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Kristin: Will. Hey, what’s up? I’ve been thinking the US healthcare system.
It needs some improvement.
Will: Yeah, it’s, it’s, there’s room for improvement for
Kristin: sure. Yeah. It’s a confusing, scary place for everybody involved.
Will: Absolutely.
Kristin: Physicians, families, patients, everybody.
Will: Everybody. And I’ve experienced it from both sides, right. I’m a physician, I’ve also been a patient, so I wanted to use my platform to give people practical education.
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Kristin: Knock, knock,
knock, knock. Hi.
Will: Hello everybody. Welcome to Knock, knock. Hi, with the Glaucomflecken, I’m Will [00:02:00] Flanary, also known as Dr. Glaucomflecken.
Kristin: I’m Kristin Flanary, also known as Lady Glaucomflecken.
Will: You know, I realized today, uh, is that. You know, over the past year everyone’s been pronouncing my name correctly, whenever they like introduced me.
[music]: Oh, wow. During like
Will: shows, you know, it’s
[music]: pretty good
Will: for, for, for quite a while. Like it, no one knew how, like the first couple of years it was, I got, it was all over the place. Yeah. Once I got Glaucomflecken spiel.
Kristin: Yeah.
Will: Like the, which I think is a toy.
Kristin: No, it’s a, uh, a musical instrument.
Will: WA Oh, right, right.
Like a legit musical instrument is like a xylophone thing. Isn’t a xylophone thing
Kristin: Kind of. Yeah.
Will: All right.
Kristin: You’re thinking it’s a toy because our children got one. Oh, that was, that was a toy version was, okay.
Will: Gotcha. But there is like a real,
Kristin: I think so, yeah.
Will: It’s like there’s professional Glaucomflecken spiel players.
Kristin: Well, now you’re out of my area of expertise. So I think,
Will: I think we should find someone who’s an expert in the glockenspiel.
Kristin: Mm-hmm.
Will: To, to. Do some intro music [00:03:00] for something for us.
Kristin: It’s not a bad idea. If
Will: any of you are, uh, are well versed
Kristin: and practiced
Will: in, uh, the Glaucomflecken spiel, uh, please let us know.
[music]: Yeah.
Will: Uh, maybe we need to get this message out to Germany or wherever. It probably Germany. I imagine that’s probably where the Glaucomflecken spiel. Originated
Kristin: Probably, I would think so based on the name.
Will: This is probably if our, if our producers are paying attention, this is probably something that they can look up while we’re talking.
Kristin: They probably already are.
Will: Um, alright. So, uh, Kristin, uh, you know, what’s been going on with you is you just got back, you got the celebrity treatment up in, uh, was the state of Washington.
Kristin: The celebrity treatment. I saw
Will: photos, people were taking selfies.
Kristin: Oh, well that’s true. Yeah.
Will: Yeah.
Kristin: Um, yeah, I went up for the Washington State Medical Association like leadership conference.
Yeah. Um, it was pretty fun. They were a fun group of people. Like they had a really good sense of humor and it was like high energy and That’s great. It was really cool, and I told [00:04:00] them like, you guys are the most fun group that I’ve ever, I think spoken in front of with maybe the exception of, you know, the Australians, they’re always fun, like they’re hard to beat
Will: as far as keynotes.
Well, any
Kristin: group?
Will: Well, some of those live shows we did at the comedy clubs. Well,
Kristin: okay, sure. That’s fine. Keynote, like, that’s, that’s like a different category, right? Keynotes. Yeah.
Will: But keynotes, yeah. What time of day did you speak?
Kristin: Um, it was evening.
Will: Okay. That always helps. Yeah. Yeah, it
Kristin: does, right. It definitely.
And there, there were, um, some, some drink tickets being passed around. Nice. Ahead of time. Very nice. Like there was a reception before and then I spoke at the dinner. Yeah.
Will: So that’s good.
Kristin: Yeah.
I thought was really cool because, um, you know, as a family member of a mm-hmm. Physician, um, they invite, they have this conference every year, I think, and they invite the families and the children even. Mm. And they have, you know, it’s, it’s a very family [00:05:00] friendly Right. Um, time. And so I was very like. I thought that would’ve been nice.
Right? To be included and invited to, especially like during training when you had to do things more, um, that I would’ve liked that. Um, but apparently what,
Will: well, except that some of the things that you talk about are horrifying.
Kristin: I. Right. So I did have to have the children leave the room at one point.
Will: Was that a weird conversation because you had the, you talked with the organizers beforehand.
They’re like, listen, we’re gonna, we’re gonna be playing this 9 1 1 call.
[music]: Yeah.
Will: About, that’s literally the sounds of my husband dying. Mm-hmm. Um, and me trying to save his life. Yeah. Uh, uh, the kids need to leave.
Kristin: Yeah.
Will: And they were like, okay.
Kristin: Um,
Will: or they like shocked by that there was
Kristin: no place for the.
Children to collective. Like there’s nobody that’s babysitting the children. Sure, yeah. They’re just there. It’s just each individual parent. Um, and they were all in the back at a table, like [00:06:00] coloring and stuff.
[music]: Yeah.
Kristin: Um, so I let them know at the beginning of the talk, and then again, like right before it’s like, you know, just as a mother, if it were me, I would want to escort my child out right now.
Will: So as soon as that part came on, it was like the, there’s like a SpongeBob meme of. The, the parent fish, like pushing the little baby fish out the door. Yeah.
Kristin: Pretty much.
Will: Yeah. Nice. You survived dinner?
Kristin: Uh, well, I didn’t, um, I never eat when I’m speaking at dinner. Right. Like there’s not a lot of time for one thing.
Right. And then people are talking to you. Mm-hmm. Right? Because you’re, you’re arriving and you’re sitting at a table and people are coming and sitting down and they’re hello and start talking and it’s just like there’s not enough time to actually eat. So, um,
Will: so you got saved from like, the salmon Wait afterward?
Kristin: It was actually, I probably would’ve been fine. It was a, a Mexican, it was like a taco bar.
Will: Oh, nice.
Kristin: So, yeah.
Will: That’s good. Any other thoughts?
Kristin: Well, yeah, [00:07:00] I, I was gonna go back to, um, the family thing apparent. I, like I said, I really liked it, but apparently some people. Are starting to feel differently about that.
Like they don’t want to spend their family time, you know, weekend or evening, um, doing work stuff, like at a work event.
[music]: Mm-hmm. Okay.
Kristin: Even if the family is invited, but, you know, because the members do have to go to meetings and stuff during the day and I assume that the families go off and it’s in a beautiful place.
So they, they probably, you know, go off and have fun, but. I just thought that’s an interesting
Will: Wait. So shift. What’s the shift so that, ’cause people have always not wanted to actually go to the sessions at conferences.
Kristin: Sure, sure, sure. Um, so what
Will: are you, what exactly are you talking about?
Kristin: It sounded like, and again, I’m like a third party dropping in for two hours.
Right. So’s take it with a grain of salt. But it sounded like they [00:08:00] are having to rethink how they do their meeting every year. Because, um, it used to be seen as like a, a positive thing to bring your family and, you know, do all that. And then now it’s kind of shifting to where it’s more like, no, this is our actually family time that you’re using.
And so I don’t wanna be spending any of that doing work things.
Will: I see
Kristin: it used to just be a little more, I don’t know, accepted, I guess to, to do it that way.
Will: I don’t know. So like they’re, I can see both sides. So maybe they’re not people, these academic institutions will no longer be, be marketing their meetings as a family friendly meeting.
Kristin: I don’t know. That was what they were discussing. It’s like, hmm, interesting. What’s, what’s the right move here? So
Will: they’re all about trying to get the attendance, I wanna get the attendance
Kristin: right. And I saw it as like, well, you have to go anyway. Right? So better if. We get to come along if it’s in a cool [00:09:00] place and you know Right.
Versus just staying home and doing regular life, but minus one parent.
Will: What was the, what was the big takeaway? Like one thing, like when you give a keynote, like what’s like the, like one thing that you want people to come away with?
Kristin: Um, I mean, the whole point of the talk is that. Any medical events, like, you know, big medical events, cancer, cardiac arrest, you know, anything really that is kind of life changing that also happens to, you know, the people around the patient, the spouses, the children, the family members, uh, friends, you know?
Mm-hmm. And, and that basically that the patient is not an island, right? Like it’s. It’s more complex than that. And right now there’s nothing in the healthcare system to be able to acknowledge any of that. You know, whether it’s during the acute event or even after the patient goes home, you know, if we are ever acknowledged, it’s just [00:10:00] as the caregiver that can take care of the patient once it, once the patient is no longer in the hospital.
Um. And so it’s still like, like you’re an extension
Will: of the medical team.
Kristin: Yeah. And not like an, a whole person who’s actually struggling with this. Not to mention has no medical experience and this is really mm-hmm. Like, intimidating to have to take care of somebody. Um, so yeah, that’s the main thing is just that it does, it doesn’t happen to just one person.
It happens to everybody that, um, loves that person.
Will: Yeah. Message physicians, you know. Don’t, don’t think in that way. Right. You know, I’m not taught to think in that way. Right.
[music]: Yeah. It’s,
Will: it’s very patient-centric.
Kristin: Right.
Will: Whi which is good for in certain, like at times, yeah. I mean, I
Kristin: want the doctors focused on the medical care of the patient.
Right? Sure. Like that is what they are experts in. That is what, but I just think that, um, this system should have something like, there [00:11:00] should be. Recognition. It shouldn’t just be a great big gap in the system. There should be services or something for these people. And at the very least, just to start like maybe just acknowledgement of how hard it must be for them, right?
Just treat them like a human being, who this is happening to. And so that’s a point I make is, you know. I’m not saying that you have to provide all the care to everyone that is attached to the patient. I’m just saying like, before you’re a doctor, you are just a human and, uh, and we are just a human. And so like in our interactions with each other, just remember the humanity of the situation and be, you know, a human to each other rather than this like clinical
[music]: Yeah.
Kristin: Um, distance and. You know, I don’t know, just like, just be a human. That’s really what my talk is all about. Yeah. Hey, don’t forget, we’re all humans.
Will: Um, last question about your talks. ’cause I, I don’t know if I’ve [00:12:00] seen you, I haven’t been able to see you just give one of your keynotes
[music]: Right? Solo, just by yourself.
Will: Solo one. So, um, you do make fun of me, right?
Kristin: Of course.
Will: Okay. All right. Yeah, just making sure.
Kristin: Yeah. You have to start it that way. What?
Will: Gimme, can you gimme something that you, you know.
Kristin: What’s your like go-to Joe Open. So my first, the, my opener is, um, you know, I show a picture of you and all your different characters.
Yeah. You know, and um, I say for those of you that are familiar with us on social media, yes, I am married to Dr. Glaucomflecken and yes, I do accept condolences for that. That’s
Will: good.
I’d certainly approve. Um, uh. Well, that’s great. I’m glad you did that. That sounds like a good event.
Kristin: Yeah, it was really good. Um, it was like a bunch
Will: of leadership medical people in Washington. Yeah. And, and that’s, that’s who you, you know, it’s good, good to get your message out there, group. Yeah. There were hospital
Kristin: administrators there.
Yeah. And yeah.
Will: Good.
Kristin: A bunch of, [00:13:00] a variety of people, lots of physicians. So it was good.
Will: Well, I, uh, have some healthcare news. Okay. I, I thought I’d, I’d, because typically healthcare news is pretty depressing. Yeah. I have something that’s just kind of interesting.
[music]: Okay.
Will: So this is a, a, a kind of a pop. It’s reached the pop culture culture, like the mainstream news pop science.
Yeah. You know, like, uh, it’s something you like, they have like NBC news articles about this thing. Yeah. Okay. Right. So this, that’s how I heard about it. I did a little bit more digging, but, uh, basically the, the, the, the clickbait headline is, uh, scientists have discovered a new color.
[music]: Oh. Okay.
Will: Yeah. So I was dubious immediately.
Mm-hmm. It’s like, okay, like a new color. Like we know what the, the normal spectrum, the wavelength spectrum, right. For human, like color vision is.
[music]: Mm-hmm.
Will: Um, and I think there’s two interesting things about this. So this is a group of scientists, I think outta California, I wanna say, um, that, uh, [00:14:00] said they have, they have, they did an.
We’re able to isolate like individual cone, wave con, like wavelength cones. So there’s different wavelength cones. There’s S cones, L cones. M cones. Don’t worry about that. They’re
Kristin: associate’s A different wave Designed to respond a certain wave length. Exactly,
Will: exactly. And so they’ve discovered this device that allows you to individually stimulate a specific cone.
Okay, so it’s a specific wavelength of light, but they’ve been able to not just like blanket, you know, bathe the retina and light, they can focus it using fancy engineering.
[music]: Mm-hmm.
Will: To individually stimulate certain cones. So I think that’s actually the coolest thing about this Yeah. Is that they were able to do that because, right.
’cause that, you know, could have implications for being able to treat certain, like forms of colorblindness.
[music]: Mm-hmm.
Will: If you can just isolate certain [00:15:00] cones that, that, that people can see well and yeah. You know, maybe that can help facilitate, you know, color vision a little bit. But, um, what their hypothesis was that is, is that, uh, there are certain cones that.
Um, have so much overlap with other cones
[music]: mm-hmm.
Will: That they normally can’t be stimulated by themselves, by like normal ambient light.
[music]: Mm-hmm.
Will: And so you never see what the actual color that those individual cones
Kristin: Okay.
Will: Are. So why are they there reacting to, what do they do? Well, because the combination of cones give you all, all kinds of different colors.
And so their idea is that, okay, in the normal world, normal light. These cones can’t be stimulated individually. Mm-hmm. And so we’re going to individually stimulate them to see if the patient, the subject, will see a new color.
Kristin: Okay.
Will: And so they, they did that and there was this, [00:16:00] basically what the subject saw was this, it’s like a very, very highly saturated pink.
[music]: Mm.
Will: And they called this color, oh, what was it? It was called, um. Olo, OLO. They called it Olo. I dunno why they called it that.
Kristin: Interesting.
Will: What I thought was kind of, and this is up for debate on whether or not this is actually like quote unquote a new color.
Kristin: Mm-hmm. Well, I have a question before that. Sure.
About just the mechanics of this thing.
Will: Yeah.
Kristin: Are we sure that it’s, you know, when you get a bright light in your eye, it is kind of red, pink, you know? Yeah. Are we sure that’s not what was happening? Well,
Will: so. What, what I find very kind of I’m skeptical about is, is the, the reporting, the way the, the subjects reported the color.
Mm-hmm. Like they turned some kind of dial until the, the color they saw mm-hmm. Matched what was on the dial.
Kristin: Okay.
Will: But [00:17:00] if it was on the dial,
Kristin: how is it new? How is it a new color? Yeah.
Will: So I don’t, I don’t really, and, and there’s some skepticism like, okay, is this really a new color? This might just be like a.
Headline grabbing type thing. Right, right.
Kristin: Yeah.
Will: So I, I am very, I don’t, I don’t, I’m not convinced at all that this is actually a new color.
Kristin: Yeah.
Will: But what I think is the most interesting thing about this study is the way they were able to individually stimulate cones. Yeah. I’ve never heard of that being able to happen because cones are very, very tiny.
Kristin: Right. That is pretty cool. Um. I am reading this article. You have pulled up about it and it says it’s a blue green color, not pink. So I retract my previous,
Will: oh, I thought it was pink. Oh yes. Well, may, maybe somewhere else. I, maybe I got it mixed up. There’s somewhere else that they were talking about pink in here.
Yeah, but Okay. A blue green color.
Kristin: Yeah.
Will: So anyway, but they called it Oh.
Kristin: But yeah,
Will: they called it Olo and I don’t know. It, it, it’s, it’s a really cool experiment. Yeah. And the way they were able to. I’m looking at a picture of the device and [00:18:00] there’s lots of lasers. Lots of lots of lenses. Yeah. Uh, fascinating stuff.
There’s so much. I think color vision is really fascinating. Um, yeah, there’s so many different types of colorblindness and, um, people could go their whole lives early without even knowing their color blind, right? Because they have real, still good vision, visual acuity. It’s just that their, you know, color perceptions off.
So I. Stay tuned for that.
Kristin: Okay. You’ll have to do an update at some point. We’ll
Will: see what happens with that. All right, let’s take a break. We’ll come right back.
Kristin: So Will,
[music]: yeah.
Kristin: You’re always teaching me things about Dedex mites, your little friends there. Yeah. But let’s switch things up a bit.
[music]: Okay.
Kristin: How about I ask you a couple questions to see how much you really know?
[music]: Go for it.
Kristin: Okay. Let’s do it. What are the only two main species of demodex mites found in humans?
Will: Oh, type one and type two.
Kristin: Hmm. Got on that one? Mm-hmm. [00:19:00] Demodex follicular. Okay. Which are found in the eyelash follicles. And demodex brevis, which are found in the meibomian glands.
Will: Impressive. Alright. Next question.
Kristin: Why do people with blepharitis often feel itchy eyelids? First thing in the morning.
Will: Ah, I know this because I use it to gross you out.
Dex mites avoid light and they come out mostly at night to mate and move between your eyelash follicles. So many people will wake up with that itchy, irritated feeling along their eyelids. So gross. I’m surprised you even brought that up. I know,
Kristin: I know. I’m just trying to get used to these mites since Dedex blepharitis is such a common disease and we keep talking about it.
Will: Well, that’s a big step, and we know there’s a prescription eye drop available to treat Dedex Blepharitis. I.
Kristin: A treatment makes me feel much more comfortable about this topic.
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Okay, we are back. Uh, here’s what I thought we could do for the rest of the episode.
Kristin: Okay.
Will: We haven’t really, we don’t really get into some of the YouTube comments.
Kristin: Oh, yeah. Mm-hmm. And
Will: so I just, I collected some comments. We have some interesting ones over the last couple episodes. Yeah. Um, these are all, I mean, we
Kristin: see them, we see ’em clear, but we don’t talk about them a lot on, in a, uh.
Will: Actually read all the big way
Kristin: on the podcast.
Will: And this is something I don’t normally do. I I actually read all of the comments
Kristin: Yeah.
Will: On the YouTube channel. ’cause they’re, I, I like it because it’s like, these are like the people that are really, you know, paying attention to the podcast. Right. Generally.
Generally there’s no
Kristin: trolls. Yeah. There’s not a lot of
Will: trolls. You know, if people have criticism, that’s fine, but, um, but it’s, it’s like, you can tell it’s not. AI generated, like, it’s like, right, not like bots. Yeah. It’s, it’s like real people. And so I do enjoy that. Um, at Glaucomflecken FFLs, by the way, that’s the podcast [00:21:00] YouTube channel for Knock, knock High.
And, um, and so I pulled some from our most recent episodes that we could go through some of these. Okay. You wanna, alright, so first let’s, uh, you know, the, the episode, um, that was recently posted was. About our five year anniversary of the cardiac arrest. Yes. And got some great comments. Uh, I really appreciate the people who are talking about their own personal experiences with heart issues, with health problems in general.
Uh, lots of shout outs for you.
Kristin: Yep. Thank you. So, yep.
Will: Here we go. We got, um. Francis Bowman, this is one of my favorite comments. I’m going to watch the episode about the event for more info, but shout out to Lady G for doing CPR for that long on a person who is that much larger while in all, all caps healing from neck surgery.
Kristin: Did I mention that? I don’t think I mentioned that. Did I?
Will: I think you, you’ve mentioned it at some point. Okay. I think you did. I’m like, I’m,
Kristin: that’s what I’m wondering is if this person has like, pieced together information from over time different places. Yeah.
Will: That’s an Iron Woman right there. Best [00:22:00] wishes to toggle Plexus and thanks for what you do.
Yeah. And like how, how long after the neck surgery? Yeah.
Kristin: Yeah. I don’t usually talk about that part so much. Uh, it was, um,
Will: couple months.
Kristin: It was four, almost four months. Yeah. You know, the incision was healed and all of that. Right. You weren’t in a neck brace
Will: anymore? No,
Kristin: I wasn’t in a neck brace anymore. Uh, but still, uh, I guess it, I don’t know, kind of like in the rehab phase.
Yeah. You know? Sure. Like I was going to physical therapy and, um, just kind of making sure things didn’t get stiff and stuck there. Right. So, um, and it, and it still was like. You know, pretty, pretty tender, pretty weak still. Um,
Will: that was the first time I had ever seen you under the effects of anesthesia.
Kristin: Did you?
Will: Yeah. I
Kristin: don’t remember much.
Will: Yeah, because I was, I brought you there and I was waiting for you to come back. And then you, they brought you back in afterwards. Okay. You were wearing the neck brace. You didn’t actually, you didn’t, you’re not like a [00:23:00] fun silly
Kristin: No.
Will: You’re not like an angry person. Yeah. But it was like you were.
It was like you were stranded in the desert.
Kristin: Was I thirsty? And you were just,
Will: and you wanna water like every like five minutes you. Yeah. Yeah. I
Kristin: wonder what that’s about.
Will: Yeah. You’re just very thirsty.
Kristin: Yeah, I guess so. Surgery makes me thirsty, so, but that was
Will: it. I don’t have any other,
Kristin: this surgery is making me thirsty.
Will: Yeah. I think I acted out more than you did.
Kristin: Yeah, well, you’re right.
You’re just giggly and silly when, when you’re under anesthesia
Will: and very concerned with, with making the nurses do stuff for me, apparently. Uh, what do you mean? Didn’t you say that? I was like, you know, apologizing to the nurses for one of my surgeries, like for asking for things.
Kristin: I don’t remember.
Will: Oh, I remember that.
I mean, maybe
Kristin: I, my [00:24:00] memory these days is just shot.
Will: What is that? I
Kristin: used to have such a good memory. Yeah. It happened to you. I also used to be very punctual, believe it or not.
Will: No, you weren’t. Yeah, I was, you were never punctual. I’ll tell
Kristin: you, speaking of anesthesia, I had to have a, an oral surgery when I was in high school.
And um, I do remember the first thing that I asked as soon as I woke up is, what time is it? Because I remember having this sensa sensation of like, I don’t, I don’t know if I was really kind of awake. Yeah. You know, like, I mean asleep, but, but like somewhat aware or if that was just like how it felt coming out of it or something, but I just had this sensation of like.
I, I can’t tell how much time has passed. Mm. And that is freaking me out. Like I’m aware of the fact that I can’t tell how much time has passed. And so then when I wa when I was brought out of it, that’s what I said, what time is it?
Will: Yeah.
Kristin: So I used to [00:25:00] be, I used to be very different.
Will: I’ll say the last couple, uh, um, recording sessions we’ve had, you have sat down in the chair of solid three minutes before the time.
Kristin: Yeah, before I’m more on time. Supposed start. I’m early. So you,
Will: you’ve been doing well. Yeah. Maybe it’s, thanks
Kristin: Wellbutrin. Yeah, I was
Will: gonna say maybe it’s like your anxiety is like being treated better. You know, I used to like, it’s not anxiety
Kristin: so much. It’s, it’s the A DH adhd
Will: is it?
Kristin: And then there was, there was some depression happening.
So used to Wellbutrin covers both of those a bit.
Will: Yeah. I used to really scoff at, at people on social media who would like refer to like things called, like things like time blindness,
Kristin: Uhhuh.
Will: Which is like a made up term. Like, I don’t know if that’s,
Kristin: what do you mean is a made up term?
Will: Well, I mean, everything’s a made up term, but like, I mean as far as like a, I don’t think that’s like an actual medical, like terminology.
Kristin: It might have been called blindness, but I, I think it’s in the world of psychology.
Will: Is it? Have you heard that before? I don’t know. So anyway, um, un [00:26:00] until I, I realized like you have time blindness.
Kristin: Yeah.
Will: Quite often
Kristin: now. I do. I didn’t used to. I used, I mean, I don’t know what happened. I’ve lost, I listen. I was the person that everyone would ask, you know, what is this number?
Or, you know, just different questions about, you know, that would require a memory. And I was the go-to person when someone couldn’t remember something.
[music]: Hmm. Interesting.
Kristin: I don’t now You’re the last person know what happened. Yeah. I, no, I, I can’t even remember.
Will: Yeah.
Kristin: Yesterday.
Will: It’s like your, your, your hippocampus is just cheese.
I dunno what happened.
Kristin: Yeah.
Will: Get you in some kind of, I
Kristin: dunno if it’s just like there’s too much stuff in there now. It just became full. And then just, I don’t know.
Will: That’s a, a known medical, I don’t have
Kristin: a way to flush it out. So a known medical
Will: phenomenon. Yeah. Full brain. Full brain. Full brain. Yeah. It’s just it.
You’re done. Yep. That’s exactly, that’s it.
Kristin: That’s all I got’s. I need like an upgrade to my [00:27:00] hardware,
Will: but I don’t
Kristin: think they make that yet.
Will: A secondary brain. A second. The second thing you can, whenever your first brain fills up Uhhuh,
Kristin: it’s just an external hard drive that you, that’s can dump your first brain into.
That’s
Will: how I felt immediately after I, I finished my. Oral boards.
Kristin: Mm. The
Will: last major test I ever read sick, I was like, my brain’s full. Right? Like I, I’m done with putting stuff in it. It’s the thing
Kristin: I’m not, I mean, I’m not saying it’s a medical thing, but like, it’s a sensation that people experience of just like, I can’t take in any more information.
Will: Yeah. For me, fortunately I was able to get rid of all the, like, basic medical, like
Kristin: Yeah. Immediately just about the
Will: internal medicine. Anything that featuring an organ you can’t directly look at. Right. Um, is, is gone for me, so, yeah.
Kristin: You only have the the memory capacity now to remember an organ that’s. How big is it?
Will: There’s a remarkable amount of stuff in that 23 millimeter organ.
Kristin: Well, that’s true.
Will: I’m just saying. All right. That’s true. Alright, so in some more, uh, comments about our five year anniversary, uh, a couple questions about [00:28:00] defibrillators.
Kristin: If someone’s just listening to this episode and they didn’t listen to the other episode Oh yeah.
They’re gonna be so confused. So
Will: just, just so you know. So five years ago, it’s not
Kristin: a wedding anniversary or something. No. Five years ago.
Will: It’s, it’s a, it’s not a great anniversary. No. Uh, I guess it’s the anniversary of me surviving a cardiac arrest. So in that respect, it’s good. Yeah. Uh, but it’s a very traumatic experience for all involved.
Um, but uh, yeah, the five years, so it’s been five years since that event at cardiac arrest, Kristin did 10 minutes chest compressions. A whole bunch of other stuff happened,
[music]: blah, blah, blah. I’m here.
Will: I’m here. And then whenever you have it outta hospital, cardiac arrest, you get a defibrillator. Uh, now there’s different, I don’t think I’ve ever talked about this.
There’s like different types of defibrillators you can get.
[music]: Mm-hmm.
Will: Um, the classic defibrillator. Is one where the, the leads will, it’s kind of right underneath your, your pec, like in your chest, the, the, the box. And then you have a lead that goes kind of directly [00:29:00] into your aorta basically, or some of the sounds awful.
One of the major arteries that come off of the heart. So it’s like right there, like in your heart. Um. Now, whenever you’re, I think some of the criteria for this, for having a, a different type of one is, is you have to be like a young person and, uh, a certain you have to have had a certain type of cardiac arrest.
I wanna say like mine was, I had ventricular fibrillation. We don’t know exactly what caused that. Um, all my testing was normal, uh, but I guess I qualified for a subcutaneous. ICD implantable cardiac defibrillator. Uh, so mine is not right here on my chest. It’s in my armpit basically. It’s like right here on my side, like right under, right underneath my armpit.
Um, it sits there and the leads kind of go. They’re more superficial. They’re not, they’re not. I don’t have any leads in my heart. They just kind of come right underneath my, uh, kind of at the bottom of my sternum, and I have one. [00:30:00] I can kind of feel ’em, they kind of go along the bone. Yeah, they’re like, just
Kristin: right under the skin.
Yeah.
Will: Right. Uh, yeah, a little bit, maybe a little bit deep. They’re subcutaneous, right? So it’s, it’s right. Pretty close to the, to the surface. Um, and, uh, and so that’s, it’s, it’s a little bit. More of a, a secure thing. I, I believe like it’s less likely that the leads will dislodge or move because obviously you have a lead like in your heart.
Who knows? Like that, that could, I mean, that’s just a problem
Kristin: grade if you have Yeah. Something wiggling around in your heart, right? In a place’s not
Will: supposed to be. So, I mean, that’s my defibrillator. Um, and, uh, knock on wood, it’s never gone off. Uh, but I had a couple questions from some listeners. So at six, Fiona, six P six, uh, said.
Thank you for sharing this extremely terrifying event that happened and all the rollercoaster experiences, emotions, and memories surrounding the cardiac arrest. One question about the implantable defibrillator. When you’re in a quiet room or are in bed at night, does the defibrillator make any audible [00:31:00] noises?
Kristin: That is a good question or
Will: sounds. No, it is totally silent. Uh, I’m pretty sure that would drive you absolutely insane. Yeah, that be that To to hear my defibrillator
Kristin: maybe a separate bed situation
Will: because it’s, it’s not, it’s just there, it’s gotta a battery charge to it and it, so it only activates if it, if my, if I have some kind of a malignant arrhythmia, right.
If my heart’s not beating like it should, as opposed to then it might
Kristin: make noise. Who knows?
Will: Yeah. And I hope I never find out. Yeah, I do. I do hear that the defibrillator firing is like a horse kicking you in the chest. Yeah.
Kristin: Sounds really painful. So I
Will: don’t want that no. To happen because horses are strong.
Kristin: Yeah.
Will: Uh, baby horse, maybe that’d be better. Still,
[music]: still bad, but still probably pretty bad. Yeah. You know,
Will: like a, like a little Sebastian situation would be probably better than a secretariat.
Kristin: That was an unexpected reference,
Will: but as [00:32:00] long as it works, like that’s, that’s what matters. But no, it does not make any, it’s silent as opposed to like a pacemaker.
Kristin: Uhhuh, do those make noise?
Will: So I
Kristin: don’t know if I, is it like you’ve got a metronome?
Will: Yeah. I don’t know if I’ve, I’ve heard specific. You can hear it whenever you listen to the heart, like
Kristin: with the stethoscope.
Yeah.
Will: Uh, one thing I have heard, like ambi in a really quiet room is artificial valves. Sometimes like weird, the mechanical valves, they can be quite loud and you can, you can sometimes like hear ’em, hear them like, like every, like the heartbeat, you know? It’s not really loud, but. I feel like certain ones I’ve heard like just listening really intently, right.
In a quiet room. So anyway. Interesting. Yeah.
Kristin: I wonder, I mean, you must just get used to it if have it not the kind of white
Will: noise that you want.
Kristin: No.
Will: Although, ’cause you, do you sleep with a jet engine, right? I less some white noise. Oh my God. You guys, this, this white noise machine that Kristin uses, it’s not
Kristin: a, it’s not a white noise machine, it’s an air purifier.
So I think that’s why it’s so much louder. It
Will: is insanely, I [00:33:00] honestly feel like I need to wear it. Like it might be damaging your hearing.
[music]: Mm-hmm. Over
Will: time.
[music]: Mm-hmm.
Will: Like whenever, so we have a TV in our room, if that thing is on and the tv, you cannot hear the TV ’cause that that thing is so loud. It’s, I don’t know how you say it.
You can
Kristin: hear the tv, you might just not be able to make out all the words you’re saying, but just it’s not like, it’s louder amazed than the volume of the tv.
Will: I’m just amazed by your, by, I call it your jet engine. I,
Kristin: I’ve got a, uh, I don’t, you know, the mama hearing thing is like, it’s a real thing. If I, if there’s any noise mm-hmm.
That gets to me, I will wake up. So I have to have something that just is a constant, yeah. Sound that is just, it’s not gonna change. Yeah. And it’s loud enough that it covers the little house noises that happen at night and stuff like that. So
Will: unfortunately now I am so accustomed to it.
Kristin: No, you can’t sleep without it.
No.
Will: I have trouble when I go to a hotel room. Oh no. I have trouble sleeping.
Kristin: Yeah.
Will: Without something like that. Yeah. You
Kristin: know, they make [00:34:00] apps.
Will: Yeah, I know, I know. I have ’em. They’re just, they’re not, they’re not, they’re not as good. They’re not as good. See you like it.
Kristin: I You’re giving me a hard time. You conditioned.
Will: Yeah. But you, it’s your fault. You conditioned me to have to use it to sleep. Alright. Uh, another question from, at JM VH seven oh C says, curious of your defibrillator has gone off in the five years you’ve had it. So I just answered that. Nope. It has not.
Kristin: And I
Will: don’t,
Kristin: hopefully never,
Will: I don’t like worry about it.
I, I think at first I was like. Anticipating. Mm-hmm. But it would go like, I was like thinking about it a lot more. Right. I don’t even think about it. I forget it’s there. The only time I remember that the defibrillator is even there is when I’m wrestling with our youngest daughter and she accidentally kicks me right in the defibrillator.
Kristin: That sounds awful. It
Will: sucks. That does not feel good. What does
Kristin: it, what does it feel like? Like it, it just hits your ribs or, yeah. It’s just
Will: a, like a rib shot and, yeah. And it, you know, I, I’m more, it’s more concerning that. Like, it would just disrupt some of the leads in there. Right. But, uh, anyway, [00:35:00]
Kristin: speaking of which, don’t you, don’t you need to schedule a cardiology appointment?
Will: Uh, I think you’re overdue. Yeah. Let’s go on. Mm-hmm. So doctors are the worst patients, you guys.
[music]: Oh,
Will: all right. Let’s take a quick break and we’ll come back. I have a couple other topics to, uh, to discuss.
Hey Kristin. Yeah. Why did we not get life insurance sooner?
Kristin: I don’t know, but it’s a decision. I regret.
Will: What was I like, did I think I was gonna live forever?
Kristin: Apparently. I think we just didn’t really know about it.
Will: Didn’t think about it. Yeah. You know, it’s, it’s, it’s never too early to get life insurance.
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All right, another topic that we discussed on a prior episode was which characters should join OnlyFans.
[music]: Yes.
Will: We got some great responses. Mm. All right. So at Old Man yells at a cloud loudly. Great name. Yeah. Oh, this is Easy. Pathologist wins by a mile.
Kristin: Oh, interesting. Only these fans
Will: has an obviously unaddressed market segment for inanimate objects.
Kristin: Oh. [00:37:00] Okay.
Will: I, old man yells at Cloud loudly is very well versed. And what is underrepresented on OnlyFans
Kristin: seems to be,
Will: and as a bonus and cash saver, you could commence Lady G to voice tabitha’s reactions from off camera.
Kristin: No, you can’t,
Will: you don’t have to be on camera.
Kristin: Nope. Not, no.
Will: Just you’re providing the voice mm-hmm.
Of the OnlyFans version of Tabitha. No,
Kristin: thank you.
Will: She takes out pass
Kristin: hard pass.
Will: She takes out her slide.
Kristin: Okay.
Will: Adjusts the, alright. Stop it. Fine. Focus,
Kristin: stop. It is just disturbing.
Will: Can move that stage up and down. You know how many objectives there are on Tabitha?
Kristin: Maybe you should voice Tabitha.
Will: Alright, so I had some votes for Tabitha, so I really votes for the, for the pathologist.
Uh, but mostly I think for Tabitha, a lot of people wanted Jonathan.
Kristin: Yep. Of course.
Will: They’re like, like, where do I, it’s gotta be Jonathan, where do I, where do I send [00:38:00] my money? For a Jonathan? Mm-hmm. Only fan. I’m not sure what people are expecting.
Kristin: Well, I think that’s the. Part of why they wanna see it.
Will: It’s the mystery of it all.
Like what would happen? Well, what exactly does this look like? Uh, and let’s see. Oh, this at Suzy says, so 7 4 1 3 says, uh, neurologists. No question for the masochists.
Kristin: Perhaps also an unaddressed market segment.
Will: Yeah, neurologists. Good. Um, another person wanted said, I don’t have their, their comment up here, but someone said, um.
Uh, the nephrologist with the salt containers. Oh. Like only wearing the salt containers. Oh, I see. Yeah. Yeah. So just
Kristin: like a, like a belt with the salt on it? Yeah. Yeah. Something like that. Mm-hmm.
Will: Yeah. Okay. To each their own if everyone’s got, got a thing. Uh, and then this is, uh, another comment. So at Kiro Xh, who has sent this exact comment before, I think, oh, [00:39:00] because says, I’ve said this before, and I’ll say.
Make an OnlyFans. Oh, sorry. Make an OF ocular fans
Kristin: Ah, where
Will: you can show the gross eye stuff. You can’t on knock, knock eye.
Kristin: Yeah.
Will: Is is that a, a thing that you can do with OnlyFans?
Kristin: I have no idea.
Will: Like it does it have to be like pornographic and material? You could just be, I
Kristin: don’t think so. I think that’s just what happens when humans are given a platform like that.
It just inevitably leads to pornography things,
Will: things happen. Ocular fans. I, I like it as like a concept.
Kristin: Yeah.
Will: Not like on that,
Kristin: no.
Will: That, not platform, but, but just as a, uh, you know, I’ve seen other creators do that. There was a TikTok creator that did, um. Only pans. She was a cook.
Like so, and there’s like things you could do. I think ocular fans, uh, yeah, would be good. All those girls
Kristin: eyeball [00:40:00] pictures that I would always cover up when you left it open on the coffee table.
Will: I have no idea. I have so many. The, the problem is I, I could absolutely create like a branch in the Glaucomflecken business.
Mm-hmm. That’s like super. Like gross eyeball stuff.
[music]: Yeah.
Will: Uh, the problem is, I, I don’t own any of the images. Right, right. So like we get into copyright problems. Mm-hmm. I don’t know how to, to navigate that.
Kristin: Yeah. You know where you can see some, some gross eyeball images though.
Will: I rounds?
Kristin: Yes. That
Will: I was editor in chief.
Mm-hmm. And residency. Yeah, I rounds.org. Go check it out. They have, they have amazing photos, honestly, like they’re, they’re like award-winning photos because yes, there are awards that are given out for eyeball photos. That is a thing. And Iowa’s probably won more than anybody out there.
Kristin: Yeah. It’s a great resource.
Will: Huge amount of like thousands of eyeball photos and very detail. Lots of open globes. Chemical injuries.
Kristin: Right. It’s [00:41:00] not just eyeball photos. Soupy. It’s
Will: soupy infections.
Kristin: Yeah. It’s for ophthalmologist and training. When I say soupy,
Will: I’m talking about like,
Kristin: okay.
Will: Gumbo.
Kristin: Yeah. Mm-hmm.
Will: Like,
Kristin: okay.
Will: A lobster bisque.
Kristin: Yeah. So anyway, uh, the pathologist split the soup. Nope. Okay.
Will: All right. Last thing. People want mom stories.
Kristin: Mom stories. Who’s mom?
Will: My mom.
Kristin: Okay.
Will: So people really liked the, where we went into the glass store together. Oh. And I pretended that I was blind. Uhhuh.
Kristin: Yeah.
Will: And so at, uh, Nia said, love stories that include your mom.
She’s hilarious. No wonder you’re in comedy.
Kristin: The thing is you’re trying to be funny. She’s not.
Will: Oh, I got, so, I have a story. This is the, we’ll, we’ll close out the episode with
Kristin: this.
[music]: Okay.
Will: Okay. So my mom is. The classic extrovert. Yes. Like you cannot, like [00:42:00] she’s always has something even in retirement now. Like she, first of all, she was a, a middle school, um, um, a teacher for her entire career.
So sixth, sixth grade usually, uh, math, language arts. She taught a bunch of different things. Um.
Kristin: That’s another story you could tell, I guess another day. That’s true.
Will: Yeah. But I, so, so she, she’s a huge, huge extrovert and uh, yeah, like when we go on family vacation, she was always, I. You can always count on her to ask for directions.
Yeah. Or to like, just talk to a stranger. To say anything to anyone. Really. Just say anything. If you’re like in a, in a, uh, at this, at a big event with lots of people, like a wedding or something, and she’s at your table, you love having my mom at your table. Mm-hmm. Because things will never get awkward.
Right. ’cause she will always start conversations and, and just she she holds the crowd. Yeah. Like she, she has stories after story. So anyway, um, so that’s just the per, I wanna say that just as the, to set the [00:43:00] stage for like my mom’s personality. Yeah. Um, she, she’s fearless. Yeah. When it comes to social interactions,
Kristin: no shame.
Will: No shame whatsoever. Uh, so,
Kristin: which can come in handy.
Will: Yes. But it can also be a problem sometimes. Yes. So, so, uh, there was, um, uh, this was years ago. I, it had to have been at least, uh, 15 years ago there was this, this, uh, event in Houston. Like you get your, like a group of friends together. You go on a scavenger hunt, it’s like a citywide scavenger hunt.
Yeah. So you’d all pile in a car and you’d had go to try to have to find different things and find clues, and then there’s like a cash prize at the end. So it was like a big deal. It was like, you know, they, they had ’em in I think a lot of different cities, wasn’t
Kristin: it based on that TV show? Oh, what was that called?
Will: The bucket list. No.
Kristin: The amazing race.
Will: Oh yeah, yeah. That’s right. Exactly. That’s what it was. Yeah. It was like the amazing race. Uh, but in real life, like, I mean, that was a reality tv, but for for, for the, the common folk. For the common
Kristin: folk, yes. Yes. Anyone [00:44:00] could, yeah. Sign up.
Will: So they had this clue. Her and her outgoing friends, uh, teacher, friends when teachers get together, by the way.
Yeah. That’s wild time, man. It is a wild, absolutely wild. So they’re driving around, they’re, they’re acting all crazy. They’re just, they’re trying to, to win this competition. And, um, of course they, they got, they, they needed. You couldn’t use GPS by the way. Like this was, I think this was even before like GPS was common.
Right? So you had to just figure it out by maps or asking directions so they didn’t know where they were going at some point, trying to find something. And so who was gonna ask for directions? Obviously it was my mom. Mm-hmm. Like she, nobody in our family would ever ask for directions. ’cause we didn’t want to, like, would have to like, talk to somebody and, and, and let our guard down
Kristin: just say.
Excuse me. Can you just Exactly.
Will: But she’s like, pull over, we’ll do, so they, they pulled over ’cause my mom found, like, saw like a group of [00:45:00] people in like a park.
[music]: Mm-hmm.
Will: Um, and they pulled over, she got out of the car, she ran up to them and was like, just acting real demonstrative because they were in a hurry.
He is like, Hey, can you help us find this? We’re trying to, we’re trying to find a building down and uh, you know, it’s over by the medical center. Uh, can you guys help us? This group of people, they turned around and with this horrified look on her face, their faces, and they said, ma’am, we’re having a funeral right now.
[music]: Mm-hmm.
Will: She had stopped. Had stopped at a cemetery.
Kristin: Oh my
[music]: God.
Will: They were having a memorial service.
Kristin: Did the tombstones and the all black clothing not tip anyone off,
Will: you know, she just No, she just saw people. Yeah. She saw people was like, I’m gonna ask people, there are people there that can help us. It could have been anybody.
Yeah, it could have been absolutely anybody in any situation, but there were people that she could ask a question to [00:46:00] and, uh, she, I, when she tells a story like she is. She was just so horrified. Yeah. Uh, and apologetic. And because my mom, she’s also the sweetest person in the world. Right, right. She cares deeply for people.
Mm-hmm. And so she felt so bad, but it’s just my mom that’s just like, yep. She’s just like, I’m just gonna ask. Um, and, and that, that kind of stuff happens. Like, whenever we were in, I wanna say we were in like Niagara Falls or we went on a trip, like all of us together. Mm-hmm. Um, I think you were there too at this point.
Uh, um, we were going, it was like a SubT thing, and as we were walking to the thing, you know, there’s, you know, people like try to scam you. Yeah. And like, you know, offer you like. And, and, and so we were walking to this thing and some scammer guy, uh, just was asking, everybody asked our group, Hey, you guys, I can show you around here.
Mm-hmm. And my mom’s like, oh, yeah, we’d love to know, we’d love to [00:47:00] hear, uh, uh, from you. That kind of thing. Like, she’ll just she’ll mm-hmm. She, she could very easily, I think, fall for like, like scams. I gotta, I gotta watch her as she’s getting older. Yeah. Be careful, you know, make sure that she doesn’t, you know, uh, just she, she assumes the best.
[music]: Like,
Will: everybody’s got the best intentions, I think, at times. Mm-hmm. So, anyway, that’s just, that’s just who she is. So. Yep. Anyway, that’s my mom’s story. There’s so many. There are. There are so many. So that’s our episode for today. Uh, let me know if you guys wanna hear more. Uh, uh, ma Glaucomflecken flicking.
Mm-hmm. Stuff. Uh, ’cause I got lots, lots of things. Thank you all for listening. You can reach out to us. Knock-knock high@humancontent.com. There’s lots of ways you can reach out to us. Email us, knock-knock high@humancontent.com. Visit us on our social media platforms. Uh, you can hang out with us in the Human Content Podcast family on Instagram and TikTok at Human Content Pods.
Thank you to all the listeners leaving feedback and reviews. Uh, so here’s a comment, another comment from YouTube at Allison David Ow 1 7 2 1 on [00:48:00] YouTube said, I will here to four be referring to implantable defibrillators as. Shock Flecking, like Kristin said. That’s right. Yes. I, that is one of the best.
Kristin: Yeah. You’re, that’s what I call it. It’s Dr. Shock
Will: Flecking. It’s my, it’s my shock Flecking. Yeah. Uh, video episodes are up every week on our YouTube channel at Glaucomflecken, so you can see what we look at. Like Kristin always looks so much better at The Bean. I, I, I saw myself. I don’t usually watch the YouTube.
Mm-hmm. Like videos of us. I look haggard often. Why did you not tell me? What do I do? Is this just me now? Is this my face? You still love me, right? I feel
Kristin: like there’s no right thing I can say right now. All right.
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Hey, Kristin. Yeah. Am I a good multitasker?
[music]: Sure.
Will: I don’t believe you. Oh, that was not very convincing.
Kristin: No,
Will: that’s okay. I, I fully admit I’m not the best at it. And the problem is physicians have to do a lot of multitasking.
Kristin: Yeah. That is a problem.
Will: Like, I’m sitting there, I, I talk to the patient. Mm-hmm. I hear all the things, synthesize all the information, come up with a diagnosis, sometimes order medications, and then maybe that has a, an interaction with a different medication.
You gotta like figure that out. You know what can help though? Microsoft Dragon copilot. Mm. Yeah. This is great. You don’t have to, you can just use Dragon Copilot, like in [00:51:00] your workflow. You can access information right at the point of care right there with the patient. And like if I wanted to look up a code, a diagnostic code mm-hmm.
For the encounter, I can use Dragon copilot. It’s, I can look up drug drug interactions. There’s, there’s an endless number of applications that you can use drag and copilot for. That’s true. Very true. I think it’s good for you as a patient too.
Kristin: Yeah. I mean, ’cause it
Will: seem, it’s stream, it’s streamlined and it’s it’s
Kristin: streamlined
Will: and you get accurate information.
Right. That’s more quickly.
Kristin: Yes, exactly. You’re taking the words right outta my mouth.
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