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Chuck has a medical decision to make · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: Todd Bridges is getting divorced, believe it or not. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and uh and yeah. You know in the divorce they
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  Speaker 1: got to disclose finances and all that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: You know what his income is, and that Willis now Willis?
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  Speaker 1: You know Willis's income is I don't know, seven hundred
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  Speaker 1: bucks a month.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, come on, that's what he made.
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  Speaker 1: That's what the documents are saying. Yeah, seven hundred dollars
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  Speaker 1: a month. From what I'm assuming standing on the corner
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  Speaker 1: with a sign, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: He has no royalties.
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  Speaker 1: He's apparently not getting any kind of yeah, any kind
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  Speaker 1: of uh, follow up money from the reruns, the syndication
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  Speaker 1: of different strokes.
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  Speaker 2: Is he not working well?
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  Speaker 1: Not much? She pops up every now and then.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, in a construction job, seven hundred bucks.
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  Speaker 1: A month construction? What you're talking about? Willis? Okay?
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  Speaker 3: Fair?
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  Speaker 1: He's a great American actor, is he? You shouldn't be
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  Speaker 1: out there? Yeah, seven hundred bucks a month. You gotta
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  Speaker 1: feel about. And the other guy, I remember the guy
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  Speaker 1: from the Cosby show, what's his name now? Malcolm and
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  Speaker 1: Joan Warner Bill Cosby not Bill Cosby.
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  Speaker 2: Adam Sandler was in an episode.
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  Speaker 1: No, the guy who played Butcherface's husband. I can't even
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  Speaker 1: remember his name now, but anyway, he was Somebody caught
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  Speaker 1: him bagging groceries at a whole food store and people
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  Speaker 1: started making fun of him because he's bagging groceries after
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  Speaker 1: being a regular on the Cosby Show. I got upset,
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  Speaker 1: and I remember I got online. I blasted a couple
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  Speaker 1: of people. This guy had a family. He was taking
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  Speaker 1: care of his family by bagging groceries. If that's what
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  Speaker 1: it takes, that's what it takes. And a couple of
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  Speaker 1: people actually came through and gave him some roles, so
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  Speaker 1: we had no idea you were in this kind of shape,
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  Speaker 1: and and got him doing a little work again, theatrical
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  Speaker 1: and television work again, which was nice. But you can't
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  Speaker 1: don't put down anybody who's working hard for a living. No,
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  Speaker 1: not at all, And that was just mean. I can't
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  Speaker 1: even remember that. I can't even remember his name. That
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  Speaker 1: really bugs me. But anyway, so anyway, Willis's making seven
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  Speaker 1: hundred dollars a month apparently, and I feel bad for him.
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  Speaker 1: I wish he would do something. But let's not forget
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  Speaker 1: Gary Coleman, who was the star of Different strokes. Before
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  Speaker 1: he passed away, he was working as a security guard
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  Speaker 1: at the shopping mall, and everybody wanted to make fun
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  Speaker 1: of him too. Oh look at that Gary Coleman's shopping
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  Speaker 1: mall security guard. He was taking care of his business.
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  Speaker 1: And I honor that, I really do. It doesn't matter what.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care. If you are a fifty year old
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  Speaker 1: man getting up and going to make the fries, if
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  Speaker 1: that's what you have to do in order to take
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  Speaker 1: care of your family, then God bless you. That is
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  Speaker 1: the all important mission that you have in life, is
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  Speaker 1: to be a man. And if a man has a family,
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  Speaker 1: a man does what is necessary to take care of
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  Speaker 1: that family, which brings me to this little disagreement. The
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  Speaker 1: Queen and I have him right now. Went to the
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  Speaker 1: doctor today, the pediatrist. And if you've been listening any
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  Speaker 1: period of time, you know I've had the surgeries and
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  Speaker 1: the infections and all that kind of crap. And once
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  Speaker 1: I overcame the diabetes and got the A one C
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  Speaker 1: down and and you know, just put myself in a
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  Speaker 1: better physical position. I was hoping it would all go away.
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  Speaker 1: Well it hasn't all gone away, because I've got this
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  Speaker 1: this this toe issue. And if you look at you
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  Speaker 1: don't look at my feet and go, oh, he's got
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  Speaker 1: a Toeut, No, it's it's really not evident. There's a
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  Speaker 1: little hole on the bottom of the big toe. It's
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  Speaker 1: an infection that will not go away. You have to
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  Speaker 1: like be down there and really looking to even see it.
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  Speaker 1: But they've had me on the antibiotics, antibiotics, and they've
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  Speaker 1: had me, you know, go to this pediatrist and I've
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  Speaker 1: had the vascular work done. They've opened up all the
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  Speaker 1: veins and arteries and stuff in my legs to increase
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  Speaker 1: blood flow. And today I go back for another check
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  Speaker 1: in and she says, well, it's your toe looks good,
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  Speaker 1: but the hole still in there. We're gonna have to
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  Speaker 1: go with the surgery, all right. Now. The surgery is this.
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  Speaker 1: They want to remove a bone from the big toe
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  Speaker 1: and then fuse two other bones in the big toe,
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  Speaker 1: basically just to keep me balanced. And that's what we're
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  Speaker 1: getting too. So the the thing of it is, the
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  Speaker 1: infection that will not go away is in this bone,
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  Speaker 1: which is why the antibiotics are doing anything. They're gonna
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  Speaker 1: have to take it out, so the recovery time I'd
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  Speaker 1: still be able to come in and do this, but
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  Speaker 1: as far as going out and showing houses, climbing steps,
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  Speaker 1: going in basements, doing the real estate job, I would
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  Speaker 1: not be able to do that while recovery. The recuperation
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  Speaker 1: time for this surgery is ten to twelve weeks. So
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  Speaker 1: I looked at the doctor in all seriousness, I said,
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  Speaker 1: what's the recovery time for an amputation? The queen became concerned.
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  Speaker 1: She said, you're not really gonna that. I said, what
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  Speaker 1: is the recovery time? She told me, well, a complete
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  Speaker 1: amputation one to two weeks. Now, as a man with
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  Speaker 1: a family to take care of, coming into the spring
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  Speaker 1: in the summer, that I mean, this is gonna be
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  Speaker 1: the busy season. I keep saying this year is going
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  Speaker 1: to be a prosperous year. Mortgage rates are going down,
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  Speaker 1: inventory is picking up. It's going to be busy. I
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  Speaker 1: might be able to sit it out for a couple
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  Speaker 1: of weeks, but there is no way onfoif I could
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  Speaker 1: possibly he set it out for ten to twelve weeks.
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  Speaker 2: If they cut what are your I don't know which.
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  Speaker 1: Toad you talk. It's it's the big toe.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, don't you lose your balance?
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  Speaker 1: And stuff. Well, you just learned to deal with you
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  Speaker 1: just you got to learn to deal with it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but I mean ten to twelve weeks versus one or
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  Speaker 1: two weeks? What what? What way? What way would you go?
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  Speaker 2: I don't I don't have the same situation as you can.
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  Speaker 1: You well, put yourself in that same situation if you had,
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  Speaker 1: if you had four more little charlies at home and
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  Speaker 1: they were counting on Daddy to go out and make
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  Speaker 1: a living and take care of them, and you know
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  Speaker 1: the the birthday parties and the summer sports leagues, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, the swimming pool passes and the whatever, and
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  Speaker 1: then the back to school closed, because we're talking ten
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  Speaker 1: to twelve weeks here, the back to school close and
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  Speaker 1: and all that, and Christmas is always around the corner,
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  Speaker 1: no matter what time of year it is, you're you're
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  Speaker 1: counting on dad or Grandpa. In my case, would you
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  Speaker 1: seriously say yeah, ten or twelve weeks, I'll just I'll
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  Speaker 1: just sit it down.
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  Speaker 2: I hear what you're saying.
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  Speaker 4: Is there any and I'm not trying to bad mouth
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  Speaker 4: aned to did you have you tried a second opinion.
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  Speaker 1: That well, that is actually on my agenda too, as
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  Speaker 1: much as I like this doctor, I do want to
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  Speaker 1: go see somebody else and see if if I get
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  Speaker 1: a concurring opinion.
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  Speaker 4: Because you never know, it just depends maybe somebody had
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  Speaker 4: more experience with that kind of thing.
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  Speaker 1: I just know when I get home tonight, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to get the glare. I'm gonna get the glare the
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  Speaker 1: minute I walk in the door.
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  Speaker 2: I would imagine there.
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  Speaker 1: Won't be there won't be any arguing because the kids
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  Speaker 1: will be awake. So I'll just get the glare and
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  Speaker 1: then I'll go over us. I'll give her a little hug, Hello,
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  Speaker 1: Mike Queen's and she'll whisper we're gonna talk later. I
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  Speaker 1: know that's how it's gonna go. I absolutely know that's
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  Speaker 1: how it's going to go.
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  Speaker 4: But then you got all that time just setting there
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  Speaker 4: waiting for the conversation to come.
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  Speaker 1: With you, and you know, I don't I don't really
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  Speaker 1: use my toes for anything.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's one of those things that you don't
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  Speaker 4: know that you use it as much as you use it.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe I can get a prosthetic toe. I'm just man,
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to be reasonable here, and I.
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  Speaker 2: Just cut off the whole foot.
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  Speaker 1: Well, no, because I need the foot just every now
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  Speaker 1: and then I got to put it in somebody.
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  Speaker 4: Well, anyway, the point, I can't believe that there's that's
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  Speaker 4: the only two options.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean as presented to me at this point,
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  Speaker 1: as present and again, I don't think I am being
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  Speaker 1: unreasonable when I think about you know, I'm gonna it
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  Speaker 1: is what it is kind of guy. And you cannot
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  Speaker 1: make yourself unavailable to success and then expect any success.
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  Speaker 1: Wrong year, wrong time of year. I'm just saying I
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  Speaker 1: got at least one person with a thought here. Let
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  Speaker 1: me get Cheryl on six to ten WTV, and Cheryl,
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  Speaker 1: how are you.
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  Speaker 5: Hey? I have an idea for you. If I was
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  Speaker 5: looking for Amazon, or if you go on Amazon and
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  Speaker 5: look for foot where like I need to buy pads
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  Speaker 5: that go under where the balls of my feet are.
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  Speaker 5: I've seen stuff that look like prosthetics for big toes.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. If I take it off and
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  Speaker 1: put a prosthetic toe on to maintain my balance, I
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  Speaker 1: should be okay.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Like look up on Bunyon Bunyon correctors and that's
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  Speaker 5: what you're describing. It reminds me of kind of like
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  Speaker 5: what a bunyan corrector might look like except it would
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  Speaker 5: be an artificial toe. But I also agree with Zach.
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  Speaker 5: I would go for a second opinion.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Cheryl, and you're a female here, so I want
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  Speaker 1: to ask you, do you understand my perspective here as
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  Speaker 1: the man of the house that I can't I can't
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  Speaker 1: lay down for ten to twelve weeks. One to two
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  Speaker 1: weeks is more acceptable, even if it means losing a toe.
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  Speaker 3: I do as long as well, as long as you
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  Speaker 3: are able to walk, okay, I mean I would think
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  Speaker 3: they'd make pro ceases for anything nowadays, so I would
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  Speaker 3: think they could make one strong enough to keep you balanced.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think it's like I said, it's I
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  Speaker 1: hate to say, just a toe, but it's not like
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm replacing an entire leg or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: Just something.
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  Speaker 5: No. But but if you look down at your feet,
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  Speaker 5: you put a lot of weight on your big toe,
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  Speaker 5: and that's to keep you balanced.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not a PT or no PT. But you can
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  Speaker 5: just check around, you know, talk to some physical therapists.
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  Speaker 5: They are so smart. They have to get their.
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  Speaker 1: Doctorates now to be a physical therapist.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, they get a PhD. They know so much about
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  Speaker 5: the body, probably more than some doctors do.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. All right, I appreciate it, Cheryl, Thank you very much.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate your call. That's and and Cheryl's a female.
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  Speaker 1: She doesn't think I'm nuts. She doesn't think I'm crazy
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  Speaker 1: for thinking along these lines. It's you know, it's like
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  Speaker 1: all kinds of stuff that people, not just men, people do.
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  Speaker 1: Would you like to leave the earth with all of
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  Speaker 1: your organs intact, yes you would. But if somebody that
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  Speaker 1: you loved, your kids or whatever, needed an organ transplant,
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  Speaker 1: and you could donate an organ or a portion of
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  Speaker 1: an organ to keep them okay and safe and healthy
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  Speaker 1: and alive, of course you do that. Of course you would.
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  Speaker 1: They are just some things we do because they should
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  Speaker 1: be done anyway, you'll likely I'm even thinking about maybe
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  Speaker 1: doing like a Facebook live with the Queen, so you
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  Speaker 1: guys can all chime in on the Facebook live and
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  Speaker 1: either back her up or try to calm her down.
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  Speaker 1: She's never done that with me, but she's not shy.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, they hit me with that this afternoon, and
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  Speaker 1: I just I don't know. Second opinion is first on
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  Speaker 1: the list of things to do, though,