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What is going on, everybody?
Welcome to the Clydesdale
Media Roundtable.
Back with you for another week.
Things got so bad this week
with the Amy-Charlie fight
that Amy is leaving town to
get as far away from Charlie as possible.
She can't handle it.
So we're going to address it
here on the air.
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This is Jake Paul, Mike Tyson, part two.
I just want to know, like, if we,
the only way that we might
be able to resolve this is
if Charlie goes and gets a face tattoo.
You can forget about that.
Well,
then I guess we're going to fight for
life.
Corey wants to know, is Amy in a limo?
I am a passenger princess right now.
But that's only because, see,
we have a little,
little dog with us that has to.
He needs supervision in the back.
Is that your determination or?
It was a mutual decision.
He told you I need you back here with me.
Yeah,
and apparently ACR has become Australian.
I am perfect today, mate.
You can come with us when we
go to Australia.
let me tell you how this
fight started are you ready
for it did you read says
passenger princess only way
to travel it's true see
what had happened was
charlie and I go back and
forth about deciding
whether you know we're
going to hold each other
accountable for these goals
that we want to have happen
and we are constantly
saying hey monday monday
let's get it together let's
get it together
and uh you know he just went
on a trip for spring break
and I'm on my way to a
little trip for spring
break and so we were both
kind of talking about you
know when you're on
vacation your nutrition
blah blah blah and he was
like I'm I'm really serious
this time and I said I know
I gotta I gotta get really
serious and uh then he says
why don't you start running again
And I was like,
I don't really want to run
like I used to because I just think,
you know, for my knees, you know,
we're talking marathon training.
And he just went blah, blah,
blah like this and then said, well,
that's why you look like the way you do.
And I said, I'm sorry,
did you just call me fat?
And he said, you heard that right.
That's not exactly how I remember it, but.
Well,
I would like for you to pretty much
get to the point.
It gets to the point.
He called me fat.
I verified if he called me fat,
and he did indeed call me fat.
And so I said, are you for real?
Like, we're really in a fight now.
And I said, I'll tell you what, though.
That's fine.
I might be fat, but I'm fit.
And you're just fat, Charlie.
I am Hollywood Rock now.
I'm the heel of this group.
So let's hear your version
of how our fight started.
No, that's pretty good.
It gets the point across.
And then today, I have a question, though.
Charlie,
did the word fat ever come out of
your mouth?
No.
No, but when I said,
are you calling me fat?
He said, you heard that right.
That's the same as calling me fat.
I think I said you heard what you heard,
but.
No, you said you heard that right.
You for sure said you heard that right.
Just like that.
Maybe I would have said that's right.
Either way, I didn't say that word.
You said that word.
Okay,
but also today he came in and you
said something else about it.
And then I pulled in other
people and I said, hey,
did you guys hear that?
Did I say mass moves mass?
He just said that again.
Yeah, he also told me mass moves mass.
You did a heavy squat today.
I did do a heavy squat today.
Listen, it's okay to be a powerlifter.
It's okay to crossfit.
You know what?
There's a gym we can go to
that specializes in powerlifting.
No, I'm going to still be fit, Charlie,
because I do crossfit because I am fit.
fitting that pizza this
evening judy you're exactly
right this is why it um
that's why it makes things
confusing it's like a
married quadruple you know
it's more like brothers and sisters
Yeah, we do.
We for sure irritated.
And then what was great is
so I was coaching this
morning and Charlie was
signed up for class.
And it's, you know, class starts at 615.
It's like 622.
No Charlie, of course.
So I just sent him a text and I said,
where are you at, loser?
Then I strutted in like
Conor McGregor on the new roadhouse.
Bare ass cheeks and all.
All of it.
judy how dare you we should
just what uh sporty beth
taught us that we can be
both fat and fit oh well
what matters is I'm more
fit than charlie and we can
just reflect to the
leaderboard for proof of
that listen eddie hall's
more fit than me too but
you know here we are I mean
Eddie Hall can lift more weight than you.
Don't talk shit on pizza.
Pizza is magical.
Hey, I would never.
Pizza's the greatest.
And here's the thing I will say about you.
I didn't say he was lying
when he said that because he's not wrong.
I am not as lean as I used to be, but
So this is just even more to kick his ass.
So now she's going to go on
a 70 mile hike to get back in shape.
Yep.
Get back in shape.
Remember, I'm the one already in shape.
We can't.
We got to get it all back at once.
Which sarms did you take for this trip?
Oh, none.
come on let me ask you this
okay is your is your new so
we're gonna just talk in
amy nutrition right now are
we it is the problem food
or wine listen the
nutrition that I eat I
would of course the
reception goes away as as
we're talking about the
wine it contains me okay
Oh, no.
Here we go.
We've lost her totally.
Oh, no.
So we know now it's a bottle of night.
I think that was a third
round knockout right there.
That's what it seemed like.
You're kind of back.
We'll give you one more shot.
Get her out of here.
Get her out of here.
Got anything, Amy?
Nothing.
So, and then for you, Charlie,
have you eaten a vegetable
in the last three months?
Uh, one is a tomato, a vegetable.
We'll give you a tomato.
Pizza sauce is made out of tomatoes.
So technically yes.
Fruit.
Listen, now we're getting out of hand.
Fruit.
So on to another matter.
Charlie, did you like the new roadhouse?
He's judging you solely on that fact.
And then I'm going to judge
Scott on that fact.
No.
I mean...
I didn't hate it, but I knew going in,
I didn't have high expectations.
It's all about your perception going in.
I am a huge Roadhouse fan,
and I like Patrick Swayze
and Sam Elliott.
And Scott loves to tease me
that he thinks that that's not cool.
He doesn't think Patrick Swayze is cool.
And so he likes to tease me
about him all the time.
So he's basically, I said,
why didn't we talk about
that there's a new
Roadhouse and that Jake
Gyllenhaal's in it?
And then Scott goes on to say,
I just watched a third Willy Wonka movie.
Like that's not lame.
And he held the card for nostalgia.
Yes, yes.
I actually thought it was very good.
The story was really well written,
and Wonka was good.
According to everybody on the internets,
I would have wasted my time
watching the new Roadhouse,
so I watched Wonka.
There it is.
Okay.
It's not great,
but if you want to see
Gyllenhaal jacked up... I mean...
I know who I'd rather see jacked up, Matt.
Patrick Slade.
Timothee Chalamet.
And Hugh Grant, isn't Hugh Grant in it?
The little Oompa Loompa?
Hugh Grant is the Oompa
Loompa and he is amazing.
Okay.
So Judy,
which movie did you try to watch
last night?
Wonka or Roadhouse?
I believe that Wonka is a good movie.
I'm just saying you like to
give me a hard time for it.
Roadhouse.
That's a good point.
Judy said it was Wonka.
To each his own.
Okay, Judy.
I like people getting beat up.
Yeah.
I was not... I know this is
probably just as... Now
I'll be fighting everybody.
I wasn't a big fan of the first Roadhouse.
Sam Elliott and Dalton are badasses.
You're more of an
over-the-top kind of guy.
True.
Very true.
But...
I love Sam Elliott.
I love Sam Elliott.
Maybe it's the fact that
they kill him off like halfway through.
Are you a Tombstone fan?
Spoiler alert.
Love Tombstone.
Just watched it like two weeks ago.
Listen,
Tombstone's one of the greatest
movies ever.
Yeah.
Val Kilmer's fantastic.
Yeah.
I agree.
Sam Elliott's great in that one.
I know.
Also gets killed.
You know what else he's great in?
A Star is Born.
Is there a movie he lives in
is the real question.
A Star is Born.
Not a fan of that one either.
Nope.
I'm telling you.
So damn depressing.
He dies in every single movie.
He doesn't die in that one.
Doesn't he die at the end?
No, not him.
Bradley Cooper does.
The dinosaur movie, he doesn't die.
That's good.
Spoiler alert.
We aren't even saying that.
The problem is they made
Gillen... I don't even know
how to pronounce it anymore.
I've heard it so many times.
Gillen Hall.
Gillen Hall is a bad guy, too.
He's an a-hole who is just angry.
He's not a hero like Swayze.
Oh,
did you see... Read that last line again,
Swiper.
You can.
He's not a hero like Swayze.
Yeah,
because nobody puts baby in a corner.
Hold on.
We're talking about Swayze...
What kind of guy gets a girl
pregnant and then he
just... See you later.
That was not his character.
That was another character
in Dirty Dancing.
He doesn't get her pregnant.
You're thinking of the other dancer.
Are you sure?
I'm positive.
I know this movie inside out, yep.
Is there any CrossFit news going on?
There really isn't.
The only thing going on in
the CrossFit world is drama.
We love it.
All the drama.
Is this Daniel Brandon documentary out?
Tomorrow.
It's supposed to show the
softer side of... I don't know.
I don't know what it's supposed to do.
I haven't...
the previews are really just
like who's interviewed for it.
It's really weird.
And like one story about
when she was a kid and how
she did whatever she could
not to get home.
Like,
and that sports were her like safe place.
Yeah.
Um,
So, yeah, I don't know.
I'm intrigued.
I'm super intrigued.
Oh, shit.
I don't know how to take that, Corey,
but... I don't know if
that's... Did you guys see WAD Zombies?
What table would you sit at?
Yes, and I voted.
Me too.
I said the one with Rich
Browning and Jason Hopper.
I forget.
Allen.
Yeah.
Who did you want to say that was?
I said D, which was the Colton, Emily,
Danielle.
Emily who?
Rolf.
I mean, I just,
I would hang out with Emily
and Colton any day.
Yeah.
Oh, I agree with that, but.
Go back and tell me the gossip.
What's the gossip?
The drama.
Sorry, the drama.
I don't want to get all into
it because people's
business is people's business,
but there's definitely a
media feud between the
Brian Friend camp and the
Hiller Savant camp.
Okay.
Yes.
I'm fully aware of that.
Okay.
Got it.
And it continued through the weekend.
So it's going to be
interesting to see what happens.
Can we note that Wad Zombie
said he liked the D?
Make sure we make that clear.
Charlie read this as Wad
Zombie would likes the D.
um hey it's a good table I
like it I like it you have
a dog present I do I do
So speaking of Nick and Wad Zombie,
one thing that I want to announce,
we're still sorting out the details,
but we're going to do a new
show together.
Oh, yeah?
And?
Yeah, Sunday nights.
Haven't really decided on a time yet.
We're talking later today.
What are you going to talk about?
Little collaboration.
Oh boy.
Is that Hulk?
Looks like it.
That is a zombie, dude.
Zombie Hulk?
Zombie on the Clydesdale.
It reminds me of a character
that could be on He-Man.
He-Man is also a quality show.
So what the show is going to
be is it's going to be like
a cross between Weekend
Update and TalkSoup,
where it's just going to be
clips of stuff, promoting other podcasts,
funny things we see on Instagram,
that kind of stuff.
So super quick hitting fast
clips from different things.
Uh, pop culture too.
Sure.
So just, uh,
Yeah.
So we're trying to decide
kind of format and different things like,
will it be prerecorded?
Maybe with an after show,
will it be live where we
get the engagement?
Um,
have it like still working out some
details,
but trying to do something more
fun and funny.
Um, like that.
So it is, this is a good example.
Tosh 0.0 of the cross CrossFit space.
Hmm.
so the man is ingenious if
you've if you've not seen
his novella of the drama of
brian friend and hillar
where he superimposed the
faces of brian and hillar
on different characters in
a novella and then savon
was peeking through the
window like the gardener
like hilarious one of the
funniest things I've seen
on the internet so
Yeah.
Give a little YouTube presence.
This Sunday?
Yeah, we're going to start this Sunday.
All right.
It may only be a 10-minute
show with the content we
have from this week,
but we're going to give it a whirl.
There better be some slap boxing on there.
There may be.
Scott, give us an update on your stats.
my stats better than I'll
tell you I went to the
cardiologist on Friday
everything is great still
not in still out of AFib
and then they got made me
by the cardiomobile that
thing you see on TV where
it takes a single line EKG
to determine if I'm in or out of AFib
And what's cool about that
is it will take the EKG,
put it on my phone.
If something is up,
I can immediately send that to my doctor.
So there's all that.
I'm back at the gym for week three.
Put some weight on the bar
yesterday for the first time.
Whole 95-pound back squat.
Ripping it up.
It's weight.
But Charlie's doing a best gym too.
Getting that hip Chris.
Hip Chris?
Hip Chris.
So really like for me yesterday,
it was staying in position,
like keeping my chest up.
Because I already just being
off a few months,
like I wanted to dip my
chest forward on the squat.
So really just trying to
keep my shoulders back,
my chest up on the squat.
Yeah, it's not a good morning.
It's a squat, right?
Correct.
Correct.
And how's nutrition?
Nutrition's going well.
Okay.
Logging everything, doing super well.
A1C is down into the teens, one teens.
We're dropping that about 10
points a week.
Blood pressure was 113 over
68 at my doctor's appointment.
I like that.
That's real good.
So, yeah,
everything is really kind of
falling into place.
okay good I like to hear
that so yeah super stoked
where are you where are you
headed are you is an
undisclosed location it's
an undisclosed location
while while being alive
I don't know what kind of
creep over out there.
I'll just say that I'm going
somewhere that is a
drivable distance and we're
going hiking and staying in the cabin.
And are going to be off the grid.
Off the grid.
We are because there's no wefie.
Is this just a you and hubby weekend?
Yeah.
Yeah, by the way,
I failed to tell hubby
about the no wefie.
Uh-oh.
the buckeyes play tonight
and he I tell him last
night I just casually said
oh we should probably bring
some games with us because
by the way there's no leafy
and he's like what you
didn't tell me that yeah
we're off the grid dude no
tv and no wifi so so
scott's into women's basketball now
Boys are in the tea.
Yeah.
The girls are already done.
Yeah.
Well,
did you see the crowd for Iowa last
night?
Listen, let me tell you something.
Good Lord.
The girls' basketball is not
what you used to think the
girls' basketball was.
I've watched more girls'
basketball this year than men's.
It's fantastic.
It is.
Agreed.
Wild Zombie has a suggestion for you, Amy.
You can make any game into a
strip version.
That's fast.
Yeah,
I'm not worried about any game that
we'll be playing.
I think we'll be well entertained.
I won't say a word.
Because we're going to be out in nature.
Oh, yeah.
Hiking.
It's nice.
It'll stop raining around 7.
It's not raining.
Is it raining there?
No, but it looks like crap.
I mean, it's pretty gray right here.
ACR says, ooh la la, Amy.
Strip horseshoes.
I like that.
Yeah, that's not a game for men.
Strip horseshoes.
Yeah, you get confused.
You got to get out more, buddy.
Which post am I supposed to aim at?
The larger one.
Still confused.
Oh, nature will sleep.
Now this one's easy.
It's getting out of hand.
You throw the ones not in the bag.
There's a 50-foot cliff
right where we're staying,
so I'm not going to be playing any bocce.
long darts oh oh my gosh
look who's joining what is
going on with the chat live
we were talking about how
we're going to happen with
no wifi and they're giving
lots of suggestions oh my
goodness I missed it you
need wi-fi for that though
right mario kart oh yeah
you can't do that you can
do it with like if you
brought little cars you can just
Hey, I won.
And like everybody thinks, holy shit,
it's Kat.
She's alive.
Yay.
I feel like I interrupted
something really serious.
So just pretend like I'm not here.
We were just talking about
Amy's going on vacation.
There's no Wi-Fi in a cabin
in an undisclosed location.
Just her and her hubby and the dog.
And she only has two pairs
of clothes with her.
Perfect.
Now we're just adding more.
Hey, Judy.
Well, bring us up to speed with you.
What's going on?
What's new?
Guys.
So here we go.
Buckle up.
Do you guys remember last
year when I went for a blood draw?
And they like hit a nerve
and I could feel like
electric shocks going like
all the way down to my finger.
And when I tapped on like
the injection site,
it would do stuff well.
Last October, my finger,
my ring finger was getting really stiff.
Same, same, that same side.
And I'd gone to an
orthopedist and he was like, well,
you know, welcome to your fifties.
It's probably arthritis.
You know, nothing's broken.
Just deal with it.
I'll send you to PT.
Did some stretching
exercises for two weeks,
went back and I was like, it's no better.
Like it,
and it was to the point where I couldn't,
I can't let,
I can't push myself off the
ground with that hand
because that ring finger
just won't extend back enough to,
to do anything like a normal hand.
Um,
And didn't really think anything of it,
you know,
was annoyed that like that was
my only limitation,
but I could still hold a barbell,
do pull-ups,
like all the things I needed to do.
Fast forward to last week,
last Monday night,
I worked out with my class.
We did some burpees, some box jumps,
you know, nothing, nothing crazy.
And I went to
you know,
I'm constantly evaluating that finger,
you know, like almost every day, like,
Hey, does it still hurt?
Hey,
do I still not have the range of motion?
And it's always, the answer is always yes.
Yes.
And I noticed that my ring,
my middle finger on that
same side was starting to
like lose a little mobility.
And I was like, like it's spreading,
you know, whatever it is, whatever it is,
I don't know.
And I'm waiting for someone
to just be like,
ma welcome to menopause or, you know,
some stupid shit.
Like,
This is what happens when you get old.
It's just something you have to deal with.
So I didn't really think much of it,
but except Tuesday morning,
I woke up and my hand
started to swell like
around that knuckle where it was sore.
And then by the end of the night,
it was so swollen.
And I think I sent you guys
a picture of my hand,
like blown up like a balloon.
So I went to urgent care
because something wasn't right.
They did an x-ray.
They saw something on the x-ray.
Like it was obvious
something's in that knuckle.
That's not supposed to be there.
And went to an orthopedic
surgeon on Thursday.
He's like, you've got calcifications.
You know, that's like relatively normal,
not a huge thing.
I don't know why you're
getting this inflammatory response.
Put you on prednisone,
put you on some antibiotics
as a precaution.
We'll see what happens.
I'll see you in a month.
Right now,
I'm talking the pain in this finger.
is like two percocet to take
the edge off type pain.
It's not like just a dull achy, like,
whatever.
Like it feels like I've got
something in my hand that
like doesn't belong there.
Um, and I can't move.
This is,
this is the extent of the movement
in my left hand.
I can do this and I can kind of do that.
And I, I can do maybe that.
Um, and it's just really swollen,
like right in here.
And that's where that classification is.
So, um,
He sent me for an EMG,
which is like some kind of
electro muscular test to
test for like carpal tunnel
and corbital tunnel and
whatever else it is.
But like, just not normal.
And I don't know what it is.
And I don't know what to do.
And I'm so annoyed.
And I can't use my hand.
And I'm afraid like I'm
going to lose all use of my
hand if I don't start moving my hand.
But I can't move my hand without crying.
So that's fun.
thank God the opens over.
Right.
Cause like, I can't do anything.
I have this new guy in class, this guy,
Ralph, he's 65.
And I was demonstrating
jumping pull-ups yesterday.
And he's like, so we do that with one arm.
I'm like, no, Ralph,
you do it with two arms.
I'm doing it with one arm.
Cause I can't do it with two arms.
Yeah.
So anyway, you can't even grip like a bar.
This is as far as I can make
a fist without pain,
without excruciating pain.
Like
That's as far as I can go.
And as far back as I can go
with this finger is about there.
I can't do anything else.
No, I can do this.
Thank God for that index finger.
What if the prednisone doesn't work?
It wasn't.
So he put me on 10 days of
five milligrams a day,
which if anybody knows
anything about prednisone,
like normally that's not a big dose.
Like you go to the ER,
they're giving you like 25 grams,
30 milligrams.
So I talked to my brother
who's a paramedic and he's like, dude,
take like five and then
take four and then take three.
So I sort of tapered off of it.
And when I did take the four
pills after 24 hours,
the swelling did start to go down.
Um, and the swelling is much better now.
Like it's still,
you can still see that like,
it's not normal.
Um, and it's a little puffy here, but, um,
yeah, yeah.
At least good,
good idea that the calcium
deposit is doing something
like this pain is not normal pain.
Um,
And I pride myself on being
kind of like a golden
retriever when it comes to
pain tolerance.
Like I'm pretty,
I can handle it pretty much, but this is,
I mean,
this I'll like sit in bed and just
start to cry because I'm
just so frustrated that it hurts so bad.
I have to, I sit when I coach,
I have to have like a
sweatshirt or something
with the drawstring and I
put my thumb in the
drawstring like this so that my hands up.
Cause when I,
as soon as I put my hand down to my side,
it like has a heartbeat.
I mean, that's all the time.
It's crazy.
You can't live with that.
No.
So I'm going to call the doc.
I get the EMG on Friday.
So I think Friday afternoon
after I get the EMG,
I'm going to call them back
and just be like, Hey,
I can't wait a month for us
to like revisit this.
The swelling's down.
Um, let's address please.
But I'm telling you,
it has something to do with
that blood draw.
I know it does because I've
never had any issues with my hands,
my fingers, my wrists, nothing ever.
It's just too coincidental.
So anyway,
You sent us a picture of the x-ray.
It's not a small piece.
No, it's like as big as the knuckle.
I am not a medical
professional and I can tell
it doesn't belong there.
Yeah.
It's crazy.
It is massive.
And like,
I'm just frustrated like from
everything I've gone through.
And now you that are medical professionals,
like it's just get you out the door.
Yeah.
I've lost all faith in the
system for sure.
Seeing if I can pull up the picture.
I don't know how to do this.
And until I fired my PCP,
I was just stuck in a vicious cycle.
Does your PCP know you fired them?
Yeah.
Did you say, like, I'm firing you?
You suck?
I called his office and said,
I will no longer be a patient.
You're a quack.
You said that?
Yeah.
All you do is prescribe
different medicines.
You don't do any testing.
You don't do any
Can you guys see that?
Yeah,
that big honking piece of thing on
the side of your ring finger.
Yeah, whatever that is right there.
That's, that's my x ray.
And then I think this is the
picture I sent you.
That's the difference from
one hand to another.
So you couldn't even see my
knuckles or anything.
They're crazy.
That just isn't right.
It's funny.
So I went to that doctor back in the fall.
I went to him twice and I
went to a different doctor
this time because I didn't
think that other doctor was
really taking me seriously.
But I found him on Facebook
and I sent him a note with
my two pictures and I was like,
I guess it's not just menopause.
And he hasn't responded yet.
But when I went to the new doctor,
he's like, I want to see your records.
You know,
I'm going to need to see your
X-ray from the last time.
And I was like,
he didn't never did an X-ray.
So I don't have an X-ray,
but I do have records.
But I went back and got my
records and the little
paragraph summary of what
the doctor wrote up for my visits.
Now, mind you,
I went because my finger
hurt like that was the reason I went.
My hands are beginning numb when I sleep,
like ever since I had babies 20 years ago,
like that is not a new sensation for me.
But I happened to mention it
when he was asking me other questions.
And the write up is all
about how I have numbness
and tingling in my hands.
And then I have a possible, you know,
corbital tunnel syndrome or
something like that.
And then at the very end,
it's like a ring finger sore.
And then the second time I went back,
which I went back because
my finger wasn't getting any better.
He wrote his first sentence
was patient returned due to
numbness and tingling in hand and wrist.
And I'm like, what?
That's no, that's not why I went there.
I went there because my
finger doesn't work.
And so,
When I went to this other doctor,
I talked to the nurse for
20 minutes and explained to
her the whole situation.
But I happened to mention
that the reason why I
noticed that my finger was
stiff is because I happened
to crack my knuckles.
And when you crack your knuckles,
you have to bring your
knuckles back into that position.
And I noticed that I could
not crack that knuckle
anymore and it was concerning.
And then it started to get sore and yada,
yada, yada.
The doctor walks in,
he must've glanced at my
chart and he goes,
so I hear you hurt your knuckle.
I heard you hurt your finger
from cracking your knuckles.
I was like, no, I didn't say that.
That's not what I said.
Like, listen.
Yeah.
No x-ray.
Crazy.
No imaging at all.
And it's one of those places
where they have x-ray like
right there and would be
more than happy to charge
me for an x-ray.
Didn't take one.
I'm sorry.
Hi guys.
Welcome back.
Okay.
Completely run out of
battery from being on here.
So I'm going to bounce up.
Okay.
Bye, guys.
Go quarterfinals.
Yay.
We still have a couple more
weeks for that.
It is really like the
doldrums of CrossFit.
There's nothing going on
other than Danielle's
documentary tomorrow.
Yeah, I can't wait to see that.
That's it.
Corey says, don't be sorry, Kat.
So frustrating.
Yeah,
I think I'm going to head up to
Philadelphia.
Maybe the next time if I
don't get what I need from this doctor,
I'm going to move up to Philadelphia.
University of Penn is really
close by and they probably
have some good people.
But the two guys that I'm that I have seen,
the first guy is like the renowned,
like number one hand
surgeon in the state.
So you figure I was in like
the right place.
And I think I do a pretty
good job of like explaining
my problems and like what it is.
But I clearly did not
impress upon this doctor
like how painful this is.
Do you think it's too simplistic for him?
I don't know.
I just think they're just in
their textbook, if this, then that,
if this, then that, if this, then that.
This is what you do.
Oh, you go for an EMG, you go through it,
I'll see you in a month.
They don't stop and consider
what's... Neither one of them asked me,
the nurse or the doctor,
what I do for a living.
What if I was a guitar
player or something?
Yeah.
I mean, and I do, I am a coach.
I do need the use of my hand,
but like no one asked what I do.
Guitar player vibes.
Right.
Yeah, totally.
But, you know, I mean,
I feel like that your
occupation has a lot to do
with sort of like how you
might treat somebody too.
You know,
it's not like I'm some retired
grandma that just needs to
sit around and use the clicker.
Like I have to do shit.
I can't even type.
Like I type, you know,
with like one finger.
It's crazy.
Yeah, I'm sure.
Yeah.
it's almost like insurance
companies have taken over
so far that there is this,
like even when I was going
through what I was going through,
like they were like, we have to do this,
this and this before we can
get to what we're going to need to do.
Right.
Right.
And then the patient suffers
through three to get to the four.
That's really what they
needed in the first place.
Yeah.
And I'm doing some things
like I'm trying to like
part of me wants to like
try to move the joint as much as I can,
as much as it hurts.
Like I'm trying to like I'm
pulling my finger out to sort of like
you know,
give it a little distraction to
see if that helps.
I'm trying to like do a
little deep tissue in there,
but I don't know if that's
hurting or helping, you know?
And I,
obviously I don't wanna make it
worse if I shouldn't be doing that,
but no one's really given
me any indication of what I
can or can't do with it in the meantime.
And I'm not that kind of
person that's just gonna
sit around and like keep it
in a sling for three weeks
until I go back to him.
Like that's ridiculous.
I don't know what to do.
Yeah, that sucks.
But it hurt like it hurts so bad.
It's crazy.
Crazy.
It's funny because like where we're at,
we have two major health systems.
Mount Carmel, Ohio Health.
Okay.
Right.
And there's a group of
doctors and hospitals and
ERs and under each one.
Yeah.
And I have since we've lived
here been under the Mount
Carmel system for all my care.
And then if I wouldn't have
had to go to the ER, which it's in the ER,
like separate from a hospital,
they have those here.
And it was an Ohio Health.
The care under that system
was so dramatically
different from the other system.
Better?
Oh, good.
That's good.
I didn't realize what I was
missing until I went to that hospital.
Yeah.
And now I've switched all my
care under that system.
Good, good.
Yeah.
I mean, I don't have a choice.
There's one, there's,
there's this place called
Christiana care and it's Delaware,
Northern Maryland, Eastern Pennsylvania.
Like they cover the whole region and it's,
it's great because when you
go to doctors and things,
everyone can see, you know,
your records and they have
this really cool portal
where you can pick any
doctor and ask them
questions and things like that.
But there are literally two
orthopedic practices in the
state of Delaware that
They're both really big and
they all have like 20 doctors each,
but it's like one or the other.
There aren't many other choices.
And I've seen like I had tennis elbow.
I had my second injection a
month and a half ago, maybe.
And I went to a doctor in
the practice of the doctor
I just saw for my hand.
And I had mentioned my hand
to him and he's like, oh, I can't.
I got to send you to somebody else.
Like I'm a shoulder guy.
Like we've got hand people,
which is also kind of
frustrating because it's
like you can only discuss
one body part when you're there.
was like no no but like I
have other things happening
here too that I need help
with so it sucks that's
crazy yeah I think my next
my next option will be
university of pennsylvania
I'm sure they've got some
good folks up there that
might know what they're
doing and it's hard to find
someone who's a little bit
more like sports oriented
and I mean and not that I'm
in some like great fitness
shape right now or that I'm
like seriously you know
cross-fitting hard
But, but, you know,
I do feel like I'm a little
bit fitter than your
average 51 year old female that's,
you know, dealing with joint pain.
Like I'm, it's just different.
And I think people, again,
they just read your chart
and make assumptions before
they even examine you or
ask you any questions.
Like I said, didn't ask me anything about,
am I on any other medications?
Am I doing, you know, anything different?
What do you do for a living?
Nothing.
Yep.
It's terrible.
Um, anything new with you?
Um, no,
Eliana went out to Missouri for her
boyfriend's basic training graduation.
So I posted that on my Instagram.
That was really cool.
She got to see him for the
first time since January.
And she was cute.
She was like, mom,
I'm really nervous to go out there.
She's like, what if I don't feel the same?
She's like,
it's kind of like we broke up
because we only talk like for an hour,
not even an hour, like once a week.
And she was like,
so afraid that things were
going to be different.
And I was like, listen,
just go out there, have a good time.
She went with his parents,
stayed with his parents and
his grandmother.
And you know,
by the first day she called me,
she's like, everything's fine.
It's all, it's all good.
Like we're fine.
I'm like, I figured as much,
but that's hard for a kid, you know,
whose frontal cortex hasn't
really developed yet.
And she's in this relationship.
So he's another six weeks of
job training and then he'll
be back at the beginning of May.
So she's having a good time
and Braden's just lifting
and getting huge.
He's on girlfriend number three now,
I think, since the summer.
These gym girls are all over him.
He's living his best life, I think.
We'll see.
There you go.
Yeah.
Every 20-year-old's dream.
Yeah.
So I'm trying to take the kids on a trip.
I want to take them on an
all-inclusive little
vacation because before,
when I was married,
we didn't go on vacation.
I think the last time we
went on vacation was 2017.
And we were supposed to go
on a vacation in 2020, 2021, I think.
No, 2020.
And it was going to be
Braden's senior year before
he went to college.
So it was going to be the
last time all four of us
would be together for Thanksgiving.
And we planned a trip to the Florida Keys.
And a week before we went,
we decided not to go
because there was this big
old ramp of COVID.
And Trump was telling
everybody not to go anywhere.
And my son was bellyaching
because his girlfriend
wasn't going to be there.
And he's like, oh, it's going to be fun,
blah, blah, blah, whatever.
So we canceled.
So my kids haven't been on a
trip like in a while and
I've been doing all this
traveling and I kind of
want to spend some time with them.
So we're trying to coordinate something,
but here's the deal.
The kids have to get their
passports because we're
probably going to go to
like Mexico or somewhere in
the Caribbean that's not a U.S.
territory.
And I told Braden I'm not
booking the trip until he
gets his passport.
So he's going to have to do
some adult things like get
his shit together, make an appointment,
get pictures taken and go
get his passport.
Right.
So once he does that,
I will book the trip.
And Eliana, of course,
she's already done her,
she's got her passport.
Everything's great.
I mean,
I had to financially support the
funds for the passport, which is fine.
But she's been harassing
Brayden like every day.
You know, I said, I said, else,
as soon as Brayden gets his passport,
we can go.
She's like, Brayden, get your passport.
Let's go get it in gear, you know?
So we'll see.
But that should be fun.
Yeah.
I've never been outside the U.S.,
Really?
Canada.
I don't know.
Do you have a passport?
No.
Okay.
So you should go get a
passport first step.
And then once you have it,
you and Julie should plan a
trip somewhere.
We're working on a trip now,
but trying to figure it out.
We went to Mexico for like $750 per person,
all inclusive a week with
airfare included.
Like I'm talking super, super cheap.
Yeah,
we kind of want to go to Pensacola
because my cousin lives there.
Okay.
He had stomach cancer,
esophageal and stomach cancer.
No.
And had all that removed last year.
Is he doing better?
Yeah, he's doing remarkably well.
Okay, good.
Just the life expectancy
once you have your stomach
and esophagus removed is
not super long because a
lot of your immunity is in
those two things.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
So what we've lived in
Florida at the same time,
why grew up with him?
He's like a brother to me.
I just,
I want to spend some time with him.
Yeah, that'll be nice.
So cool.
We're working on right now.
Awesome.
Well, beaches are sweet.
My real job has me have a
meeting at one Oh five.
So I have to get off now,
but it was fun to catch up.
I'm sorry to dump on you.
No, not at all.
Stay tuned for more Hand Saga.
There we go.
And with that,
thank you to everybody in the chat.
I'm sure Amy's going to take
those strip game versions to heart.
Everybody next time on
Gladstone Media Roundtable.
Bye, guys.
See ya.