Ignoring Health Cracks Led to Hospitalization and Dialysis Threat #shorts

Added: 2026-06-03

[00:00:00]That's really kind of like I could pick take my pick, but but I'm really kind of looking at this as a wise builder protects the foundation structure of a man. The cracks you ignore become a collapse.

[00:00:10]>> Yeah, just recently I had a crack a few months back in the health side of things.

[00:00:18]And I'm a diabetic and I had been ignoring you know everything that I knew to do about diabetes. I had just been kind of living my life how I wanted to you know drinking Pepsi, eating all the wrong things and you know just not doing what I knew to do. And I ended up having to pay the piper, you know, I ended up getting sick. I ended up going to the hospital.

[00:00:44]They ended up uh testing my kidney function.

[00:00:50]And when I first went in it was down at 14.

[00:00:55]And while I was in the hospital it went as far down as eight. And for those of you all that don't know, 59 and above is considered normal. So they looked at everything and hey we're going to have to put a dialysis port in.

[00:01:11]So they sent me down to the cath lab where they put a dialysis port in my chest and uh sent me back upstairs to my room and they they had told me you know that I was going to have to do dialysis and that it may be short-term or it could be long-term.

[00:01:29]And so that was definitely a crack for me. And from that point um I started taking things a lot more serious.

[00:01:39]While I was still in the hospital my numbers turned around and started climbing back.

[00:01:44]And the doctor came by told me if my numbers were up even further the next day that he would take that port out and I wouldn't need dialysis. Next day it higher.

[00:01:57]Uh so, they took it out and I did not have to have dialysis.

[00:02:02]I came back home and made some wholesale changes uh uh with Rick's help, with my wife's help, uh and with another buddy's help. And uh we got some things uh straightened out and uh got some things back on the straight and narrow and my number my most recent numbers uh that I had tested, I was at 64. Uh which is up over that 59 number and as long as I stay over that uh number, you know, they told me I was looking good there.