Andy Stumpf

If we give you more, your heart's going to stop.

So they stopped the morphine.

put me on Dilaudid, barely touching the pain at the maximum dosage of Dilaudid.

But that was the worst pain I've ever been in.

And it's funny that you ask about talking about it or not.

My sister is a nurse.

She's been in healthcare for quite some time and they had just gone on vacation.

And my wife wanted to get ahold of them.

And I'm like, whatever you do, do not call them and ruin their vacation.

What she was trying to do was understand what she needed to say to the staff so she could talk to them in their language because the dosages they were getting, it just wasn't doing anything.

And I think to the degree they thought I was

like seeking meds even though I think the athletic sweat might have been a little bit of a tell and the fact that I'm like writing and the doctor's coming I'm like I don't care what it is cut it out right now we can just do surgery he's like oh we gotta do imagery and you gotta do paperwork I'm like sign my name like let's just do the knock me out and cut this out of my body right now I don't even care what's left but

I didn't even want to share that with my sister because I didn't want to ruin her experience with her family in another country.

And that didn't make anything better.

Shortly after that,

Right after I told my wife not to call her, she went outside and called her.

And then I got switched over to the ICU where they hit me with ketamine and that did the trick.

Almost to the point where they almost pushed me into the K-hole and I didn't like that at all.

I could hear the hairs on the inside of my ears starting to move around.

And it was a dead quiet room.