Lloyd Blankfein
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Yeah, the different kinds.
Like I had non-hot, blah, blah, blah.
Yes, it was.
It's so funny because, you know, this goes back to my segment that I always had a fatalist streak.
So I'm always, you know, you get your annual physical.
In this particular one, it was out of cycle because, you know, I was feeling off and then I was feeling more off.
And then I'm walk, you know, and I noticed I went to the dog was coughing, went to the doctor and he gave me, you know, throat lozenges for my cough.
And I, I left and, and it was still not, and for me to go to a doctor other than for my regularly schedule was a big deal.
Went back in and I got a chest x-ray, which showed nothing.
And I'm going and I'm walking with friends.
And I said, you know, similar to you guys are walking fast.
They said, no, you're walking slow.
And then at home, I was I lived in a split level house.
And when I walked up the stairs, I was falling, walking up because I wasn't clearing the riser.
And eventually I went back in, got a CAT scan, and then that lit up like a Christmas tree.
And I had, you know, it's blood cancer, a million tumors, but they're all blood cancer tumors in different places in your body.
And I had to deal with that.
And when I started, that was kind of a 50-50 outcome.
So, you know, talk about risk management, you're lying in bed and I had my treatment was every, you know, six, three week cycles where I had four days, 96 hours of a chemo, um, flowing, you know, flowing, you know, flowing in and then the balance of the three weeks, um, the other 17 days kind of recovering from the treatment and, uh,
You know, it worked out, but it does make you thoughtful about certain things.