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Some of you may have noticed I got on a little bit of a roll in late 2018. I started pumping out some posts here and had plans to bring the blog as far along as I could. Unfortunately, my health got to the point I couldn’t even lay in bed and write about one of my favorite things: VERDUGO.

Yeah….I couldn’t even LAY AROUND in bed and write blog posts. I discovered in October 2018 I had a hernia. I read about them online and learned that the only way a hernia could be fixed is through surgery.

Surgery? Helllllllll NO. I then started to read about many people who live with them. Some their entire lives. Helllllll YEAH I was thinking. That’s what I’m gonna do! There’s a lot of stuff Ol Gee does….but SURGERY isn’t one of them!

Well…things got worse. Started causing pain on the left side. Then a couple of weeks later I had the same pain on the right side! There was just one problem…there was no visible hernia on the right side.

To make a long story short….I went to ER THREE TIMES (once in a ambulance when I couldn’t fucking BREATHE)….over the next couple of months.

Yeah….no joke.

I went to ER the first time because I couldn’t breathe. The other two times it was regarding pain on the right side of my lower abdomen. I kept telling the “Doctors” that I thought I had a hernia as well on the right side, too.

All they wanted to do is argue with me and keep giving me CT SCANS. I eventually told them all to fuck off totally Verdugo-style.

They didn’t like that…..

CT Scans and ultrasound and X-rays and blah blah blah and nobody could confirm what in the hell was causing the right side pain. They couldn’t “see” any hernia over there.

By the time I stopped writing blog posts here in mid-December 2018 I had scheduled surgery to fix the left side with a REAL DOCTOR I found after a lot of research. I told the Doctor we may need to do the right side too.

Around the time I stopped writing I was nauseated 24/7….I couldn’t eat….couldn’t sleep…..still couldn’t breathe…..had back spasms….(felt like both kidneys were ON FIRE)…..and I couldn’t WALK more than about 75 yards. The former 220 pound Gee tipped the scales at around 160 pounds. Remember I’m 6 feet 6 inches tall…..

Yeah gentlemen….it doesn’t happen to everyone who has a hernia….but in my case it FUCKED ME UP BIG TIME.

The surgery went down January 24, 2019. My wife and I have about as good of an insurance policy as you can get. But after these fools here in Los Angeles couldn’t even determine what was wrong with me, I decided to go out of network and pay a guy who knew what he was doing regarding hernias. He was in Las Vegas.

He needed to check me out the day before surgery to confirm I had a hernia. And that he did. In fact, he confirmed what I had been trying to tell the fools here in Los Angeles all along…..that yeah, I had TWO hernias.

The day before the surgery my weight was 154 pounds……I looked like a skeleton.

Double Inguinal Hernia Repair under general anesthesia for Old Gee. NO MESH. This Doctor I selected is one of the few guys left here in the United States (and earth for that matter) that performs what they call a “pure tissue repair.” NO MESH.

I knew the surgery was somewhat successful because as soon as it was done and up until today ….guess what? I can fucking BREATHE again. All the other things that returned to normal (eating, sleeping, walking, getting up and sitting down when I ate, tying shoes, getting in and out of cars) came back slowly…..but they all came back.

Here we are now about 14 and a half months post-op and my weight is back to around 200. I can hit golf balls. The first 6-7 months after surgery was not a very pleasant experience.

But it appears as though (and I am knocking on wood as I write this) that everything has turned out okay so far.

I was incredibly lucky to find that Doctor.

So this is what caused the latest delay in the blog. I’m gonna try to get some more posts done soon….but for those of you who are still out there reading this I wanted to let you know what happened.

Now we’re all spooked about this Covid-19. Start blasting vitamin C…..(3-5 GRAMS a day)…..mix in between 4,000-8,000 iu’s of vitamin D3…..(take magnesium as well so your body can absorb the D3)….and mix in a couple of doses of CHAGA mushroom powder daily. That’s right…..start “shroomin'” …..the Chaga will basically halt the reproduction of the virus and make it easier for your body to fight off if you end up getting it.

I know….30 years ago I probably would have just told everybody to chug down a twelve pack every day (and it probably would have worked)…..but times have changed and the old war-horse Gee is almost 24 years sober! That’s right! Not ONE sip!

Hopefully this time with the blog I can get on a roll and not have any health bullshit slow me down!

Recently I’ve been in contact with Turner, Canale, and Cowsill….they’re all doing well. I hope the rest of you are as well…..