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Speaker 1: Christian O'Connell show podcast. Now. I don't know in the
Speaker 1: morning whether you're a caffeine drinker or like me, you're
Speaker 1: a tea drinker. But we've been on like a lot
Speaker 1: of Australian radio shows on a break for just a
Speaker 1: short one in Australian radio, just a cheek it four
Speaker 1: weeks and these marks haven't been cleaned in four weeks.
Speaker 1: I'm drinking that tea and I'm drinking I think I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be I think I'm to become a super brother.
Speaker 1: That ain't right. No, the drink is talking to me.
Speaker 1: There's something from Stranger Things bonus episode of what's in
Speaker 1: this mug? Yeah, it is rough. I saw it. That
Speaker 1: taste funky, guys, I'm calling it now if I grow
Speaker 1: a second head by Friday, that mug of tea. I'm
Speaker 1: surprised they went with that mug for your first tea
Speaker 1: of the day because I saw that some morning is
Speaker 1: trying to take me out of the game, Rusty. That
Speaker 1: is not good. I would say I have my Monday Winner,
Speaker 1: and I would say, actually, more importantly, my twenty one
Speaker 1: year old daughter Ruby is a Monday Winner. So last year,
Speaker 1: my twenty one year old daughter Ruby had a terrible,
Speaker 1: terrible year. She had some kind of thing going on
Speaker 1: with the back and she couldn't walk more than five
Speaker 1: or ten minutes. She need to stop and sit down,
Speaker 1: and she's I think at one point she'd had five
Speaker 1: MRI scans, which is a lot in a year. Different
Speaker 1: consultants saying, we think it's this, we think it's the
Speaker 1: sacra dio. She would show up to all this physio
Speaker 1: she just was not getting better. And then someone recommended
Speaker 1: somebody in December, and you know, bless her, she kept
Speaker 1: showing up to all these appointments tirelessly and then she
Speaker 1: just this amazing guy just said, it's none of that.
Speaker 1: You were never going to get better. It's this the
Speaker 1: region of the spine haven't even heard of Have any
Speaker 1: of us heard of the multifidous region. I'm not familiar.
Speaker 1: It's lower in the spine and there are a load
Speaker 1: of muscles and nerves that are very hard to activate.
Speaker 1: And so if you have a bad back, the pain
Speaker 1: receptors turn off the nerves so they go to sleep,
Speaker 1: and so she's had a year of bad back. Those
Speaker 1: nerves aren't being activated through just exercise. So she went
Speaker 1: into hospituiously five minutes from here, and the surgeon said
Speaker 1: to her, do you know what the wonders of medicine? Ruby,
Speaker 1: we can I can fix you. Ten years ago I
Speaker 1: would have said there's nothing we can do. You've got
Speaker 1: to go back to physio. And I really hope you
Speaker 1: can stimulate them, but it's going to take time. She
Speaker 1: had yesterday, she had this thing fitted. It's incredible. Actually
Speaker 1: it's the size of a pacemaker. So it inserted it
Speaker 1: in her back yesterday and there are two electrodes attached
Speaker 1: to it and then on an app she will then
Speaker 1: turn on this device twice a day for half an
Speaker 1: hour and it will stimulate the nerves that are so
Speaker 1: hard to reach and stimulate the neural pathways from her
Speaker 1: brain to her down where they are to reconnect to
Speaker 1: It takes about six months and have supervised visio, but
Speaker 1: hopefully in three to six months ago while this guy
Speaker 1: said you'll be fine man, and shall have it for
Speaker 1: the next couple of years in her and obviously it's
Speaker 1: a lot for her to get her head around at
Speaker 1: twenty one and a mom and dad like, what what
Speaker 1: do you mean? A pacemaker inserting in her back? So
Speaker 1: now she has a special piece of paper if she
Speaker 1: goes to an airport scanner, because obviously there's now going
Speaker 1: to someone's going to go, what the hell is that
Speaker 1: small pouch in your back with some electrodes coming up
Speaker 1: a bit? You're bionic. It's incredible now what science can do.
Speaker 1: And so we were there all day with her yesterday
Speaker 1: and to cheer my daughter's up. Pringles just hail kids. Ah.
Speaker 1: I turned up as a kind of second support yesterday
Speaker 1: afternoon and straight I just opened up before and said like,
Speaker 1: I started opening up the pringles and I was feeding
Speaker 1: them and she was like and she she was like,
Speaker 1: my wife said, that's the first time we've seen her smiles.
Speaker 1: So that she's going out that sometimes springles our nature's
Speaker 1: great heater. And al said, then they stink out hospital
Speaker 1: ward other people someone's I think it's the dad. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: they just savor it. Don't go for the really sulted bland,
Speaker 1: especially just come out of a general anesthetic. I always
Speaker 1: say that when you come out of general. I've seen
Speaker 1: twenty two seasons of Great Anatomy, and then because my
Speaker 1: daughter and I we watch we we've been watching Grace forever.
Speaker 1: We're up to speed. We're still watching new episodes now
Speaker 1: every week and season twenty two. It doesn't help when
Speaker 1: suddenly you're in hospitals. Oh it's not like Gray's in that,
Speaker 1: but that's that's our documentary. Sweetheart, where's the little thing
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Speaker 1: to adults these days, to anyone else for good reason.
Speaker 1: Otherwise I'd hook myself a little bit tired in the
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