John Reeves
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1,814 appearances
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first heard Dec 2023
last heard Feb 2025
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You know, maybe a year, a year kind of thing. And I'm like, and I'm like, and this is all while you were running for Senate. Yeah, yeah. This was three days before the primary. Oh, my God. Yeah, I was on my way to an event. And my wife, Giselle, she's like, you're having a stroke because they had that classic kinds of where, you know, half of my face.
I didn't know that, but it kind of just, you know, just... Yeah. And and and then they hotline me over to the hospital and I wouldn't I wouldn't have survived if we were in a different. I mean, there's parts of Pennsylvania and that's it. That's part of the tragic that if I wasn't close to the kinds of hospital that I was, it's 100 percent that I wouldn't have survived that.
And it got me there in enough time and they were able to, there was an expert there. And I actually had, I met that doctor that literally saved my life. And I'm like, oh my God. And he usually wasn't based in that hospital. He was usually out of Delaware, but he happened to be there. And he was here to give me an award for being that kind of an advocate for those things. I'm like, no, the
You deserve the award on that. That's incredibly lucky. Yeah. And then I asked, really looking for like a countdown of like, well, what's the prognosis? And I really, there wasn't much there on that. And I had to like, was I going to survive for long or what's that going to look? And then, of course, the entire majority on the Senate really was on the middle of that.
And that's a big responsibility after that. And then so the primary, it happened. And I actually had a really strong win. And I won all of 67 counties. Pennsylvania has 67 counties. And we carried every county, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and all across Pennsylvania. But at that point, I had a responsibility. It's like, am I able to recover? Am I going to be OK?
And I wouldn't recommend being in that in that situation. But I made a commitment more than anything. I was more worried about being being around to be a dad. I mean, I have three I have three young kids and my wife, you know, she lived through all of this. So at that at that point, it started. I was in the hospital for about 10 days. And I start to get better and better.
The strength started to come back a little bit, but it was still rough. And it was very, very clear, though, that I had a capacity to It's been impaired on hearing and those kinds of interaction and those things. But that's the thing.
But I had to decide by August 15th, and that's my birthday, ironically, that if I step down by then or before, then they're going to have to find somebody to replace me on the primary. And that was going to be my dropout day on that.
How did they do it? How did they remove the clot? Well, it's – I mean I had to originally – I had to go back to – I have to learn how to talk and speak. I went to a speech therapist and have interaction and those kinds of things. And my hearing and those kinds of things were still impacted by that. And they had to monitor my heart because it was – it effectively stopped.
I found out after the fact that it actually stopped. and then my heart had to recover, so there was two kinds of things working there, you know, my heart. And then right before the primary, they walked in and they said, well, here, here's what I suggest. Here's what I suggest. Now, we are going to put a pacemaker. We're going to put in a pacemaker.
And and we're like, hey, that's that's the best thing. So they put that device right here. And for anyone, if you're not really what that is, a pacemaker. But that that that manages your heart, you know, because I had a significant issue with AFib. And that's really what what did that to my heart. And they put that in. And then that was that was that was right before the primary.
Not with clotting, not with clotting. You know, I have, for good things and for bad things, my heart was just like my father's. You know, and he had an issue with AFib, and he was in the hospital. So it's a genetic. Yeah, a genetic issue. And but I didn't. It was never an idea. It was never an idea that I was going to even having a stroke. That wasn't part of the at least my thinking.
I knew that I was in distress. You know, I could tell that my heart was was broken. was in problem. And I was just going to get through this primary. I mean, there's a lot running on that. And then it didn't work out because the stroke hit three days before. And then that forced me. And that put me on an incredibly different kind of a path after that.
They went up in your vein, in your leg. And they went up in. And it's a remarkable technology. Through your leg? Yeah. All the way up to your brain. And they just sucked it out. Wow. And they actually had an x-ray or whatever. And you could see, like, hey, we got it out. And I actually got to see, although I really was still kind of out of it. But that was the clot that all but took my life.
And so... I mean, there were a lot of things there. You know, suddenly your mortality was kind of like put right there in front of it.
And through that.
Yeah, well, it's, I mean, I had, for the first time in my life, and I hope it's the last time that I'm confronted by this idea that the doctors weren't able to provide any kinds of certainty or it's like, oh, yeah, man, you're going to be OK or things are going to be OK. That wasn't. So they don't know what caused it.
Well, I mean, it was a fib and and and my heart weakened and the stress of the of the primary and on the ongoing kinds of issues. It was already weakened about that issue earlier. And everything kind of came together, and I guess my heart deteriorated to the point where that caused the clot. And then the clot, that's what nearly took my life.
Yeah. It's... I think... I had a significant responsibility to stay in that and winning through all of those things. And that was difficult enough. It was an important conversation. And we had to run a campaign. We had to run a campaign. When I was – it was difficult and I wasn't working at the kind of capacity that was necessary.
And that's – we had to run up to the 15th of August to decide if we're going to stay in that because there's a lot riding on that.
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