The Jack & Chill Podcast | Medical Emergencies
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In this episode of The Jack & ‘Chill Podcast, Xochitl and Jack talk about medical emergencies.
Transcript:
Xochitl
Jack, you kind of had a scary experience, not kind of. You definitely had a scary experience this week. Do you want?
Xochitl
To tell our viewers about it.
Jack
Yeah, I would, I.
Jack
Would love to to share this. Some of our listeners out there who are students in our world English.
Jack
Google meets class.
Jack
I know that I’ve I have been absent lately. The last week or so, and about a week ago, my father had a a major heart attack which was terrifying, you know, for our family and when the.
Jack
The doctors did tests and everything they found that basically.
Jack
All the arteries and artery is like it’s like a tube that carries blood.
Xochitl
Again, laser vein, right a major vein.
Jack
Right. Because your heart pumps.
Jack
Blood to the rest of your.
Jack
Body and it and blood feeds into the heart and then it pumps out and.
Jack
His his arteries were all blocked like they were up. Some of them were 99% blocked, which is, I mean, you’re he. He was not getting enough blood. Umm.
Jack
And uh. And so he ended up having.
Jack
A heart attack.
Jack
And you know, it’s the life when when you lived the life that social and I have lived like, where you work overseas.
Jack
You’re so far away from home and it’s very difficult to receive news that your your family member is is really sick or having a very serious medical emergency.
Jack
And so it was really. Here’s an English expression, touch and go and touch and go means it was very delicate. Like he was very close.
Jack
To to death.
Jack
And luckily my my brother and his his wife were visiting my parents and they both work in the medical profession.
Jack
Motion and my brother noticed the symptoms in my father and and and brought him into the hospital, and my dad has not left the hospital since that time and he actually went and had a a, a quadruple bypass and quadruples.
Jack
It just means 4 quad means 4.
Jack
UM triple bypass means 3 double bypass means two and bypass means one and so he had a A4 bypasses quadruple bypass surgery where they connect arteries. They basically go around.
Jack
The bad part of the artery? The the tube that carries blood into the heart and out of the heart. And they, you know, created new tubes that were clear.
Jack
And clean and they take those tubes from other parts of your body, like from your leg. Or maybe your arm. I’m not sure. And and they harvest them. They they put them, they sew them into.
Jack
Into the heart and he he had that surgery and I just talked to him before the podcast maybe 10 minutes ago.
Jack
No, and he’s out of surgery and he’s doing really, really well. And so it was one of those, like, just terrifying moments where.
Jack
You know, you you.
Jack
You do that kind of like thinking in your head like is.
Jack
Is that the last time I’m gonna?
Jack
Talk to my dad, you know, like, is this is this it like and and and you know, before he went into surgery.
Jack
And so for those 24 hours while he was, you know, in surgery and and coming out of the surgery.
Jack
It was, you know, I was trying to distract myself by listening to podcasts or, you know, talking with my wife and stuff like that. But luckily, everything went really, really well. And so it looks like he’s going to make a full recovery.
Jack
And you know, and for any of our our listeners out there or anyone and I know that you recently experienced a loss in your family. I’ve experienced a a pretty significant loss a couple of years ago and it’s it’s just really scary and painful.
Jack
UM, all the uh. Here’s another expression.
Jack
In English, the woulda coulda should uh.
Jack
Moments. You know, I would have said something I could have said something. And so my big take away, the lesson I learned from this is, you know, hug your loved ones a little bit harder today, you know, because you we just don’t know the future.
Jack
We we do do not know the.
Jack
Future and and and all the little petty grievances that we have with with our our relatives or our friends are so insignificant in the grand scheme of things, you know we.
Jack
You know, we we hold on to.
Jack
Those those things that we.
Jack
We shouldn’t be holding on to and you have to let those go and just just squeeze your loved ones tightly and tell them that you love them because you just never know when when you’re, when they’re going to be gone and and sometimes it.
Jack
It takes a wake up call like almost losing a a parent or a friend or a sibling.
Jack
Before you you realize that, and once they’re gone, it’s it’s too late, you know, to to do that. And so I feel like I got a second chance to really, you know, just say to my father, dad, I love you. You’re you’re amazing and.
Jack
And I feel so lucky and so blessed that I got that opportunity because it could have really gone the other way very easily.
Jack
And uh, you know, those are the the important things in life is family and and and friends and and loved ones that that’s what really matters. So yeah that was the the harrowing experience that that we’ve been dealing with in my family here for.
Jack
The last week or so.
Xochitl
That’s terrible, Jack. I’m really sorry you’ve been dealing.
Xochitl
With all of that.
Jack
Well, thanks. Yeah. Yeah, I I, I I know we’re we don’t need to to, you know, keep talking about this but it kind of brought you you mentioned the topic of like family emergencies and things like that and.
Jack
What about you?
Jack
Have you experienced any like family emergencies that you don’t mind sharing with our our podcast listeners?
Xochitl
Yeah, for sure. I mean, I guess the first one would be when my grandfather passed away, I guess that was in October now.
Xochitl
Or the IT was either the end of September or the beginning of October. It’s fuzzy in my mind at this point, but.
Xochitl
It feels like.
Xochitl
So long and go.
Xochitl
Now, because how of how the brain like process is lost?
Xochitl
It just feels both so recent and so far at the same time, and and that was.
Jack
Right, right.
Xochitl
Just a big thing because I didn’t. I couldn’t even fly back to see him in time, really.
Xochitl
That was a big deal. And then recently my grandmother this week as well on Monday.
Xochitl
Wasn’t able to get out.
Xochitl
Of bed she wasn’t able to stand.
Xochitl
Up on her legs.
Xochitl
And we did call. I eventually convinced them to call the ambulance, which had to come and strap him to a chair because of the driveways, like on a slope. And it’s very icy because of the Iowa weather.
Xochitl
And when they got her into the ambulance, they took her to the hospital and they did some imaging and some tests I found out she has pneumonia, bacterial pneumonia in her lungs. Pneumonia is an infection of the lungs. For those of you who don’t know.
Xochitl
And so.
Xochitl
That was kind of a big deal, but thankfully she’s OK and they did tell us that at the hospital, you know, she was good to come home that night around 1:00 or 2:00 AM.
Xochitl
They gave her an antibiotic and she’s doing OK.
Xochitl
UM, but it certainly was scary in the moment. She was very confused. I didn’t understand. It was why I wanted.
Xochitl
To call the.
Xochitl
Ambulance, she’s she.
Xochitl
Had a lot of like confusion and she seemed like lost.
Xochitl
And I thought it was weird. And when they came, they thought, you know, it might be pneumonia or some kind of infection. I didn’t understand what the confusion was about, but once it got to her to the hospital, they had to put her on.
Xochitl
Oxygen, because her oxygen was very low.
Xochitl
And of course that makes sense as to.
Xochitl
How it affected her?
Xochitl
Her brain. Right. She wasn’t getting that oxygen supply that she needed, which is why she was pretty confused.
Jack
Exactly. Yep.
Xochitl
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