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I'm so I'm excited out of my house. I'm excited to hear the
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Well, let's say hello to our fabulous people. Let's do that. Nicky
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much. All we so appreciate it. Really did shout outs. So UM
shout out to my daughter Elbie, who just graduated from Oh my God,
so Thursday night, UM was her the big graduation. There's there's something too.
First of all, well, we talked on Patreon about UM a whole
other story. But in that within that story, there was a lot of
like, you know, do we get invited to do stuff with our kids,
right? And there was UM, I told you about the prom,
how there was a pre prom party that I only got invited to like the
day before. This is the thing. I have a kind of an extended
mom group. I have my close mom friends, and then there's like a
few moms that are like cousins, cousins, you know, they're like,
they're not They're going to be the first ones that but and a lot of
them are Jewish, which means that, um, they're very warm and they
check it out on you. Yes, interested, Yeah, they want to
know everything, you know. I don't get a temple with them. God
bless him, you know, Jesus loves him. Yeah, Jesus loves you
guys. And I told you I met Laura, like my closest friend.
I met her at a temple Mommy and Me. Right. I talked about
this even in my book in Sippy Cups Are Not for Chardonnay, I talked
about her. I met her a Mommy and me because I was literally desperate
for friends and I was and I was googling mommy and me's and one of
the ones that I came up with was at a temple. And I'm like,
well, I'm Jewish. You know. Do you think I would have
been accepted at that? Oh my god, yes, really, you're you're
like an honorary Jew. I know a thing. I know. No,
it's nobody would care. I mean it was the temple I went to.
It was like, it's not like we were praying or doing Tora readings.
We were like singing, you know, little blackbirds, sand tree, so
anyway, Laura's my friend, and by extension, they all sort of go
to the same temple, well a lot of them do, but anyway,
they include me as if I'm a Jew. So they all all all of
our kids are friends with each other. We all have daughters, and also
some of them have sons too, but all of our daughters are at the
same age. Right. Oh, actually no, my other one friend,
Sharon her son. But they're all friends. So they all know about these
get togethers, you know. So I'm I'm hearing about like the prom get
together, you know, a week in advance, and I have to just
keep going. Yeah, I haven't heard about it yet from my child,
right. And then all of a sudden, Elbe's like, oh, by
the way, so tomorrow night before prom, we can take pictures if you
want to come, Like some of the parents are invited. I'm like,
oh some, don't you mean, like thirtys are invited. Don't you mean
they've already decided who's bringing what? I'm just finding out about it. So
anyway, same thing happened for the graduate where I get except for this time
I get told an hour before Elby says, oh, by the way,
we're going over to my friend's house who lives around the corner, to take
pictures. And I was like, oh cool, when when were you gonna
tell me? And she's like, no, I mean yeah, it's just
sort of came up. Anyway, I'm gonna go pick up my boyfriend and
I'm going to bring them over there, but like, you're welcome to come
meet us there. So now, so her graduation was at she needed to
be there at six o'clock. The thing was starting at seven, but she
needed to be there at six. She didn't really want to drive herself,
which I understood, So I came over there to take some pictures. I
walk in the house. It's one of the mom, one of the mom
friends. It's a whole freaking spread. It was a party. Yeah,
and all of my friends are there with their relatives, like woh yeah,
Like all of my friends are there with all the like the guests that they're
bringing to the ground. Everybody freaking knew about it. Now, I don't
know who to be mad at. Maybe elbe, But what about these moms?
Yeah, how come the moms? They should have said how come they
didn't say, like, hey, are you going over to someone's house?
Like, so, yeah, whatever, right, whatever, this mom hadn't
told, hadn't texted me and said hey, all, but maybe she just
assumed Elbie would have told me. I mean I was invited, that's the
thing. Yeah, I think that every parent thinks that the kid is going
to invite. Yeah, but I didn't know about it. So I walk
in. It's like I'm walking into a party. Yeah, all these parents,
all these kids. Anyway, I go outside, I take a few
pictures. It was fine, and then Elbie's of course like, mom,
we gotta go. I'm like, oh, okay. So when Elbie gets
anxious about stuff, she just gets um. It's not pushy, it's just
she just gets She just gets anxious. So she like, we need to
go, right, Like that's it, Like, you know, don't make
me more anxious. Bye, oh dilly Dolly, let's go. Let's get
Carl, let's go. So I take her. So John drives separate because
he's taking Sadie and Xander and they're gonna beat us there. And because Elbie
has to get there so early that I'm like, you don't need to get
there, like at six, it's start till seven. What about her boyfriend?
Is he drives with us. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but is
he graduating too? He graduates two. So I drive them together, drop
them off now by myself anyway, walk around find people I know. John
gets no. So the graduation itself was like I'm I'm gonna keep it real
boring. Like listen, last year, the Sadie and Xander graduated middle school
and they had only been at that school for like, you know, eight
months or whatever, and oh my god, that was one of the most
boring things I've ever I was watching paint dry. Yeah, didn't know a
single other person there. You know. It's just like I don't know one
of these fucking people. And it's huge. It's a huge school you got
to sit through, and it's on time being called up there, and all
the songs like this person, oh, Zoe and Chloe have a dance number
they're doing, and this bitch and that one. I'm doing a speech that
makes no sense, you know, and I don't care and oh shout out
to this teacher. Never met him. I couldn't care less what I mean.
I was like, this is I'm gonna kill myself. And John and
I, luckily both of us, we were just like sitting on our phone.
So right, I was gonna say. It was like we wake up.
It's like, oh right, I'm Sanny right together, but dead last
Taylor a few z's and then that's the that's it. So I'm buckled up
for like a boring evening. Luckily well and it and it was it did
not disappoint in the boring department. It was like, forgot what Anthony Nick
Nick mulvoyan, who's the l a us D head of l a us D.
He gave like everybody gave a speech, everybody's speech. Kids and adults
alike were like, these kids had to persevere over COVID nineteen, then the
COVID nineteen. Now listen, I get it, but it was ninth grade
and tenth grade. I'm not trying to like COVID sped and it really took
a bite out of these kids high school experience totally. You can't deny that
they started ninth grade. Halfway through the ninth grade, they went home,
never to go back to school, and then they stayed home all of tenth
grade. Yeah, but as you and I have discussed many times, we
figured out I would say it was tougher for a lot of other kids than
for like my kids, because my kids probably your kids had rougher because they
missed all of ninth grade. They missed they missed half of eighth grade and
all of nine. They didn't get to graduate eighth grade, right, because
they missed the second half of eighth grade and all of ninth They had to
start a school all new in the tenth grade. So at least Elby had
been to her school right first half of ninth grade, but then she'd been
gone for a year and a half and then she was there all of junior
year and all of senior right. Right, It wasn't ideal, but like
every single person didn't need to talk about it, like he got it,
Like we were there, we remember, right, you know, and it
was like everybody was like and then like each speech was like because there were
a lot of speeches. There was like the valedictorian, there was the student
body president, there was the president of the whole ASB, there was the
senior class, so many speeches, right, and then the officials like the
principle of the school and then and the head of LAUSD and somebody for like
some city assemblyment. Right, every single person was like and then COVID nineteen
hit right right. It was like, we know, and you guys should
have compared notes a little bit. Somebody should have you should have run through
your speech and somebody should have been like, we covered COVID. Yeah.
Yeah, there should be a director of the whole thing, right, a
producer. So nobody knew everybody was doing COVID hitch. It's like, okay,
so now we're all sad. And then there was some orchestra played and
you know high school orchestras hot on, they're doing their best. I get
it. Yeah, but like and then there's like solo. I don't know
there was you know solo. The high point was my like one of my
extended mom group friends, her son was chosen to give the commencement another speech,
but he did it. He did like a poem. It was cool,
like a RAMI, you know, like all the places you'll go kind
of doctor and it was it was fun and anyway, so that happens,
I was like, oh my god, this is boring. Luckily I bought
some popcorn that has something to eat. Yeah, okay, so that happens.
Now. The kids were not allowed to bring their phone and elbe onto
the field right, So there was for it took I'm not exaggerating when I
say it took thirty minutes for the kids to walk in and be seated because
there were so many of them. There were five hundred and twenty eight kids
in their senior class. So imagine five hundred kids walking in two by two
and being seated endless right right. A lot of phone times, right,
So, but Elbie wasn't allow to bring her phone, and like the rule
follow where she is, she didn't bring her phone. Many other kids brought
their phones. They just they just like starting at a bar or whatever,
you know. Elbie was like, oh, no, you have to take
my phone. Now we go to leave and we're on these like steep bleachers.
Because the graduation happened at Pierce College campus, big graduations teage. Yeah,
big place in like a little stadium area, right, deep bleachers.
Now I successfully navigate the bleachers. I felt sorry. I was like,
look at all these seniors, a lot of grandparents there. I was like,
these poor grandparents hard they got to climb these bleachers. I was like,
oh, I'll be careful the whole time. Little did I know that
the only person was going to get hurt was me so oh so I'm you
know. In fact, at one point I kind of got irritated at some
people. I was like, excuse me, let these people go in for
They were like two seniors that were trying to navigate the bleachers. I was
like, do you see that? There's some people like yeah, you know,
Oh my god, by the way, so obnoxious, Like do you
ever go to an event like this? These people were screaming for their kids,
but like but not just like when they walked the stage, but like
the whole time. Oh god. I was like, like, Emily's gonna
hear them go, oh oh, I'm sure, Emily, absolutely, We're
so fucking loud. It was insane and it was embarrassing. And I was
like, Elbie would have died a million death if I did that. But
the you know, the girls like waving at her. It's like a whole
mass. It's like a you know, scen era, yes, you know,
party going on. It was screaming for their kids, like several,
like not just one, but like totally so many people screaming for their kids.
I was just like, oh my god, this is yeah speaking of
assault on ears. You know, my dad used to do at any school
events. Is he would do like the loudest whistle, oh, like the
like it I knew and I could see him doing it, and I was
so whistling. People brought noisemakers they weren't supposed to. Oh. And it
was funny because I was telling Robin about this and she was like, did
anybody have the big signs? The big face blown up face? Oh,
I've seen that, am I have a picture of it. It was horrible,
people holding up this giant head head of the kids. First of all,
you're not allowed to bring balloons. What fucking planet are you on that
you think that if you can't bring balloons, you could bring a giant like
billboard side blow up of your kid's face right and in front of so you're
so they're blocking the people behind that. I have a picture because it's in
one of the pictures I took of Elby. That sign is like in the
background. Post it on our Instagram. But anyway, leaving finally leaving there,
trying to meet up, We're trying, We're knowing that we're going to
have to go through throngs of people to find elbe right, and there's all
of the people have to walk out of this one area of a fence,
so too. You know, if each kid brought four people, or five
people, or ten people, and it's five hundred kids, imagine it's thousands
of people trying to get out. And I'm walking and all of a sudden,
I take a spill. I don't see it coming. Apparently there's a
curb there, because some of my friends were saying that they saw that curb
and it was so dangerous. They were telling everybody, look out, look
out, look out for this curb. I didn't see anything. There's people,
there's people crunched in front of me and crunched behind me. So I
spill into into the crowd. All these people like are like, oh my
god, are you okay? And they picked me up. Well, I
had my foot. I was walking and like not a super high shoe,
but I like kind of a high yeah, not like a spiky heel,
but like a like a chunky little platform, and my foot turned to the
side and it hurt. It hurt, but like it didn't kill. It
wasn't like, oh my god, my foot. Oh no. I was
like, okay, I'm okay, Like it rolled your ankle. I kind
of rolled my foot. Yeah it didn't. I didn't sprain my ankle,
I broke. I fractured my foot, so my foot went to the side
and hit the ground and and then but it didn't hurt that bad like when
I did it. I mean I hurt. I felt like my ribs kind
of hurt because I fell felt and I was like, I'm okay, I'm
okay, I'm okay, but like my foot was hurting. But I'm also
now I have adrenaline because yeah, yeah, in front of all those people,
and there's a thing, Yeah, there's a thing where for me,
when I see somebody that I love and care about fall, it hurts.
It breaks my even like it breaks your foot, it hurts me. Like
even I remember seeing my brother who I'm not very attached to, and I
don't really like that much. Even then I saw him trip and fall like
we're I at a restaurant and I just I don't know, it breaks my
hands hot, Oh yeah, that's sad. Yeah, I don't. I
felt bad for other people around that had to. I was like, I'm
okay, I'm okay, I'm okay. I know, but then so then
but now, meanwhile, I hadn't found Elbie yet. So we're looking for
Elbie. My foot is starting to hurt, you know. But I'm like
I'm okay, I'm okay. We we finally find Elbie and now I'm like
limping a little bit, you know. And then I tell Elbie, you
know, the kids Sadie and Xander like mom fell right, and Albis like,
oh, you're okay. Yeah, I know. She's like the mom
of a toddler, right, okay, walk it off. Yeah, and
then she's like, I have to find my friends. I have to find
my friends. So I'm like okay. So then I'm like, oh,
it is hurting, but like, let me just go and like sit by
the side by this. But I don't want to sit. I don't want
to get away from people because I'm so crowded right that I'll never see them
again, right, you know. So um, then John's like, do
you want me to like take you home? And we can just give Albi
the keys, but Alby doesn't have keys at this point and doesn't know where
we parked the car. And it's like parking is like for a concert,
like there's like different parking lots, like it's not going to be possible.
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So. Yes, I'm I'm trying to like figure out how I can like
rest for a minute, like you know, we'll sit, get my get
my off my foot. Do you guys have plans to go to dinner or
anything? So that's the graduation. Lucky thing is that, um we were
kind of assuming this thing would go really late. So it got started at
seven, so now it's like nine thirties. Some people were going out after.
But I hadn't really planned that because I knew Elbe was going out doing
things that she had to work the next day, and then she was going
to a party that two parties the next night. So I asked her.
I was like, do you want to plan to like go to dinner with
us or I don't know how late it's going to be, and she was
like, you whatever, let's just see. Let's just see, we'll see
what my friends are doing. So we ended up going. We didn't she
didn't have a specific plan. She could have like gone with a friend if
she wanted to, but I think she wanted Her boyfriend was going to dinner
with his parents and just going to be for like an hour, and then
she was going to go over there, I see, and be with him.
So whatever, did you see the boyfriend's parents when you were there?
YEA saw them and hung out with them a little bit. They're so nice.
So I'm like, a foot is starting to hurt, and John's and
I'm like, now, I'm like fully kind of limping around, and then
John's like, well, we should go, and so LB drove me home.
Elb I drove with LB. She drove and then John drove with the
other car. I get home. I'm like, okay, now I have
like a big like goose egg on my foot, and I'm like, well,
this isn't looking good. I've never broken a bone though in my life.
I did not think it was broken, right, So I was like,
oh, probably feel better tomorrow. I put ice on it, you
know, And John's like, no, it's probably gonna feel worse tomorrow.
I probably sprained it, right, you know. And I was like,
okay, So it was just swall. I was getting swall, very swollen.
Yeah, so like a bump, like a big like a goose egg,
like if you hit your head and then you get like a big bump
on it. It was like that, but on like the side of my
foot. So then okay. So I wake up in the morning and I
was like, oh, holy shit, it hurts so bad. Now I
can't I cannot walk. Like I go to try to take a step out
of bed and I'm like, oh my god, I can't walk. And
then I start feeling like, oh, I'm being so dramatic, but I'm
like, I so John. But John is very caring. He's like,
let's get you. Let's go to urgent care, right, and like get
it x rayed, you know, yeah, sure it's not broken. Yeah,
I'm like it's not broken, but like, yeah, let's go make
sure I cannot get to the car like John has like hold me up.
Every step I put on some slippers. Every step is like excruciating pain.
We go to the my normal urgent care that I love, and uh,
I mean, I'm like hopping. It's so so much drama, you know
what I mean. I'm just like hot, literally like hopping on one foot.
We get in there. The woman takes one look at us and she's
like, oh, uh, you hurt yourself And I was like yeah,
and she's like our X ray tech is not here, and I was like
she goes, but if you want to wait, like the doctor can have
a look at it. I'm like, well I could have a look at
it to see right, like it needs to be X ray. Yes,
why don't look at it? Oh, let's let me take a peek.
Well here, like there's something to see, right, And where's this refomission?
You're urging care? Don't you have there out for the day? They
didn't come in that day. Yeah, anyway, so I'm like okay,
so I go, We're gonna just go to a different urgent care. Good.
So then she's like, do you want a wheelchair to wheel you back
out to the car. And I was like, oh, hell yes yeah.
But I'm just you know that feeling though where You're like this, this
seems so extra, like I'm being extra cannot but if foot touches the ground,
yea, so painful. You gotta keep it up. Like I can
imagine as soon as you put it down, all the blood rush. It's
kind of just touching the ground. Any weight on it was so painful,
and I'm trying to like so John is holding me up, you know whatever.
So we get into the other urgent care and I hop in there.
I have to hop on one foot and h They're like, oh yeah they
have so they have an X ray person. So I go into the room
and they're like what, so what are you here for. I'm like what,
my foot is on the table. I was like this and she was
like everybody that looks at it though, was like oh yeah, yeah,
oh yeah, Like that's not good. So anyway, they take an X
ray of it um and then as soon as she looks at the x X
ray she's like, yeah, it's fractured, and I was like, oh
serious. Wow. But then as I was telling you before, I was
like a part of me did feel better because like, yeah, I was
like, think of all the drama if she was like, oh, just
a bruise. Yeah, and I'm yeah, now you're validated. Yeah.
I felt a little validated card even though I almost started crying because I was
like, this is not possible for me to have a break because what am
I gonna do. I'm saying I'm not gonna be able to drive, like
my feet. Yeah, I was like, am I gonna be able to
drive? She's like, no, You're gonna need your right foot, my
right foot. So I go in. So then the guy, the doctor
comes in and he's like ninety five, so you know that, and he's
so he's looked at the X ray now, and he comes in and he's
speaking another language that I don't know what it was. It could have been
FARSI I can't I realily was I think so. I think he was speaking
like very very thick accent and it was so much to the point that you
know, you don't want to be rude, but I was like I am
not I don't understand what you're saying, right, And he was like slowing
it down a little bit. But it's like when an American person like slows
down, you know English, like you think a person speaks Spanish is going
to understand you better if you're like I need to know, Like it's like
that, but it's like you're still speaking in such a strong accent. I
don't know what the words are that you're saying. And he's like, so
in my mind he's I was like, do I need He's like, bla
orthopedis And I'm like, so, do I need to see an orthopedis?
No, It's what I gather is that I didn't dislocate the bone. Thank
god, it's still like connected. It's just got a crack in it,
right, So he says it'll heal. He basically tells me. I was
like, do I need a cast? He's like, nope, you need
a boot. You can't move no weight on it or it'll break it worse.
Right, you can't put any weight on your foot. I'm like,
well, I can't put any weight on my foot anyway, right, So
he says, and then you need crutches, And like I'm like, okay,
so then so but you can't my friend brings me. My friend brought
me crutches, so so we so John takes me. He's like, once
I get the crutches, he's going to take me to the medical. So
we have to go to a medical supply store. So if anybody's been through
this, so okay, have you ever been to a medical supply store?
Yes, it is the creepiest, weird and there's all kinds of shit.
There's like stuff to sit on the toilet for, right, but like a
don't never this. There's a a sling thing for that. But it's not
a showroom, or at least the place I went to, Like I think
these days everything has done mail order, so there's nothing to see, right,
So I walk in and it's just boxes piled as and this one was
rated well oh, because we found one place, the one that the guy,
the FARSTI guy recommended had one and a half stars. And it was
all these people saying that this place tried to do medicare fraud or whatever.
Yeah, so like they tried to. They started sending these stuff to my
house and it was like charging medicare like eight hundred dollars for this. So
we're like, hey, we're not going there. So we find one that's
rated, well, go in. It's just all boxes that I can see
online. It says that they have the they have boots for your foot.
I walk in. This lady, this lady, there's no one there,
right, no one. This lady comes out of the back. Oh my
god, probably having lunch. She looked at us like what like she's never
seen a person like on my love shower, like go order on anybody else.
I was like, I need a boot now though, So I'm like,
Hi, do you guys have I'm looking for like a boot, like
for my foot, and she I swear to god, she went what I
was like, like a boot, like like I broke my foot, I
need a boot for that. Like this is a medical supply sts like,
um, just a minute. She also has a very thick accent that I'm
not understanding. How old is this person? Probably sixty five. She walks
through the back, comes back out. She's like, ah, we only
have one, and it's like it's like thigh high. It's like if I
wanted like a sexy ye like to make my foot stable. It's just so
it's it's like a lot, right, And I was like, uh.
Meanwhile, I had already looked on Amazon and I saw they were like forty
dollars on Amazon, but I was gonna have to wait till the next day.
Yeah. So anyway, she was like, uh, it's it was
like one hundred and fifty dollars for this boot. I'm like, uh no.
I was like, that's the only one you have. She's like yes,
but do you want to put it through your insurance? I was like
no, I don't, right, I don't. I'm pipped to you with
one and a half stars, right, going to charge my insurance like eight
thousand dollars for a boot, you know? And I'm gonna be getting bills
and then I'm gonna be on the phone with blue shield R Rooster. That's
all I need right now. So I go home order the boot off of
Amazon and yeah, but I still can't walk. Oh my god, So
how did you get here? So John drove me and then I have crutches
so that I could scoop my way? Is he waiting outside? No,
he's gonna come back when we literally shit. I told him I would take
an uber, you know, but he was like, that's ridiculous. Yeah,
he's doing everything. It's so sweet. He really is, Like he
won't let me. Like that's nice. Every time I try to get up
on my own and like limp around, He's like to get back in bed.
Yeah. But oh my god, do I have so many TV shows
to talk about? Oh Friday? Oh I can't wait. Yeah, oh
my god. But before we get to that, Kaylin, you went to
the ar before any of my shenanigans happened. You had to go to the
ar. Yeah. So this happened on Saturday, when we were supposed to
when you did record with Teresa. And so what happened was it started Friday
and I woke up and I had this feeling in my leg that so ever
since my blood clot, I've got these kind of tangles in my calf and
they say, you know, it's just it's just remnants of the damage that
the clot did or whatever. But I woke up Friday and did like my
pawn work. So I was up and like standing on it a lot,
and it was this feeling where it felt very much like the last couple days
of my clot before it like moved into my lungs, which is whenever,
especially when I got out of bed in the morning and I put pressure on
it for the first time in a day, it would it would hurt like
a lot worse than normal, and then when I take pressure off, like
I could feel it, and then it would kind of get better throughout the
day. But this happened Friday to a minor degree. So I was like,
Okay, well, this is gonna go away, and then just you
just let it feel like it You're just gonna let it ignore it. It
wasn't it wasn't really painful at that point. It was starting to get uncomfortable,
and then I was like, Okay, this is gonna go away.
This is just the thing. And then Saturday rolled around and it got worse.
I got out of bed Saturday morning and I was like, oh,
this is like starting to hurt, and it's starting to hurt the same exact
way that my clot was the first time. Oh no, yeah. And
so then I told my girlfriend and her mother about it, and they were
like, nope, you're going You're going to the year. I like,
no, no, no, you don't understand. It's Theresa Strausser. We've
been waiting this whole time, like she's got this. She's like, no,
you're going to the ear. They'll figure it out. I was like,
yeah, okay, I guess I'm going to the er. So yeah,
you were so funny though, because you were texting us as if you
were producing our show. You're just like okay, so everything did it.
Appreciate it and we felt bad. We were like, don't worry about Kitlin.
We got it, Like, don't we'll figure it out. We got
Dylan Patrick and well and Stephanie knows what to do, like, we'll figure
it out. About it. Get up because the board was over on the
table so I couldn't mark for commercials, so you probably had to sit and
listen. That was probably That's okay, that's that's not a big deal.
Um, we were we were consoled. Okay, so you get to the
ear. Yeah. I got to the er and Amy came with me and
she stayed with me the whole time I was in total, I was there
about five hours. Oh yeah, and most of that the first three and
a half we're waiting for the ultrasound. Then I got the ultrasound, and
then I had to wait another hour for them to get the report and for
the er doctor to look at it, and he essentially said, they didn't
find a clout in there. So this is like a chronic pain results from
your initial blood clot. Oh so yeah, it's so it's like I kind
of almost was like, I kind of hope there's a clot because then I
could get rid of it with blood thinners. Yeah, because then there's actually
something in there. But now it's like my it's sometimes it's hurt as much
as it did, but other times it'll go away. But ever since then,
I've felt it in my leg. My leg is uncomfortable, and so
I'm just kind of walking around. Missed it. No, she checked,
she did a very thorough ultrasound check. Well what did they say exactly?
Yeah, it's like chronic damage from the initial clot, And how do they
treat that. I can't treat it, really, I mean, I am
now probably gonna have to go back on blood thinners. My hematologists said at
my last visit, like everything's good, like you you'd be good to go
off blood then, and I was like, Okay, I guess I'm going
off blood thinners. And then this happened, and so then I did I'm
seeing him again on Thursday. So yeah, I'm gonna probably just go back
and plit dinners. Oh my god. Wow that sucks. Yeah, there's
no clot which is good or it's bad. But my life still kind of
hurts. It's uncomfortable. It's getting anxiety. Oh yeah, I thought it
was done with, but it's just keeps going. And they don't really know
what caused it in the first place, not entirely. I mean, yeah,
I've heard a lot of different Oh it could be this, Oh you
have this, Oh and then I didn't have that, and then it turns
out ron cast but blah blah blah. Yeah, it's it's all over the
place. That sucks. I'm sorry. Well, we're happy you're back.
I'm happy to be back. Yeah. You know what might be good for
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you did something fun. You went to the zoo? Yeah? Yeah.
I took me and Amy and the girls all went to the zoo on Saturday
and we went with Patrick as Patrick Hickey from bab Yes our audiences where uh
We went with Patrick and his wife Shari and their daughter Elliott. And it
was a lot of fun. And Sari is like super pregnant now yeah,
she's very she's doing about two months and so down in Long Beach, our
regular thing is the aquarium, Like that's where we go when we need Yeah,
that's our place. That's me and Blake's place. You know, I
was in school, Me and Blake got to do something. We go to
the aquarium. Um and so the zoo is Patrick and Schari's place. So
we got yeah, okay, So we got there and they were like I
was like, oh, well, let's look at the map. Where's the
there, Like, don't look at the map. I got my place.
I'll take you wherever you need to go. I go where's the monkeys.
Monkeys are this way, we go that way and um so yeah, we
had a lot of fun at the zoo. Was the first time we've actually
been to a zoo here or San Diego where it's not like just so hot
out. Every time we go to the zoo, I'm just sweating a few
see, I'm tired. So it was actually nice to not to go there
when it wasn't so hot out. Yeah, and uh yeah, we had
a good fun. I thought it was gonna last a little longer than it
did. You know. I was given it like five six hours. Yeah,
it's like three. Yeah. Before there's only so much and a lot
of exhibits are closed, like, oh, let's go see the alligators.
There's they're not they're sleeping. They're sleeping. I know they're lazy. Yeah.
The thing that I don't love about the zoo when my kids were young
is that, um, you always think they're gonna walk around and they never
want to walk around like this. And I it was like my place where
I'd be like, you know what, we're going to try it with no
stroller, right, you know, the strollers starts to be a pain in
the ass. The kids are getting a little bit older, like five,
and then you're like, we're gonna try this. I feel like I remember
the twins were probably like two and maybe Elbe was five and oh and immediately
yeah I've died yea where a Yeah I know. So I had to go
rent like for like forty bucks like a double stroller. You know that you
end up using for an hour and a half, right, and you're like,
oh my god. Yeah. That was the you know, the zoo
and also near Griffith Park they had the ponies. That was the place that
I would take the kids because they had the trains and then they had the
ponies. But I guess the ponies are gone now that's just sad. But
I used to love taking them there. The zoo reminds me of Sonny,
and because Sonny would love to go to the zoo as he got older,
you know, like I go, what do you you know, Natalia is
busy, Sonny, you want to do something? Can we go to the
zoo? Like? He loved taking me around and showing me like the birds
and the different this and apes and all that. But now I'm Sonny is
in Japan. Oh my gosh, Yeah, how's he doing it there?
That's a good question. I don't know if his heart would fucking answer me.
I you know, like his friend's mom will send me a pick sure,
And I'm like, oh, that's great. So your son is communicating
with you, but my son doesn't ads and answered me in two three days.
Once in a while, you know, well, first of all,
they're like, way, they're fifteen hours ahead. It's like the next day,
right, But um, the night So the night he left, I
was in I was in Mexico with Italia, which I'll talk more about on
Friday Show. But he all of a sudden, you know, he's mister
easygoing, but then all of a sudden he's like, wait, do you
know where my seat is on the plane? Am I in the middle seat?
Can you make sure? I'm I'm like, I can't do anything.
You're with your school. They booked the tickets, Like, I don't know,
Well, can you look into it? So now I'm like, I'm
United Airline trying to look into it. You can never look into shit that
your kids want you to lik. I know, the stuff that you do
look into for them? They don't care right exactly. I don't really I
don't need to know that. Right then it's like, oh, can you
look into no access to or way to find right right. So I'm like,
Sunny, you're just gonna have to whatever. Um. So then he
leaves. So yeah, So then he gets there and he tells me that
the plane line was fun. He was fine, he was he was you
know, he was comfortable and um, and then he's he's been there.
He's coming home like day after tomorrow. Oh yeah, so it's been a
while, but once in a while, so the teacher will send pictures.
So there's pictures of him at the fish factory, at the soy sauce factory.
You know. They're up at like five thirty six in the morning.
They have breakfast and then they have a couple hours to themselves, and then
they got the tour guide. They're going to the next city. They're going
to Hero Sheet, the um Mount Fuji that that you know where the volcano
is, and he's they're going. So they're last night, they're going karaoking
and then I get a text. Then I get it, so then I'm
like, so so far, so good. He's having five seat pictures of
him at the sush factory making his own sushi's having fun. Whatever. Then
I get a text from him yesterday and it's a picture of like like two
pieces of really small chicken that looks like it's been baked with terake sauce,
like the kind you get at the at the mall. Yeah, and like
a little thing of like noodles on a tray. And he was like,
this is our dinner. He goes, this is my dinner. And this
has been my dinner two nights in a row. And he's like, I
don't know what our what our tour guide is thinking, and even missus g
here their teacher is pissed. Like that's the text I get. Oh my
god. So now I'm like the worst. That's not even a look into
this, like yes, and that's now like I'm not eating as an Italian
mother, I freak. I'm like, are you not eating? Oh my
god? Is that? Please tell me you're eating okay? And I was
like, I texted him, I go, at least you have lunch time
to yourself. Are you eating good at lunch? Blah blah blah, And
he writes back and he said, I had the best lunch of food I've
ever had my lifetime. We didn't tell me what it was, but him
and his friends went off and got lunch. He goes, but the dinners
have been like epic fails. And I was like, all right, wells
Leasy's getting a good lunch. So now I don't feel whatever. There's nothing
I can do, you know. So anyway, he's they're coming home on
Wednesday. I can't wait to see him. I have barely talked to him.
He did call me. I was on the plane coming home from Cabo,
and it was the day after he left. He called me through WhatsApp
and it came through on the plane, so I got to talk to him
for like five minutes and he was That's when he told me. He's like,
the flight was fine, having fun and with my friends fine, you
know it was it was you know, and that was it. And I
was like, keep in touch, and then you know, I kept yeah,
exactly, good luck with the girls. But like I get I'm texting
him, I'm like, you should listen to this. If you get bored,
listen to this podcast. I think you'll like it. You know.
Yeah, that's enough now, it was like a Bill Simmons Goodfellas something podcast,
and so I'm like listening and I'm constantly texting him. He's not answering.
He's not answering. And then the one answer I get is, this
is our dinner. Two nights in a row. What the you know,
what the fuck? But anyway, he's coming home, and I'm excited.
Ten days, oh, ten days, ten days wow? Yeah, yeah,
ten hours. Like they flew from LA to San Francisco, which is
like an hour, and then San Francisco to Tokyo was ten hours, okay.
And that's when I was like, oh, this poor kid, Like,
oh, I hope he's okay on his flight. And I was texting
him while he was on the plane, sitting on the tarmac to go to
Tokyo, and he did say He's like, I'm my seats are fine,
I'm with my friends. I'm okay, I'm comfortable. So I was like
okay, and then he was like, how do I get WiFi? God
a quo? And I'm like, you can figure it out. You're united,
you can figure out how to get ask somebody, you know, you'll
get why whatever, And he's like you think and then he was like,
how does Wi Fi work in Japan? And I was like, I don't.
I'm sure they have Wi Fi there. Yeah, they probably made our
phones right exactly. You'll be fine. Yeah, yeah, but you'll be
fine. They'll yeah, you'll have wified out. He figured it out.
So anyway, But the fresh raighting part was the other moms of his friends
were like sharing pictures and I was like, oh, that's so nice.
I wish I would have gotten something like that, like I'm glad they're keeping
in touch with you, and you know, but it's sunny. He's having
fun. But yeah, he's coming home on Wednesday. It's just been me
and Natalia. It's been fine. She's out of school. Yeah, and
the house is for sale, so there's been showings of the house. Yeah.
And Phil has been gone with Adam and Malibu, which is which is
nice because then I don't have to worry about like a hair dog hair if
Phil making a mess the house because there's been showings and blah blah blah.
So you know, it's been fine. It's been good, Okay, Yeah,
but uh yeah, okay, well let's I want to hear more about
the showing the house on im. Yeah, I got a story about Mexico
and for Friday. Oh okay, all right, well before we go,
we have a couple of shout outs. We have a new shout out.
Um, it's a podcast. Yes, the person who is a listener of
our show. I'm not going to say her name because it's an anonymous podcast.
Because so it's called The Family Skeptical and it's a podcast about raising children
without religion. So if you're any kind of non believer, welcome you are
people, She's just saying, yeah, they only do an episode once every
three weeks, but they they have quite a few episodes up there. Um.
Yeah, so it's kind of about like raising kids. Like she's an
atheist and it's about raising kids without religion and like what that what that's like?
Yeah, Um, it's really cool. Check it out The Family Skeptical.
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Also, uh, I'm gonna do all the shout outs now we won't have
any. Oh well, I'll have one on Friday. Um. Maren is
our friend who lives in Kawai and she has a shop with her husband called
Sugar Skull and it's a bakery and gift shop and they do wedding cakes and
all kinds of stuff. You could check them out on Instagram. You can
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and my friend Adam Lerner, uh he is he will get you a
car. I'm gonna have him get me a car, Get me a car,
get me he's shopping me a car for LB right now. Wow,
there you go. Because she's probably not getting into a off the wait list.
Probably not. We haven't heard anything yet, so we said we'd get
her a car. She's going to be local. So yeah, he's getting
us a car. So his phone number is three one zero nine nine eight
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car dot com. Yes, okay, Well we love you guys, Thank
you so much, thank you, thank you. Kayline, you're a parent,
now, don't f it up. Letting