Name: Cody Garbrandt's COVID Battle
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Cody Garbrandt's COVID Battle' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-02-12. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Cody Garbrandt's COVID Battle' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-02-12. Transcript available.

the Joe Rogan experience that was my first time after the Sun-South fight
since the KM is a gawky fight that I didn't get injured I tore tendons and
ligaments and stem cells out for eight weeks to you know and then you know I
was like man I was back in the gym Monday hungry to go and then fucking
COVID get COVID get title shot I'm like I'm about to fight figgy at 25 you got
COVID bad right well you did you get COVID in the were you in the middle of
training when you got it like were you worn out dead I was doing one training
session and actually I started the whoop and I was like man like my recovery
score is one percent in the morning my HRV was like 13 it was one percent for
like a week and I would only do one workout and then I'd have to cancel on
Chris and Malaw I'm like one percent is dead dude that's crazy but then I was
like you know I'm just gonna go ride the bike you know I was getting on those
bikes doing you know 50 to 100 mile rides and just suffering because I had
vertigo really bad so I couldn't get in those uncompromised positions that when
did you start experiencing vertigo vertigo was my first symptom of COVID not
knowing I'm then I had to think it was head injury my my doctor I went and saw
he's like that's a concussion I'm like dude I didn't get hit hard and sparring
my fights like I've worked on defense a lot like I know I would know if it was
a
concussive blow that gave me vertigo mm-hmm and what did you experience it
after
training did you experience it was during grappling I was like grappling you
didn't
like collide heads or anything nope just went to scramble and next thing you
know I was
just like fighting the hands off and the whole room was spinning and I was
actually
training with Uriah and I was like man he's like you're right I'm like what's
going on I was like
kind of like didn't want to end the round so I just kind of like closed my eyes
and
like held onto his hands so he wouldn't choke me you know he was taking my back
so I was
finished around and I was like man I just don't feel good and I was nauseated
for a few days
so I went to my doctor he was giving me like anti-nausea medicine that was
making me so
much more tired than I was because I was fatigued from from training I was just
trying to train
through it I was like I have a world title coming up in eight weeks like I have
to get down to 25
and my weight was good um I wasn't restricting any calories nothing you felt
something was off
with your body besides the vertigo my body felt like I just was for a three-week
period when I was
training and I didn't feel like myself at all I'm just mental clarity was was
so do you think
during that time you had COVID the whole time I think so you know that is crazy
and that makes
sense that it hit you so hard because you never gave your body a break and you
were beating yourself
up while you were fighting off COVID well that I think what happened was the
kidney infection in
the beginning of 2020 I was on all those antibiotics I was on five different
antibiotics people don't
even know it's two weeks before the fight with the Sun Tso the infection came
back so I had to go to
another infectious disease doctor that my doctor Hill found in Sacramento this
lady was amazing did two
blood cultures found out got all the reports from the hospital in Jersey the
reports from the
specialist in the Cleveland studied those all in a day got a blood culture I
was on the wrong
antibiotics I didn't kill the infection just basically put a band-aid over it
so I had to go 10 days to
an IV fusion center to get antibiotic drip for 10 days while I'm training two
weeks before the fight
oh my god I didn't let any of the UFC or anybody know I told Ali what kind of
what's going on
because I just needed to get in that octagon I was like dude just put me in
that octagon I know that
it'll happen like get me there healthy and I'll be good so but that fucks with
your endurance in a big
way yeah IV antibiotics are ruthless it was tough man it was uh and my strength
conditioning coach we
were having the hardest time I was hovering around you know I was getting my
heart rate up 187 and then
I couldn't get it below it was like hover at 150 which I'm fine at standing 150
and going up and being
in that 150 to 180 zone that I can be there for a while but we're working on
the aerobic system so to drop
it you know I just couldn't drop it it took about the last week of training
before I flew out to the
fight week to finally get my heart rate in like 35s like after a hard like a
minute 30 push and then
drop it down so I noticed something like that was it but immensely I was like
it's good I'm gonna
not so so two weeks out you did you had to do a 10 day cycle of IV antibiotics
and then a 10 day of um oral
what yeah dude I was on antibiotics for literally five months almost from
Jersey I was on five different
antibiotics from the hospital so from the Assunta fight how many days did you
have where you weren't on
antibiotics before the fight I mean I declared that I had and I was on
antibiotics all the way up to the
fight you know I was like antibiotics yeah I was so you were taking probiotics
to counteract the
effects of antibiotics and you're a lot of probiotics yeah what were you taking
um Frankie Edgar's wife sent
me uh she would do they were they took care of me when I was in Jersey like
hooked it up like coach
brought me pizza in the hospital he was like it was during COVID when it
happened but don't you have to
cut weight I don't cut weight to 35 really I'm like right now I'm probably 144
oh wow like I don't
and I stay you know strong and fast and this is what I feel good at to fight 35
yeah I'd have to
just diet a little bit like everyone else does for 25 that's why everyone's
making this a big deal
going to 25 it's not so you basically beat your immune system up while you had
COVID and then because
of that you got COVID really bad yes yeah so tell me what it was like I was
horrible I mean I had
that vertigo was the first symptom right and then when did they test you for
COVID I didn't get tested
until I went down to Mike Tyson's ranch we were working with the smart cups
company we're all
sponsored by them doing digital videos and it was our first kind of getting
athletes together because
they started doing fighters boxers and some rest WWE Kurt Angle was there so I
had to do like a rapid test
so we just did here and um I waited waited a while and they're like hey we want
you to do another
one I'm like all right cool like we just didn't see some things we liked I was
like all right I'm like
waiting for an hour do another one I'm like what did you guys another test yeah
what did you guys see
I'm like oh you failed the first one I'm like well that's a subtle way you
telling it like I want to
stay away from everybody like you know what's coming up to me and so I tested
there in August um and then
I went you know quarantine went home did the whole did you do any medication
what did you do I did a z-pack
um I got on inhaler because I had pneumonia I got pneumonia um vertigo and then
I did it like a 21
day because I had it so bad I kept getting tested like every three weeks and
you kept having it kept
having I did molecular tests which was like night you know some of the best
ones to do is that the PCR
test yeah we're talking about yeah and just kept negative negative my doctor's
like hey we're going to
quit testing you you know like you mean positive you kept testing positive yeah
positive for it yeah
and I'm like dang this is this is crazy I mean and I had started to have the
symptoms going away like
pneumonia was fine my lungs were good like I felt it like I was that's when I
started cycling a lot
um so I was out there just pushing the lungs that's what my doctor said was the
best thing to do is
riding that bike that that much is getting those lungs to keep working because
you have pneumonia really
bad jesus christ wow like I felt horrible I thought cycling was one of the
hardest to do isn't it funny
because you would think like most people would think that a guy who's a world
championship caliber
fighter is the type of guy who would get covid and it would just burn right
through his system
but because you were training while you had it and beating yourself up it just
got deep into you deep
I mean it it took over my body but I think honestly from the kidney infection
beyond the antibody my immune
system was so weak how much time was there between the kidney infection the
antibiotics and then
getting covered dude I literally got out of the hospital and I texted Dana like
hey I heard you
did a press conference about having a fight um my kidney levels are good I'm
waiting for maybe have
to do a biopsy um but I want to fight he's like all right work on it I was like
begging Sean so you
got covered right away um so I then I uh after the fight yeah I had uh so june
to august okay but uh
so it was from the kidney infection the fight two fight camps you know
basically one didn't happen uh
recovering I meant building myself back up from where I was at getting ready to
fight a sunset the first
time in March you know I literally had to start walking on a treadmill for a
couple weeks to get
my I was in rough shape rough rough shape and uh I started training at my
business partner's house
he had a home gym because everything was closed our uriah's gym wasn't open he
said dude I got a
treadmill I got weights kettlebells you know on a kettlebells and uh so I went
over there and just started to
to train and I'm like I'm getting myself ready and it was brutal brutal brutal
training getting back
in there and this is pre-covid this is pre-covid this is a kidney kidney
infection jesus christ but
so your body was obviously already compromised oh yeah I was yeah very
compromised still on antibiotics
they still had me on antibiotics uh to clean out the infection I was on it for
like a 30-day antibiotic
from the hospital so august you get covid how long before it clears your system
how long before you
start feeling good months like I literally I went to Miami and worked with this
company called amino
wells and they did like kind of injections uh where we talked about like kind
of stem cell injections
throughout my body arms um and I kind of started feeling a lot better at like
the week after then I
did a month on the injections with the three milliliters a week and I felt
really good body felt good
um clarity went away I actually had to go to Arizona the Mayo Clinic uh Dana
thought I had
Meneers disease so I went and saw his doctor that did his surgery um they gave
him a shot in his ears
did all these testings hearing tests um where they did you have ringing in your
ears I had ringing
bad in my left ear and there's um I have a loss of uh hearing in this year and
they don't know why
I think maybe because I'm this is my lead lead and you get hit in the left ear
yeah that's all I can say
I'm like I don't know I haven't shot a gun without you know anything like that
you know trying to just
figure out why is ringing it makes like this popping noise oh um and I was just
getting so like dizzy I
couldn't even do anything um so they so that probably contributed to the vertigo
for sure right
they said it wasn't usually it's ear things yeah they said like crystals I had
vertigo before
I worked with uh UPMC I was out for a whole year at my pro debut broke my hand
had uh vertigo from
crystals being out of the air went to the UPMC crystals crystals yeah it was an
irregular tube that was
throwing my equilibrium off which basically is positional vertigo a lot of it's
that's the most
common one you know a lot of people just you know they can sneeze wrong or do
something sleep wrong
on their neck and they have vertigo and there's a maneuver you do to put it
back but it wasn't
positional vertigo it was just literally covid had had me so messed up so your
body was so compromised
from the antibiotics the kidney infection a second kidney infection so you were
just basically getting your
your health back which is crazy that you beat a sun cell in that state yeah
because you could you had
to be clearly compromised there's no way you could have been 100 if you were
gone if you went through
that much antibiotics before that fight but i think that goes back to the my
mental state where i was
at i knew that i needed to get in that octagon and change this around i was not
living a life like
this i was tired of living on a three fight skid i was ready to just get back
in there when you know
like for me like i like we talked about earlier with the tj fights i don't have
to go in there and be angry and
upset and want to rip this head i got there hate this guy i've hatred for this
guy it's a flip to
switch like when you know you have it in you or you don't you know and that
that's been bred in
me i've had it um so i just needed to get in there i was like not taking no for
an answer i mean my
coaches and stuff like oh i don't know if you're gonna make it you know coach
mark i'd call him
because we basically did i would film my pad work and my sparring rounds and
send it to a coach on
whatsapp and then he would break everything down do more of this do less of
that looking good looking fast on
the you know you're left to a counter off you know things like that so we did
virtually you know
camp through there so then when he came out i kept working the codes to you
know keep working
your codes keep working you know and make sure you're doing under nine things
like that um
and then when we came to fight week we were just
so talk me through you getting you got coveted tested in august at the tyson
show you knew that
you had it when when are you free of it like this is the first test that i
passed since really today
my doctor quit testing february february yeah jesus so excited i was yeah i'm
pumping everyone like
dude i'm free i'm free of it it was literally you know a couple months of
having it testing it to where
my doctors i'm i'm not going to send out any more tests because they were 72
hour return ones and
every time you did it you had it every time and this is for months um tested my
son he didn't have
it i mean we were i was your wife didn't get it um she ended up getting it um
but it wasn't as severe
it was it was a couple months ago that she got it um two months ago her twin
got it and it was kind of
you know they were sick but not like what i had like i was just yeah well you're
a perfect example
of you know obviously you're a super healthy guy and an elite athlete but when
you put yourself
through training camp there's only one way to get in shape you got to beat
yourself up there's no
there's no other way around it's true and when you are so tough that you push
through even though you had
covid and you let that get deep into your system there's a lesson in there for
people you know because
there's tough tough's important yeah you don't get where you get without being
tough but there's
there's also you you gotta be yeah you gotta be able to take a step back and go
it's not wise
to push sometimes and i think honestly if i got tested before having covid then
i mean before i
first had the first like i've had this you probably never got it you probably
would have had it for
a couple of weeks or whatever and yeah exactly it wouldn't be as it took over
my body then i came back
and i hit pads the first time like dude i'm in i'm in great shape because i was
cycling 100 miles you
know we had a hard pace we were riding four or five times a week you know
building the legs up and
um so i started hitting pads again i was excited like i'm back in the gym i can
be around people
because on the bike i was just on the bike trail on the road just you know
suffering on the bike came
back hit pads the first time and man i my bicep was so sore uh and then i
remember going to sleep that
night and waking up in excruciating pain wow and my bicep was just filled up
with blood like this i
thought i tore my bicep so i went to my doctor and he ultrasounded it and he
thought it was a
distinal bicep tear you know deemed it that i'm like i gotta call dana and tell
them like hey i'm just
tore my bicep and then get the mri get the mri nothing's torn it was a uh guy
then i had to go get
an urgent ultrasound i tore my vein in half and it ripped in half from and then
i had three blood
clots so i was immediately they started injecting me with blood thinners i was
on i've been on blood
thinners for you know since yeah this is because of covid as well yeah that's
another thing that
happens with people that severe cases of covid they get blood clots didn't know
and my business partner
jeremy perkins he owns uh pmp medical which they work with covid or they work
with uh blood clots they
have you know some the devices they sell to doctors and hospitals and the whole
time he's like dude i
think you have a blood clot i'm like there's no way i have a blood clot that's
the number one silent
killer in the nation is blood clots because people don't know they have it i
had three of them in my
arm didn't even know that's crazy i just had like my arm was sore for a while
so you were on blood
thinners now i just finished up my last i was on blood first for almost three
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Cody Garbrandt's COVID Battle

the Joe Rogan experience that was my first time after the Sun-South fight
since the KM is a gawky fight that I didn't get injured I tore tendons and
ligaments and stem cells out for eight weeks to you know and then you know I
was like man I was back in the gym Monday hungry to go and then fucking
COVID get COVID get title shot I'm like I'm about to fight figgy at 25 you got
COVID bad right well you did you get COVID in the were you in the middle of
training when you got it like were you worn out dead I was doing one training
session and actually I started the whoop and I was like man like my recovery
score is one percent in the morning my HRV was like 13 it was one percent for
like a week and I would only do one workout and then I'd have to cancel on
Chris and Malaw I'm like one percent is dead dude that's crazy but then I was
like you know I'm just gonna go ride the bike you know I was getting on those
bikes doing you know 50 to 100 mile rides and just suffering because I had
vertigo really bad so I couldn't get in those uncompromised positions that when
did you start experiencing vertigo vertigo was my first symptom of COVID not
knowing I'm then I had to think it was head injury my my doctor I went and saw
he's like that's a concussion I'm like dude I didn't get hit hard and sparring
my fights like I've worked on defense a lot like I know I would know if it was
a
concussive blow that gave me vertigo mm-hmm and what did you experience it
after
training did you experience it was during grappling I was like grappling you
didn't
like collide heads or anything nope just went to scramble and next thing you
know I was
just like fighting the hands off and the whole room was spinning and I was
actually
training with Uriah and I was like man he's like you're right I'm like what's
going on I was like
kind of like didn't want to end the round so I just kind of like closed my eyes
and
like held onto his hands so he wouldn't choke me you know he was taking my back
so I was
finished around and I was like man I just don't feel good and I was nauseated
for a few days
so I went to my doctor he was giving me like anti-nausea medicine that was
making me so
much more tired than I was because I was fatigued from from training I was just
trying to train
through it I was like I have a world title coming up in eight weeks like I have
to get down to 25
and my weight was good um I wasn't restricting any calories nothing you felt
something was off
with your body besides the vertigo my body felt like I just was for a three-week
period when I was
training and I didn't feel like myself at all I'm just mental clarity was was
so do you think
during that time you had COVID the whole time I think so you know that is crazy
and that makes
sense that it hit you so hard because you never gave your body a break and you
were beating yourself
up while you were fighting off COVID well that I think what happened was the
kidney infection in
the beginning of 2020 I was on all those antibiotics I was on five different
antibiotics people don't
even know it's two weeks before the fight with the Sun Tso the infection came
back so I had to go to
another infectious disease doctor that my doctor Hill found in Sacramento this
lady was amazing did two
blood cultures found out got all the reports from the hospital in Jersey the
reports from the
specialist in the Cleveland studied those all in a day got a blood culture I
was on the wrong
antibiotics I didn't kill the infection just basically put a band-aid over it
so I had to go 10 days to
an IV fusion center to get antibiotic drip for 10 days while I'm training two
weeks before the fight
oh my god I didn't let any of the UFC or anybody know I told Ali what kind of
what's going on
because I just needed to get in that octagon I was like dude just put me in
that octagon I know that
it'll happen like get me there healthy and I'll be good so but that fucks with
your endurance in a big
way yeah IV antibiotics are ruthless it was tough man it was uh and my strength
conditioning coach we
were having the hardest time I was hovering around you know I was getting my
heart rate up 187 and then
I couldn't get it below it was like hover at 150 which I'm fine at standing 150
and going up and being
in that 150 to 180 zone that I can be there for a while but we're working on
the aerobic system so to drop
it you know I just couldn't drop it it took about the last week of training
before I flew out to the
fight week to finally get my heart rate in like 35s like after a hard like a
minute 30 push and then
drop it down so I noticed something like that was it but immensely I was like
it's good I'm gonna
not so so two weeks out you did you had to do a 10 day cycle of IV antibiotics
and then a 10 day of um oral
what yeah dude I was on antibiotics for literally five months almost from
Jersey I was on five different
antibiotics from the hospital so from the Assunta fight how many days did you
have where you weren't on
antibiotics before the fight I mean I declared that I had and I was on
antibiotics all the way up to the
fight you know I was like antibiotics yeah I was so you were taking probiotics
to counteract the
effects of antibiotics and you're a lot of probiotics yeah what were you taking
um Frankie Edgar's wife sent
me uh she would do they were they took care of me when I was in Jersey like
hooked it up like coach
brought me pizza in the hospital he was like it was during COVID when it
happened but don't you have to
cut weight I don't cut weight to 35 really I'm like right now I'm probably 144
oh wow like I don't
and I stay you know strong and fast and this is what I feel good at to fight 35
yeah I'd have to
just diet a little bit like everyone else does for 25 that's why everyone's
making this a big deal
going to 25 it's not so you basically beat your immune system up while you had
COVID and then because
of that you got COVID really bad yes yeah so tell me what it was like I was
horrible I mean I had
that vertigo was the first symptom right and then when did they test you for
COVID I didn't get tested
until I went down to Mike Tyson's ranch we were working with the smart cups
company we're all
sponsored by them doing digital videos and it was our first kind of getting
athletes together because
they started doing fighters boxers and some rest WWE Kurt Angle was there so I
had to do like a rapid test
so we just did here and um I waited waited a while and they're like hey we want
you to do another
one I'm like all right cool like we just didn't see some things we liked I was
like all right I'm like
waiting for an hour do another one I'm like what did you guys another test yeah
what did you guys see
I'm like oh you failed the first one I'm like well that's a subtle way you
telling it like I want to
stay away from everybody like you know what's coming up to me and so I tested
there in August um and then
I went you know quarantine went home did the whole did you do any medication
what did you do I did a z-pack
um I got on inhaler because I had pneumonia I got pneumonia um vertigo and then
I did it like a 21
day because I had it so bad I kept getting tested like every three weeks and
you kept having it kept
having I did molecular tests which was like night you know some of the best
ones to do is that the PCR
test yeah we're talking about yeah and just kept negative negative my doctor's
like hey we're going to
quit testing you you know like you mean positive you kept testing positive yeah
positive for it yeah
and I'm like dang this is this is crazy I mean and I had started to have the
symptoms going away like
pneumonia was fine my lungs were good like I felt it like I was that's when I
started cycling a lot
um so I was out there just pushing the lungs that's what my doctor said was the
best thing to do is
riding that bike that that much is getting those lungs to keep working because
you have pneumonia really
bad jesus christ wow like I felt horrible I thought cycling was one of the
hardest to do isn't it funny
because you would think like most people would think that a guy who's a world
championship caliber
fighter is the type of guy who would get covid and it would just burn right
through his system
but because you were training while you had it and beating yourself up it just
got deep into you deep
I mean it it took over my body but I think honestly from the kidney infection
beyond the antibody my immune
system was so weak how much time was there between the kidney infection the
antibiotics and then
getting covered dude I literally got out of the hospital and I texted Dana like
hey I heard you
did a press conference about having a fight um my kidney levels are good I'm
waiting for maybe have
to do a biopsy um but I want to fight he's like all right work on it I was like
begging Sean so you
got covered right away um so I then I uh after the fight yeah I had uh so june
to august okay but uh
so it was from the kidney infection the fight two fight camps you know
basically one didn't happen uh
recovering I meant building myself back up from where I was at getting ready to
fight a sunset the first
time in March you know I literally had to start walking on a treadmill for a
couple weeks to get
my I was in rough shape rough rough shape and uh I started training at my
business partner's house
he had a home gym because everything was closed our uriah's gym wasn't open he
said dude I got a
treadmill I got weights kettlebells you know on a kettlebells and uh so I went
over there and just started to
to train and I'm like I'm getting myself ready and it was brutal brutal brutal
training getting back
in there and this is pre-covid this is pre-covid this is a kidney kidney
infection jesus christ but
so your body was obviously already compromised oh yeah I was yeah very
compromised still on antibiotics
they still had me on antibiotics uh to clean out the infection I was on it for
like a 30-day antibiotic
from the hospital so august you get covid how long before it clears your system
how long before you
start feeling good months like I literally I went to Miami and worked with this
company called amino
wells and they did like kind of injections uh where we talked about like kind
of stem cell injections
throughout my body arms um and I kind of started feeling a lot better at like
the week after then I
did a month on the injections with the three milliliters a week and I felt
really good body felt good
um clarity went away I actually had to go to Arizona the Mayo Clinic uh Dana
thought I had
Meneers disease so I went and saw his doctor that did his surgery um they gave
him a shot in his ears
did all these testings hearing tests um where they did you have ringing in your
ears I had ringing
bad in my left ear and there's um I have a loss of uh hearing in this year and
they don't know why
I think maybe because I'm this is my lead lead and you get hit in the left ear
yeah that's all I can say
I'm like I don't know I haven't shot a gun without you know anything like that
you know trying to just
figure out why is ringing it makes like this popping noise oh um and I was just
getting so like dizzy I
couldn't even do anything um so they so that probably contributed to the vertigo
for sure right
they said it wasn't usually it's ear things yeah they said like crystals I had
vertigo before
I worked with uh UPMC I was out for a whole year at my pro debut broke my hand
had uh vertigo from
crystals being out of the air went to the UPMC crystals crystals yeah it was an
irregular tube that was
throwing my equilibrium off which basically is positional vertigo a lot of it's
that's the most
common one you know a lot of people just you know they can sneeze wrong or do
something sleep wrong
on their neck and they have vertigo and there's a maneuver you do to put it
back but it wasn't
positional vertigo it was just literally covid had had me so messed up so your
body was so compromised
from the antibiotics the kidney infection a second ki