Episode 570: Panic Attack!

It happens.

Episode Transcript

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This is a big nineties of annine production. Welcome to Scott and Sadie's
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you download podcasts. You're very melancho. I mean, you're looking at me
right now. Well, no,I'm honestly, I think I just have

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I just have the worst panic attackin the middle of our show. But
what are you panicked about? Well, no, that's not what it's about.
It just hits you out of nowhere. And that was I think the
worst that I can remember ever having. I think, because here's what happened.
Right now, tell me how youfeel. Right, let's get fine,
And Scott and I are talking andwe'reing back and forth, and I

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start kind of feeling kind of sicka little bit, and I think,
oh, I kind of don't feelgood. And then i'd start get to
the place where I'm like, ifI gotta be sick, I feel like
I'm gonna be sick. So thenI started sweating and then it becomes like
everything fades out and you just see, you know, like it feels like
you're you're going to pass out.And so Scott's like talking and I I

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just walked away kind of and he'slike looking at me, and I go,
I just don't feel good. Andthen I walked I said, I
need a minute. I walked inthe hallway and I was stumbling. I
was like stumbling. Did you drinkNo, of course no, but I
was stumbling and then I felt likeI kind of fell and I just sat

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on the floor until I but Iwas sweating like crazy. Oh my god,
Now where I could just have ahorrible heart problem. I was going
to ask, I've had I've hadheart problems and it felt that way.
Did you have a heart palipitation?Did you feel like your heart was racing
you? Well? It No,that wasn't super I mean it was because

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I was attack. See, becausehere's what's wild. When I was a
kid, I always used to thinkwhat I had, we're panic attacks were
well, why am I all uptight while I'm all nervous? And then
then you know, I'd get youknow, through the day, and I'd
be okay and it would go away. Well, what we've realized now what
they diagnosed rapid a trio fibulation.Well that's good news. Well, but

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they fix that. I mean Ihad the cardio oblation procedure, what a
decade ago? Now? Yeah,I haven't been an a FIB since,
so I so anyway, that justhappened. And now I'm like, oh
God, I hope that doesn't happenagain. But you know, maybe I
need to get the old ticker lookedat. Yeah. Well, they can't
diagnose it unless you're an a FIBso because it's it's it's such a random

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thing that, you know, ifyour heart's normal, they can't say,
oh, yeah, you had aFIB twenty minutes ago. You have to
be an a fib. Yeah,and that's when they diagnose it. Wow,
So how did they diagnose you?You just happen to go in?
Well this was well, this wasall were you around? Yes? I
was around. Now I think i'dalready had it. No, you didn't.
I was here. I didn't havethe surgery, but I think I

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started experiencing the condition when I turnedforty Yep, and um, well you
turned forty. See it all goesto hell when you turn forty. No,
I'm serious, I know I heardthat. And this morning I almost
fainted in the hallway. So here'show it happened. Like I said,
I used to get up in themorning and think, God, why are
you I'm lightheaded, I'm a littledizzy, and my heart's pounding. And

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I always thought, well, whatam I stressed about? Out about?
I mean, this goes back towhen I was in high school. Yeah,
yes, I'm stressed out about somethingand whatever. And I'd go through
the day and I'd be fine.So I always just thought, you know,
I'm freaked out about today or whatever'sgoing on. Well, I got
to that one day, not longafter I turned forty, that it wouldn't
go away. Oh your heart waslest in the day and two days and

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three days, and of course Ithought, well, I better go into
the doctor. This is a storyworth telling. See, we got the
time now, So I go intothe doctor. This is back when Bill
Lopez was still working and uh hehad I told him, and he listened
to my heart. He says,well, geez, I want to do
an EKG. He says, myequipment maybe is not the best, but
let me see if if what Ithink is it'll show out my equipment.

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So he wheels in this old school, like nineteen sixties area EKG machine that
had the little It wasn't a computer, I had the little plotters. He
had a table. Wow. Yeah, and they wired me up and they
take this EKG and uh, well, I need to tell that. I
need to tell the story correctly.Bill was unavailable, so to speak,
and so his nurse practitioner was doingthis because I couldn't see the actual doctor.

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But I with, you know,doctor wants to see this, and
so I'll run this and uh shelooks at it and she goes out,
and all of a sudden, BillOpez, the doctor, comes in.
I said, I thought you're unavailable, and he looked at me, says,
I need you to go to thehospital now. Oh that's scary,
and I said. I looked athim, and you know, he and
I had a pretty decent relationship,kind of friendly. And I looked a

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him and say, what do youmean. He says, Scott, I
need you to go to the hospitalnow and tell you why. I'm kind
of standing there and he's literally handmy shirt, handing me my shirt but
shirt on. And so I walkout to the counter and I was going
to write my co pay. Youknow, I was writing up a check
for my copay and he looked atme, says, go to the hospital
now, we'll see. Were youin a panic after that? And I

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mean this was the old school PVH. And he was just a couple of
blocks south of that. So Iget in the car and I called my
wife and she says, what's goingon? I said, And it started
to hit me and I started tocry a little bit. I started to
get there like, oh my gosh. Bill just told me that he needed
me to go to hospital now.So I pulled up into the emergency room
and I walked into the door andsomebody literally meets me at the door with

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a gurney and they said lay down, and they looked at me. They
said you're Scott and saidyeah, I'mScott. She will get on And I
thought, am I dying? Yeah? Wow? And so they wheel me
into the room. They wire meup, and you know that much more
modern equipment they would Bill had inhis office, you know. And I'm
looking over there and I noticed thatmy heart is doing like a hundred and

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have any one hundred and eighty beatsa minute? Oh jeez. I looked
at the doctor. I said,that's not normal. He says, well,
that's why you're here. And hesays, we think it's a condition
called a FIB, but we haveto we have to get it right.
Well, no, I was init without a doubt. I'd been in
it for several days. You wouldfall in it, you would into it,
and then you would come out ofit. Yeah, but I had

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been in it for like three days. At that time. You had no
idea and I had no idea.And so what happens is is a fib.
Sometimes you're atrims, which are thesmall chambers that sit on top of
your heart. They almost get goingso fast they vibrate and as they shake
like this, blood will kind ofseep up into the top. It will

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kind of catch up into the topof the atria and it could collagulate,
It could clot up there, andso they're nervous. Is if you go
back into regular rhythm, then thatthose clots that are formed in the top
of the atria could fall out ofthe tops of the atria and shoot out
through your body and you know,game over. Scott's definitely the fringe you
want to talk to. Like ascary panic attack happened, and then he

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goes into the twenty minute thing aboutwell my heart, oh my god,
it ran out at the end ofthe story. So they literally had to
put me on blood thinners for acouple of days to get my blood thinned
out, to make sure that Iwas clotted in no way, because they
were nervous about once they restart myheart. Literally that stuff could fall out

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of the top of your atria andshoot out in your body. Geez,
Louise. And and so they wheeledme and I said, now, what
procedure we going to do? Andthey say, well, we're just gonna
do what they call an electrio electrocardio version. That's where they stop it
and restarted. And that's what Isaid, So what does that mean?
Well, we stop your heart andwe started again, Scott, I said,

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And of course, what's the obviousquestion that comes to mind? What
if it don't start again? You'regonna just turn the engine off, hope
it turns over. And of coursethey almost got a chuck late out.
We do dozens of the every dayand and it is your heart will start
again, you'll be well. Andso I go in on the day of
the procedure and they get a littleIvy and me, and they're kind of

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putting the happy juice in me,and they're walking around, and I keep
thinking, well, what are theygoing to do this? Yeah? And
I rolled over and I looked upat the at the screen and sure enough,
I was like one hundred and eightyfive beats a minute or something crazy
like that. And look at mywife and I kind of get mad.
I said, when are they goingto do this? And she says,
they did it ten minutes ago.And I looked up at the screen and

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I was in a normal rhythm,and so it was so subtle. They
just put me under a little bitand hit me and brought me back out.
And I didn't even know why theydid it. You know, good,
Okay, so it'll be easy.I guess we got remember, we
got to work it together. Andit was so common for me that I
knew what I was after. Afterwe got off the air, I just
go over here to MCR and theyrestarted. They'd restart me. That's how

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dedicated this man is. Restart meand I dage show up heart working fine
and uh. And then they finallygot tired to restart me, and that's
when they did the cardio obligion procedurewhere they run up through your femoral arteries
with a garden knows and now theygo through your femerals and they still makes

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me you have a FIB because youhave extra electrical pathways on your heart.
And they go and they literally shortout to the extra extra electrical pathways.
They map your heart, they see, they put you in a FIB,
they take out, they see wherethe extra electrical pathways are and they eliminate
them. And I have been curedsince yeah you and but didn't they say

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that in like a decade you probablywould have to get another surgery. No,
not another surgery. They said,just be aware through time your body,
since you have this condition, willwant to try to create new electrical
pathways, and so you might startcoming back into aphib again. And a
couple of times over the years,I woke it up and a daminam an
a FIB. But I'd get up, moving around, I'd be fine.

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This surgery would do its job correctitself. How exciting. So yeah,
I had a complete meltdown out inthe hallway. So you could have a
FIB. I could cool, completelytreatable, look at me completely treating.
You're really selling it sounds really nice. Well I'm being serious. If you

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notice you get that feeling some moreand more, maybe have your heart check.
Yeah, no, I think that'strue. I think we're at the
time now where well you turn forty, so it's all got to go to
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Second segment, Scott Sadie's twenty minuteMorning Show. We want to talk about
now, Um, okay, otherways you might die. Yeah, that's
great, bring that up. Butknow I went the other day and I
did a grocery pickup thing. UsuallyI do delivery, but I need to
get out a little so I'll parkand the walk out. But I'm sitting

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there in my car just waiting forit, and and I'm watching everybody else
get their groceries and I'd say itsold seventy percent also got out and unloaded
the groceries. And then I thought, is that like what you're supposed to
do? And I'm just a jerkand pop the trunk and I'm like,
thank you put him in the back. Is that is that terrible? Well?

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During COVID, when you know,groceries started just started taking off.
They wanted you to know because ohmy god, let's not get close to
each other because you know, youmight have COVID, you might be a
leper or something like that. Yeah, and so you would pop the hood
and put them in back. Butnow you should get out. Oh why
even do the dance? I justhave them fallen delivered, just d I
know. But I accidentally clicked pickup and you know, and I thought,

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well, I guess I gotta go. But I'm looking and I'm like,
is what is the etiquette for this? I think the euet etiquette iss
you get out and assist. No, are you serious? I see,
But I put myself in the situationof the person working at Walmart. I
don't want you to get out andlet me just get these bags at all.
Maybe they're friendlier than you said.Also, no, we'll listen.
My guy. He had headphones onand so he was listening to music.

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Could you bet I walk up behindhim and just start helping him. But
I don't know why. I thinkthat's weird. I think you shouldn't help.
Oh my god, I would thinkthat it's or maybe you could do
this. Um, hey there youneed help? Oh you don't, okay,

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put him in the bag. Nolisten. So I did that.
I said, hey, do youneed Do you want me to get out
and help you? Because I don'twant to be a jerk. And this
is what he said. It's totallyup to you. Some people do,
some people don't. I prefer tobe in the don't categories. So I'm
like, well, then I didn'tdo the right thing. Again, well,

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by my standard, he might beby a fine by yours. But
in the commercial, you pull upand the beautiful looking lady in the shirt
with the target logo stuff put yourbananas in smiles and walks away. You
don't see the disgusting pajama wearing monster, you know who's been home with her

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kid and her hair sticking up.You don't see that, And so I
guess I just never thought even toget out, Oh what an a hole.
Do you ever realize you're doing somethingand it's just a lot actually,
you know? And then later you'relike, huh, maybe I was a
jerk. That was an a wholething to say, and I didn't mean

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it that way, or maybe Idid. I don't know. Oh,
I'm so glad it's Friday. Oh, and I know that's such a stupid
thing to say, Teenie, Iam, but I am really, really
so glad it's Friday. Well,it hasn't been that long of a week.
I mean, yeah, I didfour days. Four days, we're

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building up from three. Well beforewed I did, she barfed, that's
okay. So that was the nightwhere cooper Ate it on his bicycle and
got really bad road rash and Itold him this is gonna hurt, Like
it's gonna hurt. Want to giveit a little bit of time. In

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a few hours, it's going tobe really rough. So I hear him
like like moaning, and so Igo get medicine. It's like one in
the morning, and I come backin the room and Ryan's changing the bedding
and I it was within like sixtyseconds. I walked out and she must
have just vomited. And then uhso I text Scott and I said,

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well, got a puker. Youjust texted me the picture of the child
in your bed? Yeah, Isaid, guess what? And then he
never responded, Yeah, did youtell Marco across the hall? He sent
me a text He's really nice.Well, I want to know where you
were, and said, uh,well, I got a sick kids.
Okay, he sent me a reallynice text. Very Yeah, he's a
good guy. You're terrible. Scottdoesn't even respond. It's just like,

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piss off to you and your kid, or rather if you're dead. Yeah,
okay, well got work today.Yeah, I'm such a boomer.
I'm such a boomer when it comesto that. That's my most boomer tendency.
Doesn't make Scott's ever taken a sickday? Boomers work, Oh,
this would be well you've yeah,you've never taken a sick day. I

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was gonna say, we get intothem the work day app and see how
many sick days we had. I'mprobably going to get an award at the
end of the year for not takingany time off. I do forget to
do that very I do sometimes shoot, well, I don't want to go
back now now with our vacation,and we've said before, I heart's very

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generous. They give us four weeksof vacation a year, and we take
every last second, every drip drop, we're licking the plate and so we
do. And I appreciate that,but that doesn't carry over, so if
you don't use it by December thirtyone, but they roll over. Sick
days. How many do you I'vebeen here for twenty years, okay,
so log on, tell me howmany you have? And I have taken.

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I took sick days when I hadmy appendix out and I took sick
days. We talked to the firstsegment about my cardio oblation. I took
sick days then and that was it. And that's all the sick days I've
I've ever really needed. I guessI've been down maybe a bad cold or
two. I mean we're talking twentyyears. For crying out loud. You
usually come in incredibly ill and thenI become incredibly ill. No, you

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just yes, I do remember whenyou were sick at Christmas and then I
ended up being sick in February.That was you coughed and coughed and coughed
and coughed, and I just thought, well, we're in the room.
We're in a room the size ofa closet. So I am super screwed,
and uh, I don't know whatare you going to do? Sorry,

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I have to put in all mycredentials. Oh do they have to
send you a text? We're noteven at that part yet. I have
to put in my credentials. It'slike an eighteen step system into the password.
I'm not going to say it outloud because then I would let everybody
know my password, because it isthe same across to all platforms. Really

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that they say don't do that,And every time they say you can't use
that, I think, well,I'm never going to remember this. So
I guess this is a one timelog in use faced face. I d's
ready And now we're into workday.All right, let's look at time off
and then you have to go towhat they call balances. Yeah, here's

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my balances. And they must havecapped my sick hours. Why what does
it say, see, take thesick days, Take the sick days.
Um, I have three hundred andsixty hours of sick What do you what's
the even the math on equals,that's forty five days. And you said

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divided by eight eight hours. Andwhen you said that, I'm like,
no, we were paid based onan eight hour day, not necessarily meaning
we work. Yeah, I wassuper confused. So okay, let's do
it real, okay, real,real? How many days you have?

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You don't have to say time orhours, nothing incriminating the actual the actual
number, well, people can domath the actual number day. I forgot
about that part. It would beabout one hundred and twenty. But thousand
hours, Yeah, that makes sense. Forty five six days is a par
what they kept me at. Nowwhat's in here? I've still got no

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eligible time offs Colorado pH L.What the heck is that? But I
got four days waiting there public healthemergency. So I bet this is still
COVID stuff. Remember when everybody gottwo weeks because you know by the end
of the year. By the endof the year, Scott and I are
like crackheads, were like, yougot any more than six days? And

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so if there is like a randomday where they're like, we're gonna take
this day off for friendship. I'mlike, hell, yes I am.
You know what used to make menuts? And this used to make Scott
and nuts too. Was back inthe day. If we'd come into work,
it'd be like, you know,like the day before Christmas break.

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We'd come in early, we'd getour work done, we'd work our hours,
and then we'd go home. Andthen our boss would send out an
email saying, everybody head home early. Yeah, but you know, a
half days a whole day for usbecause we start earlier. Oh, we
were such wieners. Have I takenour traditional have you filed for our traditional

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year? In what we call thelong winner's nap off, we usually take
the last couple of weeks of theyear off. Let me let me check
here. Do we take the lastcouple of weeks of the year off?
Hip? Sure you already took itoff? Then I must have, because
we usually sit down and do thattogether. Award winning, award winning yesterday

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we were talking What were we eventalking about yesterday? It was not award
winning in neither Oh my gosh.So yeah, the good news is we're
done. We're done. In aminute. God, I gotta get out
of here, go have a panicattack on your own time. Thanks for
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