Speaker 1: Welcome to the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 2: Tatsy genuinely has an amazing story. This is actually grateful
Speaker 2: about despite all the pain we found out about this
Speaker 2: morning about kidney stones, you wouldn't be here today if
Speaker 2: it wasn't for a kidney stone. Partsy.
Speaker 3: No kidney stone saved my life. So what was it?
Speaker 3: Six seven years ago? I had what I thought was
Speaker 3: a kidney infection and I was here at work and
Speaker 3: I just read my eight o'clock bulletin. Went to the
Speaker 3: bathroom and really was unwell and rang my doctor and said,
Speaker 3: I think I've got an infection. He said, come in.
Speaker 3: He said, oh, yeah, you've got a kidney infection. I'll
Speaker 3: put you on some antibiotics. Anyway, it didn't get better,
Speaker 3: and a couple of days later I went back to him.
Speaker 3: There was a few other signs and he said, look,
Speaker 3: let's just do a scan. I think you've got a
Speaker 3: kidney stone. And I said to him, my brother had
Speaker 3: had My oldest brother had had kidney cancer twelve months before,
Speaker 3: and it can run among siblings. But there was no
Speaker 3: reason for alarm. So I said to our GP We've
Speaker 3: got a wonderful family. GP in the West. I said, oh,
Speaker 3: I probably should mention that my brother had kidney cancer
Speaker 3: a year ago. And he said, oh, I'm sure. I'm
Speaker 3: sure it's nothing that you know that bad. If there's
Speaker 3: anything there on the scam, we'll see it. We'll lo
Speaker 3: and behold. I had the scan, and yes, I had
Speaker 3: a kidney stone. I had about a seven mil kidney
Speaker 3: stone in my left kidney. But I also had a
Speaker 3: tumor right in the middle of it. So it was
Speaker 3: a bit of a shock. But you know, when you
Speaker 3: hear the sea word, it's like it's terror.
Speaker 2: All of us. Fair. That's the horrible thing about cancer.
Speaker 2: We all know what it can do, and so yeah,
Speaker 2: we all dread that and a shadow or an X
Speaker 2: ray or waking up one morning with a pain under
Speaker 2: your arm. P. Yeah, you hear all those stories.
Speaker 3: And this is a thing with kidney cancer. It's good
Speaker 3: for me to talk about it because it's good for awareness.
Speaker 3: It often doesn't have symptoms until it's in its very
Speaker 3: very last stages, and it's a little too late to
Speaker 3: do something.
Speaker 2: So you really were lucky. If you on't got the
Speaker 2: kidney stone, you wouldn't have gone back.
Speaker 3: You know what, I could be walking around today. Well,
Speaker 3: I probably wouldn't have been walking around today, but I
Speaker 3: definitely would have been walking around absolutely unbeknownst that I
Speaker 3: had the tumor. So I consider myself. You know, when
Speaker 3: I say I'm the luckiest woman in the world, I
Speaker 3: really am, because if it was, I've got that to
Speaker 3: thank for being here. And yeah, but how's that thinking
Speaker 3: that you've got a kidney stone and then you come
Speaker 3: out with another diagnosis as well? And you know what
Speaker 3: I felt. It's really weird to describe because I've felt this.
Speaker 3: I know this sounds strange, but when our GP told us,
Speaker 3: I felt this weird sense of elation, which I know
Speaker 3: that sounds weird because we didn't know how diet you know,
Speaker 3: what the prognosis even at that point was. But I
Speaker 3: think I did feel grateful that I knew, even at
Speaker 3: that moment, when I was still in his office, that
Speaker 3: I felt like I dodged a bullet in a way,
Speaker 3: even though I had some hurdle to sort of leap through.
Speaker 3: But a lot of the kidney cancers are found through
Speaker 3: incidental fines like that with scans, So get your chicks,
Speaker 3: if you you know, if you feel something's not quite.
Speaker 2: Right, it's amazing story. Patsy. Right, you've told us we've
Speaker 2: spoken before about your kidney canser. I didn't know it
Speaker 2: came via an accent all sort of examination for the stones. Yep,
Speaker 2: that is amazing. I'd love to know. Always think stories
Speaker 2: like this, well, that you're grateful for. You don't know
Speaker 2: what you're grateful for sometimes in life, like just twenty
Speaker 2: minutes hearing about the utter living hell of having something
Speaker 2: like a kidney stone, but then Patsy actually spinning it
Speaker 2: around it, and I'm actually grateful for mine, because without mine,
Speaker 2: who knows if there's anyone else. You do hear these
Speaker 2: amazing stories where people say, like Patsy did, I wouldn't
Speaker 2: be here today if it wasn't for Sometimes there's a
Speaker 2: good surmount to those, a little bit of life saving
Speaker 2: skills that save your life, or whatever was that thing
Speaker 2: that somehow, maybe invisible how or angel who knows what
Speaker 2: you want to believe in. But people do have these stories.
Speaker 2: If you've got one like Patsy, where you're grateful for
Speaker 2: something that if it didn't happen, you wouldn't be here today,
Speaker 2: I'd love to hear them.
Speaker 1: You're listening to the question o' carl's show podcast Judy, Good.
Speaker 4: Morning, Good morning, How are you.
Speaker 2: I'm good Judy. So I'd love to hear your story.
Speaker 2: What are you grateful for? What happened? What saved your life?
Speaker 5: Okay, So thirty years ago, I was on a houseboat
Speaker 5: in Lake Yilden. My girlfriend and I had decided to
Speaker 5: sun bake on the houseboat. But we've got two tubes
Speaker 5: tied them to rope and some baked thought of out
Speaker 5: in the lake from the houseboat. Next thing you know,
Speaker 5: the drivers the boat decides to move hip and start
Speaker 5: the engine. Of course, these two tubes snapped. As soon
Speaker 5: as the houseboat took off. The tubes took off into
Speaker 5: the air, flying, and the next thing you know, we
Speaker 5: were like in the middle of Lake Eildon, struggling, and
Speaker 5: we started to swim towards his houseboat, but every time
Speaker 5: I looked up, the houseboat was further away, and of
Speaker 5: course the speedboat had gone into Petrol. So my girlfriend
Speaker 5: was a strong swimmer and I wasn't. And I kept going,
Speaker 5: kept going, and then I could feel myself going and
Speaker 5: I was like, now I just leave me. You keep going,
Speaker 5: and she's like, no, I'm not leaving you. And I
Speaker 5: started to push, you know when they say take what.
Speaker 5: I started to drag her down, and then she pushed
Speaker 5: me off. It was real like a drowning experience. And
Speaker 5: a guy they yelled, and he yelled out to the house,
Speaker 5: but Julie's going to drown like she's struggling. And a
Speaker 5: guy called, and I will say his name, Gilbert Wangernen
Speaker 5: from a chuca. He jumped into the into the lake
Speaker 5: and swam towards me and brought me back. And to
Speaker 5: this day Gilbert and I are friends. And I will yeah,
Speaker 5: I owe in my life and days ago. Yes, what
Speaker 5: a story, I know, tell me about it.
Speaker 2: God, you've had us all me and literally jaws on
Speaker 2: the floor. What a story. I mean, you were right
Speaker 2: near the edge of your.
Speaker 5: Life one hundred percent. And I'll tell you the moral was,
Speaker 5: I never learned how to swim. I'm fifty four. I
Speaker 5: never learned how to swim as a child. And it
Speaker 5: made me, yeah, looks differently. And I took my son,
Speaker 5: of course, to swimming lessons, and yeah, it was. It
Speaker 5: was quite an experience. I'm actually kicking up now very well.
Speaker 2: There of it will still be in you weren't it, Julie. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Oh, if anyone ever asks me, you know, have you
Speaker 5: had a near death experience or anything like that? Like
Speaker 5: I think is that you know, we sort of laugh
Speaker 5: about it now thirty years on, but it wasn't a
Speaker 5: laugh at the time.
Speaker 2: That's so unbelievable. What an amazing story. Incredible and you're like,
Speaker 2: you're a survivor, you got through it. But I'm telling
Speaker 2: you now, you really took us there. That that is
Speaker 2: a huge lake. And you're right, so if you're not,
Speaker 2: even if you're a strong swimmer, it's a long way
Speaker 2: to try. And then once that fair kicks in and
Speaker 2: that you can't breathe, and then it affects your muscles
Speaker 2: and you get tingly, that is a really scary place
Speaker 2: to be for you and your friend.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and thank God for Gilbert, That's all I can say.
Speaker 2: Yeah, nbelievable. It makes me want to learn how to
Speaker 2: become a strongest streamers. Well, just in case you have
Speaker 2: to try and save somebody, let me know yourself.
Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly, exactly.
Speaker 2: Now, you are right, Julie, because obviously when you open
Speaker 2: something up, it's really still alive in you. It's an
Speaker 2: unbelievable experience and story.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm fine, Thank you so much, thank.
Speaker 2: You, thank you. I can't believe the first story we
Speaker 2: go to is this one. It's unbelievable. Julie. I hope
Speaker 2: you are okay. Thank you very much for giving us
Speaker 2: a calling sharing it. Do you know what, I bet
Speaker 2: there be people listening to this actually think, you know what,
Speaker 2: I know, I could be a better swimmer. It's never
Speaker 2: too any age to go and have lessons.
Speaker 5: Definitely not definitely all right, Julia.
Speaker 2: I hope you're okay. Thank you very much for giving us.
Speaker 1: Thank you, the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much to Julie for sharing such a
Speaker 2: moment in her life. Jack and I would just still
Speaker 2: pulling it apart. Actually during that song, it's unbelievable her
Speaker 2: the friend as you have to say to someone, no,
Speaker 2: you go on? Yeah, and what do you tell you?
Speaker 2: I have to say those words.
Speaker 6: And being a friend and somebody who can't swim is
Speaker 6: is grabbing onto you to save their own life, and
Speaker 6: you're going to drown us both if you don't let go.
Speaker 6: It's a really difficult situation.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Julie, thank you very much to give us a
Speaker 2: call and everyone who's calling in right now to share
Speaker 2: these stories like Patsy did. This was seven o'clock. I
Speaker 2: wouldn't be here today if it wasn't for Good morning, Elizabeth.
Speaker 4: Hi, good morning Christian. How are you?
Speaker 2: I'm good Elizabeth. So what is your story like Julie's,
Speaker 2: like Patsy's, all these incredible stories this morning. What's yours? Mate?
Speaker 4: Well, I wouldn't be here today if it wasn't for
Speaker 4: an earache. They found three brain aneurysms from an earache
Speaker 4: and it was unrelated to the aneurysms. I went to
Speaker 4: the doctor's an earache. She had a look and she
Speaker 4: said there was nothing there, so she sent me off
Speaker 4: to an audiologist. The audiologist said, your ears are clear.
Speaker 4: So the GP said, I'll send you off for an MRI.
Speaker 4: And when they did the MRI, they found one aneurysm.
Speaker 4: Then I went up to the specialists at the Alfred
Speaker 4: and they did a cerebril cerebral angiogram and they found
Speaker 4: another two. So last year in August, I had the
Speaker 4: first surgery and then I had the second surgery April
Speaker 4: this year, just before Easter, when they removed the other two.
Speaker 2: That is incredible. What a thorough gp you've got as well,
Speaker 2: because most of them they're so busy and overstressed and overworked.
Speaker 2: They've done a couple of checks and they go, it'll
Speaker 2: probably clear itself up yourself. Well, that amazing they made
Speaker 2: and got you checked out probably where you say surgery, right,
Speaker 2: I hope you don't want me asking how do they
Speaker 2: do that? What do they do?
Speaker 4: They they remove a section of the skull and they
Speaker 4: clip it and then they use titan like they use
Speaker 4: titanium clip to clip the aneurysm and then they use
Speaker 4: titanium bolts to attach the piece of skull back to
Speaker 4: your head.
Speaker 2: Amazing. And are you you're not conscious during this?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: No, stupid, that was a stupid You don't take pandole.
Speaker 6: Deal deals on the TV.
Speaker 2: For your the titanium screws go in Elizabeth.
Speaker 4: So funny thing is the only thing that you get
Speaker 4: afterwards is panadole. You're on panadoles for the pain to
Speaker 4: the headaches and things.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Wow, so you've got titanium in your head.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've got I've got titanium bling in my brain.
Speaker 2: Wow. Way, that's the greatest rap song never recorded. So
Speaker 2: when you go through airport scanners, do you have to
Speaker 2: let them know I've got a titanium ahead.
Speaker 4: No, they don't, they don't affect the scanners.
Speaker 2: Wait, that is amazing. I love that. That's Elizabeth, another
Speaker 2: fantastic story.
Speaker 4: Do you know what though? With the earache? They sent
Speaker 4: me off to a special specialist as Monash, and he
Speaker 4: had looked and he said, there's a big lump of
Speaker 4: wax in there. And he got out the wax and
Speaker 4: he was fine.
Speaker 2: He's put at a taste for Elizabeth. All right, Elizabeth,
Speaker 2: thank you very much for sharing your amazing story with us.
Speaker 4: Thank you very much.
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