1: so then she ends up putting it on the top
Speaker 1: of my left wrist, which was perfect. The vein was great.
Speaker 1: She pops it in right away. We get that baby
Speaker 1: rolling iron is pumping. I just want to breakface this
Speaker 1: with I did go to the bathroom before I sat down.
Speaker 1: I had to beeat real bad like I've had, you know,
Speaker 1: And I should say this pointman was at eight am.
Speaker 1: I had been working since two forty five am. So
Speaker 1: I've had I've had you know, I've had caffeine. I've
Speaker 1: have had some waters. So I go to the bathroom,
Speaker 1: I go in, I get the IV and now I'm
Speaker 1: gonna sit for an hour. Well then she's like, do
Speaker 1: you want anything to drink? I'm like, yeah, it takes
Speaker 1: something to drink. So I have a nice, a nice
Speaker 1: crisp sprite and then I sit there and I scroll Twitter,
Speaker 1: I watch YouTube videos. I listen to a podcast. I
Speaker 1: tell you what that Uh, there's one it's called I
Speaker 1: think it's called Fly on the Wall David Spade, and
Speaker 1: I don't remember the other comedian's name. He's hilarious. He's
Speaker 1: from SNL as well back in the day. Anyway, that's
Speaker 1: funny show. I was listening to that. Anyway, that's at
Speaker 1: the point of the story. Everything went just fine while
Speaker 1: I was in the hospital there getting my IVY. So
Speaker 1: we're wrapping up, and it's like they have to like
Speaker 1: observe you for a bit after they've filled, you know,
Speaker 1: fulfilled the ivy's job, and the reason being in case
Speaker 1: you have an allergic reaction or whatever. And I've had
Speaker 1: enough of these. It's just I'm not gonna have an
Speaker 1: allergic reaction. So I just sit there. Well, I gotta
Speaker 1: beet real bad again. I don't know if it was
Speaker 1: because I had peed earlier and now it was like
Speaker 1: all right, now it's go time for the rest to day,
Speaker 1: or it was because I had that ice like cold
Speaker 1: crisp tasting sprite while I was sitting there waiting, but
Speaker 1: either way I had to go. I was dying. I
Speaker 1: almost thought about asking the nurse because she had already
Speaker 1: unhooked the IV just hadn't taken out of my hand,
Speaker 1: and I was almost gonna be like, I'm just I
Speaker 1: gotta go, Like, I'll be right back, Like, you can
Speaker 1: stand outside the door if you have to, I'm not dropping,
Speaker 1: but I did not. I was like, you know what,
Speaker 1: I can wait ten minutes. So I wait fifteen and
Speaker 1: then she takes it out, and you know, I go
Speaker 1: on my way. Well, I'm the first thing I want
Speaker 1: to do is now go to the bathroom. So I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: I know that there's one, like in the hallway maybe
Speaker 1: outside of the uh the infusion et center. So I
Speaker 1: was like, well, I'll leave this room and go out
Speaker 1: there and that way. Nobody's like, like, oh, why is
Speaker 1: this guy still here? So and I don't know why.
Speaker 1: I was like wondering, like I was concerned about this.
Speaker 1: I mean, this guy's still hanging around. So then so
Speaker 1: I bolt through the door. But I see a single
Speaker 1: stall bathroom right next to the front desk. So I'm
Speaker 1: like well this is convenient. I'm just gonna go ahead
Speaker 1: and use this bad boy, right, So then I hop
Speaker 1: in there, closed the door. I'm peeing. I'm peeing what
Speaker 1: feels like in eternity, Like it feels like I've been
Speaker 1: peeing for a good ten minutes. And I know that's
Speaker 1: a long time. And I'm just telling you mentally, that's
Speaker 1: where I was at. It felt like I was going
Speaker 1: for a long time. So then I got one of
Speaker 1: those uh, you know, midpe farts where I was like,
Speaker 1: all right, all right, and and so I start too,
Speaker 1: and they're like, o oh shit, like this is not
Speaker 1: going to be just amid part I need to come.
Speaker 1: I need to change course here. Okay, things were going down,
Speaker 1: and I don't know if it was the iron. I
Speaker 1: don't know if that can like trigger anything either way.
Speaker 1: I've got the Crowns. I got problems, guys, I got problems.
Speaker 1: Sometimes things just are happening, well, things were happening in
Speaker 1: this moment. So I flip around, right, no big deal,
Speaker 1: take care of business. Except just as I start, it
Speaker 1: is so loud, the echo coming out of the toilet.
Speaker 1: And you know these hospital bathrooms they're they're just stone
Speaker 1: like They're just stone. The echo it was just bouncing
Speaker 1: off the walls. The sound was I instantly was like,
Speaker 1: oh shit, does the door go all the way down,
Speaker 1: because otherwise the sound is going to escape. I'm right
Speaker 1: next to the front desk, Okay. I was very concerned
Speaker 1: about this, so I kind of like did one of
Speaker 1: those things where you try to like slow it down,
Speaker 1: like you know, just you know a little bit, a
Speaker 1: little bit here, a little bit there. But it was
Speaker 1: tough because this was was borderline emergency situation, like I
Speaker 1: wasn't leaving this bathroom without taking care of business. So
Speaker 1: I start to go again, just echoes, echoes. So then
Speaker 1: I started to slow down again, and I'm like, I
Speaker 1: could hear people. I'm like, do they hear me? And
Speaker 1: I couldn't quite hear what the guy was saying, but
Speaker 1: I could hear the girls at the front desk and
Speaker 1: she said, oh, this happens all the time. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh shit, they're talking about me. People must go to
Speaker 1: this one stall right next to the front desk and
Speaker 1: just rip shit up and they probably can't hear it
Speaker 1: all day long. I was I had zero intentions of
Speaker 1: doing this today, zero intentions of utilizing their restroom in
Speaker 1: this way. It's it's it was an emergency, Like I'm
Speaker 1: at the hospital. I'm sure, I'm sure worst things happened
Speaker 1: in that building today, right, I'm sure of it. But
Speaker 1: either way, I'm going, and I have to decide do
Speaker 1: I just keep going slow, you know, a little bit
Speaker 1: here and there, a little bits in there, or do
Speaker 1: I just full on go let it echo out the
Speaker 1: halls and then try to try to get out of there. Well,
Speaker 1: I do just that. It was like chorus, and then
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, what if I wait this out just
Speaker 1: a little bit longer and then hopefully nobody like they'll
Speaker 1: think I already left and they'll just kind of like
Speaker 1: forget that this happened. Right, I still hear a little
Speaker 1: bit of chatter out there, and all right, I've waited
Speaker 1: long enough. I gotta I gotta try to get out
Speaker 1: of here. Wash my hands, dry them up, open the door.
Speaker 1: There was a fucking guy. He's standing there waiting. We
Speaker 1: made very brief eye contact, and it was the here's
Speaker 1: the thing. I looked away. He also looked away. I
Speaker 1: know that. I know they were all they all could
Speaker 1: hear me. I mean, it was echoing through the echoing,
Speaker 1: Like it's supposed to be a private business situation, right,
Speaker 1: it's you're supposed to be able to do your thing.
Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be so public. I there was
Speaker 1: a waiting room full of people the front desk, three
Speaker 1: four girls. I know they've been they were talking about it.
Speaker 1: I certainly they could hear it. So then I jet
Speaker 1: out of there, right, I go to the right. I
Speaker 1: exit the waiting room immediately, and I started walking down
Speaker 1: the hall. Well, I just happened to have another appointment upstairs,
Speaker 1: follow up from a previous time I was there, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, I gotta figure out how to get up
Speaker 1: there without going back and seeing those folks again. Well, that, uh,
Speaker 1: that's where I got. I got a little bit lost,
Speaker 1: and I had to circle back and to the elevator,
Speaker 1: which was in the waiting room of the very place
Speaker 1: that he's the restroom. So I just kept my head down,
Speaker 1: pushed the button, went upstairs. It was fine, you know,
Speaker 1: it was already it was already tough because I'm nervous
Speaker 1: about putting the IV in. When you check in, they
Speaker 1: weigh you, I'm, you know, five pounds from my heaviest
Speaker 1: I've ever been, so I'm like, well, this sucks. They
Speaker 1: better be able to put the IV in, That's what
Speaker 1: I'm thinking. I'm like, well, I've already got this weight problem,
Speaker 1: like at least be able to put the IV in. Right.
Speaker 1: They do that, but then I almost shit myself right
Speaker 1: there at the front desk. It's awful. But then I
Speaker 1: go upstairs, right, and I go up to my follow
Speaker 1: up and then you know, they act like I haven't
Speaker 1: been there yet today, so they have to check my
Speaker 1: weight and my height and everything all over again. I
Speaker 1: had lost two pounds from when I arrived there at
Speaker 1: eight o'clock. So maybe it wasn't all bad. Maybe it
Speaker 1: was meant to be. It was just they were just
Speaker 1: trying to hype me up. My body was like, you
Speaker 1: know what, you've been through a lot this morning, but
Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna make something right because I know
Speaker 1: you were pretty down about that weight thing, so we're
Speaker 1: gonna make it so you have to shit yourself and
Speaker 1: then we're gonna give you another test on what your
Speaker 1: weight is so that you know you can be vindicated
Speaker 1: just a little bit. I felt pretty good about that
Speaker 1: at least, and then once that appointment was over. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, I got out of there. I got out
Speaker 1: of there. Johnny, I don't I don't know if you've
Speaker 1: ever I do you go to the doctor? I mean,
Speaker 1: I know, you stay in pretty good shape, you run
Speaker 1: a lot. I don't think you lift, you stay in
Speaker 1: pretty good shape. I mean I used to think, you know,
Speaker 1: you don't go to the doctor really unless you've got
Speaker 1: a problem. And then once I got a problem and
Speaker 1: everything started to become you know, reacting to the problem,
Speaker 1: to the symptoms of your problem, It's really changed my
Speaker 1: beliefs on the whole, the whole system, Like we should
Speaker 1: all be going to the doctor from the get healthy
Speaker 1: or not, and they should be just offering you great
Speaker 1: preventative care in ways so that you don't get sick.
Speaker 1: I mean, there had to have been signs that I
Speaker 1: was gonna have crones disease, right, Maybe not, maybe there wasn't,
Speaker 1: but you would think over all the years of the
Speaker 1: world and all the years of crones that there would
Speaker 1: be some kind of like signs that they could see,
Speaker 1: like what we we have seen that there is a
Speaker 1: chance that you, sir, are not gonna be really well
Speaker 1: the rest of your life. And uh, here's what we
Speaker 1: can do for you so that we can try to
Speaker 1: help you along the way so it doesn't get so
Speaker 1: bad that you're in constant chronic pain and you're gonna
Speaker 1: shit yourself. Like that's Those are the things that I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: maybe they could have seen that coming, but maybe not.
Speaker 1: Maybe it takes it takes uh something to happen for
Speaker 1: them to be like, yep, you're right, check the box,
Speaker 1: You've got it. I don't know, but that was a
Speaker 1: wild one this morning. That was a wild one. Freaking
Speaker 1: Oh well, it's Thanksgiving week. Hopefully all of you have
Speaker 1: some time with your family, with your friends, with your pets,
Speaker 1: take a break from work. If you're in retail work,
Speaker 1: maybe even just a little bit harder. It's always different
Speaker 1: for everybody. That was one of the things about working
Speaker 1: in retails. As you head into like major holidays, and
Speaker 1: the people were like, oh, do you have to work
Speaker 1: on Thanksgiving? And it's like, yeah, yeah, I am, I
Speaker 1: am working on Thanksgiving. Oh well, thank you so much
Speaker 1: for being open, And I'm like, yeah, that's cool. Yep,
Speaker 1: my thanks is that you gave me the thanks. I
Speaker 1: now am going to enjoy that turkey, that cold turkey.
Speaker 1: Just a little bit more because you gave me that
Speaker 1: thanks on Tuesday. How about new rule, we all just
Speaker 1: like plan a little bit better so that we could
Speaker 1: get our stuff so that we can like all take
Speaker 1: the day off like that would be. That would be
Speaker 1: extra special, Like you're gonna make it. You're gonna make it, honestly,
Speaker 1: without the store being open for one day, right, you
Speaker 1: would think, I mean there's really just there's there's not
Speaker 1: that many that the store really absolutely needs to be closed. Okay,
Speaker 1: obviously it could be closed on Thanksgiving or at least
Speaker 1: closed early. Maybe get those last minute things accents happen whatever.
Speaker 1: Then we've got Christmas Day. Let's take Christmas Day off. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's pretty standard. They probably all right, I'll give you
Speaker 1: election Day. We should probably figure out a way to
Speaker 1: operate where Election Day is a national holiday and folks
Speaker 1: can take that off. And then the last like big
Speaker 1: big one that I'm like, all right, we could probably
Speaker 1: make this work. It'd be like Super Bowl Sunday, and
Speaker 1: then you know, it's just gonna be another It's gonna
Speaker 1: be like Thanksgiving. Yeah, there's gonna be tons of tons
Speaker 1: of food. But just plan it out right, just plan
Speaker 1: it out so that you can get your food set
Speaker 1: up ahead of time or have it ready to be prepared.
Speaker 1: You're just gonna change how you make it most likely,
Speaker 1: or heat it up or whatever. But then everybody could say,
Speaker 1: watch the game pregame, baby, They do pregame all freaking
Speaker 1: day long, and a lot of people don't know that
Speaker 1: because they're too busy working. Yeah, a lot of work
Speaker 1: goes into those pregame packages. I definitely suggest checking it
Speaker 1: out sometimes used to be something I enjoy doing. Then
Speaker 1: I had to work all day. So if you listen
Speaker 1: the Friday Happy Hour this past week, you heard me
Speaker 1: talking about the very phrase, the very name of our
Speaker 1: show Laugh with Me and how and I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: name names. We're gonna do a made up name. But
Speaker 1: this Dawn from Big Lincoln, it was trying to use
Speaker 1: Laugh with Me and trying to push her little comedy show. Well,
Speaker 1: let's just say things went pretty quiet on their front.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna go ahead and declare that we have
Speaker 1: we have in fact, made Laugh with Me great again.
Speaker 1: So I don't know how you guys feel about it,
Speaker 1: but I do feel damn great about it. We are
Speaker 1: back Laugh with Me Home where it belongs with old Jo.
Speaker 1: We will be back next week. Also check out my
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Speaker 1: Happy Holidays day, I have the Exclaime with Johnny