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Ecuadorian Uncle, Coworkers with Cancer, and Hospital Stories
from The Fixer (Bronx Jonny) · #86
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3 minJohnny riffs on Ecuadorian machismo and intimidation rituals, tells a story about a coworker whose dreadlock-covered head lump turned out to be brain cancer, and discusses his own numbness around death from working around it.
- 4:25Tim's uncle in Ecuador does macho intimidation tactics in public, like commenting on strangers' appearances.
- 5:03Tim knew people who died of cancer and worked with coworkers who got sick.
- 5:25Another coworker, generally a prick, made fun of the lump and told him to get it checked.
- 5:49The lump turned out to be brain cancer after the coworker got it examined.
- 6:20The coworker died with a one-year-old kid, his lymph nodes spread with cancer.
- 6:33Tim admits he cries all the time watching movies and from exposure to death through work.
- 6:43Crying from grief doesn't mean you have a psychological issue, it's normal human feeling.
- 6:54He's literally seen dead bodies and the physical reality of human mortality.