Charged: The Eduardo Garcia Story Page #3

and where we connected

was she was game to have fun.

I wanted to go surf five

a.m. and be at work by eight.

Hand went up,

she's like, "I'm in."

[Jennifer] Most people just

wanted to go to the bars.

He was the only

person on the yacht

that liked to surf

and run and skateboard

and all the things I like to do.

And we started hanging out more.

And then we started dating.

[Eduardo] She was

keen to dance, to play,

to express, to live.

(laughing)

[Man] Ed's walking.

[Eduardo] I think I

felt a responsibility

to be tougher than

I should have been

because of how hard everyone

was working around me.

[Woman] Okay ready?

Turn around.

[Eduardo] There's gonna

be someone else out there

that has it worse than you do.

Just be grateful for

what you do have.

[Woman] Everything feel okay?

Yeah, I wish I could

use this sucker.

You can yeah.

Pretend.

Yeah.

[Eduardo] Gotta pretend

he's doing something.

That sucker has no

free rides, man.

Thanks.

[Nurse] You done?

No, I'm not done.

I'm just saying thanks.

I appreciate it.

[Nurse] No problem.

This is my new

typing attachment.

Gonna help me just

do some simple typing

until I get my prosthetic

in, kinda cool.

I never felt a fear for my life.

I felt anxiety about

everyday matters of life,

how I'd get back to life.

This is awesome.

That's great.

I think hiking is gonna be

some of the best

therapy I'll ever do.

(exhales)

You know, how am I

going to be me again?

Not to be funny but

this is my first stab

at working with a prosthetic

or any attachment on lefty.

Works.

And Jen invented,

show the camera, Jen .

Basically it's

this two foot fork

and one end's for scratching,

one end's for eating,

do not confuse the two.

Thank you.

Well done you.

I know it's kind

of weird for you.

Not just kind of weird,

very, very messed up

but well done you for hanging

in there 37 days with me

and not abandoning me

for some other whatever.

I wonder if I can just launch

this carrot at my face.

Oh, yeah.

[Jennifer] We had this

amazing relationship

but I had two minds,

part of me was telling me

that Eduardo was the

most amazing guy ever

and then the other part of

my brain was just telling me

that something was going on,

he was disingenuous.

He just said that

I was paranoid,

that I should shut up,

that all of his friends

thought I was a mean person

for even suggesting

such a thing.

[Eduardo] And I didn't

make the connection

that me cheating on

her would somehow

subconsciously speak to her.

And I don't remember

how I said it,

I remember sitting on the

port side of the yacht

and just spitting it out

like there was this time,

there was that time,

there was this time,

there was that time.

And then I was just

destroyed, I think,

because it wasn't this

kind of like one off thing

it was actually kind of

two years of complete lies.

He's been cheating

on me basically

for most of our relationship,

that just hurt.

[Eduardo] It was a recurrence

of that same time when I was 17

like sh*t, how have my

actions become actions

that are hurting people,

not who I want to be in life.

It was time to clean up my act.

I came home for seven months,

no drugs, no alcohol, just a

lot of time in the outdoors,

a lot of time working.

I was so depressed,

so physically ill.

I had this cabin in Montana

that was really rough

and I remember fixing

up the interior

with a goal that maybe

Jen'll come back to Montana,

no expectations,

I don't need you to get

back together with me.

[Jennifer] Despite everything,

you love who you love

and I wanted

to be there for him

and help him get

through everything.

[Eduardo] It

was the first time

her and I had been in the

same space clean and clear.

[Jennifer] He was

definitely trying to show me

that he was somebody that

now did actually care.

So when I have my

ridiculous photo ideas

he was up for that.

[Eduardo] When we start

talking about something

and we're both into it,

it's unstoppable

the amount of ideas

that come out.

I left my full time career as

a yacht chef after a decade

and I was ready for

a career change.

Together with Jen,

my brother, my sister,

we started a food company

called Montana Mex.

[Jennifer] And on top of that,

we started planning

for Eduardo to have a

outdoor cooking show.

Rolling.

[Jennifer] We're just

on a rampage of creativity

and it was super fun.

[Eduardo] That's when

I got to know Jen ,

like the business part of Jen ,

the intellectual part of Jen ,

the creative part of Jen ,

the challenging parts of Jen.

Look how big our ducks are.

That was the beginning of

our friendship for sure.

And I put this on it

because otherwise

when I'm in bed

it will just keep me up.

You've been doing it

that same way every night?

Yeah.

Really?

Yeah.

I don't know, I don't feel

like I need to sleep in

a real bed at all really,

it's fine.

It was a very bizarre situation

'cause you're trying

to care for somebody

who is going through

the pit of hell

but at the same time,

I also had all these things

from obviously the relationship

that Ed and I had previously.

Did you make it?

No, it was so close.

It landed right side up.

Try it again, try it again.

Ugh, that's even worse.

Obviously annoys me at times

but I love him,

I've loved him a long time.

I will always love him.

[Man] Please breathe

in and hold your breath.

Start breathing again.

[Amalia Cochran] The testicle

that had been damaged

from the electrical

injury was not viable

and there was no way for

us to help it survive.

So that's discussion number

one that we're having

with a young healthy guy

and his family

about it is our recommendation

that we do this.

[Jennifer] For

whatever reason,

he chose me to be the signer.

Especially because of

the cheating thing,

it's like almost hilarious

this sense that the ex

girlfriend that was cheated on

got to sign away his testicle.

[Doctor] Your charts look good,

your blood looks good,

you kind of went through

the basic and then

but we got some bad news.

The pathology report pops up

and low and behold there's

a testicular cancer.

[Eduardo] Are you kidding me?

My focus right now is figuring

out how to be an amputee,

other surgeries

that are ongoing,

picking myself up out of

the ground for the most part

and on top of that you're

asking me to deal with cancer?

[Jennifer] And that's

when they realized

it was second stage

because he had a tumor

halfway up his spine as well.

[Eduardo] Any chance to

see that tumor clot on my?

[Man] Yeah.

That's big, man.

[Jennifer] Basically

they couldn't do all the

reconstructive surgeries

because he needed to get

not chemotherapy immediately

before it went to his brain.

So...

I forgot one.

It just became my

norm being in ICU,

you know what I mean?

It became my norm.

[Jennifer] How do you feel?

Mechanical.

[Jennifer] But in a cool way?

Yeah, I think so.

I think I was actually terrified

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