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I Blacked Out On A Walk And Woke Up In The Hospital · Aging ain't for Sissies

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  SPEAKER_00: Hi everybody and welcome to AGNA for Sissies.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, this definitely wasn't on my calendar.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm recording this from and if the sound is a little different, that's because it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: There are machines around me, people coming in and out, and absolutely no glamorous podcast studio happening here today.
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  SPEAKER_00: A few days ago, as I was walking along, and apparently, I apparently had a cardiac episode.
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  SPEAKER_00: I completely blacked out, fell, smacked my head, my shoulders, my hips, scraped all the skin off the top of my hand, made stitches in my head.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the good news is I didn't break anything.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I've been in the hospital ever since.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today is Wednesday.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've been here since Friday trying to figure out what happened.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, apparently I had a cardiac episode where my heart couldn't didn't know what it was doing, so it just stopped doing anything.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wasn't a heart attack, wasn't a stroke.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was just an episode.
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  SPEAKER_00: So tomorrow I'm having surgery and I'm having a defibulator placed into my chest.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know that I have some great lesson to give you today.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm still living this one, but I do keep thinking about the name of my podcast, Aging Eight for Sissies.
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  SPEAKER_00: Boy, isn't that the truth?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because part of getting older is realizing that sometimes your body has other plans.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can make the calendar, you can make the travel plans, you can have your little list of everything you're going to accomplish this week.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then life actually says, Marcy, we're going to the hospital.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sorry if you hear noise because that's I don't know what's happening outside my door, but it's busy.
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  SPEAKER_00: And life does tell you you're going to the hospital.
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  SPEAKER_00: I like a plan.
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  SPEAKER_00: I like knowing what's happening.
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  SPEAKER_00: I like being organized.
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  SPEAKER_00: Apparently, the root universe did not receive my itinerary.
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  SPEAKER_00: But here's what I'm learning.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes the survival guide is very simple.
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  SPEAKER_00: You show up, you ask questions, you let people help you, you do the scary test, you have the surgery, you take the next thing as it comes.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's where I am.
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  SPEAKER_00: Excuse me, right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: So there isn't going to be a regular episode this week.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm giving myself permission to take care of Marcy.
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  SPEAKER_00: And maybe that's this week's survival challenge for all of us.
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  SPEAKER_00: When your body tells you you need it needs your attention, listen, everything else can wait.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll be back when I'm ready, and we'll continue figuring out this aging thing together.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because as I'm discovering once again, Aging Aim for Sissies.