Wake Up Live W/ Christopher DeSimone Ep. 451 - Shaun McClusky

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Christopher DeSimone (0:34)

Good morning, everyone. You're on Live The Dream Media. It's the Friday edition of Wake Up Live with Christopher DeSimone. And good to have you guys here. I can't believe it's Friday already. We're six days away from Bike in the Box, radio-thon, well, broadcast-a-thon, whatever we do around here. Between two hours of Wake Up and one hour of Southwest Flavor with Ron Arena. So sharpen up your credit cards and checkbooks. lugocharities.com is the place to go to make your online donations there. I am changing the date of the Christmas party, I think. I was going to do the evening of the 5th, but then everything is happening on the 5th. I got two town tree lightings, the Oro Valley Church of the Nazarene tree lighting.

I forgot that we did a breakfast last year, so we might do that again. Anyway, it's happening. I'll let you know.

I am so blessed to have the return of our good friend, Shaun McClusky, after a couple of curves here.

Shaun McClusky (1:40)

Good morning. My wife was not happy.

Christopher DeSimone (1:42)

I bet not. She loves you.

Shaun McClusky (1:44)

Yeah, like, what is it? So three weeks and three days. So what? 24 days ago, I had five strokes.

Christopher DeSimone (1:51)

Mamma mia.

Shaun McClusky (1:51)

Yeah. 10.56 in the morning. I was getting ready for a Zoom call at 11 o'clock. Got my iPad. I'm sitting there, and all of a sudden, I start sweating. I'm wearing a gray T-shirt. And it went from light gray, like heather gray, to just dark, dark gray, because I was just drenched. Got really dizzy. Went to the bathroom. I was holding onto the toilet, throwing up and sweating into the toilet. You can see the drops just coming off me. So I laid down for three hours, then woke up, moved from the garage couch to the bedroom, put a towel down, changed my T-shirt, sweat through that one, sweat through the towel, slept all night long, well, laid there pretty much. And woke up at 6.3 the next morning and said, holy crap, I can't even brush my teeth.

I was like on a Tilt-A-Whirl.

And so I said, I should take the kids to school. I should take the kids to school.

SPEAKER_1 (2:35)

What did you think you had?

Shaun McClusky (2:37)

No idea. No, I just got really dizzy. Like, I mean, it was like, wow, this is great.

And I didn't know what the hell was wrong with me. So I was like, okay, well, on Monday, I lost peripheral in my right eye. I was driving looking for an address. I looked this way. I couldn't see the address markers. I was like, what the hell is going on? So I do this and I can see this one way out here. I can't see this one. And I get it to like here and I can finally see it. I'm like, okay. I just looked at the VA.

Wednesday morning, Ashley took me to the VA. The VA thought I had food poisoning.

Wow. And I said, not possible. I said, we all ate the same thing on Sunday night. My wife made an amazing pot roast and the demi-glace was just on point. But beside that, doctor's like, are you sure you don't have food poisoning? I'm like, there's no way. Hell, I haven't eaten anything since Sunday. Right. He goes, well, maybe you just, your blood sugar's off. So they'd run every blood test in the world. Then they do a CAT scan and he comes back and he goes, I had, I don't know, a very large gobstopper-sized chunk of cancer moved out of my left thigh. L-melanoma. That was like two or three years ago. Two years ago. And he said, well, maybe that metastasized and moved to your brain because when we did your CT scan, we found five abnormalities in your brain. I said, okay, he said, so the two options are you either had five strokes or you have cancer in your brain. I'm like, well, neither one of those two sound like any damn good.

And thank God, I actually wasn't in the room. So he said, hey, we're going to give you, it's like seven o'clock at night, because we're going to put you in the MRI machine. I said, the hell you are. I'm too wide for that thing. That MRI tube is like the size of your cup of coffee. My fat butt doesn't fit in it. I touched the sides so they were going to put you.