1 00:00:01,680 --> 00:00:02,700 Danny: This week's a little different. 2 00:00:03,330 --> 00:00:07,230 As some of you might know, I also run a couple of other podcasts, one as 3 00:00:07,230 --> 00:00:09,030 a host, and the other as a cohost. 4 00:00:09,540 --> 00:00:09,870 Today. 5 00:00:09,870 --> 00:00:13,200 I want to share an episode from the podcast I co-host, Mental Health and Us. 6 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:18,560 It originally started out as a solo hosted show by my wife, Jaclyn, and 7 00:00:18,580 --> 00:00:19,860 was called Mental health and Me. 8 00:00:20,460 --> 00:00:22,920 It shared self-care and wellness tips to help other mental health 9 00:00:22,920 --> 00:00:24,580 sufferers and their loved ones cope. 10 00:00:25,560 --> 00:00:28,875 Jaclyn uses her 20 years battle with both depression and anxiety 11 00:00:29,175 --> 00:00:31,935 to share what worked for her, and how that could maybe help you. 12 00:00:32,655 --> 00:00:36,165 I personally suffer from mental health issues too, and it's an important 13 00:00:36,165 --> 00:00:40,005 topic and one I see more of in the podcasting space, both from a 14 00:00:40,005 --> 00:00:42,105 podcaster and a listener perspective. 15 00:00:43,075 --> 00:00:46,675 In this episode, Jaclyn shares how a major health scare made her fear 16 00:00:46,695 --> 00:00:49,845 the worst, and why it's important to understand how your physical health 17 00:00:49,905 --> 00:00:51,375 is important to your mental health. 18 00:00:52,005 --> 00:00:55,935 The Mental Health and Us podcast will be relaunching early October, and 19 00:00:55,935 --> 00:00:59,485 you can catch up with other episodes over at mentalhealthpodcast.ca. 20 00:01:00,465 --> 00:01:00,885 Next week, 21 00:01:00,885 --> 00:01:03,045 we'll be back to the usual Podcaster Stories programming. 22 00:01:03,765 --> 00:01:06,375 Thank you for letting me share this special episode with you, and I hope 23 00:01:06,375 --> 00:01:09,555 you check out the podcast and join in when it relaunches next month. 24 00:01:10,065 --> 00:01:12,465 Until next time, take care and stay safe. 25 00:01:13,985 --> 00:01:17,045 Jaclyn: Hi, I'm Jaclyn Brown and you're listening to Mental Health and Me. 26 00:01:17,495 --> 00:01:20,555 I have anxiety and depression, and I've been suffering from these two 27 00:01:20,585 --> 00:01:23,315 illnesses for years through this podcast. 28 00:01:23,315 --> 00:01:26,645 I am sharing my journey along with practical self-care and wellness 29 00:01:26,645 --> 00:01:30,095 tips to help other mental health suffers and their loved ones cope. 30 00:01:30,485 --> 00:01:31,355 I hope you'll join me. 31 00:01:34,055 --> 00:01:36,095 Welcome to the mental health and me podcast. 32 00:01:37,530 --> 00:01:41,280 In today's episode, I'm going to talk about my health scare. 33 00:01:41,580 --> 00:01:44,220 And the last episode, if you didn't hear it, go listen to it because 34 00:01:44,220 --> 00:01:48,180 I talked a wonderfully long time about the eight week challenge 35 00:01:48,180 --> 00:01:50,762 and how I I challenged myself to. 36 00:01:51,587 --> 00:01:54,737 You know, follow healthy habits and make good choices and lose 37 00:01:54,737 --> 00:01:55,697 some weight in the process. 38 00:01:55,697 --> 00:02:00,473 And I lost over 30 pounds and and I said, okay. 39 00:02:00,473 --> 00:02:05,273 So I started that challenge February 18th and I finished at eight weeks later. 40 00:02:05,273 --> 00:02:07,640 So it was the beginning of beginning of April. 41 00:02:08,030 --> 00:02:09,740 So now. 42 00:02:10,940 --> 00:02:14,600 I'm going to talk about what happened when that pretty much the day after 43 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:17,090 that finished, because it was immediate. 44 00:02:17,390 --> 00:02:20,780 So I finished my week challenge, went out for dinner with the family 45 00:02:21,140 --> 00:02:28,093 and and then the next day I w I took a break now I didn't, I didn't, I 46 00:02:28,103 --> 00:02:29,543 still followed my healthy habits. 47 00:02:29,543 --> 00:02:33,053 I still ate, drank my three liters of water and I made healthy choices and I 48 00:02:33,053 --> 00:02:34,673 drank my smoothies and all that was good. 49 00:02:34,656 --> 00:02:36,379 But I didn't do my exercise. 50 00:02:36,949 --> 00:02:37,823 And and then. 51 00:02:38,633 --> 00:02:44,243 Then that night, the Monday night, the Tuesday morning at about at about, I 52 00:02:44,243 --> 00:02:49,763 don't know, just after midnight, I woke up with a what felt like a heart attack. 53 00:02:50,003 --> 00:02:54,051 And I've had this before, so I know that it's it's bad, but. 54 00:02:55,141 --> 00:02:58,087 The first time I had, it was a little less than a year ago. 55 00:02:58,387 --> 00:03:00,337 I had this heart scare and I didn't know what was going on. 56 00:03:00,337 --> 00:03:02,257 And I had chest pains and I couldn't breathe. 57 00:03:02,617 --> 00:03:06,072 And but I could feel it like right, right around my heart. 58 00:03:06,192 --> 00:03:10,251 And and I also have asthma and I've had this my whole life. 59 00:03:10,251 --> 00:03:13,341 So I naturally think, okay, well maybe it's my life. 60 00:03:13,911 --> 00:03:17,751 And I take my inhalers and that doesn't work and the pain is getting progressively 61 00:03:17,751 --> 00:03:20,511 worse and I can't get comfortable. 62 00:03:20,525 --> 00:03:21,995 I try lying down that doesn't work. 63 00:03:21,995 --> 00:03:25,865 I try lying, like I'm talking to on the floor so that I could, you know, 64 00:03:25,865 --> 00:03:27,695 flat back, no pillows, no cushions. 65 00:03:28,265 --> 00:03:29,375 And that was worse. 66 00:03:29,375 --> 00:03:32,555 And then I tried sitting up and that was worse and that, you know, like every 67 00:03:32,555 --> 00:03:34,925 single position I tried, it was worse. 68 00:03:34,925 --> 00:03:36,425 And so I finally called the EMS. 69 00:03:37,790 --> 00:03:40,770 And and, and, you know, was taken to the hospital. 70 00:03:41,220 --> 00:03:45,990 And last year when that happened, I spent, I think, 36 hours in the hospital 71 00:03:45,990 --> 00:03:47,880 and they fixed they took away the pain. 72 00:03:47,910 --> 00:03:50,940 I, I'm not gonna say they fixed, but they took away the pain and I was fine. 73 00:03:50,940 --> 00:03:51,990 What felt like fine. 74 00:03:51,999 --> 00:03:52,352 After. 75 00:03:52,927 --> 00:03:56,467 Maybe 10 hours, but I spent the next, you know, 26 hours in the 76 00:03:56,467 --> 00:03:59,557 hospital being monitored because they wanted to find out what happened. 77 00:04:00,127 --> 00:04:04,191 And then after that, the the 36 hours in the hospital I was released was 78 00:04:04,191 --> 00:04:06,321 told to relax a bit, not too much. 79 00:04:06,351 --> 00:04:09,164 Cause I was, I felt fine, but but it was just take it easy. 80 00:04:09,227 --> 00:04:12,497 And then a week after that I was given a heart monitor that 81 00:04:12,497 --> 00:04:13,877 I had to wear for 48 hours. 82 00:04:13,927 --> 00:04:18,387 Then I saw a heart specialist, a cardiologist and and they took the 83 00:04:18,387 --> 00:04:19,917 results from the heart monitor. 84 00:04:21,387 --> 00:04:23,817 And said, basically they found nothing. 85 00:04:24,057 --> 00:04:26,157 They found no reason why this happened. 86 00:04:26,163 --> 00:04:28,677 They're going to write it off as a, not an anomaly. 87 00:04:28,917 --> 00:04:30,357 And should this happen again? 88 00:04:30,777 --> 00:04:33,477 Follow the same procedure, call the ambulance, go to the 89 00:04:33,477 --> 00:04:37,757 hospital and get checked out, but they kind of made it sound. 90 00:04:38,532 --> 00:04:40,572 It was like a one-time occurrence. 91 00:04:40,572 --> 00:04:43,482 Given my age, it wasn't a heart attack, felt like a heart attack, 92 00:04:43,482 --> 00:04:44,292 but it wasn't a heart attack. 93 00:04:44,742 --> 00:04:48,739 And and they, they treat it like a heart attack when you're in the hospital. 94 00:04:48,739 --> 00:04:51,079 But when you leave the hospital, they're like, no, it actually, 95 00:04:51,079 --> 00:04:52,344 wasn't a ha wasn't a heart attack. 96 00:04:53,064 --> 00:04:57,702 So then you know, Beginning of April when, the day after I finished my eight week 97 00:04:57,702 --> 00:05:01,812 challenge, this is just a coincidence, but it feels like a really big coincidence. 98 00:05:02,082 --> 00:05:06,342 The day after I finished, I complete my eight week challenge and stop exercising. 99 00:05:06,522 --> 00:05:10,092 I ended up waking up in the middle of the night with these chest pains and 100 00:05:10,092 --> 00:05:12,672 because I have asthma once again, I think. 101 00:05:12,702 --> 00:05:13,182 Okay. 102 00:05:13,212 --> 00:05:13,992 Maybe it's my, yeah. 103 00:05:14,487 --> 00:05:18,627 Weird cause I was sleeping and it's not like I was doing any sort of extend EWAS 104 00:05:18,608 --> 00:05:20,962 training or, you know so what happened? 105 00:05:21,022 --> 00:05:22,432 I take my inhalers naturally. 106 00:05:22,432 --> 00:05:23,152 They don't work. 107 00:05:23,152 --> 00:05:24,322 It's not a lung issue. 108 00:05:24,317 --> 00:05:26,387 And then I think, well maybe it's heartburn. 109 00:05:26,387 --> 00:05:30,343 I have indigestion, so let's take some Tums and and see if that helps. 110 00:05:30,613 --> 00:05:33,013 I don't know why I would think this because it's not like I was 111 00:05:33,013 --> 00:05:34,333 eating any food at that time. 112 00:05:35,553 --> 00:05:38,020 So but I take the Tums and they don't work. 113 00:05:38,020 --> 00:05:39,970 And then and then I get more and more uncomfortable. 114 00:05:39,970 --> 00:05:42,730 I try to go back to sleep, but I wake up in more pain. 115 00:05:42,970 --> 00:05:46,540 So I wake up at like, let's say quarter after 12 with these symptoms. 116 00:05:46,540 --> 00:05:47,770 And then I try to do all these things. 117 00:05:47,770 --> 00:05:50,290 They don't work and I go back to sleep thinking, just sleep it off. 118 00:05:50,620 --> 00:05:50,980 And then. 119 00:05:51,027 --> 00:05:55,493 About two in the morning to two 30 in the, in between that time, 120 00:05:55,883 --> 00:05:57,888 I I couldn't take it anymore. 121 00:05:57,888 --> 00:06:02,508 I was in so much pain and I knew that it was a bigger problem than I was You 122 00:06:02,508 --> 00:06:05,448 know, I just knew it was a big problem and worse off is that I went to the 123 00:06:05,448 --> 00:06:11,748 bathroom and I saw my, my face and I could see that my skin color was gray. 124 00:06:11,778 --> 00:06:14,298 I was pretty much like, you know, translucent, like you could 125 00:06:14,298 --> 00:06:16,758 see right through me and that. 126 00:06:17,243 --> 00:06:20,363 The big indicator for me, because that had happened the first time. 127 00:06:20,363 --> 00:06:22,643 And they said like, you're, you're gray. 128 00:06:22,643 --> 00:06:23,873 You have no blood pressure. 129 00:06:23,903 --> 00:06:25,523 You need to call the ambulance. 130 00:06:25,523 --> 00:06:29,123 And I said, okay, I don't know why I didn't do this before I'm doing it now. 131 00:06:29,363 --> 00:06:36,653 And I also remember that they told me to take baby aspirin to chew baby aspirin. 132 00:06:36,833 --> 00:06:37,103 Right. 133 00:06:37,103 --> 00:06:40,583 So you have to take two baby aspirins, put them in your mouth 134 00:06:40,583 --> 00:06:42,233 and chew and it tastes awful. 135 00:06:42,251 --> 00:06:43,931 But there's no point in swallowing them. 136 00:06:44,576 --> 00:06:48,856 It's not going to help you need to chew it and then swallow the chewed pill. 137 00:06:49,246 --> 00:06:52,396 And fortunately for me, my husband takes baby aspirin every 138 00:06:52,396 --> 00:06:55,726 single day for his cholesterol or whatever it is he takes it for. 139 00:06:55,726 --> 00:06:57,916 So we always have baby aspirin in the house. 140 00:06:58,186 --> 00:06:59,746 I knew this time where to go to get it. 141 00:06:59,746 --> 00:07:00,766 So I went and yeah. 142 00:07:01,321 --> 00:07:02,701 You know, chewed these pills. 143 00:07:02,701 --> 00:07:05,401 And then I called 9 1 1, and I was like, I'm having these problems. 144 00:07:05,401 --> 00:07:07,621 I had them last year, they told me to call the ambulance. 145 00:07:07,612 --> 00:07:11,449 And then, you know, I've chewed, baby aspirin I've even swallowed baby aspirin 146 00:07:11,449 --> 00:07:14,599 because I thought, you know, just in case the chewing ones don't work maybe. 147 00:07:14,599 --> 00:07:18,529 And then that's when they said no, that you can swallow as many pills as you want. 148 00:07:18,529 --> 00:07:19,269 It's not going to help you. 149 00:07:19,279 --> 00:07:20,089 You have to chew them. 150 00:07:20,089 --> 00:07:20,959 And you've already done that. 151 00:07:20,959 --> 00:07:22,309 So now you just wait for the ambulance. 152 00:07:22,309 --> 00:07:24,179 And I remember like, you know, my face is. 153 00:07:25,404 --> 00:07:26,814 And the paramedics show up. 154 00:07:27,174 --> 00:07:32,034 And I'm going to pause here to like, talk about how much I love paramedics. 155 00:07:32,214 --> 00:07:34,134 They are incredible. 156 00:07:34,314 --> 00:07:37,248 They're there and they have a what do you call that bedside manner? 157 00:07:37,428 --> 00:07:40,638 They have that in spades where sometimes the emergency room 158 00:07:40,638 --> 00:07:42,288 doctors, they don't have that. 159 00:07:42,318 --> 00:07:44,208 And I'll talk about that when I get there, but. 160 00:07:45,073 --> 00:07:49,488 But yeah, the paramedics are just amazing and and, you know, shout out to them. 161 00:07:49,488 --> 00:07:52,548 And every time I meet a paramedic, whether it's, you know, they've helped 162 00:07:52,548 --> 00:07:55,578 me or not, I just talk about how much I love them and I love what they do. 163 00:07:55,578 --> 00:07:57,168 So shout out paramedics. 164 00:07:57,168 --> 00:07:57,768 You're awesome. 165 00:07:57,748 --> 00:08:00,602 So anyways, so the paramedics show up and apparently the police 166 00:08:00,602 --> 00:08:02,659 officers showed up and fire. 167 00:08:03,494 --> 00:08:05,924 Truck and fighters showed up as well. 168 00:08:06,134 --> 00:08:11,928 I don't remember this because at that point I was just like, out of it, I 169 00:08:11,958 --> 00:08:13,788 was so gray and so low blood pressure. 170 00:08:13,788 --> 00:08:15,078 I couldn't even open my eyes. 171 00:08:15,078 --> 00:08:19,398 I was sitting on the stairs and I, and I just knew I was like waiting for help. 172 00:08:19,428 --> 00:08:20,748 And my husband was beside me. 173 00:08:22,153 --> 00:08:25,363 And he was communicating with the people that had come to help me. 174 00:08:25,345 --> 00:08:29,005 I was able to walk myself out to the gurney and so I didn't, 175 00:08:29,035 --> 00:08:30,175 we didn't need the firefighters. 176 00:08:30,385 --> 00:08:31,225 I think the police. 177 00:08:32,005 --> 00:08:35,900 The policemen was talking to, to my husband and I, I don't, I don't remember 178 00:08:35,900 --> 00:08:38,450 that, but I remember looking up and seeing his face and going, oh, you 179 00:08:38,450 --> 00:08:41,750 know, it looks like this guy named Mike, the guy that worked on your stairs. 180 00:08:41,750 --> 00:08:43,670 And then, and then the next day, when I was talking to my husband, 181 00:08:43,670 --> 00:08:45,080 I was like, wasn't there a mic? 182 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:46,160 Like didn't did Mike come? 183 00:08:46,160 --> 00:08:47,330 And he's like, no, that was the policemen. 184 00:08:47,330 --> 00:08:48,350 And he looked kind of like Mike. 185 00:08:48,350 --> 00:08:51,470 So I thought that was funny that I didn't remember a police officer 186 00:08:51,470 --> 00:08:54,500 being there, but I remember seeing Mike, the guy that did my stairs. 187 00:08:54,541 --> 00:08:54,871 So. 188 00:08:55,966 --> 00:09:01,816 Anyways at paramedics gave me crap crap for waiting two hours before 189 00:09:01,816 --> 00:09:05,326 calling them because apparently I made their job more difficult and 190 00:09:05,356 --> 00:09:06,886 I put myself in a worse condition. 191 00:09:07,156 --> 00:09:09,976 So they said, you know, should this happen again? 192 00:09:10,006 --> 00:09:13,156 When you feel it, you call you don't wait. 193 00:09:13,696 --> 00:09:16,396 And it's so hard for me to, I mean, I can say, yeah, you're right. 194 00:09:16,396 --> 00:09:16,696 Okay. 195 00:09:16,696 --> 00:09:18,196 I will call I'm sorry, but. 196 00:09:19,396 --> 00:09:20,416 You know, it's hard to go. 197 00:09:20,656 --> 00:09:22,756 Do I need an ambulance right now? 198 00:09:22,816 --> 00:09:24,046 Am I going to call 9 1 1? 199 00:09:24,046 --> 00:09:26,236 Because they send all three of those services, police, 200 00:09:26,236 --> 00:09:27,406 fire, truck, and ambulance out. 201 00:09:27,646 --> 00:09:30,692 When you call 9 1 1 is it, I don't want to waste their time. 202 00:09:30,902 --> 00:09:33,122 Like what, what if it is heartburn? 203 00:09:33,152 --> 00:09:35,162 And I can just take Tums and be relieved, right? 204 00:09:35,162 --> 00:09:36,512 Like this is what I'm thinking. 205 00:09:36,722 --> 00:09:37,802 What if it is asthma? 206 00:09:37,832 --> 00:09:39,692 I know I can take my inhaler and feel fine. 207 00:09:40,582 --> 00:09:46,222 How do I know that it's an emergency that I actually need to call these people. 208 00:09:46,222 --> 00:09:49,702 And I had a conversation with my mom about it, and my mom said, you 209 00:09:49,702 --> 00:09:54,082 call, so now I'm passing this advice from mom to you, you call 9 1 1. 210 00:09:54,142 --> 00:09:57,322 And when they get to you and you start having a conversation with them and 211 00:09:57,322 --> 00:09:59,212 you feel okay, you can send them off. 212 00:10:00,107 --> 00:10:03,617 You don't need to get in the ambulance, but it is much better to have those 213 00:10:03,617 --> 00:10:07,067 people in your house and taking care of you if you need it than to 214 00:10:07,067 --> 00:10:08,537 need it and not have them there. 215 00:10:08,777 --> 00:10:14,597 So if you're in a situation where you think, just think that you might 216 00:10:14,597 --> 00:10:17,447 need help you call there's my advice. 217 00:10:17,447 --> 00:10:18,347 There's my mom's advice. 218 00:10:18,347 --> 00:10:18,947 Just take it. 219 00:10:18,977 --> 00:10:19,517 It's smart. 220 00:10:20,087 --> 00:10:20,307 So. 221 00:10:21,617 --> 00:10:22,307 That happened. 222 00:10:22,307 --> 00:10:25,654 And then I was I was ambulanced to the hospital. 223 00:10:25,654 --> 00:10:27,985 They they were, the paramedics were really good. 224 00:10:27,985 --> 00:10:31,795 They, whatever it was that they tried on me in in, and because, you know, my, 225 00:10:31,825 --> 00:10:34,636 my my, my blood pressure was so low. 226 00:10:34,726 --> 00:10:38,927 It makes them, it makes it difficult to find veins, you know, wherever 227 00:10:38,927 --> 00:10:41,867 they put in the IV, it makes it difficult for them to find it. 228 00:10:41,867 --> 00:10:43,896 And I, I have You know, a hard time. 229 00:10:43,926 --> 00:10:45,126 They, they have a hard time. 230 00:10:45,126 --> 00:10:46,956 I should say, finding that anyways. 231 00:10:47,226 --> 00:10:50,286 And then when my blood pressure is low, it just makes it almost impossible. 232 00:10:50,286 --> 00:10:53,286 So I get like poked a lot while they're looking for these things. 233 00:10:53,496 --> 00:10:54,306 I don't care. 234 00:10:54,366 --> 00:10:57,198 Like I don't, I'm not I have a high pain tolerance. 235 00:10:57,198 --> 00:11:00,828 Like it doesn't, it doesn't affect me if they need to poke me in 236 00:11:00,828 --> 00:11:02,958 various places, as long as they find what they're looking for. 237 00:11:02,958 --> 00:11:05,908 So that part is fine, but, and then they tried some medicine. 238 00:11:06,803 --> 00:11:09,833 I wish I knew, but I was, like I said, it was out of it, but they were laughing. 239 00:11:09,833 --> 00:11:12,953 And I remember seeing the look on the two paramedics faces before we even 240 00:11:12,953 --> 00:11:16,943 left my driveway while we were in the ambulance, they had tried something and 241 00:11:16,943 --> 00:11:19,853 then we're checking my heart rate and whatever it was that they tried on me. 242 00:11:19,862 --> 00:11:21,002 It, it started to work. 243 00:11:21,032 --> 00:11:23,072 And my, my heart rate started to go up in my blood. 244 00:11:24,367 --> 00:11:25,647 Started to increase again. 245 00:11:25,917 --> 00:11:28,107 And so I was no longer in that scary zone. 246 00:11:28,637 --> 00:11:33,057 I still I'm still out of it, but, but from their perspective and from a health 247 00:11:33,057 --> 00:11:36,657 perspective, I guess I had, you know, I had shown signs of improvement and 248 00:11:36,657 --> 00:11:42,657 they were laughing because I think it's their job to try this method first. 249 00:11:43,077 --> 00:11:43,317 But. 250 00:11:44,307 --> 00:11:46,737 Apparently it's never worked before. 251 00:11:46,977 --> 00:11:51,927 So every single person that they have tried it on, it doesn't work. 252 00:11:51,927 --> 00:11:55,017 And then they go to step two, whatever their step two method is. 253 00:11:55,047 --> 00:11:56,037 First step is easier. 254 00:11:56,047 --> 00:11:57,627 Doesn't work, try the second step. 255 00:11:57,867 --> 00:11:59,187 But for me, the first step worked. 256 00:11:59,187 --> 00:12:01,737 So they were like, so impressed with that, that they told they're like, I 257 00:12:01,737 --> 00:12:04,767 just want you to know that I've been in this business for X amount of years 258 00:12:04,767 --> 00:12:06,357 and I've done this X amount of times. 259 00:12:06,507 --> 00:12:08,907 It has never worked, but for you, it works. 260 00:12:09,762 --> 00:12:12,162 He's going to remember me and I'm certainly going to remember him. 261 00:12:12,162 --> 00:12:13,182 And I think that's amazing. 262 00:12:14,937 --> 00:12:16,557 So it worked and I started to feel better. 263 00:12:16,557 --> 00:12:21,403 I started to feel cold, so it was like all the blood was there, but but I 264 00:12:21,433 --> 00:12:23,053 was just not circulating it properly. 265 00:12:23,353 --> 00:12:26,563 And I remember feeling like I was in hypothermic shock to the point where I 266 00:12:26,563 --> 00:12:30,613 had like, I think six different blankets put on me now I'm in the hospital, 267 00:12:30,613 --> 00:12:31,933 they're adding more blankets to me. 268 00:12:31,933 --> 00:12:34,033 They gave me heated blankets. 269 00:12:34,033 --> 00:12:38,286 They gave me a heat pack for me to hold on to yeah, it was, it was like, 270 00:12:38,286 --> 00:12:40,856 they were treating me for hypothermia at that point, but eventually. 271 00:12:41,656 --> 00:12:45,256 When we also, and I, another thing that I remember about being in the hospital 272 00:12:45,256 --> 00:12:47,266 was when they said, how do you feel? 273 00:12:47,266 --> 00:12:48,736 And I said, I feel really cold. 274 00:12:48,736 --> 00:12:51,316 And so they gave me more and they said, okay, but are you in pain? 275 00:12:51,736 --> 00:12:52,906 Nope, I'm just cold. 276 00:12:53,746 --> 00:12:55,486 And they said, that's good. 277 00:12:55,546 --> 00:12:56,926 Like, we can deal with cold. 278 00:12:56,926 --> 00:12:58,846 And I said, I can deal with cold to it. 279 00:12:58,846 --> 00:13:00,076 And it was like, I was smiling. 280 00:13:00,106 --> 00:13:00,346 Sure. 281 00:13:00,346 --> 00:13:02,866 I might be in hypothermic shock, but I'm smiling. 282 00:13:03,166 --> 00:13:04,415 And so that you know, it was good. 283 00:13:04,415 --> 00:13:07,223 And then and then I was I don't know how long I was in the hospital. 284 00:13:07,223 --> 00:13:08,153 I was released the next day. 285 00:13:08,153 --> 00:13:11,093 It was not, it was less than 24 hours that I was in the hospital. 286 00:13:11,453 --> 00:13:14,243 At that point, I was not even transferred to a room. 287 00:13:14,273 --> 00:13:18,725 I just stayed in like the emergency section until my mom came to pick me. 288 00:13:19,925 --> 00:13:23,256 And then I was off and recuperating for for three days. 289 00:13:23,256 --> 00:13:25,896 I wasn't, I mean, like for more than three days, I think it was 290 00:13:25,896 --> 00:13:30,876 probably like closer to 10 days where before I felt back to normal. 291 00:13:31,416 --> 00:13:36,546 And even to this day, I haven't done any exercise because I'm a little 292 00:13:36,546 --> 00:13:38,526 afraid of what might happen to my heart. 293 00:13:38,526 --> 00:13:39,996 So I've just been taking it easy. 294 00:13:40,416 --> 00:13:44,147 I started walking again, but not running and yeah. 295 00:13:44,872 --> 00:13:46,912 And I'm taking it slow. 296 00:13:47,152 --> 00:13:48,232 I feel okay. 297 00:13:48,322 --> 00:13:49,552 I feel like everything's okay. 298 00:13:49,642 --> 00:13:51,472 I'm just trying to be cautious. 299 00:13:51,892 --> 00:13:55,475 And and yeah, and they're still, they still don't know exactly. 300 00:13:55,475 --> 00:13:58,992 What's what is wrong with my heart, but I do, I have gone two 301 00:13:58,992 --> 00:14:02,492 more times back to the hospital without scares just for them to do. 302 00:14:03,227 --> 00:14:05,507 And the CT scans and whatever else. 303 00:14:05,717 --> 00:14:07,817 So, so they're, they're continuing to check. 304 00:14:07,817 --> 00:14:11,537 I have another appointment next week to talk to the doctor about what's happened. 305 00:14:11,537 --> 00:14:13,907 So it's it, they're constantly looking at it. 306 00:14:14,687 --> 00:14:15,857 They're not going to let it go. 307 00:14:16,157 --> 00:14:20,267 I do hope that I am given some sort of proactive measure, whether it's 308 00:14:20,312 --> 00:14:22,661 you know include this in your diet or. 309 00:14:22,667 --> 00:14:26,507 Medicine, like, you know, if it's medicine, whatever it is, I hope they 310 00:14:26,507 --> 00:14:31,367 give me some sort of proactive attempts because waiting to handle this as a 311 00:14:31,367 --> 00:14:34,367 reactive measure is literally killing me. 312 00:14:34,397 --> 00:14:37,877 Like it hurts it, that the pain that I have to go through. 313 00:14:38,707 --> 00:14:39,967 It hurts and sure. 314 00:14:39,997 --> 00:14:43,987 It's like once every 10 months, but I would rather it not happen at all. 315 00:14:44,317 --> 00:14:49,927 So that has, that was what I went through after my eight week challenge and why 316 00:14:49,927 --> 00:14:54,697 it's been a little bit more difficult to get back into the swing of things. 317 00:14:54,697 --> 00:14:57,787 And then of course, after my heart feels okay, and I'm sort of getting 318 00:14:57,787 --> 00:14:59,047 back into the rhythm of things. 319 00:14:59,287 --> 00:15:01,057 I then get a cold from my day. 320 00:15:01,897 --> 00:15:04,687 And I don't mind because you know, when the kids give you cold, so you just 321 00:15:04,687 --> 00:15:06,097 take it and it's better you than them. 322 00:15:06,157 --> 00:15:06,997 So it's fine. 323 00:15:07,027 --> 00:15:08,947 But it was just the app here. 324 00:15:08,947 --> 00:15:09,817 I am sick again. 325 00:15:10,147 --> 00:15:12,877 So that's, that's how it's been. 326 00:15:12,877 --> 00:15:16,117 And one of the, another, one of the things that my mom said in her with 327 00:15:16,117 --> 00:15:21,337 her words of wisdom, was it, you know, it's pretty funny that coincidentally, 328 00:15:21,517 --> 00:15:24,932 as soon as I stopped my eight lead channel, And I say, I'm going to have 329 00:15:24,932 --> 00:15:28,742 like an unhealthy meal or I don't care if I cheat and have a chocolate bar. 330 00:15:29,252 --> 00:15:33,032 I mean, you know, and I w I was still good about it, but I just didn't care about 331 00:15:33,032 --> 00:15:34,952 those like little cheats as reward system. 332 00:15:34,952 --> 00:15:36,332 So having a chocolate was fine. 333 00:15:36,371 --> 00:15:39,941 You know, and I, I didn't do it every day and it was okay. 334 00:15:39,941 --> 00:15:43,691 My mom said, the minute you started putting crap in your body, crap happens. 335 00:15:43,721 --> 00:15:45,341 Now I'm going to say, my mom said it was swears. 336 00:15:45,341 --> 00:15:46,091 I'm not going to swear. 337 00:15:46,931 --> 00:15:49,151 You put crap in crap happens. 338 00:15:49,631 --> 00:15:51,701 And I think that that's brilliant. 339 00:15:51,761 --> 00:15:55,391 And if I had have said, if I had have, instead of said, Hey, this is 340 00:15:55,391 --> 00:15:56,591 going to be an eight week challenge. 341 00:15:56,591 --> 00:15:58,661 And at the end of eight weeks, I'm going to do whatever I want. 342 00:15:58,931 --> 00:16:00,731 If I should have said, I'm going to start with eight weeks. 343 00:16:01,486 --> 00:16:04,306 Not take a cheat day, then do another eight weeks. 344 00:16:04,306 --> 00:16:05,056 And Hey, guess what? 345 00:16:05,086 --> 00:16:10,156 I just created a lifestyle change and not just a silly little challenge for myself. 346 00:16:10,696 --> 00:16:13,936 Maybe I wouldn't have ended up in the hospital with what 347 00:16:13,936 --> 00:16:14,986 felt like a heart attack. 348 00:16:15,436 --> 00:16:16,006 Maybe not. 349 00:16:16,246 --> 00:16:18,616 Maybe I have this heart condition that I can't get rid of anyways. 350 00:16:18,596 --> 00:16:20,983 But I just, you know, the timing is everything. 351 00:16:21,013 --> 00:16:23,293 I ate a really bad meal. 352 00:16:25,078 --> 00:16:28,678 I don't, I shouldn't say that, but anyways, it felt like I took some 353 00:16:28,678 --> 00:16:30,208 cheats and I ate some bad stuff. 354 00:16:30,208 --> 00:16:32,608 And then all of a sudden I'm back in the hospital with heart problems. 355 00:16:32,608 --> 00:16:32,848 So. 356 00:16:33,973 --> 00:16:39,223 It's just a coincidence or maybe it's not, but I'm going to heed once more. 357 00:16:39,253 --> 00:16:40,663 My mother's brilliant advice. 358 00:16:40,663 --> 00:16:41,863 Don't put crap in the body. 359 00:16:42,793 --> 00:16:44,893 And so there's that. 360 00:16:44,893 --> 00:16:49,074 And the other thing, and I will, I will wrap this up shortly, but I will say that 361 00:16:49,074 --> 00:16:53,604 since I haven't been able to exercise, but I still am able to watch what I eat. 362 00:16:54,174 --> 00:17:02,214 I have not put any more pounds back on now, when I, when I eat pork, You know, 363 00:17:02,214 --> 00:17:06,404 if I have a bad meal, I might notice a difference on the scale by like a pound. 364 00:17:07,989 --> 00:17:09,939 But I don't eat poorly every day. 365 00:17:10,029 --> 00:17:11,589 I don't make poor choices. 366 00:17:11,649 --> 00:17:17,049 Every meal, I have a little cheat here and there, and then I 367 00:17:17,079 --> 00:17:19,599 really watch my intake of food. 368 00:17:20,319 --> 00:17:20,919 Excuse me. 369 00:17:22,569 --> 00:17:24,099 That is my asthma catching up. 370 00:17:24,519 --> 00:17:29,319 So I watch what I eat and I'm very good about moderation and. 371 00:17:30,379 --> 00:17:34,009 I'm very aware of everything that I put inside of me. 372 00:17:34,249 --> 00:17:39,619 So even though I haven't been able to do my cardio exercise, excuse me again, 373 00:17:40,429 --> 00:17:41,659 I should have a cup of water here. 374 00:17:41,727 --> 00:17:46,077 So yeah, even though I am not able to do my cardio exercise, 375 00:17:46,077 --> 00:17:48,207 but I am able to go for walks. 376 00:17:49,917 --> 00:17:53,090 I've managed to, to to keep the weight off. 377 00:17:53,090 --> 00:17:53,450 And to me. 378 00:17:54,935 --> 00:17:57,025 I haven't been able to lose any more, but I have been able to 379 00:17:57,025 --> 00:17:58,285 maintain the weight that I achieved. 380 00:17:58,285 --> 00:17:59,155 And I'm really proud of that. 381 00:17:59,515 --> 00:18:02,185 And I think that's important to know, like for those people that 382 00:18:02,185 --> 00:18:06,175 really don't want to exercise, it turns out you don't really need to. 383 00:18:06,355 --> 00:18:08,725 And I will talk about that in the Q and a future posts as well. 384 00:18:08,995 --> 00:18:09,925 You don't need to exercise. 385 00:18:09,925 --> 00:18:12,175 You do need to move, but walking is okay. 386 00:18:13,570 --> 00:18:18,311 So so yeah, like, I, I don't, as much as I loved that cardio workout and I will 387 00:18:18,311 --> 00:18:21,551 like, if anyone wants to know that cardio workout, I will for sure give it, and 388 00:18:21,551 --> 00:18:26,321 I will talk about, you know, that great teacher, great detail, if anyone wants to 389 00:18:26,321 --> 00:18:28,992 know, but but it's not, you don't need it. 390 00:18:29,652 --> 00:18:33,942 You really need to the food, all the food that you put in 391 00:18:33,942 --> 00:18:35,442 your body that is important. 392 00:18:36,192 --> 00:18:36,858 And and I. 393 00:18:37,818 --> 00:18:39,798 Walk a little bit and move a little bit. 394 00:18:39,798 --> 00:18:45,498 Don't just stay still, but you don't need to do any sort of lifting weights. 395 00:18:45,528 --> 00:18:47,808 You don't need to do a core cardio workout. 396 00:18:48,348 --> 00:18:54,061 You can maintain a healthy weight w just by, by eating the right foods. 397 00:18:54,451 --> 00:18:56,521 So that's how I'm going to wrap this one up. 398 00:18:56,551 --> 00:18:58,951 I hope you enjoyed this podcast and we'll see you again soon. 399 00:19:00,361 --> 00:19:02,221 Thanks for listening to Mental Health and Me. 400 00:19:02,401 --> 00:19:05,281 If you enjoyed this episode, please be sure to subscribe. 401 00:19:05,581 --> 00:19:08,191 And if you feel it can help someone please share with them. 402 00:19:08,701 --> 00:19:10,171 We don't have to struggle alone. 403 00:19:10,621 --> 00:19:12,691 Break the stigma surrounding mental health. 404 00:19:12,901 --> 00:19:13,831 Let's talk about it.