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Yeah, I would love to share this.
Some of our listeners out there who are students in our World English Google Meets class know that I have been absent lately, the last week or so.
And about a week ago, my father had a major heart attack, which was terrifying, you know, for our family.
And when the doctors did tests and everything, they found that basically, all the arteries, and arteries, like, it's like a tube that carries blood like a major vein right because your heart pumps blood to the rest of your body and it and blood feeds into the heart and then it pumps out and um his his arteries
were all blocked like they were up some of them were 99 blocked which is i mean you're he was not getting enough blood to his heart.
And, and so he ended up having a heart attack.
And, you know, it's the life when when you live the life that social and I have lived like where you work overseas, you're so far away from home.
And it's very difficult to receive news that your your family member is really sick or having a very serious medical emergency.
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 to death.
And luckily, my brother and his wife were visiting my parents, and they both work in the medical profession.
And my brother noticed the symptoms in my father and brought him into the hospital.
And my dad has not left the hospital since that time.
and he actually went and had a quadruple bypass and quadruple just means four.
Quad means four. Triple bypass means three.
Double bypass means two.
And bypass means one.
And so he had four bypasses a quadruple bypass surgery where they connect uh arteries they basically go around 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 and clean and um they take those tubes from other
parts of your body, like from your leg, or maybe your arm, I'm not sure.
And they harvest them, they put them, they sow them into the heart.
And he had that surgery.
And I just talked to him before the podcast, maybe 10 minutes ago.
And he's out of surgery.
And he's doing really, really well.
And so it was one of those like, terror, just terrifying moments where, you know, you, you, you do that kind of like, thinking in your head, like, is, is that the last time I'm gonna talk to my dad?
You know, like, is this is this it?
Like, and, you know, before he went into surgery.
And so for those 24 hours while he was, you know, in surgery and coming out of the surgery, 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 and uh you know for any of our our listeners out there anyone and i know that you recently experienced a loss in your family um i've experienced a pretty significant loss a couple of years ago and uh it's it's just really scary and painful, um,
all the, here's another expression in English, the woulda, coulda, shoulda moments, you know, um, I would have said something I could have said something.
And so my big takeaway, the lesson I learned from this is, um, you know, hug your loved ones a little bit harder today, you know?
Um, because you, we just don't know the future We do not know the future.
And all the little petty grievances that we have with our relatives or our friends are so insignificant in the grand scheme of things.
you know we you know we we hold on to those those things that 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 gonna be gone and and sometimes it it takes
a wake up call, like almost losing a parent or a friend or a sibling 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.
um you're you're amazing and uh and i feel so lucky and so blessed that i got that opportunity because it could have really gone the other way very easily and uh you know those are the the important things in life is family and uh and and friends and and loved ones that that's what really matters.
So, yeah, that was the harrowing experience that we've been dealing with in my family here for the last week or so.
That's terrible, Jack.
I'm really sorry you've been dealing with all of that.
Well, thanks. Yeah.
I know we don't need to keep talking about this, But it kind of brought you mentioned the topic of like family emergencies and things like that.
And what about you?
Have you experienced any like family emergencies that you don't mind sharing with our podcast listeners?
Yeah, for sure. I mean, I guess the first one would be when my grandfather passed away.
I guess that was in October now.
or the it was either the end of september or the beginning of october it's fuzzy in my mind at this point yeah um but it feels like so long ago now because how of how the brain like processes loss yes um it just feels both so recent and so far at the same time right um and that was was a big thing because i
didn't i couldn't even fly back to see him in time really um and that was a big deal and then uh recently my grandmother this week as well on monday um wasn't able to get out of bed she wasn't able to stand up on her legs and we did call well i eventually convinced them to call the ambulance which um
had to come and strap her into a chair because the driveway's like on a slope and it's very icy because of the iowa weather um and they got her into the ambulance they took her to the hospital and they did some imaging and some tests they found out she has pneumonia bacterial pneumonia in her lungs
um pneumonia has an infection of the lungs for those of you who don't know um and so that was kind of a big deal but thankfully she's okay and um they did tell us that at the hospital you know she was good to come home that night around 1 or 2 a .m um they gave her an antibiotic and she's doing okay
um but it certainly was scary in the moment she was very confused I didn't understand this is why I wanted to call the ambulance she's she had a lot of like confusion and she seemed like lost um 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 they got to her to the hospital they had to put her on oxygen because her oxygen was very low right um and of course that makes sense as to how it affected her brain right because she wasn't getting that oxygen supply that she needed which is why
she was pretty confused um yeah yeah it was a scary experience um and like jack said it makes you think okay you should enjoy appreciate and value the time you have with people because you never know when the last conversation will be when your last day together is going to be when your last memory
together is going to be and i don't think you'll ever regret spending that time together at the end of it um yeah yeah and another big deal for me i think is um it's important to see the issues our family are dealing with in their older age as a forewarning you it's not just about how long your life
is but it's about the quality of life that you experience and at the end of your years like into your 70s 80s 90s um if you make it that far you want to live as comfortably as you can um and that definitely means taking care of your body now so like your diet maybe your your health in general um keeping
on top of any pre -existing conditions or any genetic conditions you know that your family had you know keep screening for those things always prioritize your health get enough sleep um eat healthy sleep enough drink enough water do regular exercise and keep your body in good condition don't wear it
out you know because it it works very hard every day um and it's gonna have to last you probably 80 years at this point you know because of life expectancy all together when a new baby's born it's probably gonna live into its 70s or 80s so yeah it's important to take care of your body yep we have a this is another
little idiom um an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure yep and what that means is just a little bit of a little bit of prevention early on like taking care of like what you said your health watching your diet getting some exercise exercise um getting good sleep sleep is really really important
um i think it's the one that most people ignore um you know and and if you do those things when you're young and you develop those good habits then as you get older your quality of life will remain much higher because Because I don't, how many, you know, do people want to live to be 90, but the last
30 years of their lives, they're basically stuck in a chair, you know, unable to move.
Do you have, like, I have some health issues, and I don't mind sharing with the listeners out there, a couple of my major health issues.
One of them is that I have genetically high cholesterol.
It's not really anything that I can control with diet.
My cholesterol is just always off the charts.
And so I started visiting a cardiologist a couple years ago.
And a cardiologist is a heart doctor, a heart specialist.
And he put me on some medicine, they're called statins, and a statin is a medicine that lowers your cholesterol.
And that was something, I'm really glad I did that, because I tried to manage it through my weight, and I tried to manage it through my exercise and through my diet.
And I was just never able to get my cholesterol under control.
And as you can see, because my father just had a heart attack, is that in my family, we genetically have a predisposition, which means a high likelihood of having some kind of heart problems later in life.
And I thought if I can just get this under control now in my 40s, maybe I can avoid the same problems that my father just experienced and my grandfather experienced and my uncle and my cousin experienced.
I mean, it's all over my family.
It's lots of heart problems in my family.
not so much cancer um but it feels like it's either one or the other in a family right it's like hearts are hearts great but cancer you know is is common or not so much cancer but a lot of heart problems it seems like you can never avoid um one of them um one or the other Um, and the other thing that really
is, is, uh, too late for me in some ways is that I have, um, really serious back issues.
So I've had two back surgeries already and I've, it's, it's something that really, um, makes it difficult for me to exercise because I was an athlete in, in high school and college.
I played college basketball.
I was in very good shape as an athlete.
And one of the things that is kind of common for athletes is once they stop playing competitively, they tend to gain weight and not remain healthy because there's no reason to exercise because you're not playing any more games.
and so one of the the things that happened to me is I just got really you know kind of lazy and ate what I wanted to eat but I wasn't exercising like I like I was when I was in college and and so for me it's it's a little difficult because I can't run anymore my my spine is just too is too weak.
Um, I can't, I can't do long distance running.
Um, so I've been doing, uh, cycling, uh, lately.
And, um, and, and it's just, it's, it's a, a kind of nagging, uh, issue.
And, and I, and I, it's, it's, uh, it's something I wish I, I wish I had taken care of my back um a lot better when i was younger because now i'm kind of paying the price for not taking care of it 20 years ago um and uh and so maybe that's i can give you kind of uh uh i could be kind of a cautionary
tale um to people who are younger like your age that take care of your back take care of your knees you know um those are really important if you want to stay healthy because you in order to exercise you need you need to have a healthy spine and you need to have healthy knees and I've I've unfortunately
had knee surgery uh several back
