Information and paint.

Those are two very important aspects of being in the hospital.

I have what's called a complicated medical history.

Hello and welcome to the best case worst case.

This is Jim Clemente, retired retired FBI profiler former New York City prosecutor and writer producer of criminal minds.

With me today is silence Brancy is actually not here. Silence. or she's lucky

in Iraq right now.

But either as it may,

Francie was overseas last week and unfortunately I ended up in the hospital and I'll tell you a little bit

about that. It was a little unexpected and I had what at a time the last week.

So let's I want to launch into today's episode which basically I want to talk about a best case and a worst case a case that is

the best case and a worst case and that is being in the hospital or medical center.

I have what's called a complicated medical history.

Some people know that I was a first responder on 9-11 and I got lymphoma from that and I had to end up having a bone marrow

transplant at Johns Hopkins. And as a result of the sort of extreme chemo, I also have a heart attack and cardiac arrest as a result of that.

And that was kind of rough and then three months ago, also probably as a result of breathing in some really bad toxic substances at ground zero and at the Pentagon after 9-11 I had to have lung surgery and you know

it's it's a miracle it's a miracle how they did it. They did it laparoscopically, which means they made four

small incisions, like two inches long, each on my side of my chest and they were able to do the

surgery without opening me up. My father had the same kind of surgery back in

1954 and he had a scar from the center of his

chest all the way around all the way around to his the opposite side so all the way around his left side and then over to the right side and they had to open him up that much. I just feel terrible that he had to go through it, but he was able to get through it despite I'm sure

that intense pain and suffering but he made it and you know he lived to be just short of 91 years old and he's a great guy. So we're going to talk a little bit about that history and the things I've learned in the course of that about how fortunate we are and about how some things probably need to change.

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