Topic Talk | The Jack & 'Chill Podcast 07

In this episode of The Jack & 'Chill Podcast, Xochitl and Jack talk about medical emergencies. Transcript: 00:00:03 Xochitl Jack, you kind of had a scary experience, not kind of. You definitely had a scary experience this week. Do you want? 00:00:10 Xochitl To tell our viewers about it. 00:00:12 Jack Yeah, I would, I. 00:00:13 Jack Would love to to share this. Some of our listeners out there who are students in our world English. 00:00:22 Jack Google meets class. 00:00:24 Jack I know that I've I have been absent lately. The last week or so, and about a week ago, my father had a a major heart attack which was terrifying, you know, for our family and when the. 00:00:45 Jack The doctors did tests and everything they found that basically. 00:00:50 Jack All the arteries and artery is like it's like a tube that carries blood. 00:00:55 Xochitl Again, laser vein, right a major vein. 00:00:57 Jack Right. Because your heart pumps. 00:00:59 Jack Blood to the rest of your. 00:01:01 Jack Body and it and blood feeds into the heart and then it pumps out and. 00:01:09 Jack His his arteries were all blocked like they were up. Some of them were 99% blocked, which is, I mean, you're he. He was not getting enough blood. Umm. 00:01:23 Jack And uh. And so he ended up having. 00:01:26 Jack A heart attack. 00:01:27 Jack And you know, it's the life when when you lived the life that social and I have lived like, where you work overseas. 00:01:40 Jack You're so far away from home and it's very difficult to receive news that your your family member is is really sick or having a very serious medical emergency. 00:01:54 Jack And so it was really. Here's an English expression, touch and go and touch and go means it was very delicate. Like he was very close. 00:02:07 Jack To to death. 00:02:09 Jack And luckily my my brother and his his wife were visiting my parents and they both work in the medical profession. 00:02:20 Jack Motion and my brother noticed the symptoms in my father and and and brought him into the hospital, and my dad has not left the hospital since that time and he actually went and had a a, a quadruple bypass and quadruples. 00:02:41 Jack It just means 4 quad means 4. 00:02:44 Jack UM triple bypass means 3 double bypass means two and bypass means one and so he had a A4 bypasses quadruple bypass surgery where they connect arteries. They basically go around. 00:03:04 Jack The bad part of the artery? The the tube that carries blood into the heart and out of the heart. And they, you know, created new tubes that were clear. 00:03:17 Jack And clean and they take those tubes from other parts of your body, like from your leg. Or maybe your arm. I'm not sure. And and they harvest them. They they put them, they sew them into. 00:03:37 Jack Into the heart and he he had that surgery and I just talked to him before the podcast maybe 10 minutes ago. 00:03:46 Jack No, and he's out of surgery and he's doing really, really well. And so it was one of those, like, just terrifying moments where. 00:03:58 Jack You know, you you. 00:04:01 Jack You do that kind of like thinking in your head like is. 00:04:05 Jack Is that the last time I'm gonna? 00:04:08 Jack Talk to my dad, you know, like, is this is this it like and and and you know, before he went into surgery. 00:04:16 Jack And so for those 24 hours while he was, you know, in surgery and and coming out of the surgery. 00:04:23 Jack It was, you know, I was trying to distract myself by listening to podcasts or, you know, talking with my wife and stuff like that. But luckily, everything went really, really well. And so it looks like he's going to make a full recovery. 00:04:43 Jack And you know, and for any of our our listeners out there or anyone and I know that you recently experienced a loss in your family. I've experienced a a pretty significant loss a couple of years ago and it's it's just really scary and painful. 00:05:04 Jack UM, all the uh. Here's another expression. 00:05:08 Jack In English, the would