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00:01 The following program presents principles designed
00:03 to promote good health 00:04 and is not intended to take the place 00:06 of personalized professional care. 00:08 The opinions and ideas expressed 00:09 are those of the speaker. 00:11 Viewers are encouraged to draw their own conclusions 00:13 about the information presented. 00:16 Despite knowing the best health practices 00:18 and employing them in our lives, 00:20 sometimes facing cardiovascular disease 00:22 is unavoidable. 00:23 Today we'll hear from Bobby Davis 00:25 on how our trials can sometimes be a blessing. 00:28 Thanks for joining us today on the Ultimate Prescription. 00:50 Thank you for joining us today. 00:52 I'm Nick Evenson, your host 00:53 and we have a special edition 00:55 of the Ultimate Prescription for you today. 00:57 And we have Dr. James Marcum, 00:58 speaker and director of Heartwise Ministries, 01:01 and special guest, Bobby Davis 01:03 of Three Angels Broadcasting Network. 01:04 Bobby, welcome to the program. 01:05 Thank you so much. 01:07 And just tell us a little bit about what's your role here? 01:09 Well, I work as a producer for the 3ABN Today program. 01:13 I'm also the editor for 3ABN World Magazine. 01:17 And I do some voiceover work 01:19 for the radio network and also some video editing. 01:23 So I wear a lot of hats, including my cowboy hat. 01:25 So you may be behind the scenes 01:27 a little bit more than in front of the camera, 01:28 but everyone certainly appreciate 01:30 what you do here at 3ABN. 01:32 Thank you so much. 01:33 And, Dr. Marcum, 01:35 if you're a new viewer here with the program, 01:36 Dr. Marcum, you're a practicing physician 01:37 with the Chattanooga Heart Institute. 01:39 Yeah, I'm a cardiologist 01:40 with the Chattanooga Heart Institute. 01:42 And at one time I was one of the younger ones 01:44 but as the years go, 01:46 I am one of the older cardiologists now 01:47 so I do a lot of hiring and firing the young gentlemen. 01:52 And what I really have learned through the years 01:54 is my specialist in disease reversal. 01:57 So I work with people and teach them 01:59 how to reverse disease. 02:00 But I also like to think that I point them 02:02 to the ultimate physician 02:04 who's the healer of all disease. 02:05 Amen. Yeah. 02:07 Now, Bobby, you've got a story 02:09 that we want to share with our viewers today 02:11 and, Dr. Marcum, you can provide 02:12 some interesting insights as a cardiologist. 02:14 And so let's... 02:15 Where does the story start? 02:17 How do we start to tell about this? 02:18 Well, I woke up on a Friday morning 02:21 with the pain in my shoulder up here on top of my shoulder 02:24 and one in the middle of my back. 02:27 My guess is it probably ended up being 02:29 pericarditis at the time, 02:31 because I developed that a few days later, 02:33 but also had a tiny little bit of tightness in my chest, 02:39 I would say it was 1.5 on a scale of 10. 02:42 And that tightness did not go away. 02:45 And so by the second day, I was like, 02:47 maybe I need to check this out. 02:49 Yeah. 02:50 So we talked in earlier programs 02:52 about prolonged symptoms 02:53 above the waist needs to be checked. 02:56 Now I have a curious question before the week or two before, 03:00 did you notice that you weren't feeling good 03:01 when you were doing things 03:03 or when you were exerting yourself? 03:04 Did you have any problems with walking and doing things? 03:07 I was a little busy. 03:09 Okay, so that could have been a symptom of a chronic disease. 03:12 But as we talked about sometimes 03:13 a disease doesn't even show up 03:15 till you have a pain that won't go away, 03:17 a heart attack situation or unstable coronary. 03:20 Yes. 03:22 I didn't feel much pain besides the knots in my shoulder. 03:25 So you sort of ignored it at first, didn't you? 03:26 I did. 03:27 Oh, it's not me, nothing's wrong with me. 03:29 I hear that all the time. 03:30 But not for very long. 03:32 And by the next day, 03:33 I decided I needed to check it out. 03:36 And actually, it was Sunday morning. 03:39 And I thought, "Man, I just need to check out 03:41 this tightness in my chest." 03:43 So you went to the emergency room? 03:44 I did. 03:46 And what did they do there? 03:47 Immediately they put me in, I mean, 03:48 I went right into the medical room. 03:50 There you go. 03:52 They did blood tests. 03:53 My tests of my heart seemed to be okay, 03:57 but as soon as the result came back 04:00 my troponin enzyme levels were up 04:03 and they said you've had a heart attack. 04:05 And the next thing I know, 04:06 I'm being bundled up 04:07 and pushed into an ambulance and off to the nearest 04:11 cardiac catheterization lab in Carbondale. 04:14 And that was quite an experience. 04:18 How were you feeling inside when all this was going on? 04:21 You know, curiously, I was more or less at peace, 04:24 but in the ambulance 04:26 that the driver and the attendant 04:28 both sat in the front 04:29 and I was by myself in the back. 04:31 And for about the 15 minute ride, 04:33 I realized all at once, you know, 04:37 this may be the last day of my life, 04:39 I need to make some things right with my maker. 04:42 And I did, I said a prayer and I asked God 04:45 to reveal to me anything that stood in the way 04:48 of my relationship with Him. 04:50 And several things came up, 04:52 I confess those sins and made peace with God 04:56 and then one more thing came up and it was a resentment 04:59 that I had with somebody and I wasn't letting go of it. 05:04 It wasn't anything that was done to me. 05:05 But I was holding on to this resentment. 05:07 And I realized, that's my fault, 05:11 you know, when I refuse to forgive somebody, 05:14 I'm holding something, and that's toxic 05:16 and that keeps me away from God. 05:19 And I made peace with that by asking God 05:22 to give me His forgiveness for that person 05:24 that I would pass it along. 05:26 And at that point, 05:28 something dramatic happened to me, 05:30 and we'll go into it a little later but basically, 05:32 I felt an incredible peace come over me, 05:36 like I've never had in my entire life. 05:39 And that peace continues to this day, 05:42 and we can talk more about it later. 05:43 Well, I think that's pretty remarkable 05:46 'cause most people 05:48 don't have a faith to begin with. 05:50 They don't have that relationship 05:51 to begin with. 05:52 And that's why we want to encourage everyone 05:54 to have that relationship for these tough times in life. 05:56 'Cause, you know, you had that but so many people don't 06:00 and I see them, Nick, Bobby, and they're scared to death. 06:04 And that makes the condition that much worse. 06:06 They're scared. 06:07 You know, they don't have, they don't know where to go, 06:09 what to do. 06:11 You knew what to do so in the ambulance 06:14 you had this experience. 06:16 You get to the catheterization lab. 06:17 What happens after that? 06:19 I've never seen people work so fast in my entire life 06:22 within a few minutes, and I mean, 06:24 maybe two minutes 06:26 they had me completely prepped and ready. 06:28 And the doctor, very kind doctor came in 06:31 and explained the procedure, 06:34 he catherized me through my wrist. 06:37 And I watched the whole procedure 06:41 on the huge television monitor right there 06:44 and learned some things about cardiac cath 06:46 that I didn't know, for one I knew that they inject die, 06:49 but I didn't realize it's tiny little bits of dye. 06:52 I thought they'd fill this up with dye 06:54 and could see everything 06:55 but it's just little burst of dye. 06:58 And I think they must have given me 07:02 something else to sedate me. 07:03 We do, we usually give them medicine 07:04 to sort take the edge off. 07:06 That's right, because what I thought took 07:07 maybe 10 minutes probably took a little longer than that, 07:11 to really look at all the different arteries 07:13 and they found three blocked arteries. 07:17 One completely blocked and the other two, 07:18 just about completely. 07:20 Okay. 07:21 And he came in after the procedure was over 07:24 and held my hand with both his hands and he says 07:27 "Bobby, we found some blockage in your heart. 07:30 I'm afraid we're going to have to do a triple bypass 07:34 on your heart in order to help you." 07:37 And he was incredibly kind, I mean, 07:39 it just really touched my heart 07:41 that this doctor was so personable to me 07:45 and not cold or clinical about it. 07:48 He was very kind. 07:51 And I was again at peace. 07:52 I'm gonna stop the story right there to sort of 07:55 tie in some of the things we talked about. 07:56 So whenever you have a symptom, you can't ignore it, okay. 08:01 And the people that have a relationship with God, 08:03 have that peace or can have that peace 08:06 or should have that peace. 08:08 And that helps the overall medical, 08:09 the bad genetics that we might be experienced. 08:12 So you had lots of blockages, 08:14 they did not get there in a day. 08:16 And I talked to Nick, 08:17 sometimes this blockage is based on their genetics, 08:20 their stress in life, 08:21 they slowly build up over time until they express themselves. 08:26 So and then we talked about the treatment, you know, 08:29 which sometimes we can do stents, 08:31 sometimes we can do medicines, 08:33 but sometimes we do need to go to bypass. 08:36 So now that you're in one place, 08:39 what's the next step after they told you that? 08:42 Now we've given you medicines to stabilize you, 08:44 you sort of realize what's going on. 08:46 So now what's the next step? 08:48 Well, they hospitalized me 08:50 and immediately started heparin, 08:52 which is I guess a blood thinner. 08:54 That is a blood thinner. 08:56 And that's apparently a little tricky 08:57 to get just the right level, not too much, not too little. 09:01 And that took actually several days 09:04 to get me stabilized 09:05 while they were trying to schedule surgery for me. 09:08 Now, I should tell you 09:09 that in the process of all of this, 09:11 I'm single, I don't have a wife or somebody to take care of me. 09:15 And I was terrified at the prospect 09:18 of being by myself at home, 09:21 trying to get through 09:22 the postoperative procedures and, you know, 09:24 how do I get in and out of bed 09:26 and shower and all those things. 09:28 So I was determined if I could to move 09:31 to a different hospital. 09:32 And in fact, they did allow me finally, 09:35 after I prayed about it, they stabilized me, 09:39 they put me on several other drugs 09:41 to keep me that way. 09:43 And they allowed me 09:44 to go to Atlanta where my sister lives. 09:47 By then by God's grace I had already found a doctor, 09:51 a very well known doctor 09:53 in one of the best hospitals in the city, 09:56 and had an appointment with him. 09:58 So I went down there and they warned me 10:00 that if you feel anything, 10:02 you better stop at the nearest ER. 10:04 Right. So you didn't drive yourself, did you? 10:06 No, no, no. Okay. 10:08 My brother-in-law, God love him. 10:09 He drove eight hours up there and eight hours back 10:12 all in the same day to pick me up. 10:14 And you made the trip pretty stressed fine. 10:16 Just fine, just fine. 10:17 And again, was not nervous at all. 10:19 I know that's a typical. 10:20 Yeah. 10:22 And what's interesting is that, remember, 10:23 the disease was there all along, 10:26 and then it triggered and it acted up, 10:28 and then your body couldn't compensate 10:30 so you had a symptom. 10:32 And once they stabilized that symptom, you were fine. 10:34 But you probably, you know, 10:36 if you would have done anything, 10:37 you would have done very well. 10:39 That's why they probably say don't move, don't do anything, 10:41 anything, you recall it, Bob. 10:43 So I got to Atlanta and met with my surgeon, 10:47 and I spent another three days or so in the hospital there 10:51 trying to get me off of plavix, 10:54 which is the drug they had me on 10:56 and they switched me back over to heparin 10:59 and there were other things like the doctor is, 11:03 was in the high demand and there was an emergency 11:06 that came up so my surgery was delayed one more day. 11:10 But all along the way I was treated 11:12 with so much good care that it really impressed me. 11:16 So you move from... 11:17 Did you move... 11:18 Were you staying at your sister's house 11:20 for a while before the... 11:21 And then they scheduled the bypass 11:23 but you weren't doing anything until that? 11:25 No. 11:26 I was taking it easy. 11:28 And do you want me to go through the surgery? 11:31 Well, we are gonna go after we have 11:33 a few more questions here is to let everyone know. 11:36 So before all this happened, 11:38 you weren't taking any medications, were you? 11:41 I was on some medications, 11:43 but I had been really showing bad symptoms 11:46 with the statins that they'd tried on me. 11:49 And in your family did you ever have a history 11:51 of heart disease and anyone in your family? 11:53 My father had high blood pressure 11:56 and high cholesterol for a while 11:58 until he had a very interesting stroke 12:02 that happened in his medulla and all of a sudden 12:05 his blood pressure went down dramatically 12:08 and he didn't have any more problems 12:10 but that was my problem, my heredity so to speak, 12:13 is high blood pressure and I had suffered from that 12:16 for so many years mostly from my lifestyle. 12:19 And I need to add the fact that I'm diabetic also 12:23 Type II diabetic and that I'm sure contributed. 12:26 So you had some stressors on the cardiovascular system. 12:29 Had you ever had any testing on your heart before, 12:31 a stress test or anything like that? 12:34 No testing, so now we've gone, Nick, 12:37 from a person that you felt pretty well the month before 12:40 except maybe a few symptoms now gone 12:42 from having an angiogram, a diagnostic test. 12:46 So when a person is having a symptom, 12:48 now is not I don't like to talk about prevention and reversal. 12:53 Now's the time to treat the symptom 12:55 'cause if you don't treat the symptom 12:57 then you get around to the cause. 12:59 So, Nick, why don't you take us over to break 13:01 and then after break, we'll talk about the surgery. 13:04 Yeah. Well, Bobby, thank you for sharing this with us. 13:06 There's more to come 13:08 but we got to take a quick break. 13:09 So after the break, 13:10 we're gonna learn more about how this whole experience 13:12 has been a real blessing in your life. 13:14 And we'll be back in just a moment. |
Revised 2020-02-21