Welcome to the Bob and Cancer Show.
Hi, I'm Bob Kevoian and I hate my partner and I want to kill him.
As you know, my new partner is cancer.
Uh, I did not ask for this new partner.
It was thrown upon me.
I don't care for him.
Boo.
Want to get them out of the studio, get them out of my life.
And that is what this podcast is all about.
I am with my co-hosts, one, my wife, Becky.
We have a live audience.
Let's hear my live audience.
Give me some love.
And my best buddy, uh, Whit Grayson.
Hello all.
And the reason we have a live audience is we are broadcasting from Speedway,
Indiana, right across the street from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the
most famous racetrack in the world.
And we're here.
We're here with Bob.
You guys are, uh,
our, uh, our goal.
And we found out all about this was to, as you, we've mentioned before
Joey's graduation and the Indy 500 were my goals to get through all this.
And we've, uh, we've made it.
You've made it.
Uh, tomorrow is race day.
And if you look, if everybody looks up right now, you can see a skydiver
with a trailing smoke, trying to find the infield.
I hope he doesn't run into one of the big screens.
You know what?
We just lost our entire audience.
I know it's, I'd much rather watch that guy.
Maybe, maybe I've got the best view.
Well, maybe his treatments didn't go as well as yours, Bob.
Yes.
Oh, you don't know.
You don't know.
No, you don't.
It's unclear.
That's chemo coming out his ass up there.
I didn't know it was red.
No, I expected more of a tan.
Right.
But yes, we are live and excited about the race tomorrow.
This will be, this episode will be aired as well.
All the episodes be aired after the race.
Mm hmm.
So we can get all of the six weeks of treatment into one little
summarized package for you.
And would you listen to Bob?
He just sounds like a million bucks.
Well, after my final week, I was pretty tired.
Yeah, you were.
It was, it was, and that was one of the, one of the things that I
was, and that was one of the side effects.
They said there would definitely be fatigue and I felt it.
I feel a little today, but I think I can walk across the street and see the race.
Yeah.
How long, how long ago was the last treatment?
Uh, last Monday.
Okay.
Last chemo treatment.
But I mean, the last radiation was Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
We'll get to that wet.
Okay.
Am I, am I jumping?
See, yeah, I don't, I'm given show prep, but I don't pay attention.
No, why do you?
No, just like Tom.
So yeah, the, uh, the week started with our, uh, our final week, three
radiations, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.
Okay.
Uh, luckily they changed my last one to seven 30 in the morning.
Wow.
So I got up early.
We're like, wait, when they scheduled it on Tuesday, they told us what time
we were coming in on Wednesday.
And we're like, what?
Seven?
What?
We're not up at that time.
We're retired.
But we remembered of course, that that used to be halfway through our day.
When he was doing the show, the Bob and Tom show, we were almost, you
were almost telling me I was working.
I was looking, I was looking at the, watching the clock as I was going
to go home in a couple of hours.
Yep.
But we got there and did it.
Got there, did it.
Uh, got my last, uh, zap of steroids, which is another reason why I'm here.
Because I, I have a lot of energy right now.
So they gave you steroids to like, kind of set you up for the long weekend, basically.
Yeah, for the most part.
That's nice.
Yeah.
So is that available to anyone?
I know a guy.
Okay.
Good.
So if you need them, but now I want to buy a weight machine.
I don't know.
It's the oddest thing.
Yeah.
So it's been, it's good.
We're here.
We're very excited.
And I'm so happy he's here because when this diagnosis first came down, and of
course we were so scared and so shocked and we had no idea of what was going to happen.
And of course we've mentioned so many times Joey's graduation from law school
and he made it, Bob made it.
He was tired by the end, but he made it huge.
And then the race and we really, I mean, be honest with, did you think we were going to be down here?
I was 50, 50, 50.
Yeah.
Cause I, even though I knew you were going to set this up, I thought his butt would be dragging.
Yep.
I did too.
And I figured there's just no way I'm going to be able to attend this, but it's amazing what, what luck I've had as far as how all these treatments took place.
It's hard enough to be with family when you're normal.
True.
But when alone, when your butt's dragging.
When you're hyped up on steroids?
Yes.
My God.
He's ready to put up his Dukes.
Come on, Frank.
Let's wrestle.
Come on.
Well, I feel like you should give some context.
You keep talking about the race.
You're not just at the race.
This is.
We're at checkerboard square.
You want to give some background?
Yeah.
We, we've done podcasts from here before from our Junebugjourneys.com podcast.
Get that plug in, honey.
Well, we have been really way behind on the Junebug journeys and everything kind of changed in our lives after we lost our sister and our sister, Lynn, and then Bob's diagnosis and all.
We're not even thinking about Junebug journeys, but we came down to checkerboard square.
There are six of us.
Well, why don't you tell the logistics of what we've done?
Well, we have six RVs and we are in a huge rectangle and we have, I guess, surrounded these around us and we have a beautiful courtyard designed for cooking, eating, drinking.
A big, beautiful tent.
A fire pit.
You got shade.
Yeah.
It's beautiful.
We have everything.
It's.
Privacy from the riffraff.
Self-contained in here.
Well, that's the nicest portal it I have ever been in my life.
In fact, a butler handed me a towel and some aftershave.
That's incredible.
Did you give him a tip?
Yes, I did.
See, Jeffrey, I told you.
He ran out of mints or you'd have got one of those also.
It is nice, but I don't use it.
I wouldn't go near it, but Frank pays for it, I guess, and brings it out so he doesn't have to use the facilities in his camper.
Good call.
Is it his choice or his wife's?
I think it's the whole family's choice.
Alright, okay.
Probably.
But no, we have it all set up with six different campers.
My sister, Susan, and her husband, Frank.
You all know as what the Frank.
My brother, Yale, and his wife, Carol are out here.
My best friend from home, Elnorann, and her husband, Steve.
Yay.
Yale's friends, Matt and Becky, who are from somewhere around here.
I don't know.
Local people.
And our good friends from Nashville, Tennessee, Bert and Laura.
So we have an excellent group of people.
Everyone's pitched in on food except us.
Because my brother, Yale, said when we were planning the stay, we always divvy up who's doing breakfast and who's doing supper.
And we eat like kings.
But Yale said in the group text that we had called Checkerboard Square, he said, I think the Kvoins get a pass this year.
And we're like, yes.
Yay.
I'm faking cancer next year.
But it really did give us the opportunity to focus on Bob, keeping Bob healthy.
And we got to come down and just be relaxed.
It's the first time we've ever not loaded up pans and food and all the gear that goes along with cooking out here.
It was just great.
And I thank Yale for that idea.
Thank you, brother.
Indeed. Thank you.
Little did I know how much tenderloin cost.
He said little did he know how much beef tenderloin cost.
Well, that's what we always provide it every year.
Thank you again, Yale.
You're more than welcome.
Yeah.
So.
So, yes, we have we've made it.
We have.
I'm very excited.
It's tremendous.
The week ended without the week.
Let's start at the beginning.
How you felt?
Because you felt pretty.
I did. I mentioned that I was very fatigued.
And I was blue, which I'm not a blue person.
I'm very positive.
You're as positive as they can.
But I think it was Tuesday.
I just felt overwhelmed.
And I'm not getting chemo or radiation or anything.
I had no reason to feel that way, except I felt kind of overwhelmed.
I think it was because my grief over losing our sister, Lynn, has been deferred.
And so it kind of pops up at weird times.
And I felt sad and just just plain sad.
But it went away like the next day because I have no reason to have a pity party.
Good grief.
I'm surrounded by love and family.
So it didn't last.
And we got through it.
And Bob got some steroids and fluids.
I got some steroids.
The last three days were the longest three days of all of this treatment.
Because I was so excited for it to be over.
Be over. Yep.
And Tuesday came, went, and then they moved everything up on Wednesday.
And I was thrilled.
And we got out early, even after we had radiation.
And then the time with the fluids and the steroid injections, the ants in your pants injection.
Got it all.
You didn't get any ants in your pants again.
No. He never did have it.
No. It was done properly.
He's had ants in his pants.
Not by choice. No.
No.
But Wednesday was my big graduation day.
Yes, it was. It was so great.
I got a diploma and everything.
Really? Are you serious?
He did. Oh, yeah.
The girls in the radiation department.
Well, first of all, let me just say, Bob sent them flowers.
Can you believe that?
Bob Kavoyan, in the middle of all this, thought.
Hey, I'm a softy inside.
He is a softy and he loves those girls.
We can't use their names, I'm afraid.
Can we use your name?
Probably not.
Probably better not.
Well, we have one of them here today.
And we're not going to tell you which one.
So let's give her a hand.
Yay, Paula.
She treated us like we were royalty.
I'm not kidding.
Those girls, every day, we walked in there five days a week for almost six weeks.
And they were kind and smiley and always happy and encouraging and just beautiful.
Just beautiful.
And then Bob, so he sent those girls flowers, which I thought was super sweet.
My husband is a sweetie.
I try.
And we got to visit with them for a few minutes before he went back for his final radiation.
And I'll let you take it from there.
Well, you go in there, you pass this bell every time you go in and out of the hallway to the radiation room.
And on occasion you hear it ring.
Oh, it's glorious in the waiting room to hear that bell ring.
It's great.
And then I got to ring it.
Oh, that's fantastic.
Way to go, Bob.
So come on, you guys.
Look, Bob.
We all have bells.
Can you guys hear it?
Will they be able to hear it?
I think so, yeah.
They can hear it.
Yay.
Yeah, so that was a...
Bob got to ring that bell.
That's so cool.
And all the techs and everybody came out.
And I don't know exactly who all was who because I never went back there.
I wasn't really privy to how many girls he was flirting with.
Well, that's because that's the VIP room.
Becky, that's the VIP room in the back.
Let me clear it up right now.
I flirted with all of them.
Fact.
Yes.
I always thought that bell was for tipping.
I thought somebody had slipped him a 20.
Somebody gave him 50% tip.
That's what I thought.
Okay.
But tell about the girls in the actual radiation.
But I go in there, I lay down, I put my hands over my head, stay in a position.
That's when all the phantom itching starts.
You want to scratch and move and you can't do it.
And all of a sudden this thing rotates around me three times.
And it takes, I don't know, five to seven minutes for it to take place.
And I know when the final rotation is.
And I was just like, oh, thank God.
Victory is over.
Victory is yours.
So they move the machine out and the bed starts to lower.
And three of the girls are in there with these big party hats on.
Oh, wow.
Isn't that awesome?
Said congrats, Bob.
And it was great.
Oh, that's so swell.
That's so cool.
It's so swell.
It is.
So it was a great experience.
They're just so loving.
I couldn't believe it.
It didn't feel like a hospital setting.
I mean, it was.
You're going in a depressing place and we're seeing people much sicker than Bob and grieving
for them and what they're all going through.
But the girls there, bless you, Paula.
Just so good.
Send your friend who will remain naveless.
Who, Michelle?
I'm sorry.
Nobody's going to hear this anyway.
No, no, no.
The tens of people who hear this will be amazed.
But seriously, just fantastic.
So to you people out there who might be listening and have a diagnosis, don't be afraid.
The people at the cancer centers are kind and they will walk you through it and help
you all along the way.
They did.
I would go in there scared and they would make us feel so comfortable and confident
that Bob was going to be okay and this treatment wasn't scary.
No, not for me.
For some it might be.
But it turned out to be as easy as I could have ever dreamed.
Well, and maybe to put in context from the day we started, Becky, your brother Yale asked
me, we hadn't seen each other, what were your thoughts when you first heard the news?
I was devastated. We all were.
You went from this fear of the unknown to these professionals, took care of you.
And you know the path we walked down.
Yes. And you are blessed that they caught this early.
You are blessed that you have a great team.
Yes, that's the wonderful thing is that.
I want to toot that catch it early horn as much as I can.
And like Yale said, we were devastated.
We all were. Because you hear cancer.
Yeah, and the first thing you think of is.
Game over.
Yeah.
And now treatments have gone well.
Although now that we have a professional here who was in the radiation room.
Should I repeat what you said two weeks ago?
I don't know what that was.
She wasn't sure you were getting the right spot.
Oh, I did do that.
I said, I think they're trained.
Becky, I think.
I didn't believe it.
I know.
I was doubtful.
Because he had no symptoms.
And I said it to the doctor, to his face.
And I said it to him again two weeks later because he kept saying, you're going to hate me next week.
And never happened.
And Bob never hated him.
No, no.
I don't.
I'm still a little bit dubious.
Maybe we were in a study and we were the placebo because we never.
I think they were.
Wouldn't they tell me that?
OK, I'll get.
Then I'll just sneak a placebo on you.
Do you know who tells you that?
Alan Funt.
Smile.
You're on cancer camera.
You're on candid camera.
Yeah.
So Wednesday was a big, big day for me.
We went home with big smiles on our face.
We did.
And I had to fill a prescription.
So I figured I had a few steroids.
So I can have more steroids.
I can carry these with me.
OK.
So I have to fill the prescription.
So I planned my route out of a few other errands to take care of that day.
I was getting my nails done.
So I figured, all right, I'll take a look at my route.
OK, I'll do this, this, this, this and this.
And then I'll be home in this.
Right.
Well, I did this, this and then went to the pharmacy and the pharmacy was closed.
What?
All pharmacies now close between one thirty and two o'clock in our state.
I don't know why.
For lunch, I pulled out one forty five.
It's a smoke break.
Yeah.
You know, your pharmacist has to smoke and you can't smoke inside.
Right.
So I figured, all right, I'll drive.
I'll just do a 15 minute drive.
Put the top down, turn up the music.
Sure.
And I had my insurer with me.
That's a drink for old people.
It's a protein drink.
Right.
That says you're old.
Yeah, I mean.
So he's driving top down on a Jeep.
So I am top down.
Musica.
Volume up.
Sipping an insurer.
Listening to Steppenwolf.
Look it out.
Here we go.
Get your motor running.
That is your badass senior citizen right there.
Man.
But those insurers, man, they have paid off.
Bob is bulked up.
He's still at my heavy honey.
He hasn't lost that weight.
I know.
He did exactly as we asked him to do.
Carrying the weight and it's not easy.
My bones aren't built for this kind of.
This heaviness.
Can you feel the.
I mean.
Yeah.
Okay.
All right.
Walking around.
He keeps saying he's got a big belly.
I don't think he does, but he thinks he does.
I do.
It's there.
But.
You ought to see me naked sometimes.
I think that's back in play, right?
I believe it is.
Yeah.
So, but it was funny.
So, but that was the same day we had to prep to come down to the track to check a board
square and let me tell you, our families have stepped up to help us.
Well, I think it's the big one.
It's a bomb there.
I hope it's one of ours.
It's a bomb, right?
Okay.
Yeah.
But we had help loading up our son Wade loaded up the pickup.
And we had help loading up the camper and getting everything together so that we could come
down here and join everybody.
But everybody else had their own campers to deal with too.
So we were all busy that day.
Got down here and you, you made it.
Yeah, I made it.
And now we're all set up ready for the race.
And I could not be happier.
Yeah.
And now we, we await our next step.
Which is?
Which is I have some pre tests for before surgery.
Okay.
And then a, this is down the road.
A PET scan.
Okay.
And then, uh, lastly, the surgery.
All right.
So that scan is June 20th.
Here comes flyover.
Yes.
It's a pause for a flyover.
This is the flyover.
It's a big practice for the show tomorrow.
Is it the Blue Angels tomorrow?
I don't know.
I'm out of the loop.
I don't know.
I'm under a tent.
Okay.
So I'm not sure what went over us.
I don't know.
Now I lost my train of thought too.
No, but it's just a matter of, uh, my last is the surgery.
Yeah.
We'll do is, uh, we'll post these six episodes and then we'll do another one after the PET
scan and we'll do another one after the surgery.
Okay.
And to keep you up.
So you have an ending to the story.
We don't want to leave you hanging.
What happened to Bob?
So I'm not finished.
Are you, are you cutting this thing off?
No, I'm trying to, I got places to go on this talk.
I understand that, but there are one thing we're trying to do is walk these people through
these treatments.
Okay.
Good point.
You're right.
It's the Bob and cancer show.
It's not the Bob and Becky show.
Okay.
I get it.
So now you may continue.
Well, I forgot to mention when we introduced the woman who shall be remain, shall remain
nameless Paula, um, how we got around, we didn't really get around, but we had to be
very concerned about the HIPAA violation because she's not allowed to say anything.
If she saw you on the street, she's not allowed to say hi Bob or even hi, probably her family
wouldn't know who you, how she would know you.
And she can't say because there's laws against that to protect our privacy.
Can she still say my eyes are up here, Bob?
Yes.
I just, I don't know how the HIPAA works.
But it's a violation if she says Bob.
Okay.
So they're camping out here.
In fact, it just, uh, it came up in conversation at the cancer center that we were going to
be down here camping.
And that was our goal to get Bob down to check checkerboard square.
And she said, well, I camp out there and I asked which lot and it just so happened that
they're in the same lot that we're in.
And so it comes around that she couldn't come to our campsite because that would be violating
HIPAA if she let it be known that she knew us.
How would, how in the heck would she know us?
So I took it upon myself to just wander over to her campsite and introduce myself to her
family and friends that are there and said, this woman, uh, Paula takes care of my husband
at the cancer center.
So that allows us to now be friends and she didn't initiate it.
It was me.
I walked over and like, because I don't want somebody to hear this podcast and think how
in the heck did she get over to your campsite?
Cause that would be violating and she didn't.
I went and invited her to come over and let it be known that, that her family was free
to know that, that you guys were working with Bob.
And also we're probably violating HIPAA by broadcasting that I have cancer.
I don't know.
I mean, I told Becky when she said that, that she could not approach your friend, Paula.
Now I feel better about why no woman would talk to me at a kegger in college.
It was a HIPAA violation Bob.
I feel better about that.
I think it was a hipness.
Okay, good.
Or lack thereof, right?
Oh, I see these boys, these boys are good.
So I just wanted to clear that up because I was afraid I would get to the end of the
podcast, forget to have said that.
Then she gets to work and someone goes, well, well, you're in trouble now.
You broke all the rules.
Well, you know, I don't know when HIPAA started, but you're a big Andy Griffith fan.
Yes, I am.
Remember the lady that wanted her pills when new Ellie, Ellie was the new drug.
Everybody in town knew what she was taking.
It was a sugar pill.
They called it a sugar pill.
It was a simpler time.
Yeah.
It really was.
Everybody in town knew she took sugar pills.
Yes, exactly.
So she got her sugar pills.
And we've been watching Andy every night.
You watch them sequentially, right?
Yes, we started.
We started season one all the way through and that's been our, I guess, put us in a
good mood before we go to sleep, before we go to treatment the next day.
It's just a joyful show to watch.
And I've been a fan for ever, ever decades.
And I love them and I know the episodes.
I know the dialogue and it's been really special to watch them.
Bob will say, well, let's turn on an Andy and it's 11 o'clock or 1130 and to watch it
with Bob, to have him experience it with me.
And it just puts us in a great frame of mind.
I love Andy so much.
There's two words that define the death of Andy Griffith.
Howard Sprague.
Oh, that's when it all went south.
We're still in the good years.
I thought you were going to say in color.
Well same thing.
It could be either.
I think they were coinciding.
I mean, they happened at the same time.
Yeah.
That was bad.
Or Barney leaving.
Oh, Barney leaving.
That's so sad.
Well, let's just do a whole podcast on Andy.
We should.
We could.
Might as well start.
Yeah, we could.
But no, it's been really special.
Really a neat time.
It's been an unusual time for us, but it's a time that wasn't as frightening as I thought
it would be.
It came out great.
Our next step is what we wait for and hopefully that will come out great.
I was shocked, I guess, two days after the news.
I saw you.
Yeah.
It was the day of the Masters.
Yeah.
And I told Becky I was just so pleased how resolute you were.
I'm just going to kick this thing's ass.
I'm going to do what they tell me to do.
We'll get through this.
See, it was not a pity party at all.
We did learn in the chemotherapy section, which is a different area of the hospital,
and we only went there once a week, but we were there longer.
We did learn that a lot of people do not do what they suggest you do, which is hydrate,
hydrate, hydrate, protein, protein, protein, for him.
Now, every patient is different.
Calories, calories, let's keep this guy from losing those 20 or 30 pounds that they were
afraid he would lose or they actually projected he would lose.
Interesting.
And instead he gained more than 10.
But we did learn that some people will say, well, I had two coffees and three Pepsi's
and such and such and it's like that is not hydrating.
And Bob is not a water drinker, but he has become a water drinker.
That's amazing to me that you now embrace water.
I do.
You know why he's done it?
Because he loves me and he wants to stick around.
Well, he's afraid of you too.
You know how much trouble I'd be in if I died?
Are you kidding me?
See the week of Masters, on Wednesday, I had planned to fake cancer so I didn't have to
do anything so I could watch the tournament all the way through the weekend.
And instead, you know what?
Well, it came at, but I still laid around and watched the Masters all weekend.
Actually we, and I think we've mentioned it on the podcast before, thank God for the Masters.
Because those days were the first dark days of fear and the unknown and we had the Masters
to focus on.
And we did.
We just like were numb.
Vegged out.
But I think was the next day.
Who won?
You did, Bob.
You know, in the long run I did.
So who, was it the next day?
Was it that Monday was your first treatment?
No, we had a week.
You had a week, okay.
A test in between.
All right, I couldn't remember.
We had a week and we had to go through a couple of initiation, orientation on what was going
to happen.
Secret handshakes.
Right, yeah.
Oh yeah.
And we got all that and the following Monday everything started and now it's a...
And that's when he started the heavy hydrating and calories and all that.
And we've carried that on and I'm continuing to carry that on although the dietitian who
contacted us, they have a whole team over there, man.
We have our own dietitian.
And she said he can lessen his calorie intake now because he was up over 3,000, 3,500 calories
a day.
My doctor is frowning on that but I don't care.
Yeah.
So we're...
You know, the best thing you can ever do is get cancer and have free Grater's ice cream.
He had ice cream almost every night.
You had more paydays in your kitchen than in a movie theater lobby, Bob.
I had a whole display.
It was calorie central.
Yeah.
Every snack known to humans.
It was part of a movie theater.
We did.
And at about 10.30 at night I'd say, you need a few more calories today and he'd just go,
well, let's have ice cream.
Let's go.
So we did and he's been fantastic about it.
Just great.
And it's carried on down here.
We're eating like kings.
We always eat like kings at Checkerboard Square but I've never had to count his calories and
protein before.
And luckily we've had pulled pork.
We've had every kind of turkey, pork chops.
We had tuna salad.
I don't eat it.
It's crap.
Yesterday I was talking with our nephew Jake about protein.
And we're talking back and forth and said, yeah, I'm eating all this protein.
He goes, you know, that protein is really good for actually losing weight.
He goes, are you on the keto?
The keto diet?
I said, no, I'm on the chemo diet.
And they're slightly different.
It's a little different.
Yeah.
Uh-huh.
But yeah, it's...
He has learned things that don't work for swallowing.
He doesn't like...
I make homemade bread and I made all this bread for him and he's not...
It's not that he doesn't like it.
It's just he can't swallow it.
If I have bread, I can't have ice cream.
You get too full.
I would choose ice cream.
He has trouble swallowing that.
I do.
Bread is a little difficult to swallow.
And that is really the only problem I'm having is bread.
Everything else I can swallow easily.
Okay.
Yeah.
When we've been having all of it.
Yeah.
And speaking of our friends and family helping us, it was time for Bob to have some kind
of a snack.
He's supposed to eat before he's hungry, which is a weird thing.
It's not good for you.
It's very weird.
I mean, unless you're having cancer treatment.
So, I said, honey, it's time for you to have something to eat.
And he said, well, what you got?
Well, our friend Laura was sitting there and she said, I have tuna salad.
And she brought him out because she loves us and wanted to serve him and help him.
He brought out a beautiful glob of this horrifying stuff that I wouldn't touch with the 10 foot
pole, but he loved it.
See, but Laura loves me.
Yes.
I don't make tuna salad.
I don't have it in the house.
No way.
But other people make it.
And it's a lesson that-
Oh, fly over.
I got to see him.
Did you see him?
Yeah.
Incoming.
I have the best view.
Sorry, guys.
I'm facing that way.
But-
Anyone have a question?
I have a question.
But- Anyone have a tissue?
Did you wet yourself?
I may have.
Wow.
So, shoot.
What was I talking about?
You were talking about how wonderful everyone is.
Oh, I know.
It was how wonderful everybody's been because we're surrounded by our family.
We also have good friends that we have let in on the news.
Not many, but a few we've let in on this kind of news.
And I have learned just through my life, I guess, and decades of living, that I am a
helper.
I'm just that person.
I want to always be serving and helping.
It irritates Bob just a little bit that I'm constantly writing him about food, calories,
protein, water.
Do you have a Gatorade?
Where's your water?
It does irritate you, right?
No comment until the time limit is up.
But anyhow-
No, no.
I have irritation.
No?
No, I'm not irritated.
What is it?
I'm full.
It's real.
I'm constantly full and you're still putting food in my mouth.
But a lesson we've learned is that we don't want to deprive our family and our friends
from helping.
Because if we say, no, no, we can't think of a thing you can do, there's nothing you
can do, they all feel like they want to help.
It's a natural thing.
And there isn't really anything specific I can say that you can do.
We don't need meals delivered because believe me, we have enough food in the house.
But when there are things, then we need to say yes.
And they have all reached out and all done things for us.
Every single one of the people here has been amazing to us.
Yes.
Amazing.
We're surrounded by love.
I agree.
Just surrounded by it.
It's made it a lot easier and it's made the journey go quickly.
So you know if you get well, you're going to have to go back to reality.
You know that, right?
I've heard if you say when you get well.
Oh yeah, when it's done.
When it's done.
Nice job there, Whit.
Thank you.
We can edit.
I don't know what you have planned.
We can edit that in post, Bob.
No, it is going to change.
He's not going to be eating ice cream every night.
No, you won't be able to.
No.
I mean, he can't get too fat.
Come on.
No, I can't.
I can't carry the weight.
No.
I don't plan on it either.
Yeah.
But he's doing amazing.
I do want anybody who's listening who might have a diagnosis who's new to this to reach
out to your family, to the ones that you trust the most and tell them and allow them to help
you because it makes a big difference.
It allows them to love on you a little bit and you don't have to go through this alone.
There are people out there who will help you and be with you.
And I would say the one thing that I would say is that you have to be with them.
The one thing if you are a family or friend and you have a loved one who has cancer, don't
be fragile.
Right.
Treat them normally.
Regular.
Yeah.
Laugh with them.
Joke with them.
Well, and one thing in the-
Don't just sit there and pity them.
We talked about this, the fact that you've kept it very private.
Yeah.
Until now except for this.
No, no.
Well, I mean, it's not yet released, right?
So, but-
No, that's what the flyover was.
I saw the banner.
Way to go, Bob.
You're being painted in the sky right now.
No, but I mean, if you just put it out there then everybody wants to help.
It almost becomes an issue.
Yeah.
You've kept it contained.
You've kept it amongst friends and family and they've-
Everybody's honored it.
Yes, totally.
Yep.
It's amazing how they have not shared it.
Zero.
We are not getting people that it leaked to at all.
No.
No, and I think that's also-
So, thank you for that.
One of the things that helped us go smoothly.
You're not having to constantly reply to everybody, how are you, how are you, how are you?
Well, and think about how great it's going to be to go, I went through this.
I'm done.
And I'm done.
Yep.
And we didn't want to share it with you, but now we're great.
Right?
That's a, what a great story.
Yeah.
It is a great story and he did very well.
And he doesn't want people treating him with kid gloves or, oh, Bob, we're so sorry to
hear the news or-
That's what I don't care about.
That's just pitiful.
It feels awful.
It feels so good.
So.
Yeah.
So, go in with a positive attitude.
Yep.
Stay, stick with it and-
Grab your team, a team of some kind.
As you said a minute ago, go see your doctor each year.
Oh my gosh.
Yes.
It has definitely saved my life.
No, you're 100% right.
Yeah.
And I don't know how else to say it.
We've all heard that message, you know, early detection, early detection, but people might
not know how you do that.
And that is to get your annual physical.
Go every year to your doctor and let them check you out and listen to what they say.
True.
Don't be in denial because it can save your life for your loved ones.
So.
Yay.
Here we are.
Yay.
I think I'd like to hear the bells again.
Good idea.
Let's hear the bells.
Yay, Bob.
Because we have officially graduated.
Yes, you have.
And we move on to the next step.
All right.
That's enough of the bells.
And it's been actually a lot of fun.
Yeah.
Going through this with you guys.
Thank you.
And sharing it with everyone.
We're honored.
You are loved.
We're honored.
Yeah, we are.
We are loving you.
So I guess stay tuned for the next episode because we don't know what it'll be.
It's about a month out, I'm guessing.
Is that what they...
It'll probably be about a month.
Okay.
All right.
And then it'll probably be another month after that before the final episode.
Okay.
And we'll keep you abreast of everything that happens and everything that happened in between
as I try to eliminate my new partner.
Yes.
I hate him.
I'm going to kill him.
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