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Episode 7: How to Survive and Thrive
the wheels turning. And one of them was the first meal that they served
me.
Ty: And this is after you were—after your operation.
Chris Wark: After my operation…
Ty: Okay, where they had removed 18 inches.
Chris Wark: Yes. They cut out 18 inches of my large intestine—18
centimeters.
Ty: 18 centimeters
Chris Wark: A third, right, and the first meal they served me was this
sloppy Joe. And I’m kind of famous for the sloppy Joe story because its
the most ridiculous food that you could serve a sick person, right. It’s the
best example of the worst cafeteria food, you know what I mean What
is the worst cafeteria food you can think of It’s a sloppy Joe. And that’s
what they gave me first meal after cutting my abdomen open and
removing part of my guts. And they set it front of me and I was just
looking at it going this doesn’t seem like the best thing for me right now.
Ty: Just innately you knew.
Chris Wark: Yeah, right. I mean I wouldn’t even eat that—I wouldn’t
want to eat that any time. Okay. It was—I’m never in the mood for a
sloppy Joe. And so not only was I not really happy about that as a food
choice but I just thought like this is like a hospital. This is like full of sick
people. Shouldn’t we be feeding them better than this Like shouldn’t I
be eating like some applesauce or something. You know, I eat—and at
that time I really didn’t know anything about nutrition but just my
instincts, the red flag kind of went up. The next thing that happened was
the day I was checking out from the hospital the surgeon came in to
check on me and I said, hey, you know, is there anything I need to eat
or avoid or whatever And—because I was a little concerned. I didn’t
want to go home and like eat something like some Doritos and like
screw it up. And he was like, nah, just don’t lift anything heavier than a
beer.
Ty: That was the nutritional advice you got
Chris Wark: Yep. That was it. And so I reluctantly agreed to go see an
oncologist. And we go in the—we’re sitting in the clinic in Memphis.
Well, first of all, the parking lots packed. You couldn’t even get a parking
place. And the waiting room is packed. I sit down. I’m looking around
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