Bumpercar talks about getting nervous at the doctor and in meetings and in life. There is also a minor interruption from a kid who wants a ukulele …
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The Bumperpodcast is an oftentimes hilarious weekly romp around Headquarters, in Coffee-Can Alley, with Natty Bumpercar and his entire gaggle of pals!
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It’s a ‘Classic Bumperpodcast’ without an interview – and Bumpercar is on a real tear about allergies, and his doctor’s schedule. It’s a bit of a hoot!
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Natty Bumpercar is feeling a might bit better – and is thrilled with modern medical technology. Is it magic – or – is it science? He has no idea!
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Feeling better is better than felling not better!
In Bumperpodcast episode 180, host Natty Bumpercar shares a humorous update on his battle with bronchitis while juggling single-dad duties. Fresh from a trip to the x-ray store with his four-year-old son in tow, Natty reflects on the simple joy of breathing and navigating medical appointments with a goldfish-eating, iPad-toting toddler. Between bouts of coughing and wheezing, he delivers a lighthearted monologue about rediscovering modern medicine, evolving from a single-cell organism, and the awkward comedy of being a contagious patient. This episode showcases Natty's signature conversational style and self-deprecating humor while dealing with everyday parenting challenges.
“You don't realize how much you love to breathe until there's an elephant sitting on your chest and you can't do it anymore.”
— Natty Bumpercar
“I devolved into a single cell organism and now I'm evolving again. I'm re-evolving into whatever I was before.”
— Natty Bumpercar
“I get it, you don't want me to breathe on you, and she just chuckled like oh that's right sicky.”
— Natty Bumpercar
Topics: #illness #parenting #breathing #bronchitis #x-ray #modernmedicine #familylife #health
Featuring: Natty Bumpercar
Natty Bumpercar: well well well is it the bumper podcast and am i feeling a little bit better yes and yes double yes yes yes hooray hooray yippy skippy i gotta tell you guys modern medicine kind of amazing uh i mean i'm still sick my throat still hurts i'm still tired i'm still stuffy uh but i still have goop coming out of my eyes uh but with all that i no longer feel um like there's an elephant sitting on my chest which is great because you don't realize how much you love to breathe until uh there's an elephant sitting on your chest and you can't do it anymore i think at that point you're like you know what i miss uh that breathing that breathing was great why i can't i hope i get to breathe again because everybody else in the world seems to be enjoying breathing and i'm looking at them over there and over there doing all their breathing rubbing into my face a little bit that they're just like look at me take a breath oh uh last night i've got so i've got bronchitis that's what i have uh but last night i uh i got to go to the uh x-ray place the x-ray store where you go and get your x-rays and uh and uh first thing that happened it was kind of funny to me because i walked in and i had a four-year-old baby bumper car with me he was toting the ipad and eating goldfish and uh drinking a juice box because that's how we roll but so i get to the front desk and the lady i sign in and everything and and she looks at me and looks down at him and says uh so um did you bring somebody to watch him and i was like oh oh oh i didn't i didn't bring anybody to watch him because the wife was at home with the baby who has all sorts of ear infections happening this is too much so then i was like oh yeah i'm getting an x-ray so he probably can't hang out in the room with me and get exposed to doses of x-ray radiation or whatever it is that they use to take the pictures i'm assuming it's it right is it radiation yes oh so um luckily you know it worked out because uh there was a changing room he sat in there he didn't move more than a half an inch and the lady from the front desk uh just kind of watched him and she was very nice and you know it was it was it was fine it was good but then i go in and the girl says so i had to take two i think two different pictures and she she said all right you gotta put your chest against this thing and she's like pushing contorting my shoulders and neck and chin and moving hands and arms and moving me all around and uh all right take a deep breath hold it hold it i did that and then as soon as it was time to let the breath out because again i'm still getting used to this whole how people breathe thing oh it hurt so bad i was coughing everywhere and uh i tried to get away from her but she had to come over and reconfigure me for a different picture and she said look that way and i said through the wheezing and gasping and coughing i was like i get it you don't want me to breathe on you and she just chuckled like oh that's right sicky i don't want you to breathe on me perfect so then she took the other picture breathe in hold it and that time a little bit better i'm telling you i'm really figuring this whole breathing thing out pretty soon uh i might be able to breathe through my nose which is going to be crazy i mean crazy crazy i'm evolving is what i'm telling you i devolved into a single cell organism and now i'm evolving again i'm re-evolving re-evolving into whatever whatever i was before awesome yeah of course so then i finished the thing go out he's still sitting there grab him we go get some dinner me and a kid it was a great night all the way around um so thanks for sticking in with me glad that you're glad that i'm so much better how are you feeling i realize i've spent this whole time talking about me that's not acceptable
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Bumpercar woke up all excited about getting to talk to you and then he tells a story about how had to go see the doctor about his throat – and – you get to hear all about it.
Listen to the Bumperpodcast and you will find out what happened when he went to the doctor.
Pins and needled. Pins and needles!
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In this episode of Bumperpodcast, host Natty Bumpercar wakes up excited on a rainy day to record and shares a personal medical journey with listeners. Natty describes a frustrating throat condition where food gets stuck while eating, leading to visits with multiple doctors. After the first doctor's unhelpful advice to "eat better food," Natty consults a second doctor who diagnoses the problem and refers him to a gastroenterologist. The episode takes a humorous turn as Natty breaks down the word "gastroenterologist" and reveals the next step in treatment: having a camera shoved down his throat. Classic Bumperpodcast style combines everyday health concerns with Natty's characteristic rambling humor.
“I woke up this morning and I got so excited because I looked out the window and it was a rainy day it was gray it was kind of cold feeling clammy and then I was just like wait a minute today's the day for the bumper podcast”
— Natty Bumpercar
“he's a gastroenterologist which i don't know what that is except he deals with gas and he's inter and then something with an ologist i don't know like a paleontologist but but in my throat”
— Natty Bumpercar
Topics: #health #doctors #medicalappointments #throatproblems #eating #rainyday #gastroenterology
Featuring: Natty Bumpercar
Natty Bumpercar: I woke up this morning and I was thinking about you bumper podcast that's really true I woke up this morning and I got so excited because I looked out the window and it was a rainy day it was gray it was kind of cold feeling clammy and then I was just like wait a minute today's the day for the bumper podcast today's the day that I get to sit down in front of a microphone and talk to you about whatever it is that I talk about what am I going to talk about today well I was thinking I would tell you about my trip to the doctor yesterday that's right I went to the doctor why because I go to the doctor sometimes that's what happens don't you go to the doctor you should they're your friends they give you things that make you feel better I didn't not that I felt bad but I have this crazy thing that happens sometimes when I eat food where I'm like like oh look at this food in front of me this is going to be a delicious meal i can't wait to eat this food and then i take a bite and then my throat i told you about this where my throat doesn't or did i tell you about this no i was complaining about my throat a few weeks ago because it wasn't breathing properly this is similar but different i have a great throat did you know that so you take a bite and then all of a sudden the throat's like i don't want you're like what i don't want to change right here and it's just like the food just kind of hangs out in the throat and you know you saw all of a sudden the mouth starts just like and the body starts going and then it's just like and it's disgusting it happens every so often and so i asked my doctor about it like the normal doctor you go to whatever that guy is called and uh here's here's what he said to me he said oh well i suppose you need to eat better food which does that help me no that doesn't help me i eat plenty good food and so then i had to go to a different doctor because i had i remember when i had bronchitis i'm always sick we know this now it's so it's evidently now a part of my life over the last two years baby bumper car comes into the scene here's some germs oh you're going to be sick for the rest of your life hooray well so i went to a different doctor because first doctor wasn't open told different doctor the same story about the throat and she was like you've got a blah blah blah and then i went and i looked up blah blah on the internet and i was just like oh my goodness i've got blah blah and so i had to set up an appointment with a guy he's a gastroenterologist which i don't know what that is except he deals with gas and he's inter and then something with an ologist i don't know like a paleontologist but but in my throat and so he looked at me poked and prodded and now all of so here's the next step in all this they're gonna take a camera and they're gonna shove it down my throat
Today – I ended up shuttling myself over to see the doctor – mostly because of this chronic illness (yes – a week is chronic to me) and also because going to the doctor is such a blast. Luckily – a little bird was able to give me all of the information that I needed – from all the way across the country – or else I would never have had any idea as to how to find a doctor to go to, what kind of insurance I (evidently) have – or any of that other stuff that most people seem to be able to navigate all by themselves . . . it was bad enough that there were forms to fill out . . . I am miserable with forms – of any kind. I would rather draw cupcakes.
Anyways-er-oonie – the doctor was swell – and basically said that I have some sort of viral thing – and that all of the room spinning dizziness that I have been enjoying for the last couple of days is part of the bug – and it should all go away in a couple of weeks. Yeah – a couple of weeks.
She did assure me – after this great test where she grabbed my head and twisted it to the side three quick times before laying me down and flashing a light into my eyes – that I was young – and that there weren’t really any chances of it being a stoke. So that was reassuring.
Now I am off to squirt some stuff up my nose, take the dog for a walk and then adventure over to an airport to find my little lost bird that is currently flying her way home.
Squirt – squirt – walk – walk – tweet – tweet – tweet.