Everybody Hurts

Norah and Dad share all about Norah's recent ailments, including a not-so memorable visit to the emergency room. 

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Transcript

Dad: 0:00

Hey Nora,

Norah: 0:01

Hello Father

Dad: 0:03

what are we gonna talk about this week?

Norah: 0:05

Today we're gonna talk about going to the er,

Dad: 0:21

Welcome back to the Nora and Dad Show. As always, I'm dad and with me is the lovely and talented.

Norah: 0:29

Nora.

Dad: 0:31

Nora, you threw me off with the Father

Norah: 0:33

Sorry, I was feeling a little formal. I've been writing formal for the past like 20 minutes, so

Dad: 0:39

first AP English paper in the can and

Norah: 0:42

woo.

Dad: 0:43

You wrote about gull over travels,

Norah: 0:45

Worst book I've ever read. I, I'm sorry I missed Guggenheim. If you're listening to this. I love you. I love your class.

Dad: 0:50

but can you share, can, can you share what the topic of your paper.

Norah: 0:55

Um, so in Gull's travels, the, what I would say is the funniest part about it is that he likes talking about his poop a lot, like a lot, um, and I wrote my

Dad: 1:08

mean, I mean, who, who, who doesn't?

Norah: 1:10

Well, you would think like a nobleman of the 17 hundreds wouldn't write about that in his journals, but he did. Well, not he did. He's a character. but I wrote my paper about the symbolism of poop. Poop and why the author decided to put that into the novel.

Dad: 1:26

Can you share your, your lead sentence from your paper, which I thought was just outstanding

Norah: 1:32

Okay, Let's see. I'm going through papers to find it cause I don't know what off the top of my head. Oh, okay. Here it is.

Dad: 1:40

Uh,

Norah: 1:41

Poop jocks aren't my favorite, but they're a solid number two, they were definitely number one for Jonathan Swift as displayed through Scatological humor in his novel Golis Travels.

Dad: 1:52

Anytime you can work in poop jokes. And number two in a sentence, that's a winner in my book.

Norah: 1:56

I agree.

Dad: 1:58

So we've been off for a few weeks. We ambitiously started season two of the show. and then we took like a month off So we're

Norah: 2:07

bad. That's my fault.

Dad: 2:08

Yeah, we'll get to that in a second. But, so the plan going forward to let everyone out in podcast listening land know is in an effort to make our. Our show a little more reliable. we are going to do an every other week format instead of trying to do every week and then falling short and disappointing you guys with, coming on Tuesdays and not finding our show. Uh, we're gonna do every other Tuesday. Instead of every Tuesday. So we recorded, like a, what seems like forever ago. The first episode is season two, and then, Nora ended up in the emergency room

Norah: 2:43

It was so fun. I had such a good time.

Dad: 2:46

you ended up in the emergency room. Why did you end up in the emergency?

Norah: 2:50

Um, because we were in a car accident,

Dad: 2:54

and you weren't, you weren't feeling super

Norah: 2:56

no, I could not move my neck, which is not a very pleasant feeling. Contrary to popular belief.

Dad: 3:03

Yeah. I got the call from school that you were not, you were not feeling well. So we picked you up at school. I picked you up at school and took you up to the emergency room, not. My favorite place to be, particularly when it's not like an emergency. Well, let, let's, let's back up. So I called the, the nurse on call, which is what you have to do when you wanna get a same. The, the initial plan was to take you to the doctors in like the office so you can get an x-ray. which would be the easiest way I thought to get you an x-ray. And so in order to get a same day doctor's appointment, if you go through a nurse out on the nurse's line, they took your symptoms, which was like, you were in a lot of pain and you were like having trouble moving your neck and whatever. And so, and she was like, No, no. She needs to go to the emergency room, like immediately to rule out like a broken neck and, and, or a broken back. And like I get it. They go through like a series of like questions on their computer screen that you have to answer, and I get that they wanna limit their liability. They don't wanna tell you not to go to the er and then you move the wrong way and you're paralyzed and then they screwed up. So I, I get that. So we couldn't get a doctor's appointment. We were told we had to go to the ER immediately. So I took you to the er. Um, and then we were there for what felt like forever. It was probably only like, yeah, it was like five hours to get a CAT scan and for them to diagnose you with whiplash, which I could have done without taking you to the er. And then for them to send you home with some like high strength ibuprofen and muscle relaxers. And I could have done all of that. Well, I couldn't have given you the medicine, but I certainly could have diagnosed the whiplash without us having to spend all day in the er. And it's not that I don't like spending quality time with you. I do.

Norah: 4:47

not quality time.

Dad: 4:48

Well, first of all, they had no rooms

Norah: 4:50

Yeah, we were in the hallway like there was a kid getting his finger like put back together next to us

Dad: 4:56

Yeah, he was a, he was either 14 or 15 and he, they were clearly Amish and he, was there with someone, not his parent, because I heard them on the phone, getting consent from the parent to treat the kid. He had, apparently he was a construction worker at 14 or 15. Yeah. And shot out, shot a nail gun through his finger and so he needed, so we, I got to watch him get stitched up while you got your CAT scan. That was cuz he was like five feet away from us. That was fantastic.

Norah: 5:23

Well, I'm sure that was great.

Dad: 5:25

Yeah, no, it doesn't bother me. I watched you born, like I watched them. You were a, you were, you were a c-section. Like I watched them like, like your mom's, like organs, out on the table next to her as they took you out of her belly. It was gross, but really cool. Yeah. So the er, not my, not it was.

Norah: 5:47

was okay. They gave us little lunches,

Dad: 5:50

Oh, the food was really good. It was, um, like chicken salad. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was, we, it was like three 30 or four o'clock and neither one of us had eaten yet, and I, and I. Yeah, you asked the nurse if they had food and she said she'd see what she could find and she came back with these little like lunch boxes of chicken salad with some crackers and some cookies and some other assorted things. But the chicken salad. 10 out of 10 it was really, really, really good chicken salad or I was just, or I was just starving red and all my arm off cuz it had been all day by three 30 in the afternoon and I hadn't eaten yet. It's hard to say.

Norah: 6:28

Yeah, it was not the best day, but that's okay.

Dad: 6:30

Not the best day. You, you've, you, you spent a fair amount of time in the er, in your.

Norah: 6:35

Yeah.

Dad: 6:36

For various things, none of which ended up being serious.

Norah: 6:42

Well, my freak chest mal absorption is kind, That's not serious, but

Dad: 6:45

stomach ailments. And, um, trying to think what other of your, Well, I mean, at the time you, Oh, you

Norah: 6:52

I don't remember it. I just know I had one

Dad: 6:54

I remember sitting at my desk, um, I was actually walking through the hallway at my office and I got a page. and so I happened to be walking past the reception desk and I said, who's on the phone? And they said, It's your wife. And I said, Can you tell her I'll call her back? And they were like, Well, you might wanna talk to her. She's calling from the back of an ambulance. Yeah. Yeah. So

Norah: 7:18

to her?

Dad: 7:19

I, at that point, I wanted to talk to her very, very badly. Yes. I was, I was going into, uh, he was not yet born. Your mom was pregnant with Donovan? Yeah. Your mom was pregnant with Donovan at the time. you had a fever that was, high enough and, the Suggestion from the. Nurse, I think, I think it was the suggestion of the nurse that we called, like the nurse on call that we called was to put you in a tepid bath to try and bring your fever down. Cause you had like 104 fever. It was really high, which you got a lot of when you were a little kid. And I guess the water brought your fever down too quickly and it caused you to have a feveral seizure, which scared the but Jesus out of your mom. and me, frankly, I mean, I wasn't there when, when it happened. I saw the aftermath in the hospital when you couldn't, when you still couldn't talk and. Excuse me, I had a tickle in my throat. Maybe I need to go to the er. Um, When you, uh, when you couldn't talk. Yeah. And the very first thing we asked you to say, you were hooked on

Norah: 8:28

I remember this now.

Dad: 8:29

Yeah. And we, you were a big fan of, what, do you remember the, what was the dude's name? David Cook, who won one of the seasons. Did he win one of the scenes of American Idol? I don't remember either. Yeah. Um, no, I think he won.

Norah: 8:44

I'll look it up.

Dad: 8:46

Oh, let's see, let's see. Let's play. Who can Google faster? Oh, crap, I can't type.

Norah: 8:52

Uh, um. Oh, I know he did win. He won the seventh season of American Idol in 2008.

Dad: 8:59

there you go. So,

Norah: 9:01

39 years old.

Dad: 9:03

ah, God, that makes me feel really old. Yeah, so we um, so you weren't speaking for a long time cuz of the seizure and we asked you, or I think your mom asked who your favorite, American Idol was and you said David Cook and that's when we knew you were gonna be okay.

Norah: 9:20

That's normally, I feel like that's not the first question that would come to mind.

Dad: 9:25

Well, you had,

Norah: 9:26

Like, don't you normally say like, Who am I, What's your favorite color?

Dad: 9:33

Yeah. We asked who your favorite American Idol was, and we figured that was, that was a less chance of a random answer that you wouldn't, It seemed like something that if your brain was working the way it was supposed to work, you were gonna be a, You would be able to answer that question and you would be.

Norah: 9:49

That's

Dad: 9:50

So, yeah. Um, I'm trying to think of other memorable, like you haven't, I'm not, I shouldn't even say this because now I'm gonna totally curse you, but no broken bones at the age of 16, so that's a good thing.

Norah: 10:03

Yes. I mean, I've, I've fra I've sprained my ankle four times though, but that's not like serious.

Dad: 10:09

Oh yeah, we did go to the we. Yeah, you've been to the ER for some sprained ankles, but nothing broken.

Norah: 10:14

No.

Dad: 10:14

Yeah. Yeah. And now I'm totally just, I totally just jinx you. So if you break your leg tomorrow, I'm really sorry.

Norah: 10:21

Oh, I hope not tomorrow stuff to do.

Dad: 10:23

not, Totally not my fault. What's that?

Norah: 10:25

So not tomorrow. I've, I have things to do.

Dad: 10:27

What do you have to do tomorrow?

Norah: 10:29

don't know. Oh, I have to do set building after school for musical

Dad: 10:31

Set Building. Oh, what's the musical? I mean, I know what the musical is, but

Norah: 10:35

el.

Dad: 10:36

El and you are not, you are not in the

Norah: 10:39

I am not in the musical because I would prefer to hang out with a bunch of kids

Dad: 10:44

Yeah, so they are using the lower school, your school's K through 12, and they're using the lower school kids to play the, to play the elves,

Norah: 10:52

they're adorable.

Dad: 10:53

elves, elves, to play the elves. Um, and you volunteer to be the cat herder of the littles.

Norah: 11:02

Well, yesterday, one, my, um, my, my lower school buddy actually, she saw me and she like sprinted over to me and gave me a big hug and it made me really happy.

Dad: 11:11

Yeah.

Norah: 11:12

then she introduced me to her dad.

Dad: 11:14

That's very sweet. Um, so yeah, so set buildings. We don't want any break, any bones, and don't put any nail guns through your hands.

Norah: 11:22

that's the plan. I wouldn't want to do that. I

Dad: 11:26

Yeah, I don't, Don't need any more. Don't need any more. Maybe we shouldn't have talked about going to the ER at all. Maybe we're totally gonna jinx us

Norah: 11:33

Well, if we do say lovey,

Dad: 11:37

if we do say lovey

Norah: 11:39

I don't know. What else am I supposed to say?

Dad: 11:41

I don't know. So, so you healed more or less from the car accident and then our dog

Norah: 11:49

dog. Well, I love him.

Dad: 11:51

he's full of love.

Norah: 11:53

He was very stupid in that moment,

Dad: 11:55

in that moment.

Norah: 11:56

me whiplash.

Dad: 11:56

it was not his greatest moment. But he jumped up to greet you and he jammed what into the side of your face?

Norah: 12:03

Yes. And he gave me whiplash.

Dad: 12:05

And the dog gave you whiplash so you were feeling better. And then like two weeks ago, the dog, it wasn't even, I can't even say he re-injured you cuz it was, the op wasn't at the opposite side of your neck.

Norah: 12:16

Yeah. But he just, he just injured me.

Dad: 12:18

Yeah. So, um, yeah. And so the long and the short of it is, you have not been feeling great for the past.

Norah: 12:29

When I had a cold

Dad: 12:30

Yeah, you had a cold non, a non covid cold. Yeah. So you haven't been feeling great for the last month, unfortunately. But you are now on demand, feeling better. you've been able to play, I mean the, you played a couple shows in the interim, so that was good.

Norah: 12:48

was super duper fun.

Dad: 12:49

Yeah, we.

Norah: 12:51

I went to Akron

Dad: 12:53

Yeah, we traveled to Akron, the, the Normy sphere of influence like expands south to Akron. So, no, it was really cool. You woke up, you go ahead and tell the story of how that

Norah: 13:05

I was playing at a brewery slash bar in Akron called AK acronym, and this couple walked by and they, they sat down

Dad: 13:13

Well, and that was, that was when, that was over the

Norah: 13:15

It was over the summer. Yeah. And then after my show, the woman who sat down with her boyfriend, she came up to me and said that she was a musician and, and like that I was good and stuff like that. And then, um, we followed each other on Instagram. And then like a month ago, she messaged me asking if I would be interested in playing a show with her in Akron. And I said, Of course. And then I played a show in Akron.

Dad: 13:40

Never turned down a show.

Norah: 13:41

Never, ever, ever

Dad: 13:43

yeah. And it was cool. It was an, it was an interesting experience. The music, it was a very, like, diverse,

Norah: 13:48

than one reason.

Dad: 13:50

no, it was a diverse, There was you,

Norah: 13:53

talking about the couple

Dad: 13:54

Oh no, we'll get to that. But there was, um, a, a year or what I would call like indie, Like indie alt acoustic. Is that a fair description?

Norah: 14:03

Sure.

Dad: 14:03

Okay, And then, the, the second guy, the second person on the bill was a rapper. And then, the lead, Chin Sheila. Did I get, did I say that right? Yeah, right. Um, yeah. Um, she's more like pop, like, like a pop singer. So it's just a very interesting mix of, a very mix, very interesting mix of, Musical styles. Sad. Harris was the rapper. yeah, and it was a very interesting bar. You got to watch this. Uh, did, I don't know how much of it you saw, but certainly while you were performing, there was a couple that was sitting across. It was, that was a very long, narrow room and sitting across from us, but it couldn't have been more than like eight feet or 10 feet away from your mom and me was a couple that had to have been in their sixties that were just, I mean, they were going.

Norah: 14:52

Shirts

Dad: 14:53

of a better, Yeah, his shirt was unbuttoned like three quarters of the way down, and hands were in places they shouldn't have been, and there was just a lot of stuff that made

Norah: 15:04

Everybody uncomfortable?

Dad: 15:06

really, really, really uncomfortable.

Norah: 15:10

Uh,

Dad: 15:11

Uh, yeah, but you know

Norah: 15:13

Say,

Dad: 15:13

uh, say La v man, it Happens. You go into adult places, I guess adult things. I don't know. It was just, it was a lot. It was a lot for the senses to take in. I'm just gonna leave it at that.

Norah: 15:26

Yeah, no need to get an explicit rating.

Dad: 15:30

Uh, no. So while you felt cruddy, you were able to do some stuff. You played a couple of shows and you were at school most of the time. You had a few days off here and there. but what suffered. As a result of you not feeling well was the podcast. And so, we are now back for season two in full force. I guess, welcome back to season two of the Nora and Dad show. We're gonna be, with you every other week. Um, any Nora, anything else you wanna say about your emergency room visits?

Norah: 15:59

Hopefully I don't break any bones tomorrow.

Dad: 16:04

You feeling better now?

Norah: 16:05

Yeah,

Dad: 16:06

Okay,

Norah: 16:06

I had a fun weekend. I'm all, I'm all good now.

Dad: 16:08

You're all good now. Ready to, Ready to get back to life tomorrow. All right, Nora Marie, um, where can people find you other than right here on this lovely podcast?

Norah: 16:20

At Nora Marie Music.

Dad: 16:23

And that is every everywhere. Um, you can find me at John Hyman everywhere. and we'll be back with you in two weeks with another episode of the Nora and Dad Show. Love you kiddo.

Norah: 16:38

Love you too.