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This would be worth going online and watching...Williams really nailed a lot of the things I remember about the symptoms, surgery, and recovery. Also he has a very positive attitude. Letterman on May 13. Cheers, mabell:D
 
This would be worth going online and watching...Williams really nailed a lot of the things I remember about the symptoms, surgery, and recovery. Also he has a very positive attitude. Letterman on May 13. Cheers, mabell:D

Can you post a link? The one I posted isn't what your talking about.
 
Robin Williams on Letterman

Robin Williams made his first interview since his valve surgery on Letterman last night. He looked great for someone only 8 weeks out of surgery. He joked about his cow valve but also read a heartfelt academy awards type thank you to the doctors and care givers by name. He and dave talked about their heart surgeries and Robin had a picture of his zipper chest. The rest of the time he was his normal crazy self.
 
Robin Williams made his first interview since his valve surgery on Letterman last night. He looked great for someone only 8 weeks out of surgery. He joked about his cow valve but also read a heartfelt academy awards type thank you to the doctors and care givers by name. He and dave talked about their heart surgeries and Robin had a picture of his zipper chest. The rest of the time he was his normal crazy self.

Thanks, John, for letting us know. I wish I had seen the segment, but I'll check online and see if it's available.
 
He also talked about the importance of getting a surgeon who had done lots of these proceedures and with a great result. He also talked about choosing open chest over minimal. He joke about the tech. having to use 3 Remingtons and taking a break from shaving his chest. Dave had bypass right after his cath and did not get time to choose a sergeon, He said his surgeon was missing a thumb. There were a couple of times Robin seemed to tear up. I think it was a good informative show for others that might be facing this.
 
Last night on TMZ (Celebrity TV Show),Robin was also caught by TMZ walking into a New York Hotel. He (Robin) flung a shoulder bag briefcase over his head like nobodies business. I thought "holy crap! What is he trying to prove? No way I'd be able to do that".

When TMZ ask him 'are you ready to ride a bike yet', Robin replied "I won't be able to do that for another month".

Just a bit of tid-bit info. :)
 
Yes once during the Letterman show he thumped on his chest hard and I thought man that must hurt. I think he is just so relieved and happy but hope he does not over do it.
 
I stayed up to watch the show last night. My husband and I were howling with laughter. The guy is just too funny! I think it was very good for my husband, too, to be able to laugh so "heartily" about the event... I'm not sure we can ever appreciate what the support family goes through.

I could not believe how well he was moving around. I commented on this to my husband and he said, well, the guy is worth a few million, I'm sure he has trainers and therapists working on him. I suppose that might have helped. Or he just knows what kind of moves he can and can't make and exaggerates the ones he can. I really was amazed though... 8 weeks out. Not the kinds of moves I'd want to be making!

The YouTube clip does not include the whole interview. I don't have a way to record anymore, but wish I could have. Robin made some great comments about surgeons, about the wonders of technology and when Dave said something about "you know, people think it is just a terrifying thing", Robin said something like "well, not really, these things are done so often, and these doctors are so great you just want them to hurry up and get in there and fix things". And he made a joke about finding the wrong doctor who hasn't done very many and 25% of them haven't made it through.

He also, unfortunately, made a negative reference to warfarin, calling it rat poison. But we have to remember that he's a comedian and when you talk about taking something derived from rat poison, well, you're bound to have many great joke opportunities. Hopefully it will just get a great laugh and go over most people's heads. Apparently he had a cardioversion for some serious A-fib (and OMG, his demonstration of what A-fib felt like was so hilarious....husband and I were squeaking for air) and was put on warfarin for awhile.

He talked a lot about having shortness of breath and gave some anecdotes.

He won't resume his tour until September. He was on stage with friends (a few of you mentioned this) last week I guess... well he got SO tired after 20 minutes that the audience was yelling "please get off the stage". He joked that he first thought he was just doing a bad job, but then came to find they were all just overwhelmingly concerned about him and wanted him to step down for his health.

He was, exceedingly grateful several times. Talked about how you start to really appreciate the smaller things in life..... he really was genuinely moved about the largess of the experience several times. The new lease on life.

He's a gem. It would be nice to get him to be an advocate for early testing (think of all the kids' lives he might save who would otherwise drop over on the sports court) or something.

And I LOVED his T-shirt!!!! Let's get some!!

Ah well.... I'm just looking forward to stealing some of his cow jokes!! :p What a funny man!!!

Marguerite
 
Yes it was a great show. I so often get turned off by Dave's liberal politics but this was an informative and very funny show. I think the 30 minute standup he did was good for him because it convinced him he needed more recovery time before going back to the grind. But the things he could do were incredible for someone only 8 weeks out of surgery.
 
I don't like David Letterman. He just isn't that funny (and I'm a card-carrying liberal!). I don't like his timing or arrogance.

Anyway! I notice that CBS runs full versions of his shows at http://www.cbs.com/late_show/video/

But, the more current shows are not yet listed as available. Like the one from 5/8 is the most current. So I guess next week, the Robin Williams show from 5/13 will be available. Wynton Marsalis was amazing too, so everyone should check in next week!! :)

Marguerite
 
I stayed up to watch the show last night. My husband and I were howling with laughter. The guy is just too funny! I think it was very good for my husband, too, to be able to laugh so "heartily" about the event... I'm not sure we can ever appreciate what the support family goes through.

I could not believe how well he was moving around. I commented on this to my husband and he said, well, the guy is worth a few million, I'm sure he has trainers and therapists working on him. I suppose that might have helped. Or he just knows what kind of moves he can and can't make and exaggerates the ones he can. I really was amazed though... 8 weeks out. Not the kinds of moves I'd want to be making!

The YouTube clip does not include the whole interview. I don't have a way to record anymore, but wish I could have. Robin made some great comments about surgeons, about the wonders of technology and when Dave said something about "you know, people think it is just a terrifying thing", Robin said something like "well, not really, these things are done so often, and these doctors are so great you just want them to hurry up and get in there and fix things". And he made a joke about finding the wrong doctor who hasn't done very many and 25% of them haven't made it through.

He also, unfortunately, made a negative reference to warfarin, calling it rat poison. But we have to remember that he's a comedian and when you talk about taking something derived from rat poison, well, you're bound to have many great joke opportunities. Hopefully it will just get a great laugh and go over most people's heads. Apparently he had a cardioversion for some serious A-fib (and OMG, his demonstration of what A-fib felt like was so hilarious....husband and I were squeaking for air) and was put on warfarin for awhile.

He talked a lot about having shortness of breath and gave some anecdotes.

He won't resume his tour until September. He was on stage with friends (a few of you mentioned this) last week I guess... well he got SO tired after 20 minutes that the audience was yelling "please get off the stage". He joked that he first thought he was just doing a bad job, but then came to find they were all just overwhelmingly concerned about him and wanted him to step down for his health.

He was, exceedingly grateful several times. Talked about how you start to really appreciate the smaller things in life..... he really was genuinely moved about the largess of the experience several times. The new lease on life.

He's a gem. It would be nice to get him to be an advocate for early testing (think of all the kids' lives he might save who would otherwise drop over on the sports court) or something.

And I LOVED his T-shirt!!!! Let's get some!!

Ah well.... I'm just looking forward to stealing some of his cow jokes!! :p What a funny man!!!

Marguerite

i loved his shirt too
 
I wish we could get him to join us, but the chances of that happening are probably a gazzillion to one.
 
I don't like David Letterman. He just isn't that funny (and I'm a card-carrying liberal!). I don't like his timing or arrogance.

Anyway! I notice that CBS runs full versions of his shows at http://www.cbs.com/late_show/video/

But, the more current shows are not yet listed as available. Like the one from 5/8 is the most current. So I guess next week, the Robin Williams show from 5/13 will be available. Wynton Marsalis was amazing too, so everyone should check in next week!! :)

Marguerite

Once again, I agree with the perspicacious Marguerite! I think Letterman ceased being funny long ago (however, in my case, maybe that's partly because I am a conservative).

Anyway, no matter Robin Williams' political leanings, I think he is one of the funniest folks around. Sorry I missed this gig, but very glad to hear he's doing well.
 
Oh good, they've got it forever on YouTube!

In case you like to watch 10 second ads instead of going from Part 1 to Part 2, etc, you can see Robin at http://www.cbs.com/late_show/video/...9ujr7vBLWamPG9__jtkeA__fQFGI8x&play=true&cc=0

His schtick starts about 19 minutes into the show and you can scroll ahead (but the ads will get you). God, he's funny. It's Episode # 3115. I don't know if we can access it after this week, but with an episode number, I would think you could.

Superbob... good heavens!! I had to look up "perspicacious"; you really had me stumped on that one!! I thank you for the compliment! :D

I wish we could download Robin. I'd put him on my iPod!!

Enjoy!

Marguerite
 
Thanks guys, for the links. There were a couple of things that I did not understand, that Robin clarified for me. I was wondering whether they had the morphine pumps at C.C. I once had an operation, and the ability to medicate yourself without having to call the nurses was wonderful. In fact, at the time, my doctor was amazed that I had used so little of my alloted medication.

The other thing was about coughing and the pillow. I did not realize that a patient was encouraged to cough to get the lungs going. I thought that the pillow was just to ease the pain if you happened to cough.
 
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