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All right. Yeah, everything's a little bit harder today. Why is my iPad not working, doing what I want? Well, there it is.

Happy Halloween everybody. You all going to trick or treat tonight? I'll probably get a few hundred people today.

So yesterday I had my radiation treatment for one of my cancer spots. It's not a cure. It was just trying to fix the place in my back.

Do you want to hear the most alarming story you've ever heard? So the radiation treatment, the one they give has zero pain involved. In other words, you don't feel the radiation. So you don't feel it when it's happening and you don't feel it when it's done really. Yeah, there might be minor side effects or something, but basically you don't feel it unless the position that you have to be in to get it happens to lie on your back in the exact place that it hurts the most. That was my situation.

So I didn't know if I could get through the pain. So I wanted to make sure I knew how long it would last so that I was mentally prepared. And I knew it was going to be not just regular pain, but we're talking about feeling like somebody's putting a spear through your chest the entire time. I mean, real pain like you've never felt before in your life. And I knew it would last a while.

So I asked them and they said, "Well, it could be 15 minutes to an hour." The doctor said, "15 minutes to an hour of lying completely still while somebody's putting a spear through your chest. And if you don't make it, then you don't have a chance to get rid of the pain that is destroying your ability to walk." So that was my trade-off: take a pain that would be the greatest pain of my life for 15 minutes to an hour, or never deal with the problem to my death.

So I decided I could do anything for 15 minutes, and the doctor confirmed that in my particular case it would be 15 minutes. So he said the whole procedure is 15 minutes. So now I understand it's 15 minutes. Right now, how do you understand that? You understand that the procedure is 15 minutes. Very easy. Very, very clear communication, wouldn't you say?

So I get under the machine and it immediately, you know, the pain kicks in. And as the techs are walking into the adjacent room where they'll be monitoring me, allegedly, one of them says, "We start by taking X-rays." I think they meant a CAT scan, but they said X-rays to make sure that your body's in the same position that it was when we did the test to see if you'd be, you know, we were testing to see where the tumors were, but you have to be laying in exactly the same position or else the radiation won't get the right place.

So they say first we'll take the X-rays. Now what's my first question? Is that on top of the 15 minutes or is that included in the 15 minutes? And I couldn't ask because they were already into the test.

So I'm laying there and 15 minutes pass, or what I thought was 15 minutes. So I felt like 15 minutes of the worst pain I've ever endured in my life. And I knew I couldn't go longer, but the 15 minutes were over. And you know what they said next? "Well, we got the X-rays." They hadn't started. They hadn't started the treatment. You know, the 15-minute treatment that I didn't think I could possibly survive. I'd already gone 15 minutes and they hadn't started.

And I bailed out. I bailed out. I screamed and I said, "I'm done. No way. I'm not going to go 15 minutes." So they come in and of course they're a little bit distraught because, you know, I've wasted their time. I've wasted the appointment. I didn't get fixed. Didn't get any treatment. No treatment at all. And I just went through the most traumatic experience of my whole life.

And it got worse. Do you know what they said then? You ready for this? Then they told me for the first time, for the first time I heard this, the treatment is one minute. The 15 minutes is all that setup that we told you we were doing. The entire process is 15 minutes. You were 60 seconds away from being completely done, but they had miscommunicated so that I thought it was 15 minutes for the process that had not yet started. So I bailed out.

So then I said, "Now that's the end of my appointment, right? So now I'm into somebody else's appointment, which means I need to get kicked out and rescheduled." Do you think I let them kick me out and reschedule? No, no. So they rescheduled whoever was after me to some other room, I guess, and I said, "You're going to have to give me the strongest painkillers in the world. There's just no way I can do 15 minutes more of this. So give me whatever you have."

So we talked about what was the strongest painkiller that they could give me. And I was already on several. Now, I'm not going to get into the specifics of the painkillers because then you'll go crazy and you'll have your opinions and I don't care. But they gave me something really strong on top of I already had painkillers in me because I was anticipating it. So now I have several, one, two, at least three different painkillers, four maybe, in me at the same time.

How much did the painkillers make a difference? Not even a little bit. Not even the slightest bit. The strongest painkillers as you can imagine. It was like there was no painkiller at all. I was just sitting right on an open nerve.

But they said because of the first test, they could get it down to six minutes inclusive of the actual radiation. And I thought I could make it six minutes with these new painkillers. I didn't realize at the time that they wouldn't make any difference, but I was like, I can do six minutes. I can do that.

So the six minutes starts and when the six minutes is about done, the door opens and I'm like, "Thank you. Thank God they're coming in because I'm done." And then the tech said, "Hold on. We have to adjust your body because you're not in the right place," which means that the whole first six minutes was a nothing, which meant that it was going to be six plus six. So it was really going to be back to 12 minutes. And they had to start again.

But the good news was that my original position didn't hurt very much. And I thought, I could definitely get through this because it didn't hurt that much. As soon as they moved me into the same position as the one where I'd been tested, the one that they needed to get me in, absolute terror pain, because it was the position that makes the pain. It wasn't natural pain. It was the position.

Now I've got six minutes after the first six minutes after the 15 mi