Episode 37 of We Should Probably Edit This – But We Won't starts with a fall — Nancy goes down hard on pavement leaving church, knees and wrist taking the hit — and somehow gets more chaotic from there. While Matthew joins a Zoom call in the waiting room, Nancy wanders into the wrong exam room and single-handedly discombobulates an entire urgent care office. Classic Nancy and Matthew energy.
But underneath the laughs, this episode gets real. Matthew and Nancy talk about how couples communicate (and miscommunicate), why 75% of the time is actually pretty good, and what it means to handle unexpected setbacks without falling apart. They also get into something a lot of people avoid: taking ownership of your own health. Knowing your body, asking the right questions, advocating for yourself, and — Matthew, this means you — actually making the appointment.
It's messy, it's funny, and it's very, very unedited.
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Welcome to We Should Probably Edit this, But We Won't.
Speaker B:This is about our life's messy journey.
Speaker B:It's unscripted, talks about growth, real laughs sometimes.
Speaker A:Real laughs sometimes just the chaos and.
Speaker A:And we think there's a little bit of comedy here.
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Speaker A:It's about our 37 years of marriage and our experience.
Speaker A:I'm Matthew Greger.
Speaker B:And I'm Nancy Greger.
Speaker B:And we're your host of We Should.
Speaker A:Probably Edit this, But We Won't.
Speaker A:And We probably should have Edited that.
Speaker A:So here's our next episode.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker A:Hi.
Speaker B:Hello.
Speaker A:Welcome to the next episode of We Should Probably Edit this, But We Won't.
Speaker A:Yep.
Speaker A:So I kind of want to talk a little bit.
Speaker A:A few different things today, but the first one is, is when we're trying to find something or when we're trying to.
Speaker A:When.
Speaker A:When I tell you something, and I know that I wrote it down and, and I.
Speaker A:And I said, didn't you see it?
Speaker A:Or when you sent me something, like the other day, it was, I have to make adjustments to my 401k.
Speaker A:And so, you know, you sent it to me, I can't find it.
Speaker A:Sometimes it's just those things that we think we told each other.
Speaker B:No, no, don't say that.
Speaker B:Because I went back and I saw the email that I sent to you.
Speaker B:What I didn't find was what was attached, but I did send it, and.
Speaker A:I swore I've already read what was attached before, too.
Speaker B:And so there we go.
Speaker A:Where did it go?
Speaker B:Where'd it go?
Speaker A:But I know there's times that I'm thinking of things that I need to talk to you about, and then the question is, I ask you, well, didn't I tell you about that?
Speaker B:No, no.
Speaker B:Let's just give a really good reference to today, because here's the story.
Speaker B:I fell down coming out of church and I said to Matthew, listen, the orthopedic emergency is open till 2 o'.
Speaker B:Clock.
Speaker B:I think just for precautionary sake, we should just go.
Speaker A:Let's back up a little bit.
Speaker B:So wait a minute.
Speaker B:Okay, so we go.
Speaker B:The nurse comes in and takes me to go get.
Speaker B:To go get X rays.
Speaker B:This is just a really good indication of how our life is.
Speaker B:And we've been married almost 38 years.
Speaker B:So I go off, I get my X rays, and I'm coming.
Speaker B:I had to go to the bathroom.
Speaker B:I come back.
Speaker A:So I wait, I'm.
Speaker A:I'm on the.
Speaker A:I'm on the zoom call with our friends.
Speaker A:And he, you know, and I'm Waiting, Right?
Speaker A:I'm sitting in there waiting.
Speaker A:I'm going there, waiting.
Speaker A:They must have had to take 10 different.
Speaker A:And I walked all up and down.
Speaker B:And went right in, sat down and waited for the dog.
Speaker B:Doctor came in and he.
Speaker B:We talked about the X rays, and we talked about what we did, and this.
Speaker A:I heard the noise in the next room, but I didn't think it was you.
Speaker B:And he goes.
Speaker B:The doctor says to his medical assistant, well, we have.
Speaker B:Let's go and check her out.
Speaker B:And the medical assistant's like, well, who is she?
Speaker B:And the doctor says, this is Nancy Greger.
Speaker B:We seem to be missing.
Speaker B:I had the whole office in total disarray because I walked into the wrong room, and the girl who was there had already been checked out.
Speaker B:But the doctor thought he had three patients.
Speaker B:He only had two, and I was one of them.
Speaker B:And then my husband must have back out of the room, which was right next door, and he comes in.
Speaker B:He says.
Speaker B:I says, listen.
Speaker A:Yeah, he came in.
Speaker A:He came in looking in the room.
Speaker A:I'm going.
Speaker A:I'm just waiting.
Speaker A:You know, he was like.
Speaker B:He thought he was.
Speaker B:He was a patient, and he's not a patient.
Speaker B:He was just waiting for me.
Speaker B:But I discombobulated the whole.
Speaker B:The whole office and went into the room.
Speaker A:Well, that's.
Speaker A:That's like our communication half the time anyways.
Speaker A:It's like, I know I told you about it.
Speaker A:I know that I.
Speaker A:And actually, sometimes I can find.
Speaker A:Okay, did I send you a Facebook message?
Speaker A:Did I send you an Instagram message?
Speaker A:Did I send you a text message?
Speaker B:What was it?
Speaker A:Where was it?
Speaker A:Where can I find it now?
Speaker A:I don't remember exactly what.
Speaker A:What I said.
Speaker A:So let me try to find it so I can see where it is.
Speaker B:So that.
Speaker B:That's just a.
Speaker B:Kind of like a.
Speaker B:A flavor, if you will.
Speaker B:And that just happened today?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:So.
Speaker A:So how do you think our communication is?
Speaker B:I think we all have great intentions, and maybe 75% of the time, we're really good at it.
Speaker B:It's the other 25% that something's happened.
Speaker B:And in this particular instance, probably with me being stressed, hurting my knees and hurting my hand, I just was in a stressful mode, and I didn't think you left me.
Speaker B:I. I figured you were just waiting for me, but.
Speaker A:So you're.
Speaker A:You actually went in there and you thought, where did he go?
Speaker B:I did.
Speaker A:You said.
Speaker A:You thought.
Speaker A:You thought maybe I went back to the waiting room or something, but they.
Speaker B:Didn't say to me, yeah, they just said, go back to the room.
Speaker B:So that's what I did.
Speaker B:And I saw the door open and nobody was in there.
Speaker B:So I just walked on in, not really comprehending that.
Speaker B:And I said to the doctor, I said, I didn't hit my head.
Speaker B:Didn't hit my head.
Speaker B:So it was kind of.
Speaker B:It was kind of funny.
Speaker B:But that for me is.
Speaker B:Is kind of like a symbol of, of the two of us from time to time is that we.
Speaker B:We think we said it or we think the other guy should know.
Speaker A:But I mean, some of it, some of it's intuition.
Speaker A:We know.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:Other things are.
Speaker A:I think the thing that gets me the craziest sometimes too, is, right, I have to remember that when I text her specifically, that I do it in one bubble at a time because if I have too many bubbles in there, she won't go back and read all the first bubble.
Speaker A:She'll only read the last one.
Speaker A:And so.
Speaker A:But the problem is sometimes the train of thought, I'm in that mode.
Speaker A:And then it's just like if I pause, if I pause to wait for her to read the first bubble before move to the next thing, then it's like, okay, then I've lost it.
Speaker A:But if I send them all, then I said, well, didn't you read the rest of it?
Speaker B:Here's the trick.
Speaker B:You just have to find the humor.
Speaker B:It is funny.
Speaker B:And if we get too serious with each other about.
Speaker B:Won't really go anywhere.
Speaker B:Um, and it just caused.
Speaker A:In the moment, you kind of.
Speaker A:You kind of.
Speaker B:In the moment, you'll just look at each other with a face.
Speaker B:But later on, and, and I wasn't even in, in that exact same moment, I laughed myself because I knew that it was me.
Speaker B:I caused the hysteria around in the office, in the doctor's office, and nothing to do with anybody else.
Speaker B:But I said, I. I even told the, the medical assistant, I said, dean, I'm really sorry I threw you off.
Speaker B:I didn't mean to throw you off.
Speaker A:They couldn't wait for 2 o' clock to come soon enough.
Speaker B:They couldn't wait till 2.
Speaker B:They had the, the cookie lady who fell down come in at that exact moment.
Speaker A:So, so let's talk about that for a minute.
Speaker A:So what happened?
Speaker B:I was, I wasn't looking at my phone.
Speaker B:I was talking.
Speaker B:And I had turned my head to talk to my son about something.
Speaker A:Now turn back here so they can hear you.
Speaker B:And then I said, and, and the step, the.
Speaker B:The curb was there and I just went down.
Speaker A:I was like, I was behind you.
Speaker B:And my son Was next to me, like kind of like in front of me.
Speaker B:And the next thing I'm on the floor.
Speaker A:I mean, she hit hard.
Speaker A:Yeah, it was like, it was like there was no.
Speaker A:You know, sometimes when you feel like you're going to lose your balance, you can kind of like catch yourself.
Speaker B:I did.
Speaker A:Nope.
Speaker B:There was no cashing.
Speaker A:Wham.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:And so on your both knees and your, and your wrist to try to.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:And, and chances are because I'm right handed, so my right hand side is a little bit stronger.
Speaker B:I emphasize the right hand side, hence why I hurt my.
Speaker B:This part of your inside of your hand.
Speaker B:So I didn't break the wrist, but man, it hurt.
Speaker B:And I just sat there and there were a lot of people and they all came to my rescue.
Speaker B:Everybody was very, very, very kind.
Speaker B:And I just sat there and said, don't touch me, just leave me.
Speaker B:I'll figure out how to get up.
Speaker B:But it took me a little bit to get up because my knees were in almost instantaneous pain.
Speaker B:And it was kind of like I needed to be able to know I could stand up and not have broken something in that joint.
Speaker B:But took me a little bit and everybody helped me up and I got up and I just stood there and they were very, everybody was very, very kind.
Speaker B:Very, very kind.
Speaker B:But then immediately you heard, should we call 91 1?
Speaker B:Do we need the ambulance?
Speaker A:Yeah, because they had walkie talkies.
Speaker A:The guys, they had walkie talkies with the crowd control because earlier they had another incident where they actually had an.
Speaker B:Ambulance and the fire and the police.
Speaker A:Everybody came in, they were thinking, oh my gosh, do we got to do it again?
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:And this was a transition between services.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:So we ended the 9 o' clock service, which ended at 10.
Speaker B:And, and then the next service was coming in, so people were coming in.
Speaker B:So it was very, very active.
Speaker B:So.
Speaker B:But it was, it was just, just a fluke.
Speaker B:I just went down.
Speaker B:I went down really hard.
Speaker A:I think, I think that show, I think that shows you how fragile we really are.
Speaker A:I mean, no matter what your age is, you know, it's now if you.
Speaker B:Were a little kid, you would have bounced right back up, Trust me.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:But, but still, things can happen.
Speaker B:Correct things, Things can happen.
Speaker A:Things can happen out of the blue before you.
Speaker A:Unexpected, completely unexpected.
Speaker A:And when you, when, when you're a little older, I would say like us in our 60s, it takes a little longer.
Speaker A:But those kind of critical mistakes can really set us back, you know, because it's like we had other plans of Things to do today, too, and to.
Speaker A:To be fully engaged in other things.
Speaker A:And it, and it takes you off course.
Speaker A:And so the question is, is how do you deal with things when they take you off course that you didn't expect?
Speaker A:You know, no matter what it is, whether it's a slight injury or something else, you can get all upset about it or you can just.
Speaker A:This happened, now I have to deal with it.
Speaker B:Yeah, that's pretty much it.
Speaker B:This happened, now I have to deal with it.
Speaker B:And the doctor said, he goes, I can give you some, some pain medication.
Speaker B:And I said, no, it has ibuprofen in and I can't have ibuprofen.
Speaker B:So he says, well, then you're just going to take Tylenol.
Speaker B:I said, I know I'm used to just taking Tylenol, but in any case, it just means I'm a little sore and probably next couple of days, but I am going to Miami to see my grandchildren.
Speaker B:And trust me when I tell you I will muster up every ounce of energy I have to go and complete that because I really do want to see my.
Speaker B:My kids and my grandchildren.
Speaker B:So I would definitely be going.
Speaker A:So you have.
Speaker A:Now you have a goal in mind and you have a desire and a direction.
Speaker A:Just refocus to get better.
Speaker B:Just refocus.
Speaker A:So you're going to do what you can to take care of yourself so that you're.
Speaker A:That you can do.
Speaker A:Make the best out of the trip.
Speaker B:He said, he goes, listen, he says, no bike riding.
Speaker B:He says, you got to give it a few days just to see if there any fluid build up on my knees.
Speaker A:I mean, see, that was the other thing too, because it, it was cold this morning.
Speaker A:It's still cool.
Speaker A:It's in the 50s.
Speaker A:It's in the 50s, but the sun's out now.
Speaker A:And today would have been a perfect day to go on a bike ride or walking and go for a nice walk and everything.
Speaker A:Do you say you can't walk too?
Speaker B:Pretty much.
Speaker B:He said, just give it a.
Speaker B:Because.
Speaker B:Because it just happened today.
Speaker B:He said, he goes, he.
Speaker B:And he said to me, he goes, do you have to go to work tomorrow?
Speaker B:I said, no, I'm going to work from home tomorrow.
Speaker B:He said, good.
Speaker B:He said, give yourself a few more days of being able to elevate your leg.
Speaker B:So he says, you know, it's more like elevating the leg, putting the leg down, putting weight on the leg, normal things.
Speaker B:But what's not normal is I have to elevate.
Speaker B:So he says, going to work would Be kind of complicated if I had to elevate my leg and ice it.
Speaker B:Yeah, so.
Speaker A:So you got.
Speaker A:You got to ice it.
Speaker A:I have to ice it after we're done with this.
Speaker B:So he's like 20 minutes on, a little bit off.
Speaker B:20 Minutes on.
Speaker B:But he said most, most especially he says, just for the knees, just make sure that if you see that the knees are getting too big, they're going to get bruised.
Speaker B:They are bruised, but if you see that they're retaining fluid.
Speaker B:Retaining fluid.
Speaker B:He says, you have to come in because we're going to have to drain that fluid because it's in your joints and it's probably not the best place.
Speaker B:But in any case.
Speaker A:So the.
Speaker A:That was a setback to me.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker A:That's, you know, it's like an unexpected setback.
Speaker A:Like.
Speaker A:Like, why did this happen?
Speaker A:I'm coming out of church.
Speaker A:Come on.
Speaker A:God, what'd you do to me here?
Speaker A:It's like, you know, we don't know why it happened.
Speaker B:It just happened.
Speaker A:It just happened.
Speaker B:That's why it's called an accident.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker B:Because things just occur.
Speaker B:It's how you respond to it that really makes the difference.
Speaker B:And I even said we had a zoom call today with other friends of ours.
Speaker B:And at first I was thinking, can I do that zoom call?
Speaker B:And then I said to him, I said, okay, listen, the orthopedic closes at 2.
Speaker B:He said, so let's try to explain to people.
Speaker B:We're going to.
Speaker B:Come on.
Speaker B:We're going to stay on as long as we can, but we may have to jump off while we go to.
Speaker A:We each take turns just kind of just updating each other.
Speaker B:Updating each other on one.
Speaker A:So we just said we had to go first because we have to leave.
Speaker A:And then we tried to continue the.
Speaker B:Call while we were trans.
Speaker A:While we were trans, while we were driving.
Speaker B:And then he stayed on the call while I was in X ray and everything else.
Speaker B:And.
Speaker B:And then we ended up back home, and then we were still on the.
Speaker B:It was still on the call, so we were able to kind of just tidy it all up.
Speaker B:But, you know, it could have been a lot worse, in all honesty.
Speaker B:I mean, I really could have broken something.
Speaker A:In which case, they brought you a wheelchair.
Speaker B:They.
Speaker A:They were ready.
Speaker B:Did the church brought me a wheelchair, ready to wheel me over to my car.
Speaker B:And I'm like, yeah, no, that's okay.
Speaker B:I got.
Speaker B:And then the other guy said, can I help you up?
Speaker B:I said, I have my husband and I have my son.
Speaker B:So between these two grown men, they're going to help me get up and get to the car and get me to the car.
Speaker B:And then while I was in the car, I had a drink with ice, and I took the ice out and was able to start icing my knees because it was.
Speaker B:It's still hurting.
Speaker B:I'm not going to lie.
Speaker B:It's.
Speaker B:It's a little bit of a throbbing sensation right now, but.
Speaker A:Yep.
Speaker A:So.
Speaker A:So, I mean, it's really about how you personally deal with those things that happen, whether it's an unexpected something or it's an accident.
Speaker A:You know, it's.
Speaker A:It's.
Speaker B:When you're at that moment, you're.
Speaker B:You're angry.
Speaker B:Don't get me wrong.
Speaker B:When you're in that moment, you're really angry.
Speaker A:Well, I mean, were you angry or also embarrassed?
Speaker B:I don't know if I was embarrassed because I felt as though I wasn't surrounded by strangers.
Speaker B:I was in church.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:And so far, everybody that I met in church has been very loving and very easygoing and very attentive.
Speaker A:Understanding.
Speaker B:Understanding.
Speaker B:And so I didn't feel embarrassed.
Speaker B:Number one.
Speaker B:I didn't feel embarrassed because I was in an immediate amount of pain.
Speaker B:Like, when you're in that kind of pain, you don't care who's around or who's seeing you or what they're even trying to tell you.
Speaker B:You're in that moment of instant pain that you just, you know, just.
Speaker B:It reminded.
Speaker B:It reminds you of the time when women would know this.
Speaker B:When you're in child labor and you're going through it, that enormous amount of pain that you're going through, you don't care where you're at, you don't care who's in the room.
Speaker B:You don't care about anything else, because you're in that moment of dealing with that, of dealing with that one thing, that one immediate pain.
Speaker B:So for me, I was more like, nancy, can you move that leg?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:And I didn't know what to do.
Speaker A:You know, it's like.
Speaker B:And it's not anything.
Speaker B:Not anybody could do anything.
Speaker B:Sometimes you have to assess those situations yourself.
Speaker B:And.
Speaker B:And I had to really, really think.
Speaker B:So was I embarrassed?
Speaker B:No.
Speaker B:Was.
Speaker B:Was I thinking any?
Speaker B:No.
Speaker B:I'm literally holding on to one leg.
Speaker A:You're seeing whether or not you can actually function.
Speaker B:That was it.
Speaker B:I was.
Speaker B:I was like, can you move from this place?
Speaker B:Can you do that?
Speaker B:And if you can, how long is it going to take you?
Speaker B:Because I was like, walk around, everybody.
Speaker A:Walk around.
Speaker B:Because if it took me 20 minutes to get off off that floor, off the concrete, then that's what it would.
Speaker A:Take off the roadway, off the driveway.
Speaker B:Well, it was.
Speaker B:It was like pavement.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:I mean, it was.
Speaker B:There's no.
Speaker B:This wasn't grass.
Speaker A:No, it did not.
Speaker A:It did not have any bounce factor or.
Speaker B:So I think when you're.
Speaker B:When you're in that exact moment of time, when something is going on, that's throwing you off your course of what you were planning on doing.
Speaker B:I think you're just addressing that immediate issue.
Speaker B:At first, you're not really focusing on what it was I wanted to do that day, what it is I'm going to do that week.
Speaker B:You're in that moment.
Speaker B:You're in that moment.
Speaker A:And then after.
Speaker A:After you, you get yourself together and we get to the car and you start to thinking, okay, now it's like, okay, how does this alter what we have going on?
Speaker B:Like, I said to him, I go, well, we have to go to the grocery store, but I vote I stay in the car and you go inside.
Speaker A:Yep.
Speaker B:And that's exactly what the boys did.
Speaker B:They went into the grocery store and I stayed in the car, just focusing on.
Speaker B:On what I needed to do for those two and seeing whether or not really, truly this was going to be an emergency visit or I could just bypass it.
Speaker B:And then I was like, you know what?
Speaker B:I'm going to go, because I've broken a finger before and didn't think it was broken.
Speaker A:You're going to go where the doctors.
Speaker B:Okay, okay, I was going to go and, and, and figured, you know what, let's play it safe.
Speaker B:Let's not put myself into a torturous situation.
Speaker B:If something is really wrong, then I need to address it.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker B:Like, what's.
Speaker B:What's the point of being brave and.
Speaker A:Saying to yourself, or let's wait till the next morning and wake up once.
Speaker B:A leg is swollen up to a balloon or I can't move my hand.
Speaker B:And so the hints, hence I made.
Speaker B:I made that decision to say, you know what?
Speaker B:You need to go.
Speaker B:Just have it checked out.
Speaker A:I'm probably a little more stubborn.
Speaker A:Probably would not have.
Speaker A:You would decision.
Speaker A:I probably would have suffered through it.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Which is not always the best choice.
Speaker A:It's just like sometimes being a guy or, or me in particular, I feel like, okay, I don't need the doctor.
Speaker A:I don't need to see them.
Speaker B:I think.
Speaker A:And I think.
Speaker A:And I think that's something that I'm trying to come more to terms, getting my health to where it needs to be.
Speaker A:Things don't function or work the way they used to.
Speaker A:And I'm still trying to figure out, you know, why I can't just drop five pounds like that anymore.
Speaker A:You know, why things don't work the way they used to.
Speaker A:Because what, because you're old?
Speaker A:I still don't think I'm old.
Speaker A:I, in my mind I'm still that 18 year old at times, but I realize I'm not.
Speaker A:But I also don't feel like I'm in the 60s either, you know, so I don't feel like I'm at that level.
Speaker B:That's, that's good, that's, that's a good feeling to have.
Speaker A:However, I know there's reality of what.
Speaker B:You, when something happens to you or you're unsure as to why you're not able to do something, I think that's where, you know it's always good to go see a doctor.
Speaker B:Because now, don't get me wrong, I've argued with doctors in the past and said no.
Speaker A:Well, I think that brings up another thing, is that you need to be in control of your health.
Speaker B:Correct.
Speaker A:And you need to understand what's going to work for you and what to ask.
Speaker B:Correct.
Speaker A:I think that's more important what, what.
Speaker B:You're going to, what you're going to tolerate and what you're not going to tolerate, what you know you're going to be really good at and what you know you're just not going to do.
Speaker B:So there's no point in pretending or.
Speaker A:Saying it's also, if you don't understand what's being told to you, you have to ask, you need to ask questions, explain it again.
Speaker A:And if you're going to see a doctor, you need to have an intent in mind of what that is, what the outcome that you're looking for and the right questions that you have to ask on it.
Speaker A:And that becomes more and more important the older we get and we need to take control of our own health.
Speaker A:Because a lot of situations you're not seeing the same doctor, you're not seeing the same people who, who you would hope would have a history of you and the charts only have so much information on you.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:Anyways, it's, it's, there's very few situations now or, or in a, there are very few doctor cases or, or you having the ability to go and see the same doctor.
Speaker A:And over and over.
Speaker B:If you're talking about a general, yeah,.
Speaker A:I'm talking about like a primary health, primary care physician.
Speaker B:But even in a, like I have specific doctors, I See, all the time.
Speaker B:Because I have a specific issues that I have to deal with, so it's a little bit more easier for me to feel.
Speaker B:I will say to you that I live 45 minutes away from where some of my doctors that I go to, some are a little closer.
Speaker B:Some of them are back up in.
Speaker B:In my old town.
Speaker B:I will drive to the old town.
Speaker B:If I meant that the practice that I've been going to for years is the practice I want to go to.
Speaker A:I've always.
Speaker A:I mean, I'm just saying there's so many urgent cares in different places.
Speaker B:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker A:That a lot of people don't have that consistent doctor.
Speaker B:Doctor that.
Speaker B:So you have.
Speaker B:You do have to know your own self.
Speaker A:I've always wanted that.
Speaker A:That doctor.
Speaker A:I started out with them and I said, great, I got a relationship I can have with someone now.
Speaker A:And before you knew it, they moved on.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Or they brought somebody else in and they.
Speaker A:And they switched doctors on you.
Speaker A:I mean.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:I mean, look at the health care provider that we have now.
Speaker A:They've changed at least.
Speaker A:At least three or four times since we've been with that group, you know, from the very beginning of when we started to where they.
Speaker A:Where they are now, and they've been bought by other larger companies.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:It's just.
Speaker B:But you know what?
Speaker B:This to me is really an excuse that you like to put in front of saying, I don't want to go to the doctor because he doesn't know me.
Speaker B:That, to me is an excuse.
Speaker A:That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker B:That's not, to me, a reason not to go.
Speaker B:You have to understand, people change.
Speaker B:People.
Speaker B:People evolve, people move on.
Speaker B:And so if you know yourself, that's the best way.
Speaker B:You could go in and you could say to a doctor, hey, you know, I was 40 and I could do this, and now I'm 60 and I can't seem to do it.
Speaker B:Why?
Speaker B:And let them explain to you what potentially could be.
Speaker B:And then you could say, well, what about if I do this?
Speaker B:You have to become more knowledgeable about what things are nowadays, because you're right, doctors aren't going to spend time to sit there and hold your hand and do whatever.
Speaker B:And some of the doctors that I've known retired.
Speaker B:And so you have to figure out, okay, well, you're retired now.
Speaker B:I got somebody else.
Speaker B:Okay, let's.
Speaker B:Let me bring you up to speed about me and what I like and what I'm willing to tolerate.
Speaker B:And then we kind of.
Speaker A:And that's what I mean about it.
Speaker A:That's why it's so important that we have that history of ourselves and that we're able to express those things.
Speaker B:But in the same token, you can't use that for a reason, not to go to the doctor.
Speaker B:Just saying.
Speaker A:Just saying.
Speaker B:It's not a reason.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:I know, It's.
Speaker A:It's on my.
Speaker A:It's on my list to find.
Speaker A:To.
Speaker B:It's not to find.
Speaker B:It's just to go.
Speaker A:But also to find the doctor and to get some tests done.
Speaker B:Go and say, this is what I want to have done.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker B:Do you agree or don't you agree?
Speaker B:And that's it.
Speaker B:It's not a matter of waiting.
Speaker B:Doctors are not.
Speaker B:They're humans.
Speaker B:It's not God you're gonna go see.
Speaker B:You're seeing another human being who hopefully has enough medical understanding as to what they're doing.
Speaker B:Right?
Speaker B:That's all they are.
Speaker B:They give you their best medical choices.
Speaker B:Sometimes the more specific illness that you have, the better off you hoping that they're gonna study.
Speaker A:And there's a lot of things out there right now.
Speaker A:You've got peptides, you got.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker A:All these different things that are out there.
Speaker A:It's a.
Speaker A:There's a lot of changes going on, you know, with, with health right now that I think it's also going to be able to solve illnesses before they even happen.
Speaker A:I mean, there's a lot of tests that you can do, a lot of different scans that can happen.
Speaker A:A lot of stuff with gene research and things that we really need to take advantage of and to be able to understand and know our body so that it can even early detection of things that can be going on that we're not aware of.
Speaker B:So you learn, but you gotta go, right?
Speaker B:Bottom line is you make the appointment and you go, you gotta get your teeth cleaned.
Speaker B:You gotta go get your eyes checked.
Speaker A:Yeah, I got it.
Speaker B:There's no.
Speaker B:There's no AI to help you with teeth cleaning or getting your eyes checked.
Speaker B:You got to go.
Speaker A:Are you talking to me?
Speaker B:I'm talking to you.
Speaker A:Okay, it is time for an eye exam.
Speaker A:And I do need to have the teeth cleaned again.
Speaker B:All right.
Speaker A:Sometimes.
Speaker A:Yep.
Speaker A:I'll admit.
Speaker A:I just don't want to take the time to go and do those general maintenance things.
Speaker B:So, you know, you do take care.
Speaker B:I do.
Speaker B:I. I do.
Speaker B:And.
Speaker B:And that could very well be that.
Speaker B:You know, I don't have that stigma or that fear about the doctors.
Speaker A:I don't have a fear.
Speaker B:I don't like dentists.
Speaker B:Don't get Me wrong.
Speaker B:The dentist is probably my biggest fear.
Speaker B:It wasn't until I had to have root canal, I was.
Speaker B:I didn't go see a dentist for over 10 years, almost 15 years before I went to go see a dentist, because I had a tooth problem.
Speaker B:If I hadn't had that tooth problem, I wouldn't have seen that guy.
Speaker B:I would have just kept on going.
Speaker B:But I had to learn.
Speaker A:You've done better since then.
Speaker B:I have done better since then because I think it's important that when we're 80, we still have our teeth and they look somewhat decent.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:They look somewhat decent.
Speaker B:And as far as my eyesight is concerned, I think that's just a progression.
Speaker B:As we get older, we tend to have a little bit of a visual problem.
Speaker A:Yeah, I mean, it's definitely time for that.
Speaker A:Because now it's.
Speaker A:It's the.
Speaker A:I need the glasses that I can see the dashboard and I can see distance.
Speaker A:You know, right now the dashboard's blurry and they can see distance fine.
Speaker A:So sometimes I have to, like, adjust.
Speaker A:Move the glasses to see.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:If I really need to see the dash as you're driving.
Speaker B:Hold on.
Speaker B:Okay, I'm ready.
Speaker B:Oh, wait a minute.
Speaker B:But those are the kind of things you have to do for yourself.
Speaker B:It cannot be something that we do for.
Speaker B:For others, because you have to figure.
Speaker A:Out, as a married spouse, you can encourage them.
Speaker A:And like, we're using.
Speaker A:You're taking this podcast moment to tell me to go see the doctor.
Speaker A:To go get my.
Speaker B:I told you to go see the doctor.
Speaker B:I've been telling you to go see the doctor.
Speaker B:When you couldn't lose five pounds.
Speaker B:I said go see the doctor.
Speaker B:Go have a conversation with the doctor.
Speaker B:Maybe you need a little help.
Speaker B:Maybe you need to figure out something.
Speaker B:Maybe you should go get a full blood workup to see what.
Speaker B:What your hormone levels and what your vitamin levels are all about.
Speaker B:Go.
Speaker B:Because you.
Speaker B:There's no home remedy test for that kind of stuff.
Speaker A:Well, I have been using the rhythm test.
Speaker B:Yeah, but how's that working out for you?
Speaker A:No, it tells me things.
Speaker A:I just don't understand it.
Speaker A:And they're all the time.
Speaker B:There you go.
Speaker A:And there you go.
Speaker B:And there you.
Speaker A:I understand.
Speaker B:There you go.
Speaker B:What's the topic of coming?
Speaker A:Pretty much down to two.
Speaker A:Two minutes here.
Speaker B:Minutes.
Speaker A:Well, so anyways.
Speaker B:So next weekend we're going to be in Miami.
Speaker B:Miami.
Speaker A:We've already skipped two weekends for different.
Speaker A:I traveled to see my parents.
Speaker B:We traveled to see your parents.
Speaker A:I'm not sure why we missed the Other weekend we got.
Speaker B:We were busy entertaining with somebody who came to the house, so we weren't able to stop what we were doing to.
Speaker B:To set this up.
Speaker A:Then it got too dark and then it got.
Speaker B:And then it got too.
Speaker B:God.
Speaker B:And God forbid we don't have enough lighting.
Speaker B:So I'm not sure about next weekend.
Speaker B:We'll just kind of play it by ear because I am specifically going, as I said, to see my son and his wife, but to see my four grandbabies and to try to convince my youngest not to call me Gigi, but to call me Gima.
Speaker A:Because that's who you are.
Speaker A:You are the G mom.
Speaker A:I am a GM and I'm the gpa.
Speaker B:You're the gpa.
Speaker B:Now, if she calls him G pop and she keeps calling me Gigi, her siblings and I will have to have like a deep conversation with her.
Speaker B:But I'm so looking forward to it.
Speaker B:I haven't seen them since Christmas, so I am looking forward to seeing them.
Speaker A:We went down there after.
Speaker A:Didn't we go down there?
Speaker B:Nope.
Speaker B:We.
Speaker B:We did not go down to.
Speaker A:Oh, it was.
Speaker A:We went down there before the holidays,.
Speaker B:Before Christmas and before Thanksgiving.
Speaker B:Yeah, but they came up for Christmas, but we haven't seen them since Christmas.
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker B:So we're going down there to see our.
Speaker A:Of course.
Speaker A:We are.
Speaker B:Our crew.
Speaker A:Four days though.
Speaker A:Four days.
Speaker B:That's our limit.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker B:And our son laughs, but he appreciates that we said four days cuz he.
Speaker A:Cuz he feels the same way.
Speaker A:Come the fourth day, he says, time for you guys.
Speaker A:Time for.
Speaker A:Time to go.
Speaker B:It's time for you guys to go.
Speaker A:And on that note, it is time to go.
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