Having The Stones To Take A Temporary Break From My Podcast

I’ll cut to the chase: Podcast Pontifications is going on medical leave until I can get this 9mm stone out of my left kidney. You really don’t want me screaming in pain every 2 minutes, right?

August 31, 2020

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Hello and welcome to a bonus episode of Podcast Pontifications with me, Evo Terra. “Uh oh. A bonus episode means bad news, right?” Well… yes. But only temporary bad news. And here it is:

I'm taking a temporary medical leave from Podcast Pontifications. At least through the end of this week, but hopefully not much longer than that.

Relax, there’s nothing life-threatening wrong with me. Now, the issue I’m dealing with is definitely quality of life-endangering, if only from the nausea-inducing pain and the nausea-inducing opioids the doctor has me on to try and control said pain until he can make a permanent fix to my issue. I see him tomorrow for a consult, and I’m confident we’ll be able to quickly schedule a minor outpatient procedure to take care of the not-so-little nine-millimeter stone that’s taken up residence in my left kidney. Since last Thursday, I’ve only been able to sit up for maybe 15-20 minutes at a time, then it’s back to the prone position as I try to live through its wrath.

And with all the other work I have to get done to keep my podcast consultancy going through this, something has to give. That and I really want to make sure I deliver to you a good, quality show every day. But the way my head is swimming right now because of the opioids and residual pain they can’t control, I don’t think I can reliably do that.

So until the good doctor can go in there and pound them into sand, blast them into oblivion, or whatever they might do while I’m knocked out, I’m taking a medical leave from this podcast. Sitting up for the 3.5 hours per day necessary to properly make and distribute the show doesn’t sound like something I want to do while fighting through the pain.

While I don’t anticipate financial ruin when I get the bill for this soon-to-be-scheduled procedure, I still invite you to go to BuyMeACoffee.com/EvoTerra and toss a few coins in the bucket, if only because you are very happy that I'm taking care of myself.

If you’re new, don’t worry. I’ve something like 360 episodes you can churn through while I’m away. They’re all on PodcastPontifications.com.

And if you need to know how I’m feeling, I’ll probably overshare on my Twitter account, as I am wont to do. Twitter.com/evoterra is me.

Once we get this little brick out of my system, I’ll be back with you. I’ve a full book of topics to cover with you, once I have the fortitude back.

And then, I'll be back for yet another Podcast Pontifications.

Cheers!

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PPS3E29B Having The Stones To Take A Temporary Break From My Podcast - Transcript

Hello, and welcome to a bonus episode of podcast. Pontifications with me, Evo Tara, a bonus episode because bad news. Well that temporary as well. Let's go with that. I'm taking a medical leave from podcast. Pontifications at least for the rest of this week. Hopefully not longer than that without getting into any great, terrible detail.

[00:00:28] Uh, look, I'm, I'm nothing life threatening going on here. Definitely quality of life endangering if only for the nausea inducing pain and the nausea inducing opioids, they have me on to try and control some of that pain. But did you ever consult with the, with the doc on Tuesday of this week? So that's, that's, tomorrow's the time that I'm actually recording that.

[00:00:50] So hopefully we'll have a plan of attack. We can schedule a little outpatient procedure to take care of that little, a nine millimeter stone. That's. Gumming up the works and causing me to only want to be sitting up for me 15, 20 minutes at a time. And then it's back to the lady. Yeah. I'm positioned to avoid the pain.

[00:01:11] So that's what's going on. And I honestly, I just, I just don't feel that I can squeeze this in with all the other duties that I have to get done. So, and I also wanna make sure I deliver a good quality product and. Honestly with my head swimming around right now, plus the pain. I'm really not convinced I'm going to be able to do that.

[00:01:31] So I want to make sure that I put my best foot forward, always. So, uh, this will be the beginning of a break until we can get it all fixed up. And again, you just heard what it was about. I'm not dying here. It's just that I'm in a lot of pain and I would rather not be. You know, having to force three and a half hours of this, uh, every day, which I don't have to, one of the great things about doing the way you want to do things you don't have to, you can still go to buy me a coffee.com/evo, Tara, and show me that you are very happy that I'm taking care of myself and I'm being smart about it.

[00:02:01] So go over there and buy me a virtual coffee and you've got 360 or whatever the number is cm. That's how loose I am. I forgot to mention have any, and you got all those episodes. Just go back and chew through. If you'd like to do that and tell a few friends about podcast pontifications and resubscribe to the sub stack newsletter.

[00:02:16] There's lots of things that you can do for me while I am away. And I will keep you posted. As soon as I am back, I will obviously be updating my Twitter. Profile. That's where I do all of my socializing these days, just on the Twitter, twitter.com/evo. Tara, if you want to catch up with me there, but hopefully this is something that we can easily, well, we can easily solve this.

[00:02:37] That's not a question. Hopefully we can get it scheduled soon. So I'm out and back with you guys every day. Cause I got a book full of things I still want to talk to before I'll go on my long winter's nap and that's a long ways from now. All right. See, I'm rambling. It's the drugs. It's not me. Yeah. People have listened to you ramble before Eva.

[00:02:56] So, all right. That's it. As soon as I get that procedure all scheduled and we have it and it's done and it's in my rear view mirror, I'll be back then for yet another podcast. Pontifications cheers.

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