Harebrained Healing & Medical Mayhem (Ep. 7)

A broken foot that won’t quit can turn anyone into a philosopher, a menace, or both. I’ve been in a walking boot for months, and instead of behaving, I tried to live normally: open-ocean kayaking with the bad foot on the rudder, barefoot beach hikes, top-rope climbing, and daily city miles with the dog. The X-rays say “slow but healing,” which makes for a perfect argument with myself about discipline, denial, and why pain—or the lack of it—can be such a bad compass.

We go wide and weird in the best way. There’s a detour through Guinness World Records and why it feels like a business built on stunts, a confession about Etsy art turning my apartment into a chaotic gallery, and a riff on music, glass floors, and fear—how your brain screams no while your body steps forward anyway. Then we hit the hard stuff: the ganglion cyst saga with needles that led to fainting in a doctor’s office, the most brutal eye stye “lancing” that forever changed how I feel about being awake for procedures, and the small redemption arc where a terrifying MRI contrast injection didn’t hurt at all. Along the way, I question supplements, admit to boot hacks to survive summer sweat, and try to make sense of controlled weight-bearing, healing timelines, and why I keep pushing when I should probably rest.

If you’ve ever tried to recover without losing your mind—or ignored good advice because you felt fine—you’ll hear your own voice in this. Come for the laughs and the chaos, stay for the honest takeaways on pain tolerance, trust in medicine, and finding a balanced way back to running and real movement. If this resonated, subscribe, share with a friend who’s “definitely taking it easy,” and drop your wildest recovery story in a review.

Chapters

• 0:00 Back On The Mic
• 1:00 Broken Foot Reality Check
• 3:30 Pushing It On Vacation
• 6:45 Guinness Records Rabbit Hole
• 9:40 Etsy Art And Apartment Chaos
• 12:20 Barbie Takes And Hoodie Lore
• 15:30 Jungle Survival Daydreams
• 18:30 Mobile Games And Nostalgia
• 22:00 COD, Zombies, And Gaming Eras
• 26:00 TV Gaps And Animal Planet Roots
• 28:30 Music, EDM, And Speed Traps
• 32:00 Anatomy, Ligaments, And Live Googling
• 35:00 Climbing Class With A Boot
• 38:00 Fear, Trust, And Glass Floors
• 41:00 Weight Bearing And Schrodinger’s Foot
• 44:00 Aging Jokes And Daily Miles
• 47:30 Bike Pain And Taint Trauma
• 50:30 Wrist Cyst Saga And Fainting
• 55:00 Surgery, Anesthesia, And Relief
• 57:30 Wisdom Teeth And Milkshake Chaos
• 1:00:00 Eye Styes: The Horror Story
• 1:05:30 Why I Now Ask To Be Knocked Out
• 1:08:00 Tattoos, Risks, And Sedation

Transcript

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And we're back. Welcome, ladies, ladies, ladies, and gentlemen, too. Uh but I got my priorities. But another week's in the books, seven more days, seven more dollars, something like that. I guess hopefully more than seven more. I got bills to pay. Um hopefully something's coming in. Hopefully more for I guess, you know, the y'all government workers out there, I think. The government running again, or however that works. They they turn the lights back on. I don't know. I don't pay attention to the news. There ain't enough good news, so just kind of stay vibe and I don't know. That's maybe not the might be good to be uh a little more of an informed citizen, but I don't know. Kind of it's hard to keep the vibe up, you know. It's all trying to, you know, bring it down. So blissful ignorant ignorance blissful ignorance. That's what I'm looking for. That's the word. But not much to know. Still got a broken foot. I just found out. It's been five, wait, uh how many months? July, what we're November now? What the hell? How's it already almost 2026? I don't know. Uh okay. July, August, December, October, November, wait, July, August, September, October, November. Yeah, it's pushing five months of a broken foot somehow. Um, I mean, I guess I haven't been treating it like it's been broken, but I had another checkup x-ray this past week. It is healing slowly but surely. So your boy is cryptocking in the boot for at least another month. I'm really hopeful it's not more than that. It might be a little bit more. I really have no idea. It's been so slow. I mean, I've it's maybe a little bit my fault because the past, I mean, after the first four so I broke it started July. It was rough for those first few weeks. I mean, I really didn't change much. I mean, I guess it wasn't like running, things like that. Um, wasn't jumping around too much. I mean, maybe my good foot, I would have you know hitting the gritty on my dog, on my my right leg, but not a broken foot. But otherwise, I was trying to behave. I had the boot like a big walking boot, ankle boot, Cam boot, is that what they call it? I don't know. What's that even mean? Is it is Cam an acronym or is it named after someone? We got that Cam Newton boot, Superman. Wow. How long has it been since he's played? I don't know. Um, but I still remember when he got absolutely smacked and you know, met his daddy von Miller in the Super Bowl, whatever year that was when Peyton Manning went out. I remember it was kind of I mean, I don't really watch the NFL. I don't really watch any sports like regularly. Kind of did more in high school. Kind of became like a low-key Broncos fan. I feel like it was just like a conglomerate of random sports, but it was mostly dictated by my fantasy team the first time ever played. I didn't even really know much about football, but I had like Demarius Thomas on my team, so then I just that was like a year Peyton Angles going crazy. So I just kind of you know, just rolled with that RIP to that dude. I was supposed to say, I don't need that, and that's crazy, but I liked him a lot. Where was my how did I get there? Um I am losing track already. Wow, we're off to a hot start, folks. Um football, football. How did we get talking about football? Breaking stuff, something. Well, maybe it'll all tie it back together at some point. I can't keep it straight. However, the the foot is still broke. I yeah, so I was after a month, I was hopeful. I was like, oh, it doesn't really hurt to do too much anymore. I mean, I probably pushed it a little bit. I was like, walk out on the side of my foot. And then like I like just behaved, try to walk carefully when it's like the first checkup after like a month, and that was there's a it still looked really broke. Like there's a huge gap in my bones. They were like, uh, and I'm like, oh, that looks worse. But they they told me it looked good, and I was like, all right, if you say so, I was like, dang, maybe I should be in the boot. I put it on for like a few more weeks and then like not so much. And the next checkup, it was slightly more. You know, I looked at him like, that looks kind of rough. But next other one, you could see you made some progress. Actually, wait, no, it was more than a month after that. I did a lot because I was on vacation too. I was I behaved for a few weeks before the boot and I was like, okay, maybe just a few more. But then I was like, I feel like I didn't just do some like just head-ass stuff, like walking like 10 miles on the beach barefoot. Santa did kind of make it a little bit sore, not too bad. But I was like, I'm like, okay, maybe I should take it easy, but still walked like quite a bit in flip-flops. Um what else? Oh yeah, I kayaked like a bunch. And some like the first time ever open ocean kayaking and I'd steered, and I didn't realize how like much work that is on your foot. So I was like, steering the rudders with my broken foot. So that was maybe not the smartest thing I've ever done. But honestly, the the the list of not very intelligent things that I've done is pretty long, so I don't even know if it's that high ranking up there, unfortunately. Or fortunately, you know, lots of good lore to build. I think so. That's the first time I've ever really kayaked in the ocean, or period, not really. I don't know why I said that. Because I'd only ever kind of kayaked in lakes like a handful of times. I was kind of concerned. Well, I didn't really know. They say it's the the longest guided ocean, open ocean, oh my goodness, kayak trip in the world. I don't know if that was like a marketing gimmick or that's actually like verified if they got Guinness over there stamping it. How does Guinness work? Like, does it have any relation to the beer? I don't really know. Is it the same? Because like, who who started that? Like, we're gonna make a book. Is there any like competitors to Guinness? Is there like a witch.com Guinness? Is there like is there like a natural light records or something like that? Miller Light, one of them, some other beer that's whatever, you know. You catch them up putting down, picking it up. I don't know. But because I think you have to like just pay someone to show up and be like, yeah, he did it. And like some of them are just such weird records. As long as you pick something niche enough, you can get a Guinness World Records. So maybe we'll get one sometime in the future. I don't really know what. Something real niche that we can do. I have to think about it. Brainstorm, send in your ideas, please. Love to hear them. I mean, but I'll get creative too. I actually gotta look, see how much it costs. It's probably outlandish. Because I feel like they always have them in like those clickbaity YouTube videos where like we're gonna do so-and-so, the world's largest blanky blank. I don't know, like legit anything, just make up stuff. There was like I think there's like craziest thing. It was like one of the I don't know if it's like Mr. Beast or Mark Robert, like the giant elephant's nut foam, devil foam. I don't know what it's called. It's like you mix stuff and you get like shoot up a bunch of foam, and it apparently it's like kind of dangerous because it gets hot, so they're doing it like a swimming pool. That's just a very random example. I mean, there's not a real reason I brought that up. But they just like all the videos, and they just have some guy in a tie sitting in the back corner and like holding the paper at the end, like, good job. So, how much does it cost to get there? Uh call me. I'm asking for a friend. My best friend. That's who that's who. No shame in that. Um but yeah, I don't really know. Like, how's that I'm very curious now about that. It's like a business. How does that like is there like some is there like a Guinness HQ? Do they got like some museum of all the craziest things? Because is Ripley separate from Guinness? I'm trying to think back when I was a kid and I was like the Guinness book. Like, oh my goodness, these are world legends. And now like I've never actually seen a Guinness. Do they still make the books? I do remember those like hype to see them at like the the book fair. That was actually, I remember those, those went crazy. Book fair as well. I like I just want the the sensation of that again. I don't even know if there's any modern day equivalent in my life of what I'd be hyped for like the book fair. So like there's something shopping. I do like to shop. I do like um just gotta like stash my money away in like a savings account. Otherwise, I tend to just buy like just the shit I don't need. But at least trying to well, I don't know. Well, I do have a lot of junk. I've recently got into buying too many just like random Etsy paintings. I do like art and paintings, it's not just kind of cool. Like actual stuff is kind of expensive, but there's some cool stuff on Etsy that is like relatively affordable. Also stuff that's plenty expensive, but I feel like my walls of my apartment have just like kind of like exploded with just like random like things I found on Etsy and just bought. But now it's like after like the summer of like doing that too much, I think partially was influenced by me just pent up at home, just hanging out with my broken foot, bum foot, didn't know what to do, and I was like, I spent way too much time just shopping on my laptop on the couch. But now I got a pretty colorful apartment. I do like it. Although there's some parts of it where I got like too many paintings, and I'm like, okay, I gotta back off it's getting a little cluttered. It's like looking like a little bit of a crackhouse art gallery. Like parts of it I'm I'm happy with. I'm like, okay, this is balanced. Good good amount, not too crazy, but then there's like some like here's like my closet where show you have solid paintings, but I'm like, this was maybe a little bit much, but I fuck with it, you know. Can't complain. I like it, you know, feels like it feels like the swag cave, the the Mojo Dojo Casa House from the Barty movie. Probably one of the best parts of that movie. It was a good movie. I mean, I can't hear the movie. Although actually, my favorite part at the end was at or was at the end of like the the canon I am a can I am cannot hoodie. I I found that part hilarious when I was watching that. I do remember the girls I was watching with at that time, they were like found as so inspirational. I don't I don't entirely know why. I didn't didn't quite resonate with me. I mean, I like I mean, I know it was more for the the shoddies out there and I understand, but I feel like uh it wasn't anything profound in that movie. I mean, as long as like you are somewhat like have any sort of like I guess empathy, you know. They're saying like kind of there's like the one whatever the main Barbie rant just talking about how hard it is to be a shoddy, but like I feel like I was like, I mean, yeah, tricks out, but it's hard to be everyone, you know. It's rough out there, shoddies and fetalists, you know. Everyone got their battles, but I found that part hilarious, and they were like, that was what you took away from it. And I'm like, hell yeah. And then I was so hyped when you could actually buy the IMKNF hoodies, although I didn't get one from my my little sister for my birthday or something, and I was I was pretty gassed up when I got that. I'm like, oh, you didn't. No way. I've gotten less guessed since when I've seen the clientele who are wearing those IMKNF hoodies around. Um maybe that's maybe there's more motivation for me to start rocking it more, you know. Maybe we'll in one of the next episodes rock the IMKNF hoodie, you know, really set the new stage, be the finest shit to wear that. I mean, I would be, even if everyone wore it. So I guess I don't know what I'm worried about. But if you know, you know, I mean I feel like I've seen some kind of like kind of, you know. I'd say it's like similar clientele to those fuzzy cookie uh monster uh sweatpants, you know? Hot Cheeto type beat. Anywho. That's kind of how the hell did I get there? I I'm like really off the rails, you know. We're going machete in the jungle and seeing where the hell we end up. That would be kind of fun. Just drop me a fan of the machete, let's see how far I get. I'm definitely gonna die after a while. I feel like there's some things where people say they could survive, but like I feel like if you've been like anywhere in wilderness, you're like, okay, never mind. I feel like I've been on hikes and looking at the mountains, I'm like, wow, all that is beautiful, but that's also all death, or like, you know, it's just that cliff. And like I mentioned, like some of the places, like there's some like forests and like the the PNW, like Oregon, Washington. They're beautiful. But when you see how thick those trees are, I'm like, if you're in the middle of that, how the hell do you know what direction it is, what day it is, what time of year it is. Okay, that time of year, I don't know. That's that's maybe one like farm, maybe maybe it's confusing at times. Maybe they got some hot springs in there that keep you toasty. But Amazon, yeah, that thing is so big. I try to saw some joke about it. I don't know. I forgot about it. It's some funny meme about like the warehouse in the jungle. That's irrelevant at this point. But you maybe find maybe there's some like ancient runes, you know. Go for a little temple run type beat, that would be cool. Wow, what a game, temple run. I still remember that back in the day, like trying to like get the high scores of like some glitches where it's like swiped enough times. Or like I don't remember how it worked. But then it would just be like the straight track, and you can just route the score and be like, I'll just try to like leave. I was like playing out like an iPad at this point. I think this was before before I even had like a phone at this yeah, at this time, I don't think I did. So just like an iPad, like the big screen, and then I was like, have it plugged in and try to like leave it running all night. And I I feel like it eventually timed out and I was like pissed. I'm like, what? I even left it plugged in. Maybe we lost power. I feel like that did happen once. But I think I like kept trying. I don't I don't I really don't remember. I don't know. I'm remembering this. It's like the OG subway surfers. Now I kind of want to play that. Because I feel like that was like popular, and then I feel like it had like a resurgence when I was like at the end of high school, like 2017. I don't know. We used to have like a mandatory reading time. I don't know what time of day this was. Wow, high school vibes, weird. Yeah, like just hold up like a book, um, and then just be like playing Subway Surfers. So that was like the original brain rot before Subway Surfers like was just plastered on every video on stuff for you, just like mind mindlessly watching that. It was like that was the start. I should have known that you know civilization was doomed from that point when I'm like on a book at like 16 years old, like not actually reading, but playing Subway Surfers. That was the crack, you know. Ronald Reagan's gonna declare war on Subway Surfers. Was he the guy who declared like war on drugs? I don't know. I feel like I always see clips of that in like the Narcos movies or like different like whatever video game cutscenes or something like that. Actually, no, I don't know about video games, I don't think they talk about that. Speaking of that, the Call of Duty Black Ops 7 came out. That's pretty I well I haven't like played that much. I played like a total of like five games. I always like get the new Call of Duty, end up trying to, you know, relive the old quickscoping days, get diamond snipers, and then like don't play with it that much. Was it it was just Black Ops 6, yeah. I don't know, I lose track. I'm you know, old head on not keeping up with the times. But yeah, no, it was BO6, yeah, no, it was BO6, so PO7 is BO8 next year. What's the rotation like? Because I remember we used to wait like every like three years to get a new try art game. I haven't actually played the zombies, that was what I was always most hyped about for the try art games, all the zombies modes. BO3 definitely peaked. BO4 was pretty good. I didn't like that, I didn't play till after. I don't know. I mean, it probably is like maybe still pale as a comparison, but it was pretty fun. I played like the 9 map a lot, but like at least a year or two after it was like hot. I think it was one that was like way different, but looked kind of fun was the Infinite Warfare. But this is so long ago now. It makes me feel so old. I mean, even the fact that like GTA 5 came out in like 2013. Yeah, that's like 13 years ago. I still like remember that came out, and I was like hyped to get it. Especially like the one year I played soccer. That was absolutely trash. I mean, I never really did it, but um that was that was a highlight of it, you know, just playing GTA with the gang from the soccer team. Although we had barely had it was like a scrap together soccer team. I think we had enough for enough people on the field. I don't think we had more. And I was a chunky little monkey at that point, and I was like dying playing midfield to the point. I was probably in the middle, and just kept running back and forth. Oh my goodness, I'm throwing shit. I'd be the bling, be flinging, bling fling. Um, that was rough, but GDA Fox came out that point. I don't know, I'm really rambling today. But the like three or four games of BO7 I played were kind of fun. I don't I did like BO6, I just didn't really have time to play it. Oh also I've been playing there's like The Simpsons Fort, the Fortnite Simpsons. That has been actually kind of entertaining. It's like a smaller map, but some funky stuff. I've never actually seen The Simpsons, I don't think. I mean, like I've seen it, like the you know, people and the memes of like homework going to the bush, but I don't think I've ever watched an episode of it. Is that something that still runs? I just found out that they're still making Grayson Gray's Anatomy, is that how it is? So that may start a book. Or does there I feel like there's like an anatomy book called Grey's Anatomy? I'm not sure about that. But is The Simpsons still running? Because I feel like some things are because is Family Guy? I actually don't know. I'm not that I'm cultured in some ways. Not in television, to be honest. Didn't watch much of that. I feel like I just never did growing up. I mean, occasionally I watched on like streaming shows, but as a child, I didn't even think I watched many cartoons. I was just a fiend. I was uh an animal planet goblin. I used to love these shows. There was like it was like the top ten animals of like any categories, like the most poisonous or most dangerous. I'd be always like be hyped up, like yelling at the TV. That was like my Super Bowl when I was getting a number one of like the deadliest animal and show me a tiger. I was gassed. That was gassed. That was that was that was my shit back in the day. But oh my goodness, I am I don't I don't know where I started or where I'm came from, where I'm going. Call me Cottonai Joe. Who is that about? I'd love to meet Cottonai Joe. Where did you come from? Where did you go? Where did you come from, Cottonai Joe? One of the hype songs. I remember playing playing hockey in the the good old days, the yonder years, the Is that a phrase? I feel like there's some trying to think of some phrases for you know the past. Looking back with the rose-colored glasses, although it wasn't really bad. I don't know why I'm saying that. I feel like that applies as bad if you say rose-colored glasses. But if you're looking at something rosy with rose-colored glasses, even better. Extra rosy, extra, extra vibes. Though I feel like for lots of sports stuff, they should just blast music more during it. Because I do remember when I was a little playing hockey and it was like on like the face-offs and they're like blasting. Okay, Captain Joe. I mean, that was fun. It wasn't as hype of one, like like Thunderstruck or Crazy Train. Although I feel like Crazy Train is just like so hype in the beginning of it. The main part of the song isn't as hype. I mean it's still a good song. But like, you know, it's like kind of like an EDM song where like the bass drops, it builds up to that, and then it's kind of like fine, you know. That's what I was maybe that's why I like EDM. Oh, it's it's not just like kind of blue balls on me with the build-up. It doesn't go hard after the beat. Not the dub steppy stuff. I don't really, I mean, I don't mind it, but I like more like the faster EDM stuff that's a little bit more, you know, crackhead beat. I like to run to that or drive. Although it's bad driving, because I feel like it's very unless I'm on cruise control, that maybe helps. Because I think when I'm like listening to that and I'm in the car, gravity somehow just gets a little bit stronger and pulls my foot down on the gas a little bit harder. And I don't know what happens, but I swear it happens. Um, and if anyone knows how I can, you know, argue that in court, that'd be very helpful. Um for no particular reason. But I'm sure it's a real uh physical phenomenon. It happens every time, and I don't I don't know what to do about it. But officer, I swear the gravitational field, space-time is bending extra hard when um Dioros coming on. I don't wait, I don't think it's how you say is it de Oro. I don't know. I think it is something like the guy is like Latino, so it's probably like so I mean of gold. I don't know. I'm so rusty on my Spanish, I'm rusty on lots of stuff. If only I had like a Rosetta stone in my tongue. Get a kidney or Rosetta stone, kidney stone. What is a like how does a kidney stone work? Do you just piss that out? That looks just rough. That is one medical issue that I don't want to have. I've had well, I've not really had anything. I'm just thinking of my foot stuff recently. My not nothing uh freaky for you foot fiends out there. I don't get that either, but go off gang. My broken my broken bones, my broken metatarsals, my messed up mediatars. Actually, nothing though. Your feet bones look real long. I'm like, what the heck? Whose whose monkey toes are that? That ain't me, but it is. Hopefully the only another month. But yeah, I mean I've not been behaving. I think that's where I was initially starting at. We've been all over the place. But I've done a lot, you know. I did I did like a 20 miles partially around the the uh island of in Hawaii. That was pretty fun. It wasn't a nice day for kayaking, but I mean still kayaking in the open ocean is a little bit hard and like kind of stomping on these like rudder pedals with a broken foot. It's probably not good for it. Also, scuba diving or the scuba diving. Well, I mean, I feel like the the flipping in the paddle is or flippers, like swimming around in those, probably not great for your foot. I don't actually know though, like if some motions are worse for that bone, because like I broke it like rolling it onto it, and like is like this part of it of my foot then just like snapped or some tendon or ligament, I always forget tendon. Wait. I think I was like mapped back to ACL because I think your ACL is bone to bone. So is that ligament is a tendon muscle to bone? I don't know. Doctors in the chat, correct me if I'm wrong. I don't have that much confidence in there. I feel like I just like build up like random associations in my memory. I don't know how neurons and synapses and all that stuff works, but it's like if I got like weird things of how I remember things sometimes, and I'm like, I always remember based off of this. Which I'm just gonna go off that coding of things, but I don't know. Like I don't inherently know that ligaments are bone to bone or not. I'll Google it right now. We'll see. Real time. We're doing research live on the live on the air. Well, this isn't live. That'd be crazy doing this live. I mean, actually, there's no barriers to that. Because I don't even do any, you know. You're getting it raw. No editing. That's too much work. Okay, wait, wait. Yes, ligamenta. A short band of tough flexible fibrous connective issue which connects two bones. We did it. Bone to bone, ligament. But I don't actually like know ligament, bone to bone. I just know like ligament. And then I'm like, oh, your ACL. And then I'm like, that makes me think bone to bone. But I don't actually know what your ACL connects to. Is it your femur and your tibia tibia? Is it it's not tibula, it's tibia and fibula. I think. Yes. Tibia and fibula. Such a weird name. Who named that? Why don't you name it like left shin, right shin, or do they twist around each other? Anywho. I did also start, I mean, the first climbing I've ever done, really, other than if you count climbing a rock wall over like the town pool when I was a child, like in the in like the deeper pool by the diving floors and like a rock like climb up. I did do that once, maybe like ten years ago. I guess that was a lifeguard there. I think they had it, so I probably did a time or two there. It's not that good in it. But in my another addition to my broken foot shenanigans, I did take some like climbing class. It was like the top rope or is that we call it? I think. I don't know. I don't I don't know the climbing terms. Um I'm you know, I'm noob at the point. At this point, yes, top rope where you gotta like lay down and bring the rope up. Although that is, I mean, I am like jamming my foot onto the wall to like climb up. However, I think it's better than bouldering, which is so if you don't know, which I didn't until like some minutes ago. I mean I kind of knew. But bouldering is just like where you're like climbing like the shallow walls are kind of really like steep and not high up, and you just fall off on like to the the cushioned floor. Do they have any like trampoline climbing gyms? That'd be kind of sick. Jump down, although I could definitely see things going wrong, but like get like a jump start, that would be someone needs to start one of those trampoline climbing gym, or I guess bulls running gym. But like in the top rope, someone just lowers you down, you just kind of like slide down. Although the first time I'll say it, it was like took a minute to like put the trust in like the person bringing you down. It's kind of like have you ever been to any of those like uh observation decks? Is that the word? And the skyscrapers where they got like the the lookouts and they have like the glass floor things. If you've ever been that, I think I went on one of them. The only time I've been on the glass floor one, there's maybe been others, but the one that I'm thinking of is Chicago. What are the buildings' names? Is it the Sears Tower or did it get like bought out? Is it now Willis? Yeah. Sears isn't a thing anymore. I don't think that like went out of business or bankrupt. I don't really know. Because like bankruptcy doesn't always like mean that's like you're done. It's sometimes just like a business thing that you like file someone so something happens. I don't I don't know where you count as that. But yeah, because like some things go bankrupt and then like you still see it around. So I don't know how that works. Because yeah, I feel like Spirit Airline just went bankrupt or something, but it's like there's different ones. There's like chapter 11, is that one of the chapters? Is there 11 different ones? I don't know. I don't know what it all means, but I remember cedars used to be a thing. But I don't think that tower is called Sears anymore. I still remember though, I think I'm pretty sure, yeah, there was like a cedars in my town growing up when I was little in the mall, or Jenny Clittle Mall. I'm pretty sure my dad met a lawnmower there and like drove it home from the mall on the road, like a riding lawnmower, like one of those tractor ones. He was just whipping that shit on the road home. It was not fast. Although we only we didn't live far. But that was kind of, you know, they'll move on a lawnmower on the road. Can you get a DWI on a lawnmower? What things can you get a DWI on? Like what is is there some like illegal mode of transportation when you're drunk? Like I would assume bike. Like what do people do? Is there like any loopholes? Like could you do it on a horse? That doesn't sound wise. Ladies and gentlemen, just get a ride. Um, don't do dumb stuff. But I just I'm just curious, asking for legal reasons. Nothing nothing practical. I'm just curious what the the letter of the law is, as they say. Oh, wow. Okay, I do remember where I came from. So I was comparing letting yourself let go and just be like trust the person, like let slide the rope down gently to bring you back to the floor. Um when top rope climbing, you climb all the way up, and then you yell something, take, then lower, yeah. I think so. And then you just like let go of the wall, and then they just like let the rope down and you just slide. But like the first few times, like the totally letting go of the wall, it was like uh like every muscle's like fighting that you do not want to. It just feels very unnatural. The same way that at those observations, like stepping onto the the clear, like plexiglass floors, like you gotta like it's like I don't know, there's some like wild animal in you that's like don't do it, dumbass, and you're like fighting it, just like put your foot on it, like fuck you, we're not gonna fall through. And it's I don't know, some weird mental gymnastics going on, evolution fighting, you know, to live, but you gotta override that because you know, executive decision, like I think this will hold hold up. So I did do that also on the broken foot, inclined a few times in this, but I've kind of tried to limit it because like my foot is still broken, so I've been behaving more. I mean, the past whole month I had been returned to like the boot walking uh full time in that every time I go out. Although I'm still probably walking. Yeah, I'm probably five miles a day ish walking around City commuting and walking my dog. I would say this is probably a roughly accurate estimate. I mean at least several. I find there's days where it's probably could be more. Like I don't think that is an exaggeration. But I feel I don't I don't know if that I don't know what he hurts it. I mean, I think when I was you know trying to be on max copia mode, I was like reading it and like, oh, there's like, you know, some controlled weight bearing can help speed up bone healing. But there's if if there's a limit, I've probably crossed it. Or maybe, maybe my bone would just be totally cooked if I had not been, you know, wild and out and vibing out and you know in the world. Maybe just if I would just been couch potato, I would have even a more fucked up foot. So think about it how you will. You know, it's I got I don't know. It's not really Schrodinger, it's Schrodinger's foot. Schrdinger, yes. That's how you say it. How did it even come up with that? Who why did he like how did he come up with the analogy of the cat in the box? For I mean, it's I I guess it is uh well no, it's still a weird analogy of like something could be two things at once. Like who how did he jump to there's a cat in a box, it could be dead or it could be alive? Like why could you just say it could be like a black cat or an orange cat or something? Like is he if he just watched the movie seven? What's in the box? Um but uh yeah, I don't think I don't think Brad Pitt was, you know, around it. I mean I guess I feel like there is some like because like some of them is like that wasn't actually that long ago. We'll see. We'll see more research live, you know. We need a uh pr some live research technician to get these answers up, but it always kind of shocks me when I like see some science thing and then like realize what happened, or even just historical stuff in general. I'm like, oh that's not that long ago. Like the fact that like I've been alive for like 10% of the history of the US-ish or like my parents over like 20% is like wild. Like I feel like I just assume it's like thousands of years, but like I guess in like the scheme of things, like 1776, yeah, it's gonna be 250. That's like not that long, I guess. But I guess there's younger countries too, which seems extra crazy. Like, how's that work? Does that make people like more or less patriotic? They're like, oh we we on that new way we're like you don't even know what to do. Okay, yeah, he died in 1961. Mr. Irwin Irvine Irvin. I don't know. He's Austrian. Do they speak do they speak German and Austria? I think. Or is there Austrian? I don't know. I don't I don't know. I know I've never heard of Austrian, but like I don't really know. But I think there's like I feel like there's anything of like Russian and Ukrainian. I'd like I feel like I hadn't heard of Ukrainian as a language, but I'm pretty sure they do have their own language. But I think they also speak Russian or something like that. I'm gonna keep Googling these things because I'll go on and on. I'm gonna keep going around. But I mean the moral of the story is we're just trying to grind out some bone healing. Is there any like bone steroids I can get to get some buff ass bones real quick, you know, shoot them up and just get some adamantium. Where do I get that that Captain America or no the the Wolverine juice, that's what I want, or Deadpool. The Deadpool and Wolverine get the same sort of stuff? I don't actually know. I'm not I'm not into the the comic lore, but dang, I need I need a whole panel of advisors on everything. So I can, you know, keep up, get all the get all the details straight, make sure we're not um spreading misinformation. I like to meet Mr. Information. Bad joke, bad joke. Anyways, um but it's not so bad at the end of the day. I mean it doesn't hurt, it hasn't hurt in a long time. That's why it's been so hard to behave with this foot. It's it's I mean, I guess I haven't like done anything crazy. Some things feel like a little bit achier, but I'm also not convinced that it's the spot that's broken because my foot prior to breaking it was pretty sore, like all the tendons and stuff. I think that was from running, maybe a little bit too much, too quick. So lame makes me feel old a lot. It was making like me get sore because I did like way dumber stuff when I was not that much younger and could get away with it. But arthritis is getting out of the milking game. Back in my day, I used to be able to go uphill to school over the Himalayas. And not feel a goddamn thing, but today I walk up half a flight of stairs and I need an escalator, one of those old person, like how do those things work though? I feel like I used to see ads where you could get like your own personal escalator for your scooter and your your like staircase at home. That's kind of gangster. But like get halfway up, I'm like, I need I need Gretches sometimes. So I don't know what I gotta do. I gotta get some sort of super serum to get things going up. But yeah, it's not like it's just annoying that I can't do as much as I want, or I shouldn't. Still do plenty. But I would like to run more soon. I'm going a little crazy. I didn't get a bike, or it's my dad's. I mean I copped it, but it'd been actually sitting on the shelf for legit 20 years in the garage. I still had the stickers and cardboard like that. That bike has gone nowhere, so I gotta put some miles on that. I do need I feel like I should get some like repair kit or something. I don't know much about bikes at all, other than that, they just hurt the shit out of my asshole. Like that is some serious taint trauma. Like I biked a little bit, like maybe like a 10-mile ride, and after that, my Gucci was gone for weeks. That was that was that was that was rough fight. I did recently find out there's a thing called like biker shorts where it's got some padding in your ass. So I maybe got figuring that out, and maybe you gotta like lean forward, and that like puts less pressure. So we're still learning the ropes. I eventually tried it out, but when I got more time, that might be a good outlet. However, I've had like much worse medical things to deal with, or much more painful ones. One is I used to have this uh ganglion cyst on my my wrist, my kind of tiny wrist, but you know, it looks looks a little better uh with you know something on it. That's actually one thing that's been hard with climbing. Like I got like small wrists and like kind of weak as a grip strength. So I climb a few times and like my whole arm are like or like the whole forearms just feel like they're about to explode entirely. I can't grab anything. I feel like I got like my hands kind of feel like when you like sleep and your whole arm goes like or that you sleep on it wrong and like you wake up and you like punch yourself because your whole arm is numb. It's kind of like how they feel. Like it maybe not exactly like that. If it felt like that totally, it'd be probably not gonna be healthy, but like there's some weird like pressure on them afterwards, and I'm like, I can't like grab stuff very well. I need to I need to get on those like gripper things and just do that all day to get some like buff fingers and forearms. I don't I don't know how to build that stuff up, so I gotta get that up, you know, grind that and my my bones. Two things I need to work on. But I got this like it'd be like this bump that was like on my wrist, like a little egg under my skin. That I don't know how old that was when it came up, and it did kind of hurt. Like I think I even have to do like push-ups and stuff when I was like little for hockey, and it kind of hurt like putting pressure on it. Uh, and so eventually I went to the doctor after a while, like my parents took me. And I guess what it is, it's like some in the joint, there's maybe some membrane, something gets weird, and like the fluid in the joint leaks out, and you get this like sack of like joint fluid just sitting there. And I mean it's not really like a problem, but it can be kind of a problem. But so what they did to like try to take care of it, especially they just take like a needle and just stab it a bunch, and then like shoot it with some steroid or something, not like the the buff steroid, not like the bodybuilder one, just some other chemical called steroid. I don't really know. And I think they just stab it a whole bunch of times and hope it gets really like scarred up and won't fill back up. So I did that, didn't feel great. It's like I just stabbing your damn wrist with like a needle. Uh I mean it went away, it hurt, but then it went away for like maybe a few months, but then it came back, and then it went back and it's like, okay, well, we'll do it again, but this time he used a bigger needle. That shit really hurt. And I still remember I was like, I swore he was gonna get like my wrist, like because I like had my wrist like off to the side on like the counter, and he's just there like stabbing it. And I was like, I don't think I was maybe 15 at the time. Uh something like that. And he I was uh my mom was there watching it too. I don't know how I feel like that's gonna be rough to see. Maybe she wasn't watching that part of it, but it hurt bad. And I think I think I was just like locked in and just like trying not to like the problem was I stopped breathing, and he finally finished. So this is a bitch, like I wasn't breathing, but I was there that whole time, and then he like he's like, Okay, we're all done. And then I like started to move, and then things just went black, and and then I I woke up, came to my head was sore as hell. I was like, what just happened? I'm like, although I think one of the first things like I kind of quickly processed, I'm like, oh, I just passed out. I'm like, huh. I always wondered what that was like, and I think I said that out loud, so I think they got kind of a kick out of it. But I guess when I like slumped out, I like planted my feet and then I like went back. And you know, if you've ever been in a doctor's office that got those like racks of like brochures on different things, so it was like one that was behind like my head of like all sorts of those different diseases, but a plastic kind of like holders of them, and that that bitch was shattered. I slammed my head into that, I guess, at some point when I was blacked out. I think your your body just freaks out trying to get some air, which I had not been doing because I was just like, oh, this hurts. I'm just getting my hand just shanks to shit. I feel like I'm in the UK walking down the street looking for my crumpets, and uh took a took a stroll down the wrong alley. But I unfortunately did not uh miss any of the actual shanking of my wrist. It was just after I moved, and then I just kind of remember this like got dark, it kind of like tunnel vision, and then kind of came to with the doctor and my mom in my face and think she was freaking out. But luckily he was there to you know tell her she's gonna be cool. He just got to wake back up and had a little bit of sore head because I just destroyed, obliterated this magazine rack when I was out. So that wasn't that fun. And the kicker was didn't work, came back a few months later. And then eventually after that, they decided or they discussed like surgery as an option. So I'm like, shit, I'll try that. It's like put me out. I don't like they do use some sort of like numbing medicine, but on the second time they did the shanking of my wrist, it was like a bigger needle, and I think he was trying to do it more. There we bet the numbing medicine, maybe it helped, but not enough. So I was like, Yeah, put me out. And like it was a fever later, probably that I got the surgery, at least one or two. But that was a whole nother ordeal. I mean, it wasn't that bad, that was a much better thing. Although, so I go get to this hospital, like whatever, check in and like him sitting in the patient room. I don't really know what the places are called, kind of just waiting out, hanging around, chilling on my phone. And then this Jason Statham like looking motherfucker comes in. I mean, it was like some relative of him, because he was some like bald, stubbly guy, British accent, but very serious. He was the anesthesiologist, and he basically comes in and he's just maybe said a fusion or things, he's like, Okay, I just want you to know that if you stop breathing, we'll get a tube in and we're gonna make sure that you make it, okay? Or I he wasn't talking like that. He had like whatever, British accent, very like dead pain serious. I'm like, what the fuck am I signing up for? I thought I was just getting like a little slice on my wrist, or what is this? What do you mean you'll put a tube and you're gonna make sure I make it? I was like, it was not on my mind that I wasn't gonna make it out of this. What the hell? So I was a little bit rattled at that. I'm like, what the fuck was that? But then it was didn't get better because then the surgeon actually came in. He's like a younger Asian guy. He's like, Oh yeah, well, you'll be in and out in just a few minutes. I'm like, okay, that was I'm glad you came second, because I I don't know when that guy was on. I was like, I I just heard the wonder like, do I do I need to write a will? Do I need to make sure my affairs are in order before I do this? Do I really need this? You know, how many how many people have not walked out of this thing? But it was a quick thing, I think. I mean, they they put me out and it was a much better experience. It was kind of kind of fun getting knocked out. I mean, not fun, but it's like much it is kind of weird when you like you kind of remember like they start to wheelie somewhere and you've just gone and you wake up somewhere else. It's much I would take that over, yeah, no, I just want to be knocked out, which I'll get into from other stuff. I think of the time after that was I guess beginning the only other time I've been like put under or anesthesized is put under. Yeah, I think some of this put down is when they, you know, pull the plug, knock you out, or pick you out like uh at the vet. Euthanasia stuffy. Uh wisdom peeps though. And that was pretty quick. I was glad. I think I had on my wisdom peeps, like grew they grew in and I had room for them, but the dentist was just like they're normally like shitty teeth and normally have all sorts of problems. Like that animal isn't good. So they just said you should just it's probably easier if you just pull them now. I'm like, all right, if you put me under, and they did, although they came in, so I don't think they I think they just pulled them. I think some people like will have them like buried and they have to cut them out, so that sounds kind of rough, but luckily didn't have that. Just kind of like got to the dentist, sat in the chair, and then they did something, and I just like woke up and on the car back home. I don't think I did anything too crazy. Although those like people that just wake up from wisdom's teeth surgery videos, those are pretty funny. I don't think I did anything too memorable, actually though, until later. I like just wanted to go lay down, so I was like crashed on the couch. My mom was like shook me away because she got ice cream and she wanted me to eat something. I was like, I really wasn't hungry at that point, I just wanted to sleep. And my expectation my whole face was still numb because they do like a bunch of numbing to you, and she wanted me to eat this milkshake to have something. I'm like, okay, fine. And I still remember like it was probably pretty pathetic looking, but they were getting crack out of it. They're pretty entertained because I was trying to eat this like this melted milkshake, but I could not feel anything in my mouth. So I was like trying to like I scoop it up and I like couldn't feel if it was in my mouth. So I think the first few months, like I put it in my mouth, but then it just fell out like I it's bizarre eating with your whole face numb. And it's like you I don't even know. It's like you can't really describe it because you just don't feel anything. Like I just like put it in my mouth and then I looked down and then it just all fell out, but it's like I wasn't aware of it because I couldn't feel it. I think I eventually you know I was hard to figure out how to move my parts without feeling them. I just took a minute to get used to, but I was like not feeling it. The Rio one where I was pissed, I guess there was also somewhat ice cream related to not actually. But I got these uh styes on my eye, which I think is like you get I have like if you have like your tear ducts or something like that, you have some ducks in your eyes and they get plugged. Uh you can not get I don't know, you get these nasty things called styes. Like it was just I think it was my senior year of high school, yeah. Like one day, I kind of like noticed like one of my I think I got it in both of my eyes at the same time, so I don't know what I did to do it. I feel like I had to have done something that triggered this because I got them in two eyes at once and it happened since. I feel like there's something that happened. But like my my eyelids were like getting like puffy and like swollen. I didn't know what's happening, and it kind of kept going over a few days. Like it happened one day, and it's like whatever. And the next time I'm like, it's still there, and it's like it may be worse. And after like three or four days, my eyes looked so fucked up. Like my my lids were like just so puffy. I looked like I kind of looked like you know, pro boxers looked like Rocky and you know Rocky Balbo and his phone when his eyes were all fucked up, but like not in a cool way. Like not a cool version of it, didn't look like tough, it just looked like maybe more like I was having an allergic reaction. And it was kind of like tender because they're pretty like like sensitive and just swollen, and then eventually like went to the doctor and like just check it out, and they're like, oh yeah, we can just do like a quick lancing to drain it out, and like I was like, okay, yeah, that'd be like relief. Because it'd been kind of it'd been a week at least at this point, and it didn't feel great, and I probably I feel like people were looking at me pretty funny because I had these like weird puffy ass eyes, and I don't know. Not not a good time, but I was like, okay, I was kind of relieved. Like, okay, yeah, finally we're gonna get it taken care of. No, I I despite how uncomfortable they were, would not have opted into this if had I known what it was. I mean it didn't work, so I can't complain, but this procedure, I don't know what dumbass called it a Lance thing, because you know, Lance thing, I think of you know, people jousting like their lances on that and they like poke something, it'll drain it. That's kind of all I assume that you can like poke my eyelid and you know, squish it out. You know, those pimple popper videos, is that still a thing? I remember that used to be all the rage. My sister would watch those and like they'd pop these nasty pimples that are really swollen. I mean it's kind of satisfying, I will admit, but also kind of disgusting as hell. I suppose it was mean something like that, although my eyes weren't like that massive with my eyelids. However, no, it was it was uh I still have like PTSD from this. Um anyways, I was like, so I was like, yeah, oh yeah, yeah, sounds good. And she's like, yeah, we'll just do a quick glance thing and then get you taken care of. I'm like, okay, sick. So we start walking over to the whatever procedure room from the just like general eye checkup room, and I was like, okay, like okay, it'll be good to get this over with. And then like I sit down in this chair, um, and she's like, okay, we're gonna do this the numbing, which I was like not pumped for to get a needle in my eyelid, or all of them, because they were all fucked up. And I got through that, like each of them, I mean, like getting a needle in your eye does not feel good. Um, and I mean, even the injection of the Nova Canic is kind of like like hot at first. It's not it's not great. But they did Trixie snoring. I don't know if that's gonna be picked up on the mic, but it's iconic. Um so I was like, I was really nervous for that part of it. I was like, I just gotta get through this like Novocaine in my eye. This was one of like the many uh miscalculations that I made. I was like, these Novocaine shots. I was kind of nervous, but okay, we gotta get through that, and then it'll be smooth smooth sailing from there once I get the Novocaine in, which I guess I also thought the second time I got that cyst stabbing done. So I was maybe a little bit. My my uh distrust in doctors was budding, or in terms not distrust in them in general, but their uh descriptions of the pain that I was about to endure definitely started to take a hit. And this is where it all went to shit. Um so I got those. I mean, yeah, I was like, didn't feel good getting the needle in each one. I'm like, oh fuck, that hurts, then burn. I'm like, okay, that one's done next to one, and then then it's gonna you know, drain it out, and I'll be new man when we walk out. That part is right, I was a new man, but not for the better. From there, she comes. I mean, it's also weird because like you don't want to really look at this stuff, but when it says your eye, like you like what the hell are you gonna do? You can't like unplug your eye, turn it off. But I think I was just trying to roll my eyes in the back of my head to like, I don't know, like I was giving someone crazy sloppy or something like that. But so I got the needles in my eye, and then she takes out it's like legitimately like a little, like you know, those like bear trap clamp, but it's kind of like a ring or like a semicircle that that makes one of the clamps up. It's like one of those on a stick, and she just like bites it onto my eyelid, and then like which that alone, the clamping of that, that hurt pretty bad. Then she like twists my eyelid and flips it like inside out. That that hurt alone like quite a bit, even after the Nova came. And I'm like, oh wow. I was like, maybe this is just part of it. I was like, that it, but that wasn't it really hadn't even begun. That was just like holding open to get it ready for the terror that was about to happen. So she gets this like a bear trap on my eyelid, and then like flips out inside out and just holding it there, and then she starts pulling out scalpels, and yeah, I don't even know. It was it was it was rough from that. She just basically my eyelid is like in this bear trap, flipped around and held there, and then she just starts slicing into my eye my eyelid or like these like whatever styles that are kind of like built up stuff in there. She like sliced it open, and it's not even sliced and squish. She's like digging in it with scalpels, and uh that was that was a long road of it was actually like 20 minutes for this whole procedure, like 20 minutes of like a scalpel digging in your like irritated eyelids. It was it was it was really rough. I was sitting the whole time and like if you've ever seen like the tetanus people where they're like all like because tetanus, all your muscles are like contract at once, so like the stronger ones win, like your triceps in your back, so you're like the people like just are like that, and they just eventually suffocate. But I was like in that position on the chair, like only my heels and my elbows were like touching the ground of the chair. My whole like back and ass was up in the air because I was like arched with this knife in my eye. She was just digging around trying to clean it up. I don't I don't know how the how I don't know what she's doing. I like I think I did a good job of not looking at it, like, but like my eyes were just like rolling all the way back. And she was trying. My mom was also there. I don't know how she watched this. That sounded it was like some Saw movie type thing. Like it had to be horrendous. I don't I don't know how you could sit there. And I think she was worried about me passing out or something, so she's trying to tell the doctor, and the doctor was trying to talk to me while she got this knife in my eye. Um, and then she was trying to like ask me things about like my favorite ice cream flavor. And mind you, I'm not like a child, like I was like 18 at this point, and like in extreme pain, and she's like trying to ask me this shit, and I was just so pissed off. I'm like, don't fucking talk to me. And I was like, I mean I answered, but I was like, I was fuming inside, like comparable to the amount of pain I was in. Like, and I was screaming pretty bad, and she's like, uh, do you want more Novocaine? And I was like, Hell yes. And I was like, okay, maybe that'll be better. But like, even then she just stabbed another needle in, and that just hurt more, and then it didn't even make the pain like any less. And she tried it one more time, and I'm like, okay, no, don't more, just get it fucking over with. Because I think sometimes maybe if things are like too irritated, the the Novocaine or lidocaine, I don't know what the difference is on those two, doesn't actually like do much blocking of the pain. And I think that's where my eyes were at. Because I was like, no, don't don't give me more. Is that's just another needle in terms of added to I don't know how many you got in my eye right now, and it doesn't make the pain any better, so just keep I don't know, keep digging your digging in my eye twin, not my butt. And yep, did one, had to do the other, and it was I don't know. That was actually that was probably that I don't know if uh it maybe was I'm not sure. It's up there with when I had to walk like two miles home on my broken foot right afterwards. I feel like that is like a little bit more like traumatic. At least like walking home, you have like a little bit more agency. This time just like being tortured. So it's that was like that one's probably mentally worse, maybe not physically. And I was supposed to like run at a track meet that day. Um luckily it was one where I got canceled for some thunder. I feel like I still had to go like to the meet, like take a bus ride there, and then just wait for the storms and then go home. So I had to ride that, but I was gonna have to run because like like I was saying, I was not on the chair. I was just like arched up on it the whole time, and my whole like back and like butt cheeks were sore walking out of it. I was the I just was like a wreck. I was like, everything hurt. My whole body because I was just like so like tensed up in the chair for like 20 minutes. Like it was doing some like crazy plank exercise for 20 minutes, and it's not like it was like some easy thing because it was like tense so hard, but the pain of my muscles burning was nothing compared to like the knife in my eye, so I don't even think I realized how storm I was, and then I just had these like bloody eyes, like the they weren't puffy from like stuff built up in them, but they were like I don't know, still rough looking, and then I was just looking at these like occasional like tears of blood. I guess that part looked maybe a little more tough, a little more gangster, you know, had the just straight blood tears, but I was I was mentally broken. I was like some broke horse stallion that they brought out. I was I I don't know, I was going through it. And from there I was like, put me under for everything. I do not want to be awake when you touch me with anything boy any police. And I'm yeah, I don't I'm like now just like super skeptical. I'm like some like cornered animal and they talk about stuff with the doctor, and I'm like, put me out, chief. I'm just gonna swam my hell on the wall and knock me out if you want to do it, and then I'm down. I yeah. Other than like tattoos, I don't really want to I wouldn't because I have those like really expensive like ganga tattoos. Is that one of the guys where they like will like put you out and have like a whole team of like artists just tattoo the shit out of your body? I don't know if you wait for it. But like my tattoos, I mean they hurt, but they haven't been that bad. Not compared to the medical stuff, and maybe it's because they got more fine-line stuff and not the really heavy colour where they gotta use like the big needles that really hurt. So maybe that's part of it. But I was like, I don't need it for that. But most other things, I'm like, yeah, uh, I'll take it, just please put me out. I don't want it. Anything painful if I had to get tooth pulled, put me out. At least I don't I can't getting one pulled when you're conscious sounds rough. I remember I was kind of terrified of it because my sister, little sister had to like get a bunch pulled because she had some like jaw problem where like they managed to like fix it with like braces and stuff and pulling teeth, but otherwise she would have had to like get her jaw like broke and rewired up. But thankfully they avoided that because they like fixed all this stuff early. But she had braces for like damn yeah, like 10 years. Maybe that's maybe an exaggeration, but it was a long time. But I remember when we're going to those like little family dentists, and the first time I was sitting in the uh the waiting room while her mom went back. I was just playing with whatever or reading, I don't even know what I was doing. But I just like heard these screams in the background, like faintly through the walls. And I think because of that, like the next time she went there, she mentioned that they had like a bunch of soundproofing in the damn walls. So I don't know. I was like pretty sure I was like, is that is that her? Is that screaming that I hear? And she came out in rough shape. So I don't I don't want to be that. I mean, that was pretty little too, so it's maybe not that bad. But just always been not too keen on getting anything done where I'm conscious. I think though, even with those tattoos, I feel like there's some where like a guy recently died. So I'm curious how that actually works. Do they have like legit doctors on staff, or do they just got someone like blow dart in you with ketamine and they all get to buzz in? Because yeah, I don't know. I mean, I think I don't think it was like they did something necessarily wrong, but I mean they maybe did. But I think there's just like risks of being put under and like it was maybe someone had a heart attack or something. And I don't I don't know. Can you just like do you need like special actual doctors to knock you out? I guess the dentist does, but is that is there like dentists like a like medical school, I guess. Because don't you have like four years in the residency and things like that? I don't know. No, I'm just yeah, a little bit a little bit skittish. I did have a better experience recently. I was I was very skeptical because this has all been post. So it really hasn't it it didn't restore some of my trust in some things, but I did break my femur. Well, I didn't break it, but I got like a stress fracture and maybe tort labrum from running too much, and like finally went into the doctor and was gonna get the MRI, but as part of the MRI, they need to like inject your hip joint with all sorts of like. Dye to like look at it in the MRI. I don't actually know like what the dye is. Is it contrast? I feel like I hear that word. I'm not really sure how it works. Because like the MRI is just like a magnetic field and like I think it has to do with the water and things will like show up different on it when you do it. But I don't know what the the dye exactly does. Is it like some magnetic things that show up different? Oh, I think it's maybe actually I think I don't know why. I think it's like something where I mean it shows up different, but I think it's like will like leak somewhere if they do it, and you have like some torn things that might like leak through. So I think that's maybe why they do it. I don't actually know. I'm kind of making stuff up, but I'm I think that might be right. I'm not a doctor though. Maybe someday. Who knows? Who knows where we'll be. Time will tell. Place your beds now. Maybe we'll do it all. That'd be fun. I don't know what the hell I want to do. I'm still figuring that out. But getting we've been staying a little bit more on track, but I don't know. As part of that, I saw they had these giant needles to like do that. Because I guess they gotta get kind of like deep in your hip in the right spot to like actually get it there for it to show up well. And I saw those needles, and I'm like, what the fuck? That was like the most intimidating thing I've ever seen because they're like long, like thick needles. And they did the first numbing shot, and I'm like, okay, that's you know, that's just the first bullshit poke. That's that's the you know, the the the warm-up pain before the hell you're about to just medieval torture me with. Although I will say it was actually pretty fine. Second thing didn't really hurt at all. I didn't really feel anything, so I was I was pleasantly surprised. I was preparing for the worst. I was like, here we go again. Oh shit. Here we go again. And I was like, well, my hip has been hurting for months. I guess we're just gonna a little bit more pain to see what happened, we'll ride it out. But I was I was like, wait, uh it's done. I'm not like a stuck pig. Is that a phrase? I think so. I don't know what that means. Does that have to do with like uh is it like an arrow? Is that what it means to be like stuck if you shoot something? I don't know. I think that means I feel like there's lots of things that I think about if I like actually stop and like, what the hell does that mean? It's like what the hell? It makes me feel better though when I like learn language stuff. Or when I've taken other language classes and I read something, I'm like, how do I like how might I learn this? How do people like become like fluent in multiple languages like and learn all these words and things, but then I like think a little bit more about English stuff, and I'm like, I don't know what half that stuff means, so it makes me feel better about like a foreign language. I'm like, oh, I think I maybe understand more of the words in this foreign thing than I do when I'm reading some English stuff, and I'm like, what does that even mean? So I guess when they're like always like, oh, it's all just figured out from context. I guess I guess that's what you gotta do, because we do that in English, and more than I realized, I'm like, I don't actually know what that means, you know. I'm just out here photosynthesizing. That would be cool to be able to do. Definitely wouldn't, you know, be nice to just go recharge outside, not need to sleep, just photosynthesize stay in the sun enough. Buy a buy a grow light, live under that. Or just plug in. Sleeping is kinda I mean, you know, sleeping feels good, but if I didn't need to do it, that'd be kind of sick. A whole nother day to live. Well, maybe not a whole nother day. Another half a day. Less than that, honestly. Like I guess it's half a day if I'm saying, assuming I'm up for sixteen hours and sleep eight, but uh I mean some maybe the weekends I sleep eight, I just sleep it in the for too long. Sometimes more. Well, if only society didn't have schedule, I could just son zonk out and wake up when I wake up and get to the grind, but you know, I guess the there's a set periodicity to the spin of Earth on its axis and orbit around the sun, so us little humans, you know, we s we synced up, we locked in like that, we got locked in together like girls in heat or I mean that periods. Why do we call it heat for dogs but not for girls? It sounds kind of I don't know. I guess it's it sounds maybe cool, but also weird. Like, yo, that's heat. That put a whole different whole different perspective to it. Yeah. That's I think that's as far as like I got on medical things to talk about and hopefully nothing else soon. I don't I haven't really I don't I mean I think there's like a potential on my foot bone break that sometimes depending on where exactly the break is, they need to actually like drill those bones together for them to actually heal together. So maybe that's part of why mine's been so slow. It is actually healing together, so um it's not necessary, but maybe it's just on the verge, which is kind of hard to actually heal, and that's kind of why it's been really taking less time, and not at all to do with the fact that I've still been abusing my foot, but it doesn't hurt. So, what's that mean? You know, it's pain like telling you slow down, or telling you don't be a bitch, but it hasn't been there, so it's been hard to not chill out. I have been taking all my calcium pills, those Costco Kirkland adult gummies bringing me back to the Flintstone vitamin days. Although those days never existed. I just said that I had never actually took Flintstone vitamins. My mom would always like read all these articles about vitamins in general, how they're all kind of scams, because they're not actually like regulated and like so they don't have to like get all this stuff tested by like the FDA, like some things. Although I think there are some more now. I mean, nothing is like required. Like I don't know how the laws work about the like supplements got like less regulation, but there are some brands that are tested more than others. I think Kirkland maybe is. Also, there's like this Thorn stuff that I kind of sometimes use. Although that's like more expensive, and I'm like, you know, I'm trying to ball on a budget, but I guess maybe I got budget bones because of it. Although I wouldn't take those for a while with this. So they didn't they didn't give me instant bone healing, so deal with that what you will. Um, this is not a a paid endorsement or whatever they gotta say, or and that's not a slander of their product. I don't know. Maybe I'd have disintegration of my bones without them. I don't know. The world might never know. We're just out here trying to take one less step at a time until this thing is healed up and we're failing miserably. We're still out doing lines. But I am wearing the boot, I'm I'm behaving that way. It's kind of it's better now that it's getting cooler and it's winter. Wearing that in the summer is horrible. My my like whole ankle will be like sweaty as hell and kind of stink, it smelled kind of foul. I had like this like ace bandage rep that gave me like the first time I went to the doctor, and like some like foam pads that came with the boot because like my shin would get just blistered to hell from walking all the time in it. So it's probably it's probably they probably don't want it to be too comfortable as a deterrent to keep you from walking as much as I was. But I like had this bandage wrap all these like foam pads to my leg so it'd like take the the bite off, like the straps digging in to my shin while walking. And even after like a week, that stuff would get so sweaty and wet and stinky and just foul. I feel like there's some new mutant radioactive bacteria probably grown on there. I eventually did recently throw that out because I bought some I don't know what it is. It's like some like shin compression wrap that just velcro's around. It like it's got some weird, like it's not like a level piece of like fabric. It's like almost like it's got like a a boob bra cup, and I guess got some weird out pouch, but I just like fold it up and just strap it around my uh shin in the boot and it just velcro, so that's way easier than the the ace wrap where I have to like keep wrapping all up and around because it's so thin. This is a lot of thicker, so I just can just do like one little pass through and then I'm done. So I'm really hoping that we'll be in there with that soon, and then we can you know get to running again and full speed on the shin and again. I guess there's not too much further to go to get back to full speed in terms of what I'd be doing, and mainly just running. And I can, you know, really you know hit some crazy dance moves when I'm wild and out at like 3 a.m. with my dog. And she's just looking at me as I just actually look like a 7 Eleven crackhead. But hopefully those days come sooner than later. And with that, I think this has been another complete episode. Thank you for listening to the this beautiful rant. I I really appreciate y'all tuning in, and we'll catch you next time. Peace, peace.