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Ret. Green Beret Zach Garner - Part 2 | Mike Ritland Podcast Episode 139

Mike Drop

Mike Ritland

Society & Culture, Documentary, Politics, News

4.96.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2023

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Zach Garner's career as a Green Beret was on thin ice. Following his first seizure, he quickly discovered that something deeper was beginning to rise to the surface - a cavalcade of medical maladies that nobody could've predicted. Fortunately, Zach's no quitter, so he shifted gears, transitioning seamlessly into contract work and participating in Iron Man marathons around the country.

But sometimes there's more to life than simply being resilient, and some illnesses aren't so easily remedied - especially when it comes to an invisible enemy so horrifying that it eats its victims from the inside. Time for some medical miracles.

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Chapters:

00:00 - Intro
01:21 - Seizures
11:14 - Non-Pharmaceutical Solutions
15:51 - Four Deployments in Contract Work
20:14 - Don't Trip Over Objects in the Rearview Mirror
23:53 - Hit By a Car on a Half Iron Man
41:05 - Flesh-Eating Bacteria
55:52 - Addicted to Opiods
01:08:06 - Bad Decisions
01:15:42 - Living with Pain Management
01:23:36 - What's Next

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Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/zack_next_door
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@zacharygarner
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/zachary-garner-253605170

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Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:03.6

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0:09.0

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0:10.5

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0:14.5

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0:15.5

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0:18.6

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0:21.9

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0:30.1

I woke up in the middle of the night and my left knee right over my kneecap just felt real stiff.

0:36.5

Like that patella tendon was just real tight.

0:42.0

Tuesday comes around and it's now starting to look like I'm growing a second knee on top of my actual knee.

0:49.9

I was like, I think this qualifies to call that orthopedic doc.

0:54.1

So I sent them some pictures and they said, yeah, we need you to come in today.

0:58.6

He walks in and immediately looks at it and he just goes, oh fuck.

1:02.6

By day four or five, my whole leg looked like a topographical map.

1:06.8

They said, we're going to do an exploratory incision tomorrow.

1:10.0

We'll put you under for it, but we're just going to make a small like two inch incision just to see what's right underneath the surface.

1:16.4

The next morning the dot comes in, he pulls the packing out and he said, hey, you have a flesh eating bacteria that is eating you from the inside out.

1:25.7

Fucking alien jumped out of your leg.

1:28.6

Welcome to Mike Drop, the podcast where relevancy is irrelevant and we don't give a shit about your feelings.

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