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So my son Xander, Oh my god, this kid coughing? Oh my
god. I want to put him in one of those TV like institutions,
like remember remember the good old days where if people were coughing a lot,
they had TV. You put them. They went away for a while,
isolated them at a place with other people who are coughing a lot, and
then they could all just cough together. You know. It's like a tuberculosis
groove home. Yeah, you know. I'm sure they provided them snacks when
they felt well enough to beat Yeah, you know, lots of tea with
honey. I'm sure you know. And then when you get off your TV,
come back to the house, right you know? Mm? Yeah,
why do we all have to be kept awake all night by your coffee?
Really? I know? Poor kid? So I feel like I've told you
because so two weeks ago he was sick and then he felt better. He
went to his groundlings class. You know, I love that he's taking still
really yep, Well, Laelia took a class. She did, Yeah,
the groundlings? Mm when, um, I don't know. She told me
that her dad took her a couple of weeks ago. Oh did she do
like a drop in? She? I guess she did one session with her
friend. She thought it was only going to be an hour and a half
or something, and then when they took a break, they were like her
and her friend were like not feeling it because they were older. They were
like there was little or younger kids. Oh, because you know why they
went to the one they went to. It's like a one at a time.
It's like a one off and to drop in and it's for kids ten
to eighteen okay. Xander's in a group for kids fourteen to eighteen okay,
perfect, and a lot of them are like sixteen. Yeah, so that
would have been good for her, but like five Closs, she had to
do improv with like an eight year old yeah, yeah and yeah. Yeah.
They were like doing the yes and thing and he's like, I'm at
a park with like pterodactyls, you know. She's like, yes and and
we'd exactly yo, exactly. Yeah. So she yeah, they left,
they went The teacher said you have why do you have to be somewhere and
she was like, yeah, we have an appointment. And they left and
they went and got something to eat for the rest of the time, waited
for him to come back and picked up. I don't blame her. Xander
was very adamant about, like, I don't want to be at a thing
with like young kids. Yeah, but fourteen he felt like, wasn't that
young? Yeah? See, why didn't they that's like they should have figured
that teen to eighteen is like high school age. Yes, and he's a
freshman that's fourteen year yeah yeah, but yeah, that's why he didn't do
the one time drop in with all ages. I was like, that's gonna
be a nightmare. It's gonna be all little kids, right, yeah.
So interesting though, if she'd taken this one that's every Saturday, she would
have been in there with Xander. Oh really that see about Xander, And
I was like, he loves it. And I was like, well,
I don't know. I got in a class with a bunch of young kids.
I know exactly what she's talking about because it's called their teen. They
have two different teen sessions, ones for younger kids, which she wouldn't have
gotten into anyway. It's for ten to thirteen and then fourteen to eighteen is
a separate group. But then there's a drop in that's for all those ages.
Okay, those little kids. Yeah, I'll tell her to try again.
So anyway, Xander was sick and then he got better, and then
he was back at school like all week, like the week before last week,
and then last week when we recorded. I think I told you he
was so he was sick like that morning. I woke him up and he
was like, I do not feel well and he had a fever. That
he had a fever during the day. Well anyway, it just was getting
worse and worse than it's terrible coughs terrible terrible cough. So that was Monday
Tuesday, so I guess I brought him in on Thursday to the doctor,
to urgent care. I brought him to urgent care because he was just he
had a bad cough. Oonder. Oh I know too. He said he
felt like he had something in his throat and I was like, well,
that's just like you know how you get like you got like mucus in there,
right, okay from cough. And he's like, no, it feels
it hurts like in my throat, but not like a sore throat. And
I was like, oh, well, okay, let's get let's take get
urgent care, good urgent care. While I'm there, by the way,
I get an email from his school saying your child has been absent for three
you can't come back to school without a doctor's note after And you know who
it was, because my kids are at a small school. It was the
same lady that was like, um, can you pick up your kid because
he ate a hot chip and now he's disrupting the whole school. Yeah shenanigans.
Yeah yeah, that bitch, she writes. Yeah, so I just
wrote back. I was like, well, luckily we're at urgent care right
now, so it won't be a problem to get a note. But thanks
for your concern, right, It's like that you and this is not one
of those like a robo call, Like I get it when your kids are
out a few days if they send you like a robo call and go,
you must get a doctor's note. Whatever, bitch, But this was not
that. This is a small school and this is her writing me an email,
taking the time to sit down and go without how about like, you
know, my kids are not like truant all the time, you know,
they come to school regular. How about just like, hey, is Xander
okay? Exactly? By the way, we're gonna need a note of some
kind right like, which still is annoying, but I would have but and
then I feel like, what about kids that don't have access to medical care?
Like what about people that don't have medical insurance who are out for three
days because there's they have a fever and then they're coughing, and their parents
don't want to can't take him to the doctor because they're working, or they
don't have good healthcare coverage. Exactly. How about those kids you're so they
just can't ever come back to school, right, It's like it's just ridiculous.
Yeah, I'm sorry, I don't know whatever. So anyway, they
test him for covid um, which he'd already tested negative on a rapid test,
but whatever. They tested him for covid the flu and strep. Guess
what. Oh no, really, that's why his throat was hurting. Was
hurting like there's something in it because it was so swollen. Odd, so
strep throat. Then they told me that what they're seeing a lot of is
that these kids are people are resistant to the antibiotics right now. Shit,
I don't know why that is. So they're stopped they stopped prescribing a max
oficillin, which is really the go to prescription for like a strap infection,
and they're going back to old school penicillin. Doesn't it depend on the person.
Well, they're finding all these people or it's not taking it's not crying
their infections. All these kids that are all these people that are getting um
given a max oficillin are showing back up. It didn't work, and they're
showing their straying the infections to be resistant. They're having to change it up.
So they gave him penicillin. So he's taking penicillin. Yeah, and
he went back to school today, but he's still coughing. Really but I
was like, you have to just tell them he can't miss thatch. I
mean, what are you gonna do. You're gonna be out of school for
two weeks. You get sick on the trip to New York? Now did
he gets How did he get it? I think he went to this thing.
He went to this like a party where all these bands were performing at
someone's house. I think that's where he got it. A bunch of people
like singing and in a tight space, and a bunch of like Petrie dishes.
Yes, you know kids. Yeah, who knows where they've been.
Those were the days when those kids were little, when they would get sick
all the time constantly. Oh my god, Kaylin knows. Yeah right,
Kaylin Amy has been sick for like two months. Yeah, it's just think
figure over it and then she's she has a bad cough right now too,
and she's had it for like a week, and she was just sick before
that, and I was sick before that. It's constant, it is,
it's constant. Oh my god, the kids are We're always sick at that
age at Kaylin now, constantly, constantly. They go to school, they
brings a new thing home, another kid goes and they have like they have
like shitty immune system, and then they gave you sick, and then you're
fucked because you're trying to take care of them but you're feeling like crap.
Yeah, this is why, and I recommend this is why. If you're
at the mall and your kid wants a gumball and it falls on the floor
at the mall, give it to them and they pop it in their mouth,
it's like basically like giving them an antibiotic. Yeah, it's like beefing
up their immune systems. Everybody laughed at me. Everybody was like, wow,
you let your kid eat shit off the floor. Yes, I do.
And now, well, okay, this is a bad example Becauseander's sick
right now, but in general, in general, my kids are are rarely
sick. Yeah, yeah, you give them food off off the floor.
If something falls down or if they're four falls, I just put it back
on their plate. Well, okay, maybe you're cleaning too much, Adam
would make. Adam would be proud of the fact that he would eat.
He ate an almond once and dropped it and a pigeon picked it up,
spit it out, and he picked it up and ate it because he doesn't
want to waste the almond. He's like, that's how we should be taking
care of these kids. They don't wash their hands, stop purelling them from
head to tell you know what. This might be the only time ever I
know. I know because my kids are blind truffle yes, yeah, yeah,
yeah, I know. The kids have not been sick and a long
time, Thank god. Knock one. What I mean. I had COVID
like a month ago. I thought, for sure these two are getting it
because I spent like a whole few days with the Italian the car or driving
her around. Then I spent I picked up Sonny from so I'd had him
in the car breathing on him the night before I got sick. I'm like,
oh, those two are going down for sure. They didn't get it.
They must be either already had it. I don't, John and I
neither one of us got Xander's sickness either. Yea, nobody else in the
family got it. Sadie didn't get it, none of us. Just Xander's
just the cheese stands alone sick. Yeah, poor thing. Though he missed
all last week because then they were like, well, yours, the strap
is going to stay contagious, like you can't go back to school, right,
So they that was like Thursday morning, so we still had to stay
on Thursday and the next day. Then she was like, you'll you should
be fine to go to your improv thing on Saturday. Um no, he
was still coughing so much. I was like, no, we can't.
That's just a bad look. But then today I'm like, okay, you're
gonna have to go to school, and I guarantee you teachers are going to
be giving you a dirty look, like you're bringing that cough to school.
I go, you tell them I had strep throat. I've been on penicillin
for like one Thursday Friday said up for four days, like I'm clear right
to come to school. I just sound bad. Yeah, oh, poor
kid. And then some teachers were like kind of mean about it, Like
yo, one of his teachers. These teachers, I love teachers. I
mentioned it. Now you know some of these we hate teachers. They're just
lazy, always going on strike for any reason. You know, they make
great money. They're getting rich. Ye up with all these rich teachers and
they get the whole summer off. They don't want to work. We kid,
we kid the teachers, but listen, teachers, like give a kind
of kid a break. Like if they're out all week and they're trying.
I made Xander email all of his teachers and say, listen, I'm sick.
But like then they're like, well, if you're well enough to email
me, you're well enough to like do the work at home. It's like
he's supposed to go on Google classroom and do all this work. It's like,
bitch, he's at home because he's not feeling well. Yes, he's
literally was in bed all week. Like I'm sorry, but I don't know
how he's supposed to like be expected to carry all like let him make up
a little bit. Yeah, it's fine, Yeah, it's fine. The
teachers at his school are in general, it's really nice. One of the
teachers was like giving them a hard time for missing missing days, and he's
like, well, I don't I'm sorry. I was sick. What are
you gonna do? I know, you know else is sick. Phil,
He's been sick, this fucking dog. I swear to God. He's like
and he's he's got a mission to kill himself. He just what happened?
He justp what happened? I was at the house over the weekend. Yeah,
over the weekend. When was it? There was a day during the
week last week. Natalia wanted to make this like cake recipe she found on
TikTok whatever. So I buy the stuff, coco powder, chocolate. She
wants to make a chocolate and banana cake. Oh no, no, perfect
for a dog, right Yeah. So she's like, it's really healthy,
but it's got like the coco powder and it's got you know, like a
vanilla protein in it like this, you know whatever, she's a health kick
bananas. It was really good. So we make the cake and somehow so
everybody at the house knows, including her closest friends, you don't leave any
food. And then if you're gonna leave something in the kitchen, like a
cake in the in the pan still and it's cooling. You put it up
high, so that Phil cake. Everybody knows that. One of I think
it was one of Sonny's friends actually came by and uh and Sonny was they
were eating the cake and then they left the kitchen for a second. It's
gone on the floor gone. And it wasn't that big. It was the
size of like a banana loaf. Yeah, yeah, yea like a bunk,
like not a bunt cake, but like a long yes, like a
little rectangle cake. There you go, and left it a little too close
to the edge and Phil got it, got into it, and I was
like, oh my god, no, oh my god. So took Phil
to the vet. They pumped his stomach. Was he starting to act weird
or you just wa I just was like, I called and I said,
this is what's in the cake. They said you should bring him in.
Of course they're gonna say that, so of course we I bring him in
and I tell him the Tali. I'm like, they're gonna pump his stomach
and she's like, I think she was like, why he didn't drink?
Like in her mind she's thinking, I better send him to rehab, right,
and this guy's not coming back. He's gonna dog it. Yeah,
they're gonna teach him. This is what stops to like stop eating chocolate.
Yes, I wish there was a real thing like that. I would totally
send him, but um yeah, they pumped his stomach. I have to
make amends to family. So he throws up, and he throws up.
Uh. Not only does he throw up the cake, but he throws up
little plastic daisies like toy like toy, like like like a toy and not
a toy, but like a date like a hard plastic Where did he get
like three of them? And I'm like, I had to show the picture
to I sent the picture to the kids and I go, anybody recognize this?
And to tell you it's like, oh, that was in my Easter
basket I got from dad. And I forgot to tell you he got into
that too, And I was like, bitch, Okay. So so he
got into an easter basket and probably ate a bunch of chocolate in there.
Yeah, there was no chocolate. There was just like I don't know what
they get. She didn't get any candy for Easter. She got like a
teenage easter basket, I guess from her dad. No candy, but plastic.
But just how I got thing like called pica where you eat like rocks
and dirt like he does. He does do that thing in the basket,
were there edibles? There was no. He tore it apart. I don't
know what was in it. There must have been some kind of food or
something in the easter basket to go in there in the first place. There
it was maybe something. She was like, No, there was no candy.
I don't know. There could have been like a sna a trail mix,
I don't know. But then then come to find out the other day
he devoured Natalia's friends Devin's backpack, tore it like she couldn't find the back
She's like, I left my backpack at your house. They were looking for
it. Nobody could find it. It was down the hall and around the
corner in a like space where nobody was around, and he ripped it.
He got he got into it and ripped it. He did the same thing
to Sonny's but backpack a week ago. Luckily there was nothing in Sonny had
I don't know, an empty baggy of nuts and like crumbs. So he
smelled it and he took I saw that part like he ripped his he ripped
his wallet apart, ripped the backpack. I mean, this dog is he's
a marauder. He's I know, he's a freaking menace to scide to me.
He's terrorizing me. That's crazy. Yes, So then so they empty
his stomach, all the stuff comes out, blah blah blah. And then
I'm thinking after spending hours with him at the vet. That was on a
Thursday, Saturday Friday night into Saturday. He comes in my room. He
bangs on the side of my He he comes out of Sunny's room, comes
up to my room and he stands next And this is what Phil's move does.
This is what he does when he has to go the bathroom. Hell,
he bangs. He takes his paw and he bangs on my nightstand,
which is like, bitch, get up, I gotta go to the bathroom.
That's what he's says, which I would love to know what he does
when I'm not there. Who's he doing that? Is? He? Is
he doing it to Adam? He's gotta be doing it to somebody, right,
Sonny says, he just wants out of Sunny's room and he doesn't know
what happens to him after day. So he comes up to my room,
so I take him outside. He's got diarrhea. Oh and now he's drooling
and drooling and drooling and drooling, and I'm just like, I'm yeah.
So I'm like, okay, and give him some water, go back to
sleep. Phil he gets on my bed. Once he gets on my bed,
then I know he's okay. Right, I guess he's feeling okay.
So he goes back to sleep. So then I get up and the top
of my bed is all wet from his drool. Oh. So now I'm
like, all right, do I tend Do I take him? Do?
I not like he gonna get through it? They threw everything out of is
this today? This was on Saturday, Okay, Saturday morning. So then
I'm thinking, like, so I call the vet and they're like, well,
if you want to be safe, we can't see him because we're it's
Saturday and we're booked. If you want to be you gotta be you know.
Take him to the emergency, which is the place they all know him
by name over there. It's the emergency twenty four hour Vet Hospital in Glendale.
I take him, I've taken him there a billion times. They all
know him. And I call them and I'm like and they're like, well,
yes me again. They see my number and they're like I phil yeah
right, and I'm like, I do I bring them in? Do I
not? I just had his stomach pumped, like right, And they're like,
well maybe not. Everything is you know, no, no, if
something's laginism has all right, say no more fucking fuck. So then I
take them and I'm there and you know, and then I drop them off
and the I'm like, can I just drop them off and I'll just come
back And they're like no, you gotta wait to talk to the doctor because
then you got to sign that the the the do not resuscitate or resuscitate.
They have to do. You have to do that every single time you drop
them off in case something happens. You know, you gotta And then you
gotta talk to the doctor and what do you want us to do? This
could cost from this much to this much. Fifteen hundred to two thousand could
be your whatever if this is you have penenturance? Right, No, oh,
I know, I know. I don't. I didn't really I just
was talking to somebody about this. Yeah, yesterday and they're like, why
don't you have pet insurance. I'm like, I don't know. I thought
it was kind of a scam. Pays for all that it does, doesn't
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you leave him there, but you can't leave him there. You stay with
him. I gotta stay and then but you know one of the things that
since COVID that they did they did at the hospital is you can pull up
you call them when you get there. And then they come get the dog.
So then I'm calling they go, they go, well, you know,
you don't have to you can just bring the dog in, you know.
And I go, I kind of like, when I just stay in
the car, you guys come get him. What you want from me.
I'm not gonna do a surgery. I'm not gonna pump his stomach. Let
me sit in the car and be on my Facebook or whatever. You know.
Yeah, so they so then they came and got him and whatever.
But um, and is he pretty good at the vet? Like is he
just like he he gets out of the car and he's happy, go lucky.
But then when he walks in the place, he's like, oh hell
no, and he sits there. He sits down for a second like oh
now I know where I'm at. And then but there's there. So they
are very lovey to hare. Come on Philly, you know, I take
him and then um, yes, So then left him there, and then
of course they were like, it's a four to six hour wait, and
I said, okay, well goodbye, I'll be back. So then I
left and then you know, and then I went back and picked him up
by the time I had to go get him. It was like eleven o'clock
at night on Saturday. So did they call you and did they figure out
what was wrong? They were like, his blood work is beautiful, everything
looks great. We looked at his stomach. We don't. We see a
little bit of tinfoil, but we think he can pass it. By the
way, shit out of tampon that morning too. I forgot to say,
no, I know, I know, wasn't yours, not wasn't mine,
And it wasn't the first time he's done that. Oh my gosh, ships
those out a lot. I know. Sorry, everybody's gross. Oh my
god. Yeah, so there was nothing wrong, so you probably paid fifteen
He was nauseous, blood work, yeah, X ray and all that for
no reason. They said he was still probably feeling the you know whatever from
the other day, and they gave him anti nausea medicine to make him feel
better. That's I really wanted it, is, just give him a shot.
Let him feel better. The guy's drooling everywhere. He doesn't And also
when I feed him as breakfast in the morning. You know, that's the
first time they wanted out. Does he eat if he refuses food that's a
bad sign, especially for Phil. And that morning on Saturday morning, I
fed him his breakfast and he just stood there and looked at me, like,
but he ate it anyway, because he's a fucking champ. I'm like,
this is weird because Peepo will not like some she won't eat, but
it's because she's being a little bitch because she wants different food. So she'll
go on like a little hunger strike. She'll be like, yeah, you'll
feel sorry for me and give me like some cold cuts or something better,
right, Like you got anything else? Yeah? What else you got?
I'm tired of this ship. Yeah, yeah, I'm always having to change
it up. I feel like a like a chef where I'm like, okay,
I'm right now. We're doing kibble plus a little warm and heat it
up broth plus some ground turkey. Yeah. And she's like yeah, I
like that for a couple of weeks, and then it's then it's what else
you got? This is in your repertoire. I am so jealous of you
fox that got dogs like that that that are so picky. Phil will eat
anything anything, obviously, And then I was starting to think I'm laying next
to him the other day and I'm like, you know, is he hungry?
Is he just always hungry? Is that his problem? Maybe his food
isn't good enough for him. He eats vegan food. Oh why because of
his seizures. His doctor like was like, oh, this is a good
you know, but it's been like three years now, he's been on the
same food. Maybe it's time to switch it up. Maybe. Yeah,
I think he's I don't know what it's like, why is he? So?
Can he have food with like salmon in it? Can he do fish?
I ain't cooking him, say no, I'm not. But like there's
food. There's like dry food that and you can do salmon um toppers you
ever heard? Hear that stuff? It's like um freeze dried like salmon,
and it flavors up their food really well. And you just buy it.
It's called toppers. You just get it at it like a pet food heard
of and they you put it on top of their food and it they love
it. What the really? Yeah, I'm gonna go get that ship.
Yeah. Stella and something is like the name of the one of the companies
that does it. You just ask them at a at a pet place at
like a Petco or whatever. Tell him you want some um toppers for the
food. I'm mad, Sam out. Yeah. I used to give up
to Penelope, but again she loved it for a while and then she like
wouldn't need it. And I'm like, well, it's expensive. I'm not
gonna buy it if you're not gonna eat it. Huh. Yeah, I
think it's time to switch him up a little bit. Yeah, but it's
not. And also though I give him a ton of treats and he gets
walks, it's not like he's bored. Well, and maybe he is bored,
but he does get walks. And then I give him bully sticks.
He devours you know those things are Yeah, yeah, he devours him,
swallows him before he even I mean he swallows the whole There's like six inches
left on it. He just swallows the whole thing. And then sometimes he
throws up because he ate it too fast. He's a lagger. Mitch had
a dog, the one I go for walks with at night. His dog
ate one of those like a rib, like a bone, and it got
stuck in the roof of his mouth, between the two sides of his mout,
like into the roof of his mouth and he had to bring the dog.
He couldn't get it out. He had to bring him to the vet
and they had to take like force ups. Oh pull it out of his
mouth. Was it got stuck in there? A real bone or yeah,
like a real bone. Yeah. See. And that's the other thing,
like I can't give him the real bones because that stuff. I don't know.
He throws up sometimes and then I don't know. He's just a pain
in the ant. I mean, he really is like a toddler. I
have a toddler at home. You know, the kids come over. They
walked through the backyard, like shut the gate, shut the gate at the
gate because he gets out, you know, he just starts traveling. Next
thing, I know, he's on Facebook. I remember that you're traveling.
He was like there was you know, he's living the van life. Yeah,
performing petricks and different names like watch Facebook. Pay shows up on it
like whose dog is this? Yeah, that's my dog, that's Phil.
Oh my god. Yeah, he's just a pain in the ass. Well
guess what um A few days ago, so Penelope has been so I think
I told you she got her cancer removed. No, you didn't tell me.
And that was this did we talk about that, because okay, so
he did turn out to be cancer. Yeah, took her to the vet.
I was so nervous about, like I posted her lump on her leg
and and a lot of people and I was like, oh, I kind
of googled this. Okay, I haven't told you the story. So I
googled its cell and I diagnosed her with mass cell tumor mass cell tumor,
which is cancerous, and then got myself rule worked up about it. And
then people on Facebook were like, don't get worked up about you. Molly
had those Yeah, she had like seven of them. Yeah, so well
you bring her. We had an appointment. We took her into the vet.
Um I took a picture of it, and they're like, yeah,
you gotta bring her in and have it like biopsied. So the vet John
took her. Then I had diagnosed or somebody else on Facebook was like,
well, it could also be this other thing that I looked up called like
a histeo car carcinoma or something which is actually not car cancerous, even though
it sounds scary, but it's but the problem is way more common in young
dogs like puppies and dogs under two. So I was like, well,
people could be the exception while she wasn't. So the VET was like,
yeah, it could be this thing, but she's too old to have that.
It's it's basically probably this. He did aspirate at it, and he
looked at it and he was like, I can't tell one hundred percent,
but I do think I do see some mass cell tumors. He's like,
I'm ninety eight percent sure it's a mass cell tumor, but we have to
get rid of it either way, because she's trying to. She's trying to,
she's going at it and it was bleeding and like, so anyway,
took her in whatever like a couple weeks ago, took it out with margins,
and then asked us if we wanted to pay for the for them to
send it out to a lab. And normally, of course I'd be like
yes, of course, you know, but I was like, well should
we And he's like, well, here's the thing, like it probably was
cancer, but it doesn't matter if it was or wasn't, because we took
it out and we did wide margins around it, and that would be the
treatment, like even if it came even it comes back and they say,
yes, it was a mass cell tumor, which I think it for sure
is. He's like, it doesn't really matter because we're not gonna, like,
we don't do chemo for that, like if you take it out,
so that would mean you'd be more careful watching for one to grow. He's
like another one to grow in the same spot he goes. But you guys
are pretty on it anyway, Like I'm obsessive. I'm always like, what's
that when I feel something? You know? Um? Anyway, So that
was that, and she was actually pretty good because they sent her home with
the cone and like I couldn't bear it, so we said that the worst
took that off of her right away and put one of those inflatable like a
ring around her. It's like inflatable collars. Right Like she fell overboard yea,
but she could still kind of get to it if she tried really hard.
So then we're like, where where are we going? Always home,
We'll just keep an eye on her and make sure, and you know what,
she's fine, gets the stitches out, everything's fine until like four days
ago. Oh, I'm like god, she is really like just scratching herself
all the time, Like I think she and she had this injection. She
gets these allergy injections called side a point And I was like, I feel
like we got her one only like six weeks ago. Is she really already?
But she's got And then she got a little hot spot on her tail
and she was like, you know, you know hot spots are. So
I'm like, god, man, she's really scratching. So like a few
mornings ago, I turn her over, splay her out. I look at
her and she's filthy because she goes in our backyard. If we give her
a bath that she goes in the backyard and rolls around. Yeah, so
yeah, right, so she just gets dirty. And then we put this
She still sleeps on the bed, but we put this big blanket out on
the bed and she sleeps on that. Anyway, I look at her and
I'm like, there's these little black things on her. But it's like I'm
like, well, it's like dirt, but what kind of dirt is that?
And I'm looking at it and looking at it, and all of a
sudden, something like John, oh my god, something moved on her.
And he goes, did it? Did it hop? And I go sure
did and he goes, yeah, that's a flee And I'm like, oh
no, no, I'm like, she has fleas, that's why she's so
itchy. Luckily it wasn't like a crazy, like a full infestation on her.
I mean, that was the only flee I found, but I would
but those little black things were probably like the remnants of fleet eggs. Right,
this show is really disgusting today, Sorry, guys. So I'm like,
oh my god. So I call my friend who has a dog,
who's has a dog that I know has had fleas before, and she's like,
I was like, do I have to take her to the vet for
this? Do I have to? And she's like, no, go to
the go to the store, get medicated shampoo, and then treat it like
you have a lice infestation in your house. So go get a flea shampoo.
We give her like a serious bath with shampoo. We get like really
scrub her down. She was like Harry the Dirty Dog, Like she was
black and then now she's she was like a black dog with brown spots and
now she's a white dog with bronze bow. Looks totally different. So we
do that and then I give her some Benadryl and then I gave her fleameds.
Okay, So the problem was I wasn't giving her fleameds regularly because I'm
like, where's she going? Plus it was the winter, so like,
yeah, I just wasn't really flee season. So I was like, Wow,
I hold on to this flea medicine. I have it. The next
guard. Yeah, I don't do that. I do like the ones they
eat them every once a month. You give them, you know, next
guard. Yeah, yeah, I know what you're talking about. It's like
a little I forget chewy thing and they eat one once a month and it
keeps the fleas away. Yes. So yeah, So I had just hadn't
given it to her because I was like, it's winter, it's not really
that many fleas around, and where's she going. She's always on a walk
with me. It's not like she's out in a field. It's just stupid.
So probably since the warm weather, she went out in the backyard,
rolled around and got fleas. Disgusting. Oh my god. I spent the
entire day like like oh my god. So I took off all the bedding
obviously, and then I I took the mattress pad, I took the duvet
cover. I took all of it. I put one at a time into
the laundry on sanitizing setting two hours setting. So all day long, I'm
washing mattress cover because she all I washed her whole bed and I sanitized her
whole bed. I was almost like, fucking, I'm just gonna go buy
her a new bed. And then I was like this bed was kind of
expensive. Yeah, it's like a nice bed, So I was like,
let's not go crazy. I washed the bed in hot water on that setting.
I washed the mattress cover, I washed all, you know, pillowcases,
uh, you know, like everything, right, and then ice got
flee spray, the spray that's safe that you can put on your furniture,
on your carpets. I sprayed rugs. I sprayed because the dog sleeps everywhere.
Yeah, she sleeps on the couch, she gets on chairs, she's
she's just like everywhere. Sprayed everything vacuumed, everything got the vacuum like attachment
and was getting between the mattress and the upholstered bed frame. Like I mean,
all day long, my house has never been so clean. Thank you
fleas. Yeah. So yeah, and then uh, and then I've just
been giving her Benadrill for a couple of days, because did you have to
give her benadrill when she had the tumor? M They didn't tell you to
give her. I just remember when Molly had all those mass cell tumors.
It was like the one that was constantly They bena drill was like the thing
to kind of keep it. I don't know, I would think interesting.
Yeah, they didn't say They didn't say that, but it was just because
I think she was alert. I think because she's allergic to everything. She
has very sensitive skin. I think she was allergic to the flea bites because
her skin was still really pink. Yeah, no more fleas and the and
the flea meds make any fleas die. And I haven't seen anything else in
her house. But she was still itching, and I think her skin was
irritated. Yeah, yeah, or thing. Yeah. So we were both
having dog issues, but yoursurse, Wow, mine were grosser. Yeah.
Well, I don't know. I mean Phil shitting out of tampons for her
gross? Did he puke it out? Oh my god? Yes? And
are you just like Natalia? Because well, her girlfriends come over then they
leave, you know, the door open or whatever. Phil just goes right
in there. And usually when Natalia is in her room, Phil stops.
He does not he is not allowed in her room. But you know there's
you know, they're in the kitchen, they leave, they go in the
living room, and then the door is cracked open, right, and he
goes right into the trash can. Yeah, he himself at home. Yes,
he's just an animal. Yeah, Albie leaves stuff like in her trash
in her room that I'm just in her bathroom that I'm just like, you
know, there's other people living in this house, right, Like it's just
gross. It's like all all my kids their bathrooms. You know. I
always thought like maybe I'm messy, you know when I shared bathrooms with the
kids. But no, no, they're pigs. Yeah, because in my
bathroom and my room that was converted from the garage, it's like spotless,
right, you know, right, and you go into their bathroom and it's
like it's like, do you guys know that there is a trash can because
there's everything all over the floor. Sonny has to but see, Sonny can't
leave anything on the floor because Phil will eat it. So everything is in
his bathroom piled high top of his trash can. Piled all the way up
to the ceiling because it's his trash cans on top of his counter in his
bathroom. And then he piles jack in a box, cups and shit and
then just gets piled on top of piled up of piled like, well,
you know you can empty your trash. You don't have to live like that.
I know that's the thing. You're like, Okay, I buy like
there's a short there's a trash bag shortage right in our house. Right.
My kids don't do the like simple chores, Like it's Sadie's chore to clean
the bathroom, but she doesn't really clean bathroom. And I say, hey,
can you clean the bathroom? Like and then she'll be like okay,
and then like a few days later she'll clean the bathroom. But like Xander
is supposed to take out the trash, he never takes out the trash.
Yeah, never any sign of anything like oh, too much homework or he's
sick or whatever. It's like, I guess that's all. That's all right,
and elbe forget about it. She's supposed to empty the dishwasher, that
ain't happening. Yeah, never that I do it ramatically, Yeah, yeah,
John's like, well, we should give her a different chore, and
I'm like, like what, Natalian's John to vacuum Phil's hair? And then
She's got a complain about it because he's not my dog? Why do I
have to vacuate? She is, in fact her dog. I remember the
video of you presenting Natalia with Phil? Right, she cried? Yeah,
yeah, not anymore. Now she cries because she's got a vacuate of his
hair. What do you Yeah, what are you gonna do? All right,
Well, that's a good show. It was. See now, now
give Lynnette shit for that. Remember when I would say like, oh,
that was a good show, I would be like, I'll be the judge.
Yeah, no, I I concur and we had a good We had
a good patreon this week. It's very interesting. Oh yeah, yeah,
a private patreon. Yeah, so tune in for that tomorrow. Ye um
kaylin, Before we wrapped, do you do you have any stories from the
week, Just that everyone's sick. Yeah, everybody's sick, and um Blake
pretty much just discovered peanut butter and Ilah is allergic to peanut butter. So
oh yeah, my breakfast, sir, Just me worrying the whole time because
Blake, I want peanut butter, peanut butter, peanut butter. And then
I got to like separate them, and like I've been, I've been giving
them breakfast at different times. First, feed them separately. Yeah, and
so she'll be eating, then Blake will come in and go, I want
my peanut butter. Just wait till your sister's done. And she just won't
she won't stop. She just keeps bugging me and bugging me and bugging me.
And then now is Ilah allergic to tree nuts? Like? Can she
can Blake eat almond butter instead? Uh? I think I think so.
I think she might be able to. You should try that. It's like
a lot of kids can't really tell the difference that much. Yeah, I
made Sunny at almond butter sandwich today. Didn't like it. Oh really,
you're at a peanut butter and he's like really yeah, not a fan.
And the peanut butter just gets everywhere everything. I'm like constantly wiping up.
It gets all over Blake's face, it gets in her hair, it gets
on her hands. I'm like I just this, and then I'm nervous about
it being on like a knife or something and I was getting into it.
So yeah, that's been stressful. Yeah that sucks. Yeah, you gotta
try to find some other some substitute that she'll go for. Yeah, sunflower
butter is good. Try that. Never even heard of that before. Oh
yeah, it's a grocery store flower butter. This is a typical guy,
and it's like, I've never heard of that. You're like, if you
ever went by the peanut butter section in the grocery store, there's like ten
different kinds of where I don't ever eat peanut butter. I never I never
walked by that section. Oh, Trader Joe's, Yeah, that's it,
row any of the grocery stores, Kroger's all right, I'll look into Okay.
Well, um, all right, before we go, let's give a
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and gift shop. Have you guys gone and checked it out yet? I
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Also basic, Becky, why don't you get a T shirt with like your
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Well I won't spoil it, but um. Greg has started calling himself
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you Kitlin, Thanks you your parent. Now don't knef it up.