Oct. 11, 2025

Is Anyone Out There Still Listening?

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YFB is...not back, but able to give an update. Listen if you wish and enjoy...

Thank you.

- Brian, host of the Your Favorite Blockhead podcast

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Hello, check one, two three? Is this thing working? Can

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anybody hear me?

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Anyone?

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And I'll ask the important question. If you can hear me,

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is there anyone out there that would care.

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What I have to say?

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It's been a minute, and I humbly apologize to everyone

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that has ever tuned into this little podcast. If you

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are coming by for the first time, come on in,

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take a seat, relax. There's a lot of catching up

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to do. For those of you that are totally shocked,

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did not see this coming. You are in good company

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because the last two months that have really affected my

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life and turned it upside down very quickly, I didn't

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see it coming either. So I stand before you blockhead

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Nation listeners of this podcast, friends, family, anyone that's willing

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to listen, to tell you that I don't have any

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notes in front of me. I have nothing prepared. I

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was just contemplating if I would have the time on

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what has turned out to be a three to four

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day weekend. A lot of the kids have been out

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for homecoming, and they're out for Columbus Day and Fair Day,

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so this is a fairly long weekend for me.

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And I have a chance.

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To pull out the microphone plug it in to the

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USB chord, hit the record button, blow the dust off

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of this microphone, and just not so much pick up

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where I left off. That doesn't mean this is a

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comeback and this will be consistently put out to everybody.

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It might be a couple of times here and there,

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and I might get back to the schedule that you

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were used to.

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You were used to me.

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Coming on once a week every Saturday, because I am

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a teacher by day and a podcaster by weekend, so

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you were two and in too. Once again, your favorite blockhead,

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the only podcasts that would talk about peanuts and mixed

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martial arts in the same episode. And I am putting

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all that aside just for the sake of my listeners

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to tell my story for the last two months. And again,

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if you have been expecting an episode and you've moved on,

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I understand. If you've been patiently waiting and are thrilled

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to know that this has been uploaded, then thank you

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for your time, and I'll try to timeline it as

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best as I can, going back to when I was

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originally doing episodes. There are also are several of you

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that are students of mine that have reached out and said,

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I don't know what happened to you, but we're praying

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for you.

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I'll go ahead and say this.

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It seems like every year when I have students, current

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or former, they stumble across my podcast and they go,

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mister little you have a podcast. I've had one for

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over nine years and you're just now discovering it. Because

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I don't walk in to a classroom and I don't

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do it at a time when it's unprofessional and say hey,

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check out my episodes. That's not how I work. Anybody

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who does that says, hey, here's my YouTube, here's my Instagram.

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All those things you are chasing clout and I really

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don't respect what you're doing. And quite frankly, and if

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you do have people that will sign up and subscribe

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to what you're doing, are they really paying attention or

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are they just trying to find a way to fish

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for your listeners and bring them over to their content creation.

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We have to think about all those things. So when

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they find me, it's like, oh my goodness, Oh my goodness,

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And everybody starts listening to my shows, and the downloads

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start going through the roof, and then everybody's wanting merchandise,

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T shirts and things like that, so it becomes not overwhelming,

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but it becomes almost like I'm blindsided just because I've

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been steady and consistent for a long time. But here

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we are, and when you found if you found me.

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I tell them all the time, the cat's.

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Out of the bag. You found me.

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And yes, I do episodes every week, but I haven't

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been doing one for two months. It's not because I've

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become complacent. It's not because I wanted to take a

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break from the podcast.

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It's not to go back to August. I had just

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taken another job at a school that.

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Is closer to where I live, and I'm not worrying

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about a standardized test which takes a lot of enjoyment

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out of teaching. Those were two big reasons why I

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took this position. But then God showed up in August

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and said, you're taking this position. For another reason, I

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was in church and I received a phone call. This

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might even be on Facebook Live for the church that

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I attend. I get a phone call from my mother's

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next door neighbor. If I'm getting a phone call from

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one of her neighbors, then I know it's something serious.

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They never reach out to me. They might tell me

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happy Birthday, or Merry Christmas, happy Holidays, happy Thanksgiving, all

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those good things. But if they're calling me, that tells

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me something's wrong. Well, I find out that the EMTs

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and the ambulances have pulled up to my mother's house

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and they're taking her out of her house to BSA

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and Amarillo, Amarillo, Texas. Since I live in Dallas, I

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hope that helps a little bit. My mother lives lived

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in the Panhandle, and she tells me that they're on

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their way to the hospital. Well, I call the landline

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and her neighbor is there and says she'll call me

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from the hospital because my mom has my cell phone,

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has sorry, has her cell phone. I'm not gonna edit anything,

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just walking you through the story as best as I can.

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So that starts my Sunday and the very first weekend

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of August. Come to find out she clearly has a

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growth which turns out to be stage three pancreatic cancer.

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Anyone who knows about cancer. The doctor we spoke with

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a few months later put this very bluntly and put

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it as matter of fact as possible, And he said,

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in my quote, if you're shopping around for cancers. This

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is the one you don't want. And I think the

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physician and the surgeon in Amarillo pretty much said the

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same thing to her. I don't want to say this

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is cancer. But I've done this long enough to know

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what is cancer and what is benign, what is malignant.

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I can know all those things. But I want to

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confirm what the X rays say and what the you

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know different everything else that's medical. I want them to

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confirm what I believe it is. And he told my

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mom that it's cancer, and I'm sorry. Well that means

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mom has to make her way down to Baylor, Scott

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and White in Dallas because she's gonna get the best

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treatment for her cancer here in Dallas.

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So we made the arrangements.

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We got her here as quickly as possible, and this

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podcast that is a luxury, had to be put on

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the back burner because my new two priorities were my

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mother and my classroom. That's the way it had to be.

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So if you ever felt a neglected Blockhead Nation, it

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is only because of the circumstances that were handed to me.

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And so.

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We find out what it is, we realize that she's

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going to have to start doing chemotherapy, and that means

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that for pancreatic cancer, when you get chemotherapy, that's the

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one that is the most intense. Well, the way that

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I know that is because when she did her very

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first treatment, it took almost four and a half to

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five hours for it to be completed. We were the

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last visitors out of the chemotherapy ward at Baylor Dallas

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that day. So when she had her first chemo treatment,

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I looked around and went, we're the last ones to leave.

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These nurses are waiting on us so that they can

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go home. They're not waiting on anybody else. It made

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it very clear how serious this is. And I can

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also take this moment just to thank my school for

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staying in the gap and for the substitutes that came

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in and held down my classroom as best as possible

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until I can get back. Because as a teacher, I

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hardly ever miss My former students know that if I'm

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not at school, it's something serious, or I have to

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go to required trainings, or one time it was jury duty,

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so I'm hardly ever not there. You're usually appointments that

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can't be helped. But I was gone for almost two

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weeks straight, with many different appointments from my mother. Well,

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we get the first treatment out of the way. She's

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here at the house and it's a Sunday evening and

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she starts having projectile vomiting, which I will say that

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is part of the treatment. You can expect vomiting as

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you put this chemo therapy. Or also I can go

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ahead and say this poison into your system. Because the

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only way that he could have operated, the doctor, the

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only way he could have operated on this was to

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shrink down the cancer as small as he could and

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then manually go in and take it out. And he said,

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if I leave, if I take nine to nine percent

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of this cancer out of your body and I leave

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one percent there, I have done absolutely nothing for you.

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I have to get one hundred percent of it again,

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showing how serious pin created cancer is. Well, that evening

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and probably been a few days since the first chemo,

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It was Sunday night, and Mom starts to projectile vomiting.

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I mean NonStop knowing that was gonna happen.

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But I finally had to ask, Okay, do you want

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me to call the oncologists that are on after hours

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on duty. You know they have a lifeline for that,

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not a lifeline. Sorry, they have a hotline that you

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can call. Well, nobody answered, and Mom continued to vomit,

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and my mind went to what you see in the hospital,

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which is the pain meters on a scale of one

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to ten. Where is your pain? And I asked her

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that on scale of one to ten, how bad you feel?

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And she said eight. Okay, So we agreed to call

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the EMTs to our house. And I said, one of

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two things is gonna happen. They're either gonna look at you,

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tell you this a part of it, take your vitals,

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maybe get some liquids into you, and then they're gonna leave,

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or they're gonna take you. Well, to say the least

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blockhead nation. They took her, and she continued to vomit

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over and over, and it was really hard for me,

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her only son, to watch her in this kind of agony.

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When we get to the hospital, me.

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And my wife, Heather, a little ready hair girl. When

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we get there, she is still vomiting, which means now

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that there's nothing in her stomach, she is vomiting bile.

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At this point, that was probably one of the hardest

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moments for me through all of this because Mom continued

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to say, yes, I'm gonna power through it. I'm gonna

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be a warrior. I'm gonna do what the doctors tell me,

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which shares a lot of truth to that.

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But there's still until it happens. You can't know what

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it's doing to you till it's done it to you.

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And as she continued to vomit, just really had a

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hard time with that one.

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But the next morning she stayed overnight at the hospital

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and she said, I'm done. I'm not taking any more chemotherapy.

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I know there was a point where she wanted to

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make a goal to where she could ring the bell

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at the Baylor Dallas Chemotherapy ward and say that I'm

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no longer doing these chemos.

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I'm done.

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Because a sweet lady who had beaten breast cancer was

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able to leave and ring the bell and everybody cheered

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her on. You know, it's a great goal to have.

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Depending on what kind of cancer you have, this is

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the worst kind.

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So she says, I'm done.

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If I'm gonna die, then I'm going to die with comfort,

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with dignity. I want you to help me move talking

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to me, I want you to help me move into

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a nursing home that's nearby and assisted living, and I

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want hospice to take over, because very quickly Heather and

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I were becoming to her doctors as well and handing

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out her medications at different times throughout the week. And

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that is not in my wheelhouse block at Nation. That's

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not something I'm strong in, but my wife, Heather is,

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and God bless her for it. She's been through this before.

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This is her third go around with a family member

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who had cancer, so nothing new to her, but my

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first rodeo. And so again, I think Mom did that

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out of love, to take the weight off of our

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shoulders and.

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Put it on the shoulders of the professionals. That's where

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we currently are.

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She has moved into the assistant living, she has Hospice

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taking over, and now I'm able to go back to

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work until the day comes when.

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I will go in and preach her funeral.

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I will take that day to obviously honor her life,

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but to remind people that this is a time for

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us to go make disciples. It's a time for us

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to realize that Jesus is the Way, the Way, the truth,

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and the life, and my mom has been given permission.

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I've told her just like she told my grandmother back

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in nineteen ninety nine, when my grandmother was passing from

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her battle with Alzheimer's and strokes.

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And many other things.

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She said, if you see the light, go to it.

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I've looked and said, Mom, if you close your eyes

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and you see Jesus go, nothing's holding you back in

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this life.

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There may have been one.

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Thing, which was to sell her house, which has now

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pretty much been completed. Closing has already happened in a

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very short period of time. I had to go back

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up to Canyon, Texas to take a weekend trip up

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that I didn't really advertise very much, and I went

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and got things like important paperwork and other things that

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were important paraphernalia to the family. Only took enough that

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would fit into my gmc denali. One trip and that's it.

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And while I was going through some things, I stumbled

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aposs across my grandfather's box of memorabilia from his time

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in the army. My grandfather is still my greatest hero,

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Jesus is my savior, my greatest friend, my father, my

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earthly father will always be a hero to me. But

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when I opened up that box and saw Grandpa's dog tag,

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when I saw his fruit salad, when I saw his medals,

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when I saw the flag that had been trapped over

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his casket, when I saw all this compiled into one

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storage box. I remember calling Heather and holding his dog tag,

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and my hands starting to shake.

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Because of how much I honor him.

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I may have been an understudy in the realm of

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being in the military with my time in the US Navy.

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I bore the USS Pearl Harbor. God bless all my

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Pearl Harbor survivors. That's in quotations. Those who are aboard

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the ship with me and those who toured many times

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with me, and my three visits to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

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are very very honored in my heart. To know that

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my grandfather was one of the greatest generation, and to

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hold his dog tags, and to see what my parents

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had preserved for years. I called Heather in tears. We

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plan on making that into a shadow box. Just the

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older I get, the more I honor and revere my

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grandfather and his legacy. But to say the least, I

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got the job done. Came back home, and Mom is

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still having more good days lately than there are bad days.

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She recently had her seventy first birthday and so many

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of you on Facebook, in many different ways, have honored her,

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and I thank you from the bottom of my heart

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for that.

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And to be.

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Perfectly frank, if this isn't what you were expecting, then

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I apologize. Now is not the time for me to

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have luxuries like being on a podcast weekly. Now's not

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a time for me to worry about authenticity and consistency.

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Now's not for me a time to embrace what this

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podcast is all about.

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Sure, I can bring up plenty about the Peanuts and

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plenty about what's going on in the world of mixed martial.

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Arts as right now, but this just isn't the time.

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This is just a time for updates, and if anybody

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wants to stay with me on this journey, I thank you.

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Well.

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Now we've pulled into the Blockhead depot and I've hit

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the air brakes. Doors are open. Feel free to come

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by on the next step. The next time this mobile

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comes around, You're welcome to come Award. There's plenty aboard

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this train, but I couldn't tell you when that's gonna be,

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so I'm not gonna say the same Blockhead time, same

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blockhead channel. I just hope to talk to you again

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in the future, and I hope you give you more updates,

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and when the dust finally settles, I can be a

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little more frequent in here, and somehow the downloads continue

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to happen. I hope you came by and got something worthwhile.

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Day further Ado, I'll catch hup when I can where

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I can.

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Preston.

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