WEBVTT - MINI: Ruby's Surgery

0:00:09.685 --> 0:00:12.245
<v Speaker 1>I Heart Podcasts. You can hear more gold one I

0:00:12.285 --> 0:00:15.645
<v Speaker 1>four point three podcasts, playlist and listen live on the

0:00:15.685 --> 0:00:21.284
<v Speaker 1>free iHeart app. Got anything good? Hey, this is the

0:00:21.485 --> 0:00:28.525
<v Speaker 1>Christian O'Connell show podcast. Now. I don't know in the

0:00:28.525 --> 0:00:31.245
<v Speaker 1>morning whether you're a caffeine drinker or like me, you're

0:00:31.285 --> 0:00:36.004
<v Speaker 1>a tea drinker. But we've been on like a lot

0:00:36.005 --> 0:00:38.405
<v Speaker 1>of Australian radio shows on a break for just a

0:00:38.445 --> 0:00:42.765
<v Speaker 1>short one in Australian radio, just a cheek it four

0:00:42.805 --> 0:00:46.125
<v Speaker 1>weeks and these marks haven't been cleaned in four weeks.

0:00:46.725 --> 0:00:49.965
<v Speaker 1>I'm drinking that tea and I'm drinking I think I'm

0:00:50.004 --> 0:00:52.965
<v Speaker 1>gonna be I think I'm to become a super brother.

0:00:54.165 --> 0:00:57.084
<v Speaker 1>That ain't right. No, the drink is talking to me.

0:00:58.125 --> 0:01:02.605
<v Speaker 1>There's something from Stranger Things bonus episode of what's in

0:01:02.645 --> 0:01:05.805
<v Speaker 1>this mug? Yeah, it is rough. I saw it. That

0:01:06.005 --> 0:01:09.405
<v Speaker 1>taste funky, guys, I'm calling it now if I grow

0:01:09.405 --> 0:01:13.325
<v Speaker 1>a second head by Friday, that mug of tea. I'm

0:01:13.365 --> 0:01:17.125
<v Speaker 1>surprised they went with that mug for your first tea

0:01:17.125 --> 0:01:19.205
<v Speaker 1>of the day because I saw that some morning is

0:01:19.245 --> 0:01:22.805
<v Speaker 1>trying to take me out of the game, Rusty. That

0:01:23.205 --> 0:01:26.005
<v Speaker 1>is not good. I would say I have my Monday Winner,

0:01:26.405 --> 0:01:28.285
<v Speaker 1>and I would say, actually, more importantly, my twenty one

0:01:28.365 --> 0:01:31.125
<v Speaker 1>year old daughter Ruby is a Monday Winner. So last year,

0:01:31.165 --> 0:01:33.164
<v Speaker 1>my twenty one year old daughter Ruby had a terrible,

0:01:33.245 --> 0:01:35.325
<v Speaker 1>terrible year. She had some kind of thing going on

0:01:35.365 --> 0:01:37.845
<v Speaker 1>with the back and she couldn't walk more than five

0:01:37.925 --> 0:01:39.525
<v Speaker 1>or ten minutes. She need to stop and sit down,

0:01:39.885 --> 0:01:42.045
<v Speaker 1>and she's I think at one point she'd had five

0:01:42.325 --> 0:01:45.405
<v Speaker 1>MRI scans, which is a lot in a year. Different

0:01:45.405 --> 0:01:47.445
<v Speaker 1>consultants saying, we think it's this, we think it's the

0:01:47.485 --> 0:01:50.045
<v Speaker 1>sacra dio. She would show up to all this physio

0:01:50.285 --> 0:01:52.965
<v Speaker 1>she just was not getting better. And then someone recommended

0:01:53.005 --> 0:01:55.805
<v Speaker 1>somebody in December, and you know, bless her, she kept

0:01:55.845 --> 0:01:58.965
<v Speaker 1>showing up to all these appointments tirelessly and then she

0:01:59.085 --> 0:02:01.005
<v Speaker 1>just this amazing guy just said, it's none of that.

0:02:01.045 --> 0:02:02.925
<v Speaker 1>You were never going to get better. It's this the

0:02:03.005 --> 0:02:05.285
<v Speaker 1>region of the spine haven't even heard of Have any

0:02:05.285 --> 0:02:07.925
<v Speaker 1>of us heard of the multifidous region. I'm not familiar.

0:02:08.565 --> 0:02:10.445
<v Speaker 1>It's lower in the spine and there are a load

0:02:10.445 --> 0:02:12.845
<v Speaker 1>of muscles and nerves that are very hard to activate.

0:02:12.845 --> 0:02:15.565
<v Speaker 1>And so if you have a bad back, the pain

0:02:15.645 --> 0:02:18.965
<v Speaker 1>receptors turn off the nerves so they go to sleep,

0:02:18.965 --> 0:02:21.405
<v Speaker 1>and so she's had a year of bad back. Those

0:02:21.445 --> 0:02:25.925
<v Speaker 1>nerves aren't being activated through just exercise. So she went

0:02:25.965 --> 0:02:29.805
<v Speaker 1>into hospituiously five minutes from here, and the surgeon said

0:02:29.805 --> 0:02:31.845
<v Speaker 1>to her, do you know what the wonders of medicine? Ruby,

0:02:31.885 --> 0:02:33.885
<v Speaker 1>we can I can fix you. Ten years ago I

0:02:33.925 --> 0:02:35.565
<v Speaker 1>would have said there's nothing we can do. You've got

0:02:35.605 --> 0:02:37.525
<v Speaker 1>to go back to physio. And I really hope you

0:02:37.525 --> 0:02:40.085
<v Speaker 1>can stimulate them, but it's going to take time. She

0:02:40.325 --> 0:02:43.485
<v Speaker 1>had yesterday, she had this thing fitted. It's incredible. Actually

0:02:43.805 --> 0:02:46.885
<v Speaker 1>it's the size of a pacemaker. So it inserted it

0:02:46.965 --> 0:02:50.805
<v Speaker 1>in her back yesterday and there are two electrodes attached

0:02:50.845 --> 0:02:54.405
<v Speaker 1>to it and then on an app she will then

0:02:54.565 --> 0:02:57.885
<v Speaker 1>turn on this device twice a day for half an

0:02:57.925 --> 0:03:01.044
<v Speaker 1>hour and it will stimulate the nerves that are so

0:03:01.125 --> 0:03:05.005
<v Speaker 1>hard to reach and stimulate the neural pathways from her

0:03:05.005 --> 0:03:08.445
<v Speaker 1>brain to her down where they are to reconnect to

0:03:08.965 --> 0:03:11.445
<v Speaker 1>It takes about six months and have supervised visio, but

0:03:11.805 --> 0:03:13.965
<v Speaker 1>hopefully in three to six months ago while this guy

0:03:14.005 --> 0:03:16.525
<v Speaker 1>said you'll be fine man, and shall have it for

0:03:16.565 --> 0:03:18.845
<v Speaker 1>the next couple of years in her and obviously it's

0:03:18.885 --> 0:03:20.445
<v Speaker 1>a lot for her to get her head around at

0:03:20.485 --> 0:03:22.965
<v Speaker 1>twenty one and a mom and dad like, what what

0:03:23.005 --> 0:03:25.805
<v Speaker 1>do you mean? A pacemaker inserting in her back? So

0:03:25.885 --> 0:03:28.085
<v Speaker 1>now she has a special piece of paper if she

0:03:28.165 --> 0:03:31.325
<v Speaker 1>goes to an airport scanner, because obviously there's now going

0:03:31.325 --> 0:03:32.925
<v Speaker 1>to someone's going to go, what the hell is that

0:03:33.445 --> 0:03:36.845
<v Speaker 1>small pouch in your back with some electrodes coming up

0:03:36.965 --> 0:03:43.045
<v Speaker 1>a bit? You're bionic. It's incredible now what science can do.

0:03:44.005 --> 0:03:46.045
<v Speaker 1>And so we were there all day with her yesterday

0:03:46.205 --> 0:03:50.165
<v Speaker 1>and to cheer my daughter's up. Pringles just hail kids. Ah.

0:03:50.605 --> 0:03:53.125
<v Speaker 1>I turned up as a kind of second support yesterday

0:03:53.125 --> 0:03:55.565
<v Speaker 1>afternoon and straight I just opened up before and said like,

0:03:55.565 --> 0:03:57.205
<v Speaker 1>I started opening up the pringles and I was feeding

0:03:57.245 --> 0:03:59.245
<v Speaker 1>them and she was like and she she was like,

0:03:59.285 --> 0:04:01.085
<v Speaker 1>my wife said, that's the first time we've seen her smiles.

0:04:01.085 --> 0:04:04.685
<v Speaker 1>So that she's going out that sometimes springles our nature's

0:04:04.685 --> 0:04:07.845
<v Speaker 1>great heater. And al said, then they stink out hospital

0:04:07.845 --> 0:04:14.685
<v Speaker 1>ward other people someone's I think it's the dad. Oh yeah,

0:04:14.805 --> 0:04:18.164
<v Speaker 1>they just savor it. Don't go for the really sulted bland,

0:04:18.284 --> 0:04:20.885
<v Speaker 1>especially just come out of a general anesthetic. I always

0:04:20.885 --> 0:04:24.445
<v Speaker 1>say that when you come out of general. I've seen

0:04:24.485 --> 0:04:28.125
<v Speaker 1>twenty two seasons of Great Anatomy, and then because my

0:04:28.484 --> 0:04:32.365
<v Speaker 1>daughter and I we watch we we've been watching Grace forever.

0:04:32.765 --> 0:04:34.924
<v Speaker 1>We're up to speed. We're still watching new episodes now

0:04:34.964 --> 0:04:38.085
<v Speaker 1>every week and season twenty two. It doesn't help when

0:04:38.085 --> 0:04:41.085
<v Speaker 1>suddenly you're in hospitals. Oh it's not like Gray's in that,

0:04:41.565 --> 0:04:45.164
<v Speaker 1>but that's that's our documentary. Sweetheart, where's the little thing

0:04:45.205 --> 0:04:47.484
<v Speaker 1>you can just press to get drugs? Thank you having

0:04:48.125 --> 0:04:50.604
<v Speaker 1>to adults these days, to anyone else for good reason.

0:04:50.804 --> 0:04:54.205
<v Speaker 1>Otherwise I'd hook myself a little bit tired in the

0:04:54.205 --> 0:04:57.164
<v Speaker 1>middle afternoon, back on breakfast hours after a short break.

0:04:58.005 --> 0:05:01.164
<v Speaker 1>Christian O'Connell Show Gone podcast