[00:00:02] Hello my friends and welcome back. I would say welcome back to Movie Deputy reviews, but we're not quite back to the reviews thing. You may be wondering what that is. Well, I was trying to come up with a graphic that would kind of symbolize what's been going on in my life for the last two months. And if you have. If you're wondering what I'm talking about, feel free to go back and check out our July 2 episode. It was actually the last episode that we had posted because there you can clearly see I was having a very hard time breathing. I have asthma and about still kind of. I kind of want to get into a little bit of explaining where I've been for the last two months and part of that was spent in the hospital.
[00:00:42] So I apologize for the long hiatus.
[00:00:46] There are with me, with Movie Deputy, it's only me. I've got three employees that I always joke about me, myself and I.
[00:00:54] So Deputy is a one man deal. One woman in this case.
[00:00:58] And so when I am down and out, so is Deputy. And I am so sorry that I have left you guys all in the lurch for so long.
[00:01:07] I have even had a. I'm just now getting to the point where I can sit down and watch a movie again.
[00:01:13] When all of this was happening and everything that was going on, even my brain was frosted. I could not even focus on a movie. And one of my big things that I do when I watch movies as I sit down and take notes, well, I couldn't focus enough to even do that. I couldn't focus enough where I couldn't even use my phone for a bit because my eyes were like.
[00:01:31] And it is just. This recovery process is. I've still got a long way to go, but I am alive, which is a very good thing which I'm going to get into here in just a minute. But yeah, it has been a very intense couple of months and I am so grateful to still be here. I am so grateful to still be able to do Movie Deputy and. And of course with my logo and everything, still wearing that pretty regularly. And I have cat hair on me. That's real cute. Sorry.
[00:01:59] For those that don't know, I have seven kitty cats and love them dearly. Though surprisingly with my asthma that does not affect that at all. Surprisingly. What kind of set this in motion was. I live in the heart of the Midwest. I live in Lincoln, Nebraska. A lot of people probably didn't realize that, but yep, live right here in Lincoln, Nebraska. And some of the wildfires out west and up in Canada, and the smoke was getting down here. And every year when the happens or when the smoke comes over my asthma's heretic, I get tight and I have a nebulizer and I have all my rescue inhalers. And that just wasn't cutting us. About the end of June 1st part of July, I'm like, I can't breathe.
[00:02:38] I'm faking that one, by the way. But this was very real, Very, very real.
[00:02:43] So on July 3rd, I post my. My episode on July 2nd. On July 3rd, I went to the emergency room and they gave me another breathing treatment like the one I have at home, only they added steroids to it. And I'm thinking, okay, I was breathing better, but it wasn't like normal. I still was not breathing like I should have been breathing.
[00:03:03] And so I go home and I'm like, okay, it'll get better. They gave me some steroids and just told me to keep using my nebulizer. Gave me some other medications for my nebulizer, and it seemed to be helping a little bit, but it just wasn't getting better. And then as July continued, I. I went to my cardiologist and I went to my pulmonologist. I. Especially after this, I have more ologists than I ever cared to have.
[00:03:27] But like I said, I'm going to be getting into a little bit more of that. And so I went to there and went to both of the doctors, and it just wasn't getting better. My chest was tight. I couldn't breathe. My oxygen levels were maintaining in the upper 80s, low 90s, which for me is not that unusual. I had a really bad brain injury back in 2013 that affects kind of how I oxygenate. So it's not unusual for me to be anywhere from 88 to 92. So, I mean, as long as I was getting oxygen, I thought I was okay.
[00:03:58] And check my blood pressure. I've got one of those pulse oximeters for those that don't know what that is. It's one of those little things they put on your finger and it reads what your pulse is and what the percentage of oxygen is in your bloodstream. And like I said, it was all just staying somewhat normal.
[00:04:13] But one of my pulmonologists had told me that she goes, you know, if you're not doing better by Wednesday, which Wednesday was the 15th of July, she goes, if you're not doing better by Wednesday, you should really go to the emergency room. I'm like, it's like I went to the emergency room. And she goes, yeah, but you need to go back.
[00:04:31] It's like this problem is going on for too long. You need to get it looked at. And on that Wednesday morning when I woke up, I was. I still wasn't breathing good, but I was breathing better than I had the last couple days. Just nice. And not nowhere near normal, by any means, but it was like I was able to at least move a little air. I couldn't get a deep breath in, but not without coughing uncontrollably.
[00:04:53] But it's just been chaos. And so I really debated that morning.
[00:04:59] Pardon me.
[00:05:02] I'm so sorry. As you know, I don't edit my shows. And so you're just gonna get me raw reel and get those outtakes like that. So apologies on that.
[00:05:11] But. So that morning, I called our son, and he is in his 30s, so it's not like I was just calling a little kid or anything. And I'm like, jason, could you take. Mom, can you take me to the emergency room? He's like, no problem, mom, what's going on? I tell him, and he goes, I'll be right there. Twenty minutes later, he was at my front door, and he helped me out to the car. Because at this point, it's like when you have a hard time breathing for that long. I was just like, I'm just exhausted. I'm still exhausted, but for a whole different reason.
[00:05:42] But he. We get in the car and we drive over to the. My preferred hospital here in town. It is St Elizabeth Regional Medical Center.
[00:05:51] And so we went there, and we went to the emergency room. And I walk in, and they could clearly see I was having an issue breathing.
[00:05:57] And they check my vitals and take me back to a room. And we're just sitting there chilling. And the doctor, they're doing the blood test to get an IV started, is just kind of the basics that they normally would do.
[00:06:11] And I didn't think anything of it. I think they're like, so why are you here today? I'm like, having a really bad asthma attack. Can't breathe. I need help. Except I couldn't say all that in one sentence. It was like a few words at a time. It's like, bad asthma attack.
[00:06:25] I mean, that's kind of how I was talking, because I couldn't get. I couldn't even get a sentence out at that point.
[00:06:31] And so they bring up. They have a breathing. They're. They said they're going to order me a breathing treatment, and they're drawing all the labs and stuff already. And Jason and I are just sitting there. It's like I can't even focus on my phone. I'm just like sitting there, leaning back against the bed, just, just chilling. Just. It's like, okay, they're going to finally help me. Something's got to, something's got to go the right direction here.
[00:06:53] So I thought what happened next was a bit of a whirlwind for us in a way that we never anticipated. I just realized I'm seven minutes into this already. So my apologies, but PA or one of the doctors stuck her head in the room and she goes, has Critical Care come to talk to you yet?
[00:07:18] I get that look on my face. I look at Jason, he gets that look on his face like, huh, Critical care. It's an asthma attack. What?
[00:07:27] Why?
[00:07:31] That's when they dropped the bomb. It was not just an asthma attack.
[00:07:35] I, at some point in the previous days had suffered a heart attack and I was in septic shock and my organs are shutting down.
[00:07:45] My blood pressure when I arrived at the hospital was 72 over 54.
[00:07:50] My heart rate was through the roof.
[00:07:52] It just basically, if everything could go wrong, did.
[00:07:56] And so all this is happening within just the span of a very short period of time. It's like we in. From the time that we walked into the emergency room to the time that they were. Had me upstairs in the critical care unit was maybe 40 minutes.
[00:08:11] And at that point I had two large. I had a total of three IVs, two large bore IVs and one regular IV. And they are just hooking me up to everything possible.
[00:08:23] I was just still going, I thought it was an asthma attack.
[00:08:28] And they're like, have you ever had this before? I'm like, I've had asthma attacks before, but never nothing quite like this. And hooked up to all these monitors, hooked up the heart monitors, and you can only imagine, I mean, going through all that. And so the next couple of days were a whirlwind of tests and medications and just monitoring and umpteen doctors coming in and out, just checking on me. And they were trying to just get me stabilized, which was very intense, very, very intense. And a doctor that I'm really close to, that, he's been my doctor for many years, he told me after the fact that when he saw me in the hospital, he honestly was not sure if I would ever make it out of there.
[00:09:16] And had I waited another day, had I even waited until that evening to go in? Because when Jason took me, there was about 10 o' clock in the morning, central Standard time.
[00:09:25] Had I even waited those extra hours, I probably wouldn't be sitting here right now.
[00:09:31] Now you may be thinking heart attack. You probably would have expected me to have like open heart surgery or something like that.
[00:09:37] The thing is, it wasn't, it's called an ischemic heart attack. And for those of you that aren't familiar with what that is, I'm not going get too super technical here, but I have a heart condition called Prince Metals angina. And I've had it for a long time. What it does is it takes the blood vessels to the heart to hurt my hand here. So you can see and like here's a normal open blood vessel. And with. When the Prince metal's angina attack hits, it chokes off the blood to the heart and sometimes it just tightens a little bit, sometimes it tightens a lot of it. And then this time it choked off blood to the heart first long enough that it caused damage to the heart.
[00:10:13] Now with that being in septic shock, I was also in multi system organ failure.
[00:10:19] So it was very, very good that I chose to go in that day. That is kind of where I've been, like in and out of the hospital.
[00:10:30] And this recovery is kicking my butt.
[00:10:34] My kidneys are not the greatest at the moment, neither is my liver. I'm not jaundiced, thankfully, as you can see. Nice and pale as usual.
[00:10:44] But I am now on insulin, so that's, that's been a fun journey. And then learning what to eat and what my body can digest and what it can't.
[00:10:54] Like I said, when you're in, when you're kind of in the midst of that and your body is just going through, going through it, you're just like going, come on, I need a break. I am so glad to still be here. So thankful to still be here.
[00:11:10] So thankful for my incredible medical team. So thankful to Saint Elizabeth, so thankful to my kiddo, to my husband, to my sister, to just kind of everything that's going on around me. But that is kind of like I said, where I've been, it's been.
[00:11:25] I've got follow up appointments with doctors left and right. I've got new medications that are just keep getting switched around just to kind of keep everything stable.
[00:11:35] I'm. The prognosis is good. The prognosis is very good actually.
[00:11:41] But just the recovery, as you can imagine, is kicking my butt.
[00:11:47] So I have been to one movie in this entire time frame and that was just last week. My husband and I went to see Coyote versus Acme, he is a huge Wile E. Coyote fan. This is probably his favorite cartoon character.
[00:12:00] And so we went to see that and I was. I didn't do the greatest, was taking my notes. Even I can look back at my notes and going, I've done way better in the past. But like I said, I'm still just kind of getting back into the feel of things. And we are going to be together bringing you a review of Coyote vs. Acme. That one was, let's just say that you will be pleasantly surprised with my review on that one.
[00:12:26] So I definitely wanted to come on here and say this is what happened and this is where I've been.
[00:12:32] Because I've had, surprisingly, I've only had one person reach out to me on YouTube as a comment underneath. It's like, okay, come on, the show must go on. Like, I'm trying here. I'm trying literally to survive.
[00:12:45] Trying to kind of get back in the role of things and trying to get where I can even stay focused on something long enough to do it, which you wouldn't think would be that hard, but surprise.
[00:12:56] Yeah, it definitely caught a lot. Caught us completely off guard on that. But I'm so thankful I went in that day, so thankful, like I said, for everything that just happened. The snowball effect that once it happened, of being in the critical care unit and then being moved to the progressive care unit, which is still part of the icu. And then everything that's happened since I've been home, like I said, my team has been amazing.
[00:13:25] My medical team and my family. It's just I'm never going to take an asthma attack for granted ever again.
[00:13:36] I going to be a lot more aware of what's going on. I didn't have any of the typical signs of a heart attack at all.
[00:13:43] They say with women it's different.
[00:13:48] I obviously must be because they said it happened either a day or two prior to when I went to the hospital and my troponin levels weren't through. They're like completely sky high. But they were high enough that there was definitely damage.
[00:14:06] For those that don't know what a troponin level is, that is the level of the protein in your blood when you have a heart attack. And that's the level of the protein that they can detect in your blood that tells them, hey, you had a heart attack.
[00:14:20] Very scary situation.
[00:14:23] A lot of emotions, a lot of tears, as you can imagine.
[00:14:30] Still kind of checking things out, seeing where this prognosis is going to lead long term. What's going on long term?
[00:14:38] What's going to happen with everything? But like a phoenix rising from the ashes, I'm back.
[00:14:46] I'm not going to give up without a fight. I'm a fighter. It's going to take a lot more than this to take me down, but I'm probably going to be a little bit slow getting back into it. I'm going to try to do one to two reviews a week at least for the first couple weeks, but I am so excited to be sitting here. Even just sitting upright for an extended period of time has been difficult because of the swelling with my legs and stuff such as that, with everything going on.
[00:15:11] So I have been prone or in bedridden recliner position a lot of the time. And so my body's adjusting to starting to function and being a little bit more active and kind of getting things going again. But yeah, my body just goes, yeah, you're not going to work anymore.
[00:15:29] And unfortunately, I just kind of along for the ride if my body decides that.
[00:15:36] Got a very noisy kitty. I've spent a lot of time with them this last couple months, couple weeks, all the time that I've been home.
[00:15:44] And it's just been chaos with just everything going on. But like I said, I had to come on here and explain something and so that's what's been good. That's. That's. That's life. Literally.
[00:16:00] It was almost death, but it's life. And so I will take that and run with it.
[00:16:05] For my loyal subscribers who have reached out to me via my email.
[00:16:11] I think I've gotten about 50 messages from people and then of course by one message I got on the YouTube. Thank you. I appreciate it. People probably wondering, it's like, where is she? Where's the deputy? Where's these movies? It's like, we want to see the reviews of all these new movies coming out.
[00:16:26] And I am so far behind, so far behind, like, so many big titles I have not seen yet that I need to get seen and I need to get them reviewed and I need to bring them to you because I absolutely love what I do. Movie Deputy is my passion, but it kind of helps to be alive to do so.
[00:16:46] So I'm going to keep plugging away at this. I. I'm going to. You're going to start seeing the movie review. So if you haven't done so already, be sure to subscribe to our channels. We have Movie Deputy and we have Movie Deputy reviews. This one's going up on our Movie Deputy thing and it's also going to be up of course on our YouTube as well.
[00:17:04] And so I don't want you guys to miss out on any of the any of the movies when they do come live.
[00:17:10] And if you've got any questions or anything for me, feel free to shoot me a Message
[email protected] it's me myself and I at least I can access everything on my silly device.
[00:17:24] So I have been able to do that. But I attempted to do a few recordings of a podcast on there but it's like I wanted to wait till I can get in here in my studio to where I could do this properly. And that may sound silly but it mattered to me.
[00:17:40] So thank you for coming along with me on this journey. Thank you for sticking with me through all of this and I can't wait to be back to my full self soon. And in the meantime I'm going to do my very best to bring you all the movies I can. So until later guys. Bye bye.
