Thank YOU and Josh Health Update - 4-12-23

hi this is Josh with Resort TV one and today I just wanted to give you a quick update on my health and some of the other things that have been going on but also wanted to thank you so just wanted to make a quick video for that we don't usually upload videos on Thursday morning uh so I thought it'd be a perfect time just since we didn't have a regular video for today to give you guys a little update a lot of this stuff I've already talked about on the streams at certain points but when the streams are four or five sometimes six and even longer hours long basically it's hard to you know for everybody to hear the information at the same time and if you don't have time to go back and watch the stream you might have missed the one you know moment where I said whatever it was to answer questions so um still you know I'm still getting questions and things people are concerned about my health and what happened to me in the hospital and things like that and I really appreciate the concern and that leads me to my first point which is thank you wow oh my goodness um it was just incredible I know it's been a couple weeks and it's been so busy honestly last week was one of the busiest weeks I've had all year so I didn't even have time to think about making a video like this but now this week I do have a little bit more time which is nice and so I just wanted to again say thank you it was so incredible just to see all the outpouring of support and then the nice comments and the supportive comments messages literally more than we could ever keep up with and I feel bad that I can't respond to all of them I even tried to just leave a heart on the comments as I read them uh because you know it was easier for me to do that with 900 and something comments than it was to actually respond to each and every one of them obviously was just not possible but um anyway it was just so completely blown away I think there are almost a thousand comments there may be a thousand by now all my health update video where I talk about my um my trip to the hospital and anxiety attack and everything else so um just really really appreciate the outpouring of love and support it is it is um again just unbelievable I don't even have any words obviously to express just how thankful I am for how kind you guys have been through this whole experience you know all the Facebook messages all the comments on the Facebook posts all the comments on the YouTube posts uh Twitter Instagram Jenna's gotten all kinds of messages that she's forwarded to me on Instagram just all of it together uh it just really makes me feel uh very very special and very cared for by this community it's truly the best community on YouTube and uh you guys approve that every single time that anything comes up you know you guys are always there for us and we really really appreciate that so again from the bottom of my heart thank you and as far as a little bit of an update I just wanted to kind of go over that real quick because you know I've talked about what happened and why and what I'm doing kind of going forward and things like that on the stream but I just wanted to take a couple minutes and explain uh what I found out since I was in the hospital and everything else so first of all basically um the doctors both in the ER and my regular doctor have pretty much confirmed obviously nothing's 100 in medicine but you know like 99 sure that it was an anxiety attack and they talked about anxiety attacks as you know even though you don't you know you're not necessarily having a terrible day that day it's kind of a build up of anxiety that goes along you know in um in a certain form you know through several weeks and several days and things like that so uh all that to say basically for whatever reason it had built up until that Friday and uh then it was just too much and it ended up being something that I had to deal with then and there so you know it was something that I just couldn't ignore at that point so yeah like I said it was basically the build up of everything that was happening up to that point uh caused it to to Really mimic the the symptoms of a heart attack which made it even worse because I thought I was having a heart attack and uh really felt like just something wasn't right I'd never felt anything quite like that before and it just really threw me for a loop I'd have no idea um what was happening and so when I did get to the ER and realized that it probably wasn't a heart attack I did calm down quite a bit and so that you know led me to believe that it was anxiety as well so I did go to my doctor like I said a couple weeks ago and you know she went over all the labs and everything and she said that everything was fine in fact a lot of my test results and numbers on the blood work they did at the hospital were very very good even better than they had been before so she was really pleased to see all the numbers and all the test results nothing was concerning to her anything like that in fact my general like I said general practitioner GP doctor as they call it she said I I didn't even need to go see a cardiologist she was she was convinced it was anxiety and she just you know gave me some some things and some ways to manage the anxiety and so you know that was fine but I do still have an appointment with the cardiologist just to check things out and so we can get a baseline reading for some things and uh you know go over kind of where I'm at right now uh with my you know with my cardiac health so you know even though it wasn't a heart attack and it wasn't heart related at least as far as we know uh we're gonna I'm still gonna get the checkup so a lot of people encourage me to go ahead and do it uh you know my family and staff of course my wife included so we're gonna we're gonna continue that and that'll be in May at some point um we did have it scheduled for April but they had to schedule us out a little bit further so that'll be a couple more weeks before I do that and find out anything there but um the good news is that I felt a lot better uh just in the last couple weeks even with last week being a pretty overwhelming week I still felt a lot better last week than I had before and for anybody else who deals with anxiety I know a lot of you do you've said in the comments that you do you understand you've been through similar things and so it's great that we can kind of talk about this together you know normalize it a little bit and you know kind of uh let everybody know that you know this is something that is pretty common so you're not alone if you're dealing with these kind of things uh it's not you know you're not alone there's obviously you know me now and and you know somebody else who's dealing with it as well and I'm happy to be open about it because like I said it's nothing abnormal it's something a lot of people deal with and the more we talk about it of course the more accepted it gets for other people to talk about it so I think that's really important if you are having any kind of issues or even if it's not anxiety if there's any other mental health issues like you really have to talk to a professional about it obviously talk to your friends and family too but you really have to talk to a trained professional so they can figure out what's going on and figure out what they need to do you know to help you with whatever it is that's going on so for me um I've kind of been working on just you know positive uh self-talk and things like that I don't mean maybe positive like oh it's all going to be okay and things like that but more like learning to let things go uh when things are not going the way I want it to go as a perfectionist that's hard but just you know even throughout the day like if something you know somebody annoys me on the road or you know something happens at school that is frustrating or doesn't go the way I want it to go or even on the stream you know something goes uh something goes poorly on the stream just learning to let it go and thinking about that ambulance ride my thought in the ambulance that nothing matters that much you know other than friends family and just you know doing the best you can all the time there really isn't like anything else that really matters and it's really just about friends and family you know and and so you know at some point I've just been really working at letting things go and that's helped a lot actually um you know the the pain in my arm that was there for a couple weeks before is completely gone uh it did take a little bit of time for that to to um you know to subside and actually I did have another flare up on Thursday uh where I had a very stressful day with some things going on with a performance and I did start to get a little bit of tightness in the chest and a little bit of arm pain so I realized right away that was you know the anxiety again and so I was able to but I was able to calm myself down because I knew that's what it was I did the deep breathing you know and things like that and was just able to get things calmed down there's also some um an herbal supplement that Steph got me and things that are that are that's help helping with the keeping things calm so all that to say you know basically just knowing what the problem is admitting that there is a problem and then saying here's how we go forward being honest with myself when I'm getting too upset about something that really doesn't matter that much those are all really positive steps that I've been able to take and of course I have cut down on my Coke I've tried to drink only one per day sometimes I haven't been successful with that but honestly you know obviously that's not good for me anyway but I don't think that was the problem I think it was more of how I was handling the stressful things that were happening or the thing the anxiety anxiety-inducing things that were happening to me was not handling them well so basically um I've been working really hard to handle those things better and again like I said let things go so you know it's one of those your mileage may vary things like everybody's different everybody's situation is different you know you can't really compare one to the other other than you know maybe there are similarities but obviously you know again everybody is different in what they need to deal with their situation I'm pretty lucky that mine seems to be to the point where at least right now I can manage it myself my doctor didn't want to do any medication you know she gave me some herbal stuff to try like I said she talked about lemon balm and a couple other things that I could do to really calm things down uh you know she talked about having aspirin handy you know all the time the baby aspirin just in case um you know just because cause if you're having chest pains you get you do the baby aspirin even if it isn't heart related you know it's not going to hurt anything it's good to have it there just in case so all those things just to be prepared I carry all that stuff with me and like I said I just feel like a weight has lifted off of me at this point because I've stopped worrying about things so much and when I catch myself worrying I really work hard to let that go even visualizing just letting it go like a balloon into the air you know do like Elsa Let It Go so that's basically it and uh again I thank you all for all the positive words all the encouragement you know all the the messages about how maybe our channels help with your anxiety or any kind of uh you know mental health issues or other health issues that you're facing watching our Channel a lot of you said it has helped and that just means more to us than you could ever know because that means that we're helping people you know that we've never even met possibly a lot of people have met but but a lot of you we haven't and we're helping people mostly that we've not met and that you know we're able to have this community even though we don't truly know each other it's amazing that we can still share all these things virtually through the internet so that's pretty incredible thanks for sharing it with us again I hope the update helps tread some light on some things I know it's kind of rambly because I just wanted to be honest and not have a big script about it um but I also hope it helps you know if you're dealing with something similar just to let you know that you're not alone everybody not everybody but lots of people deal with these types of things everybody deals with something of course it may not be mental health it may be something completely different but everybody's got something they're dealing with and so you know it's just uh you know kind of normalize that and let everybody know hey it's okay we've all got something to deal with and we're all going to get through it and you know life is too short to really spend a lot of time worrying about stuff and I think that's the biggest takeaway that I have from this kind of wake-up call is that I need to first of all I need to do what makes me happy I need to spend that time with friends and family and then also need to let things go so basically that's it thank you for watching I will see you guys very very soon in fact we've got Friday Night Live tomorrow and I'll have an announcement video tomorrow letting you know all the fun stuff that is playing for this weekend but I don't want to spoil that on today's video uh that'll be out tomorrow as always at 9 00 a.m on Friday in the morning to announce Friday Night Live um but definitely be sure to check out our awesome sponsors as well they help us out so much we've got Mickey blog at mickeytravels.com uh we've got our newest one Resort tv1homes.com if you want to find your dream home here in Central Florida we've got um David CVC rentals dvcrequest.com TV to rent that DVC room for a fraction of the cost we've got behind the ride on Amazon we've got 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