When A Hospital Visit Feels Like A Ticket Line

A six-hour ER wait time shouldn’t come with a text message like you’re waiting for a table, but that’s exactly where we found ourselves and what happened next still doesn’t feel real. After we send love to Jessie Tyler Williams as she shares the devastating loss of her daughter to overdose, we shift into a raw, unfiltered talk about addiction, grief, and what families carry when the worst call comes through.

Then we tell the story of a hospital visit that turns into a front-row seat to chaos: process bottlenecks, overcrowded waiting rooms, and a moment where someone appears to fake a seizure to get seen faster. We don’t tell it for shock value. We tell it because emergency room wait times, triage breakdowns, and patient safety aren’t abstract when your child is sitting beside you and you’re trying to keep them calm, fed, and protected.

We also get into the practical and scary side of healthcare failures: allergies that are clearly documented but still ignored, confusing communication from staff, and the exhaustion of advocating for yourself while managing chronic pain and a spinal cord stimulator recovery. Underneath the rant is a simple standard we keep coming back to: treat patients like human beings, explain what’s happening, and use basic common sense.

If you’ve ever felt dismissed by the healthcare system, or you’ve supported someone through addiction recovery, grief, epilepsy fears, or chronic pain, you’ll hear yourself in this conversation. Subscribe, share this with someone who needs it, and leave a review with the one change you’d make to ER care today.

Transcript

Playful Intro And Marriage Banter

SPEAKER_00 0:00

I know you bring it shit. I'm not doing it over. No. Howdy, y'all. Welcome to another episode of Catania Smiles. You see, we're kind of jovial tonight.

SPEAKER_02 0:11

You're you're a little bald now. I'm bald.

SPEAKER_00 0:14

Oh, I I I went down and uh I gave myself a haircut. Well, not just one, but all of 'em. Anyway, that that saves me like twenty bucks, and I've been doing that for like 18 years, so why not? Number three on the head. Anyway, this is Unstoppable with Victoria Cure who's an amazing, amazing wife. And fab tabulous, if I can make that word up. Fierce, loyal mother of an amazing child. Mine. Well, no, she's ours. So paperwork.

SPEAKER_02 0:51

Whatever. So tell me how am I this fabulous wife?

SPEAKER_00 0:56

Are you kidding me? Look at everything you do for me. You work for me. I work for you. You work for me, technically. No, I get the stay-at-home bitch. I didn't call you that. No, I don't mind being a stay-at-home bitch. Why you work for me?

SPEAKER_01 1:12

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 1:12

You see how I turned that around?

SPEAKER_01 1:14

Not in your favor.

SPEAKER_00 1:15

No.

SPEAKER_01 1:15

Not in your favor.

SPEAKER_00 1:17

Oh, I'm sleeping on the couch tonight. Anyway.

Loss, Addiction, And Showing Up

SPEAKER_00 1:22

So we just got done listening to an amazing woman. And I if I forget her name, Lord help me, because thank you, she said it at least 35 times.

SPEAKER_02 1:35

Jessie Tyler Williams.

SPEAKER_00 1:40

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 1:41

Was who we were just on there with. She just recently lost her daughter to overdose, and it's heart-wrenching.

SPEAKER_00 1:52

It is.

SPEAKER_02 1:52

Because you don't expect it. Like you don't expect to get that phone call that says, We found your daughter, or you know, we found your son, your spouse, your significant other, whatever the case may be. And I was very, very honored for her to reach out and ask me to stand by her as she went live and just kind of let her know I was there on the sidelines. And so I was very honored that she asked me to do that with her because she's she's a beautiful woman with a beautiful soul. And now she truly is living on to remember and honor her daughter, Rachel, who was absolutely stunning, just beautiful girl. So we send our absolute deepest condolences to her, and anyway we can help her here.

SPEAKER_00 2:46

And she mentioned a book on Amazon. Y'all be sure to look that up under Jesse Tyler Williams. She really is a beautiful woman. Hey! What uh to come forward with this? It's just, you know, it it wasn't easy for her. You could tell. And you know, it's it's not easy talking about addiction, you know, when it's your child.

SPEAKER_02 3:09

Well, you went through addiction too with your sperm donor.

SPEAKER_00 3:15

Come again.

SPEAKER_02 3:16

Huh. Your sperm donor was addicted, or still is, or whatever, to pain meds.

SPEAKER_00 3:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 3:26

And we had no idea. And he even overdosed and like literally planned out his suicide.

SPEAKER_00 3:38

Yeah. I thought she was talking about me and drinking.

SPEAKER_02 3:42

No.

SPEAKER_00 3:43

Sorry folks, I just yawned.

SPEAKER_02 3:44

Yeah, he just woke up from his four-hour nap.

SPEAKER_00 3:46

No, I didn't. I had an ice cream date with my daughter.

SPEAKER_02 3:49

That's so cute and sweet.

SPEAKER_00 3:50

We went out to Dairy Queen and sat down and she had a nanor split and I had a large dip. And the girl behind the counter asked me, Do you want chocolate or cinnamon toast crunch? Oh boy. I'm not eating breakfast, ma'am. I want chocolate. I want vanilla ice cream dipped in chocolate. So apparently they got a new dip. So we had a good time. I was sitting uh just my daughter

Ice Cream With Our Daughter

SPEAKER_00 4:18

and I. Excuse me. Damn. Look, now you're yawning.

SPEAKER_02 4:22

Yawning is contagious.

SPEAKER_00 4:26

My wife has been working her butt off up here on another website. I think it's for me.

SPEAKER_02 4:34

Yes, starting right now.

SPEAKER_00 4:35

And our custom t-shirt apparel business that we have on the side. So that'll be up and running soon.

Six-Hour ER Wait And Chaos

SPEAKER_02 4:44

Can we just take a moment to talk about the monstrosity of a conundrum on Thursday through our yet again another ER up visit?

SPEAKER_00 4:57

It's the same old thing.

SPEAKER_02 4:58

No, no, no, no, no, no. See, here's the thing. We won't even go through the logistics of how we ended up there. It's again for the incompetency of people who know, oh, there's allergies, but to hell with it, we're gonna use them anyway.

SPEAKER_01 5:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 5:11

And a month post stop, still having yet reaction anyway. So this isn't even what I want to mention about. I want to mention about how when did emergency rooms become like restaurants where you get messages on your phone that say your table will be ready in 25 minutes. Well, in the emergency room, we got a message that says your estimated wait time to be seen is six hours, right? And this is supposed to be one of the most accredited, sought-after, top-of-the-line, like Harvard to law school medical facilities in the country, like big time Emory is supposed to be the shisne, right? Okay. So I don't know. I talked to a couple people and they were all like, You have mama bear instincts. Because I kept saying to my husband and daughter, go get something to eat, go, go. And I was persistent. I was like, Go, she needs to eat, go, or I'm leaving. Like I just kept really harping. I'm like, I'm leaving if you do not take her to get something to eat. She doesn't eat anything, she needs to go eat. They left, and it was a couple minutes at most, when a lady came in. Now, for our listeners and who haven't had the pleasure, I'm saying facetiously, to attend an emergency room at Emory. You walk in and imagine going up to a ticket booth at a movie theater, you know, with the glass in front of you, and you say, one ticket for whatever, please. So you walk up and they ask you for your social security number and your date of birth. They don't ask you for, they didn't ask me for ID or anything like that. And then they say, Okay, you know, would you like text messages? We're gonna send them to you, and that's it. So, explaining the situation, they put us in this like counseling comfort room or whatever, which really wasn't a room, directly beside the I'm gonna call them the ticket counter to log in. And it wasn't even a room because it had like a shower curtain in front of it. And if you pull back the shower curtain, there's like two little chairs, and they say that's where the doctors come in and tell the family what's going on. So we are there to see you guys have like geographic here of how close we were to the ticket booth, and in walks this woman. Luckily, my husband and daughter had just partaken in finding vitals somewhere, and this woman comes in and she's like, I need to see the doctor, and they tell her it's gonna be six hours. And this woman, if it wasn't for HIPAA and I recorded this, I'm telling you, it would have just gone nuts on the internet. She's like, I am not waiting six hours to go and be seen in an emergency room, and they're like, No, it could be more than that, yeah, yeah, whatever, right? So she's in a standing position and she falls to the ground, she makes herself fall, and she goes, I'll get back sooner. She makes herself fall to the ground and proceeds to hit her head onto the floor. Like, lift her head, slam her head, lift her head, slam her head, and then she proceeds to go into what has to be the worst imitation of convulsional seizures I've ever seen in my life. Right now, we are parents of our beautiful daughter, who, by the grace of God, knock on wood, has overcome epilepsy. It just stopped. She had childhood epilepsy, and by the grace of God, no more. But she was having like 20 grandma seizures a day, like convulsional flop like a fish seizures. And you're very, very trained on your kid when this happens. So I'm literally about to go help her because right now the only thing that she has going on is the concrete to her head or the hardwood, hard floor, and there's no medical personnel right there yet. So all these other people are standing around, and luckily I did not go. I pulled the curtain over just a little bit, and she was like, I need a doctor, I need a nurse. And I'm like, wait a minute, she's completely carrying on a conversation as she's quote unquote convulsing on the floor. And this just continues. So then some guy, now, also, I guess what I didn't clarify is to walk in the doors of this emergency room, you have to go through metal detectors because you cannot bring in a weapon to the hospital. Then Emory has its own police force now, and there's police officers, maybe I don't know, 25 feet from this, like back further behind near Treehood. Right. And so with this being said, somebody goes and picks her up from her midriff, and she just proceeds to start throwing punches, kicking, and proceeds to headbunt this poor person behind her to the point that there is like facial damage, right? Because she threw her head back so far. I'm getting back there, I'm getting back there, I'm not waiting six hours. I need a doctor, I need a nurse, and I am just sitting there dumbfounded. So I messaged my husband and said, do not return until I tell you the situation has dissolved. And my daughter is a very nosy little girl when it comes to seeing our phones, and she always wants to read. So I did not want to go into what was transpiring because you know her, she's gonna be like, Oh, I want to go see that, I want to get down there. So I just said, Absolutely not, do not return until I tell you it's cleaner. This just kept going on and on. So then she's still having a quote-unquote seizure, she has glasses on her head and not on her face, and they have not fallen, even though she's flopping everywhere. They tried to put her in one of those chairs for psychiatric holds, and she they can't even detain her. And she's kicking and screaming and punching, and then she's like, I'm having a stroke, and I'm having this. Yet, if you're having a stroke, okay, you're not gonna be like completely punctuating and stating your words as perfectly as she is, then she's still asking for doctor, and this just continues. I mean, this is going on, right? This is just not, this isn't a 30-second situation. And then after they were like, We're trying to help you, and she's yelling and cursing and screaming, I'm having a seizure, blah, blah, blah. And they can't even get her tied down. And the thing is, is that this is totally against any protocol ever about if you're truly having a seizure. Finally, she wins, and they take her back, they get her in the back. And the next person who is behind her in line to get your ticket to be seen by the ER doctor says, Well, now you're looking at like seven to nine hours. And I just sit in the seat and go, 'You've got to be kidding me.' Like, you've got to be kidding me. This is our healthcare system, right? And after all these hours and multiple blood tests, because they couldn't draw enough blood to begin with the first time, and the surgeon

When Staff Miss Basic Details

SPEAKER_02 12:08

is on campus, is there, sends me down somebody else from their quote-unquote team. Now, here's the funny part. For those who don't know, I just had a spinal stem router put in that they make sure I got this right. They cut the nape of my neck, they cut a V-like shape, a hole, and then pretty nice long incision above my hip where the battery goes, right? I got them all. Okay. And she comes in, who says she's a doctor, says that she is part of my surgeon's team, and says, Can I look at your back? I said, sure. So next thing I know, she looks over and says, Oh, these two scars on the opposite side, which is the left, must be from the trial device. And I'm like, You're done. You're done. No. So she's like, I have to go talk to my team. And you know, we're like, Well, what happens here? We've already been here for hours, blah, blah, blah. She's like, Oh, I'm not sure, whatever. So I look at my husband and I'm like, they sent me howdy duty. Because if you're a doctor or a surgeon, yet alone a neurosurgeon. Anyone knows that when you go through a trial for a stem router, a spinal stem router, anything like that, it goes on the outside of the skin where they hold it in place from anywhere from five to seven days, but they do put the leads in surgically, they thread them in, but they don't permanently place them, right? So they do not cut you to put the battery in until you are going to get it permanently. And I have two scars on the left. And she's like, Oh, those must be from your temporary.

unknown 14:01

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 14:01

Well, no. So another doctor comes in. I'm like, she a doctor. He's like, well, she's like a student or resident or whatever. Yeah, done. So then after all this time, and now it's late at night and pouring down rain. He looks and goes, Come with me. This other doctor, really nice ER doctor guy. And he goes, I've only known you for today, and I know better than this, but you're never gonna believe they want to put you home on another antibiotic, which is like the next round, which I haven't already been enough of, and that they know, like they know I'm allergic to it. And he goes, I've only known you a day, and I know not to give you this. How many people said to me or to you, to us, that I need to consider whether or not I want the device out already?

SPEAKER_00 14:46

Several, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 14:47

And I'm like, I just got it in, and let's not remember why I had to have this put back in in the first place, right? And what was so ironic is the ER doctor I had, not this howdy duty one, was like, Who in the same hell did this to you? I mean, really, I was like, I know my back looks like you know latitude and longitude for kindergartners with a marker. And he I said, he said, Who in the hell did this? And I was like, This facility, and he couldn't believe it. And it's so ironic

Allergies, Protocol, And Patient Safety

SPEAKER_02 15:19

that, like, you go to the emergency room, and they now tell you, and then they send you a survey, okay? You're in the emergency room because something is wrong at that level, and then they send you a survey. How are we doing so far? How the hell do you think you're doing so far? I mean, you seriously are gonna send me a survey asking about the competence and structure. I've never seen, and I'm that methodical mom, I'm like, I've never seen them wipe down a single seat, I've never seen them clean up or wipe around, I never saw them wipe off the arms of any chairs. Literally, like the irony of this is, and I'm the first mom that'll say, Hey, if you have a stroke victim of you know, somebody at children's, they would say, We have we have a code red. And we were always we come in and we'd say we're code red, which means we go ahead of anybody that's not code blue, right? Like on their deathbeds, we go and trust them because of everything that Faith had going on, right? Needless to say, they don't know whether to itch their watch or wind their butt. You could put your two cents in now. I'm done. No, you'd agree. No, I'm on my I'm off my soapbox because it really made me mad. I wouldn't have been so upset had Faith not had to be there, and I made it very clear, and I know she's not the only one that can't be around a bunch of really sick people in the in the waiting room. That's not an uncommon thing. And they looked at it, you know, and the way that they treated the whole situation is mind-blowing. It really is. And then they have like all this construction, and it's a hundred degrees out with humidity, and you can't come out of the main building and just be right at the parking deck anymore. You have to like come out of another building in the 100-degree heat and walk, even though it's raining, even though it's hot, and walk all the way outside and around to get to the parking deck. I mean, this is the dumbest thing ever. And here's the number I want my husband's input on this. When you get to Emery, it's at a red light, and here's the kicker. It has the emergency entrance, and it's all freaking valet. If God forbid, now my grandfather back in the day was there and he had heart surgery there. Okay, back in the day, we're talking like in the 80s. But if I had to go and take somebody I love to that emergency room and I am waiting at a light, and I have all these cards backed out because everybody's chit-chatting away from valet, and this is for the ER, it would have gone down a whole different way. I mean, how do you do that? Like somebody's having a stroke, somebody's having a heart attack, somebody's having, you know, somebody's not breathing, and you're supposed to wait for your friendly valet to park the vehicle before you go to the ticket booth to get your dog out and tickets for the movie. Is that what our healthcare system has gotten down to? Go ahead. You're laughing profusely. Have at it, house.

SPEAKER_00 18:36

Uh I think the uh prerequisites for emergencies have changed. God to hell! Yeah. So what would be considered emergency back then is different from now. Now, uh obviously we have time to wait because it's not an emergency. We have six, seven hours to wait in the emergency room.

SPEAKER_02 18:54

And they don't check on you, right?

SPEAKER_00 18:57

Now, after you were seen, you got checked on several times.

SPEAKER_02 19:00

That's because I sneaked in.

SPEAKER_00 19:01

Okay, thank you, Tommy.

SPEAKER_02 19:03

I sneaked in.

SPEAKER_00 19:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 19:05

Like I literally made my way in. I didn't like wait for them to come out. And I actually found Dr. Tommy and brought him to me. Like I didn't just sit around twiddling my thumbs. That's not how it works. And then I said, they don't even do the labs in the doggone ER room, right? They sent you over to triage first and you go over there, and then they put you over to the phlebotomus section. So it's like, here's your concession stand, here's the restroom, here's the go back to the ER waiting area. And I was like, Can I just go to the lab? And then they're like, no, because if we call your name, you have to start back over at square one. It's like shoots and letters. Back down to, you know, go to jail, come back out, you're back in nothing. I mean, oh my God. And then here's the kicker. Here's the kicker. I didn't even tell you this. So when I'm over in the phlebotomy corner, right? They ask me, okay, well, we have your orders for your labs. Do you want us just to? I swear as I'm breathing oxygen. Do you want us to just draw your labs for you? Or would you like us to put in a dry IV that just remains with your line open until you get seen in the back? Hello, drug addicts! You're you're giving me a wide open line into my bait. I mean, seriously, like I am all about helping people in their moment of need. But if you're gonna go in there and say, I'll give you a dry IV and tape it up where you can just push something through the little doohickey thing. I can give you an IV, and then if you don't need it, we'll take it out, and then we don't have to stick you again. Not like we're being watched in the waiting room anyway, because we're not. So, oh sure, give me an IV. Don't watch and see what I do on camera. You know, if I'm somebody in the middle of the waiting area between now and nine hours, and they tell you you're NPO. So let's say you're NPO, they're not allowed to eat or drink, and you have a nine-hour wait, and then they get you back, and it's shift change. Well, you got another hour, hour and a half for round change and in you know, going back and forth and telling everybody their patient stuff. And then they come in, they're like, oh, we need to do a CAT scan, or we need to do this with contrast, or here's the next thing. We need this, you can't eat just yet. And by then, it's like two days later. I mean, seriously, and then you get this monster bill where they charge for an ad bill like $74 for one ad bill. It's just dumb. It's dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb. While the CEO is out playing golf on the master screen somewhere, and you know, Bernie Marcus, who was the founder, I believe, of the Home Depot, or no, whatever. Bernie Marcus has his own suite at the hospital. Of Emory, and no one's allowed to use it unless he needs to come in. Well, it doesn't matter if somebody else is gonna use it because if Bernie Marcus comes in, he's got an 11-hour wait to take a piss. Seriously. Why are you looking at me like this?

SPEAKER_00 22:12

Because you're so fired up.

SPEAKER_02 22:14

Because it's not right. It's not right.

SPEAKER_00 22:16

Well, you you're not gonna change it.

SPEAKER_02 22:18

If it had been you or my kid, oh yeah, I would have. I A, I wouldn't have gone there.

SPEAKER_00 22:23

You would have been like the screaming lady on the floor.

SPEAKER_02 22:25

No, I wouldn't have even gone there. The only reason we went there is because we were already there for a doctor's appointment. That's the only reason.

SPEAKER_00 22:32

Like no. So my wife does have a valid point.

SPEAKER_02 22:38

Only one?

SPEAKER_00 22:38

There was this one time at Bandcamp. At Band Camp.

SPEAKER_02 22:41

Only one valid point.

SPEAKER_00 22:43

My wife and I were in the hospital with our daughter for several weeks, over a month. And my daughter kept hitting the button to come back for the nurses to come back. And after a few minutes, when nobody responded, I go down towards a nurse's station and get their attention from their cell phones, and they say, Sir, can we help you? I said, No, but you can help my daughter. Well, what's wrong? Well, she's bleeding from her head. Oh, that got them running. Yes. There were several of them that showed up in that room very, very quickly. Now, granted, she just had a nosebleed. Hey, it's from the head. But, you know. Geographics, my friend. I wish, I wish it could change. I I wish there was something better, you know.

SPEAKER_02 23:32

But treat your patients like you yourself want to be treated. Because one day it will and or can be you.

SPEAKER_00 23:39

And that's that's what I that's the philosophy I had when I worked when I used to work at a garage door company. Oh, you go in and you treat that customer as is this is your house. And they got mad. What would you do? Right. Because they wanted you to upsell.

SPEAKER_02 23:54

I treated people fairly, even though they didn't have any money. Like older people, they didn't have any money. So they actually criticized and critiqued my husband because we don't care. They could put it on a credit card.

SPEAKER_00 24:06

I I know you got a job to do as a physician or whatever the hell your your technical title is at the hospital. Okay. It's a job. Okay. I understand this. But you have a responsibility now because you chose this profession. Get off your ass, get off your phone, walk your hall, talk to people. You know, be like a damn server at a restaurant. Come by every five, six minutes. It does it.

SPEAKER_02 24:32

I took pictures of the ballet attendants who were standing around looking on their phones. There's like six of them. Yes. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 24:42

Lean in on somebody else's car, talk to them.

SPEAKER_02 24:44

Then they want you to pay like $18 for parking. And they come, they bring your car back and it smells like weed.

SPEAKER_00 24:52

Weed, yeah. Anyway, I guess it's a rant rave uh episode.

SPEAKER_02 25:00

Because they're stupid. And I don't mean like me, I don't like the term stupid for mentally challenged. I mean stupid is because you're not using your common sense. Treat people the way you yourself want to get treated. And you know, people I've had people ask, what is one consistent thing about me when it comes to people I see? And my husband will tell you, every time I see somebody, I say, Hey, how are you? How are you doing? What's going on with you? Even the ballet people, you know, at certain places we go, uh the restaurants, we talk to them, we know them. You know, how's the family? Oh, how did this? Oh, you just got a tattoo. Didn't you get a tattoo last week? Let me see it, you know, and you treat people with decency and humanity and respect, and you get it back in return.

SPEAKER_00 25:39

Yeah, that's right. Oh you feel better?

SPEAKER_02 25:44

No, no, because the doctor, surgeon, is like, still, no, I don't need to see her. Well, here's the thing again, if somebody's coming in aphilectic shock because they have a nut allergy, you don't freaking feed them peanut butter. I mean, come on.

SPEAKER_00 26:03

You're referring to the irritation on your back?

SPEAKER_02 26:07

My allergies are very clearly stated. And I even said I'm not going to be put under until the take or the timeout is done because I don't want this happening. And instead, they they came up with all sorts of CYA. Let's see what C A YA did I get? Oh, your body must be not used to andor rejecting the device. You must not be used to foreign bodies in your body. And I explained that I'm like inspector gadget, that I have more foreign bodies in my body than I do actual bones, and that that's ridiculous. Or that they knew that my allergies were there, but they used everything I'm allergic to anyway. I mean, and then you know, I have on there my it's just stupid. It's like, okay, well, you're allergic to shellfish. Okay, you're alert. I'm not, I'm using this as an example. You're allergic to shellfish. Oh, okay. I'm bringing you out a beautiful chicken salad. And forget the stuff that smells like fish in the inside. It's just extra flavor and it's supposed to, you know, garnish it. And then you eat it and it's got shellfish in it. And then you blow up like Will Smith is a puffer fish, and then you don't understand why people can't be confident enough to hear I'm allergic to shellfish. Like it's all over. And then after the surgery, they don't even put the rails up. I had freaking a spinal surgery. They removed part of my spine, and I think they're making me like them. They want me to be a spineless bastard. I look at it like you know, we're only allowed to carry what our back can hold, and that's why I have to have metal because I have too much on my back. But they didn't even put the rails up in the bed. Had they done that to Faith? Holy crap.

SPEAKER_00 27:48

Did you say spineless bastard?

SPEAKER_02 27:50

I did. Do you want me to name some? You and I both know plenty. We know plenty of spineless bastards. Do we or do we not?

SPEAKER_00 27:57

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 27:58

Thank you.

SPEAKER_00 28:02

So that's my wife, y'all. My loyal, fierce wife.

SPEAKER_02 28:07

I will fight it to the end of the day for someone. But and I, and you know I will, I will absolutely be there every step of the way. But when people, and I'm not talking about stepping by and helping somebody, I'm talking about on the other end of it. I mean, literally to treat people with such disregard, like we're not. I mean, it's literally like a windmill. It's like, okay, you have good insurance, yours is whatever, yours is mediocre, you have none, you're never gonna pay. So you can wait, we'll see you a week from Sunday. Oh, yeah, we'll be closed, by the way. And I mean, it's just like the windmill. You wait nine hours and then you get four or five minutes with a doctor who looks pissed that you're taking those four or five minutes to ask questions, right? And they look mad, and then they turn around and they're like, No, no, no, no, no. Have you looked at my house?

SPEAKER_00 28:58

I think this is what it is. I believe this is what it is, right?

SPEAKER_02 29:02

How we get that two two different times, yes, and everybody's like, Well, how do you feel about taking it out?

SPEAKER_00 29:08

Right?

SPEAKER_02 29:09

Are you kidding me? Let's just get more money from the insurance company, but then there's no other option to help with this pain.

SPEAKER_00 29:17

Yeah, so you're saying they they do not care.

SPEAKER_02 29:20

No, and I have a very few amount of doctors who don't care. I mean that that do care, and I have a lot that don't. Because, and I'm sure when they started, like face pediatrician was one of the most amazing humans on the planet, and he died recently, and he was just full of life and love, and what an amazing human being this person was. And there's not many doctors like him. And I know that some of the people will say it was a calling, and it absolutely is, but then as they see the cha-ching and all the stuff that goes with it, and then the kickbacks from the pharmaceutical companies and the device reps and all that other stuff, you know, what might be right for one patient might not send them to Hawaii at the end of the quarter, right? And that's not all doctors, but it's a good majority of them. And that's bullshit. That's bullshit. Sorry, it's just bullshit. It's shit from the bowl.

Workbooks, Weight Loss, And Life

SPEAKER_00 30:23

Hey, did I mention uh my wife's book on Amazon?

SPEAKER_02 30:27

Oh, yeah, yeah. I have more than one.

SPEAKER_00 30:29

You have more than one.

SPEAKER_02 30:30

I think I have two many.

SPEAKER_00 30:32

Yeah. Oh, I'm sitting there in my leisure position, taking 10 minutes.

SPEAKER_01 30:39

Four hours.

SPEAKER_00 30:40

And I wake up to find out my wife has wrote maybe seven pages.

SPEAKER_02 30:46

No, that's incorrect.

SPEAKER_00 30:48

Well, what is it?

SPEAKER_02 30:49

I have now what just mocked me into this. I created today 12 workbooks that are gonna go on a contagious smile in the store, and they are to help, they're like the basic level one books to help the beginning of a healing journey for every person, like from an amputee to somebody surviving abuse to somebody going through recovery. Each book is between 62 and 78 pages, and I did 12 books.

SPEAKER_00 31:19

You you dictated this to the computer, right? No, I typed it. You typed it. Yes. With your left hand?

SPEAKER_02 31:24

My right. I don't have a left hand, anal cavity.

SPEAKER_00 31:28

So you did all this work while I took a 10-minute nap. Four hours, one-handed.

SPEAKER_02 31:34

Well, you also cut the grass in this period of time and you slept and you played video games all during the time I did these 12 books. So it wasn't just four hours, it was like a good eight-hour spray. So but I type like 95 words a minute with my right hand.

SPEAKER_00 31:48

So you're that's why I say you're fabulous. And what the hell is a fab tabulous? You work for me. Bitch, please. So if y'all don't if y'all think you have an amazing wife, look up Victoria Cure. Type her in Bing or Google, see how many pages she takes up.

SPEAKER_02 32:06

She's freaking awesome, y'all have its own space.

SPEAKER_00 32:09

And she's freaking humble. She's humble as shit, and I love it.

SPEAKER_02 32:13

And where are you on your weight loss journey? Where are you on your weight loss journey?

SPEAKER_00 32:18

I heard wing loss.

SPEAKER_02 32:20

But I know you said I said weight loss.

SPEAKER_00 32:22

So weight loss is I'm down below. I can tell you. I don't know. Getting close to 30 pounds.

SPEAKER_02 32:30

And you've only been doing it in a very short period of time.

SPEAKER_00 32:33

Getting close. But I'm feeling better. I still take naps because I haven't been doing my B12 shots like I was before Maui's surgery, but we'll get back to that. Did you take your medicine today? I did not. I'm old, I forget. Don't shake your head at me. What am I, four? Mm-hmm. Two? At times. Anyway, y'all be on the lookout for these workbooks. I'm sure she'll have them like at DaydasMile.com. Yes. Maybe they cab so.

SPEAKER_02 33:08

My husband said to me, you know, you need to lose like 15 more. And if I five female friends, even though I advocate not, they were like, oh no, he'd be on the couch.

SPEAKER_00 33:18

You jumped my skillet for asking me. How much do you weigh right now?

SPEAKER_02 33:22

It's not about a number because okay, we listened to the case.

SPEAKER_00 33:25

How much did you weigh before?

SPEAKER_02 33:26

None of your freaking business.

SPEAKER_00 33:27

See?

SPEAKER_02 33:28

But I'll tell you how much I've lost.

SPEAKER_00 33:30

I see the weight loss.

SPEAKER_02 33:31

Where?

SPEAKER_00 33:32

But I'm not supposed to say anything.

SPEAKER_02 33:33

No, that's not true. You're supposed to pay.

SPEAKER_00 33:36

Okay, babe, you look amazing. That you'd lost some weight.

SPEAKER_02 33:39

Thank you.

SPEAKER_00 33:39

Oh, I was fat before you did anything.

SPEAKER_02 33:42

I knew I was fat before because I chose to eat instead of take any kind of pain medication. I ate my pain. We know how much pain I was in.

SPEAKER_00 33:49

You never said you were fat.

SPEAKER_02 33:50

You said I was a little large and in charge.

SPEAKER_00 33:52

No.

SPEAKER_02 33:53

Told me I had a k dunk dunk bunk dunk on my butt on my butt.

SPEAKER_00 33:56

That was only a true statement. So everything else you made up.

SPEAKER_02 34:00

No, I didn't. You even said go look at the difference in the pictures of your face.

SPEAKER_00 34:05

That's that didn't spoil that say you're fat.

SPEAKER_02 34:09

You did say that.

SPEAKER_00 34:10

No.

SPEAKER_02 34:10

You did too. You said go back and look at pictures of your face then and now.

SPEAKER_00 34:13

I would never say you're fat. I love you perfectly as you are. Whatever day of the week that is, that's that's the way I love you.

SPEAKER_02 34:19

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00 34:21

So if you were 30 pounds heavier last year, I still love you.

SPEAKER_02 34:24

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00 34:25

Same as today.

SPEAKER_02 34:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 34:29

Uh-huh. Not on the couch. Maybe yeah, you are. No. Yeah.

unknown 34:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 34:35

Are you gonna take your pills tonight? Yes, mother. Don't you ever hey ethylptic shock? Because, you know, didn't you used to call her something that has to do with peanut butter? Uh-huh. Why would you call me such a toxic thing?

SPEAKER_00 34:52

Chicken?

SPEAKER_02 34:53

No, I'm not no chicken's my nickname and you better call it.

SPEAKER_00 34:56

I love my chicken.

SPEAKER_02 34:57

Why would you call me your egg donor?

SPEAKER_00 35:00

That's like, do you want me to call you because you're having to be like two-year-old your egg donor? Did you take your medicine?

SPEAKER_02 35:06

Do you want me to call you my sperm donor?

SPEAKER_00 35:08

Oh no, that would be wrong. That's disgusting, pogo. Are you serious? Yes. I've only called you one of my other wives one time.

SPEAKER_02 35:17

Yeah. We're not gonna even go there. Okay, ladies and gentlemen, we're gonna depart this for just a moment and have a conversation about why you're having consumed moments with your husband and the phone rings. And he answers it!

SPEAKER_00 35:31

Okay, that was one time.

SPEAKER_02 35:33

For one of your little dude friends who you don't even speak to anymore.

SPEAKER_00 35:40

But that was one time.

SPEAKER_02 35:41

You should have had that in a proctology exam after that. Seriously.

SPEAKER_00 35:48

Yes, I answer the phone during sex.

SPEAKER_02 35:50

Oh now it's just sex?

SPEAKER_00 35:52

Well, back then we weren't married. Yes, we were! We were? Yes. You see how old I am? I forget. No, we weren't. Yes, we were. We've only been married five years.

SPEAKER_02 36:06

Yes, and it was here and it was.

SPEAKER_00 36:08

Oh, that's right, it was.

SPEAKER_02 36:10

Oh, so you were right, dear.

SPEAKER_00 36:11

I'm leaving this episode. You can take us out. I brought us. You're done.

SPEAKER_02 36:15

No, you're not done. Are you gonna go take your medic?

SPEAKER_00 36:19

No. Why? I'll take it with food.

SPEAKER_02 36:22

Go have a snack. Tell your daughter to have some snack.

SPEAKER_00 36:24

No, we need to bake some cookies for dogs.

SPEAKER_02 36:26

Yeah, go do it. It's not cookies, you're making cheese brushes.

SPEAKER_00 36:29

Tell me what to do again. I have to work. What are you? My boss? Yes. Well, actually you are.

SPEAKER_01 36:33

I know.

SPEAKER_00 36:34

Can I have some money, boss? You spend enough. I need in advance.

unknown 36:37

For what?

SPEAKER_00 36:38

I need a vacation. I'm gonna take some time off some R. No. You get plenty of R. I need some Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 36:45

Uh huh. You get plenty of recreational.

SPEAKER_00 36:48

Where's my card? Discretous. Games.

SPEAKER_02 36:50

No, you get plenty of recreational video games and rest.

SPEAKER_00 36:53

Oh, we're gonna have some recreational time tonight.

SPEAKER_02 36:55

I'm not cleared by the doctors.

SPEAKER_00 36:57

I'm a doctor.

SPEAKER_02 36:58

Bitch, please.

Shoutouts And Sign-Off

SPEAKER_00 37:02

Folks, from a contagious smiles unstoppable with the uncanny, hilarious Victoria Cure.

SPEAKER_02 37:11

And my redneck and Michael.

SPEAKER_00 37:15

And again, y'all check out Jesse Tyler Williams and look up her book on Amazon. Okay. Bye y'all.