Jul 14, 2026 · 3 min · 5 segments
David talks about his son 
David Gibbs JrGuest
Thurman ScrivnerHost
And in three months' time, he did terrific damage to his lungs, his heart, his kidneys.

And we're at the hospital, this great children's hospital, and they said, "We've never seen anything like this, but we'd like to propose to you an emergency surgery." They took my wife in a room and they said, "Your son maybe has another day, possibly two.

But we'd like to try a surgery where we lift his ribs off his body, and the heart doctor will come in and go to work on the heart, and the thoracic surgeon on the lungs, and we have all this team lined up." I said, "Can you do that?" They said, "We don't know.
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And in three months' time, he did terrific damage to his lungs, his heart, his kidneys.

And we're at the hospital, this great children's hospital, and they said, "We've never seen anything like this, but we'd like to propose to you an emergency surgery." They took my wife in a room and they said, "Your son maybe has another day, possibly two.

But we'd like to try a surgery where we lift his ribs off his body, and the heart doctor will come in and go to work on the heart, and the thoracic surgeon on the lungs, and we have all this team lined up." I said, "Can you do that?" They said, "We don't know.