Speaker 1: Made a decision a face sunny sune on. I had
a vision night.
Speaker 2: What's up, everybody for crying out louds it is Stephanie
missed you.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, it's exciting. I missed you too. Yeah,
I had it. It's like I didn't have therapy, I know,
you know, mm hmmm, it's weird. It's a weird feeling. Yeah,
you were. I had no outlet. Yeah, I had to
just keep making notes of things I needed to talk about.
A good So I wasn't here last week, right, and
you partied down with Aunt Wendy. Yeah, and she's still here.
But so when did she leave for Canyon Country?
Speaker 2: So she's up by her seisters and her daughters, like, uh,
she left on let's.
Speaker 1: See, when's when you asual? On Monday?
Speaker 2: Monday, Tuesday, Tuesday, Wednesday.
Speaker 1: She left, Oh the very next day. God, I can't
even remember Wednesday, Thursday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she went up there, and she's gonna be up
there for uh a little bit, and then she's helping
her daughter move and then she's gonna come.
Speaker 1: By me for a few more days. Oh she is, Yeah,
and then she goes home. Okay, m h Yeah, that's
a long trip. For her.
Speaker 2: It is she hasn't been here since I had my surgery,
My my.
Speaker 1: What do you call it? Has the restructed me got
a long time ago, it's like two years ago. Oh geez.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's been She hasn't been here in a long
time and misses all her family. So she's decided to
spend a long time and then yeah, so then she's
gonna come back and spend a little more time with
my kids and then go home.
Speaker 1: Now was it fun to have her? It was so
much fun. You know.
Speaker 2: It's it's so nice like when you have family stay
with you and then you had to bring Like she
came with me to work last week and she was
She came with me to the podcast, and she came
with me to Corolla drink stuff. You know, it's kind
of like bringing your little, you know, sister in law
of work.
Speaker 1: It was fun.
Speaker 2: We had a good time. We cooked, She helped me
around the house, you know a little bit of fixing
things up around the house and my condo stuff like that.
Speaker 1: We had a great time. She like it. Does she
like your condo? She loves it? Yeah, she loves it.
Speaker 2: And gave me some great ideas things I didn't know
like you could buy an extra rod or whatever. You
don't have to get a double rod to get the
two to get the shears and for your window treatments.
M I didn't know that they sell something and you
don't have to do the double rod thing ordered that.
Like just little things like that that I needed around
around the house and cooked and stuff and like you know,
like help me get like spices and shiit like for
the cond you know, just stuff that I didn't have, right,
you know, we're cooking and she's like, do you have
pepper flakes? And I'm like, no, I got salt and
pepper and that's it. That kind of shit we.
Speaker 1: We you and I would I mean, I don't know
if the word like cancel each other out, we would
just overlap too much. We'd both be like pepper flake, right.
I never heard of somebody buying those, right, I mean
if you go get like a slice of pizza, you
them sprinkle them on your slice. Yeah, Like, yeah, nobody
buys us in the store.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, I didn't know you got to have
pepper flakes, but yeah, like.
Speaker 1: It was ever since ocean and beauty throughout all your
ever since desire throughout all of your spices.
Speaker 2: Yes, she's still knocking around that woman. By the way,
did you know I get emails from from her business?
Speaker 1: Really?
Speaker 2: Yeah, wants to come organize people's kitchens.
Speaker 1: Why I've got so many bigger fish to fry and
that right. Yeah, she threw out all my spices. Yeah,
to start over. So so you miss a little, you
miss a lot. First first story I have up for you,
bullet in the chamber. Yeah, my dog attacked my mailman.
What has Phil ever attacked anybody? Please? Phil? I mean,
give me a break. Does he bark at the mailman?
Speaker 2: No, your box, at nobody except for Adam. He's the
only person that he barks at. Because when Adam is
like shadow boxing, Phil gets all up at Ea and
starts wanting to play with him and starts barking at him.
Speaker 1: But that's just for attention, that's yeah. Well, people, is
one of the sweetest dogs you're ever gonna meet. Like
when we're in the neighborhood. I mean, people can just
walk right up to her because you know how kids are,
They oftentimes forget to say I put your dog, and
they just pet your dog, and people loves it. She's
like the biggest attention hop She just will walk up
to anybody, anybody that comes in the house. She's just like,
she's not crazy, she doesn't jump on anybody, but she
just wants attention from everybody. Even the Dominoes food delivery. Fine,
if you open the door and food delivery is there,
she's like, hey, what's up. You got some pizza from me?
The mailman every single time, she loses her mind and
barks ferociously at the door, and she'll get up from
a sound sleep, even if the postman's trying to be quiet,
like tiptoe up to the front door, she her ears
pick it up and she goes tear asked by the
front door. Well, anyway, Halloween, door is open because the
kids were sitting outside on the lawn cleaning out a pumpkin, right,
and the postman came and I didn't see it. I
didn't see the postman coming. So I'm in my room,
which is our addition, which is like hard to get.
I mean, our house is now so huge. It's not
that big, but it's like you have to walk into
the front door, walk to the kitchen, and then from
the kitchen go down a couple stairs and then you're
in my little edition. Okay. So but there's a window
from my room, I can see that outside, and I
see the postman freaking out. I hear Penelope barking, and
then I see the postman going no, oh Jesus, and
I'm like, oh my god, but I have to now
tear ass up the stairs, out through the kitchen, go
out the front door. And I'm like, how are me? No,
Oh my god. She was going after the mail mail
and the mailman was like going crazy, and I thought
Penelope was gonna get mazed, which I wouldn't have blamed him. Yeah,
I would have mazed my dog too had I been
getting attacked. But he didn't, I mean he and he
was not happy. Well, she like, so she didn't actually
bite him. So I was freaking out and I was like,
oh my god, did she bite you? And he's like
she tried to. She almost, but I was swatting at
her and he was. He was upset. Imagine being a
postman and like every freaking house you gotta worry you
hear dogs going crazy like that, would my you would
have such bad PTSD. And I'm sure he's been attacked before.
And by the way, this isn't the first time Penelope
tried to attack the mailment. There was one other incident
a couple of years ago. But he was very quick
to remind me of that. He was like, this is
not the first time. He was like, I know, I
know that, and I'm in my mind, I'm like, oh
my god, this guy's gonna assume me. But she hadn't
bitten him, right, So I was like, but but she
didn't buy you, and he was like no, but she
tried to. And I'm like, man, I got that, but
she by you. He's like I was, she would have
if I wasn't swatting her. And then, you know, I
was really upset. I hit Penelope like on the butt.
I was like no, you know because and I grabbed
her by the collar and I pulled her back into
the house. And then she was really like solicitous of
me after that. You know, they know they do, they
know I know they do. And then she was giving
me those big sad eyes.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: Sorry, I thought there was some confusion, like I thought
that was an enemy, right, and like, no, she's trying
to protect mail. Man's just trying to give me mail.
Maybe if you would like hug and kiss on the mailman.
Maybe she would, you know, then John would try to
attack the mail That's true. Now, it was really scary.
I was my my demise of my dog and my home,
and I was like, I'm gonna get sued. We're gonna
have to I mean, Penelope's gonna get taken away. I
was so scared. Yeah, that's got to be frightened. And
I was like, well, maybe she wouldn't actually bite, but
I don't know. He says she tried to bite. But
then in my mind, I'm like, if she wanted to
bite you, she probably would have been right, right, I
mean she got to him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. A lot of dogs are all dogs,
you know, all bark and no bite. Yeah, I would
think that if Penelvie was a bier you would know
this by now.
Speaker 1: She has killed a skunk, like I know. She hates cats.
I know she would kill a.
Speaker 2: Cat that's animals like, I don't know, I think, yeah,
I think.
Speaker 1: But dogs, it's so weird how they know when they're
in the wrong, you know.
Speaker 2: Because Phil will like he's not so when Olga's in
the kitchen, he's not allowed.
Speaker 1: In the kitchen.
Speaker 2: Okay, when Natali's in the kitchen, not allowed in the kitchen.
When me and Sonny are in the kitchen, it's all
bets are off. He just sprawls right in the middle
of the kitchen and it's, you know whatever. He isn't
bothering me, right, okay, But when Olga's there, he does.
She goes that all she has to say is suck
a say, suck a say, which I don't know what
it means. Something in Spanish means basically get the fuck
out of the kitchen or something.
Speaker 1: So well, when he's when I'm in.
Speaker 2: The kitchen and I'm talking to Olga, and he gets
excited and he sees me, he runs for it, but
then he stops. He looks at Olga and he backs
up and he lay it like sits down with those
big brown eyes, and he looks at me and looks
at Olga, looks at me and looks at Olga. And
Olga'll be like, I sucker say you know. He stays,
he knows. But when she's not there, miraculously he just
don't give it all that's out the window. Even if
I say sucker say you know, he might go, oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
I'm back up for a second and then.
Speaker 1: Go, bitchang, I'm scared to you.
Speaker 2: Who are you talking? What do you think you're trying
to fool? Yeah, I think you have.
Speaker 1: To have kind of a heart made of steel though,
to properly train a dog, because like, is anybody like
us really gonna stick to it. It's like, I know, and.
Speaker 2: Wendy, she's so cute, I know, and Wendy will come
into She was like, you know, I've I train Molly
when we used to have I'm the one that trained Molly,
and I'll train these dogs need boundaries, Hey crave boundaries.
And I'm like, yeah, yeah, I get it all right,
But like any bothering me who cares, But he should
not go He should not be allowed in the kitchen
because he does get into the trash or he'll you know,
jump up on the counter and take food. So you know,
he he does need is I agree, he needs boundaries, but.
Speaker 1: That old guy will discipline him. I know. I just
love her so much. I love you, and she likes
to she sleeps on our bed. And remember the days
that we had, like the first six months we had her,
we didn't let her on the bed. And then once
we let her on the bed. That was it. And
I know we had that dog trainer on and she
was like, once you let the dog on the bed,
like they're they're the alpha. Well yeah, I mean, yeah, yeah,
she's kind of alpha. If John gets up just to
go to the bathroom, she will move from she lays
on the foot of the bed. She will scoot herself
up and take his spot. Yeah, literally put her head
on the pillow, sprawl out like she's about to get
a massage. And I'm like, John will come back, just
go Penelope. Uh huh. When he was out of town,
that's where she's slept. What are you gonna do?
Speaker 2: I know, Phil sleeps on my bed, you know, but yeah,
I sleep on the bed alone now. So he's he
comes in the morning, he jumps up in the bed,
puts his head on the pillow next to me and
like lays like the person.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know that's what he does. Yeah, and I
love it the best. All right. Next thing that happened,
I hope I don't burn out all my good stories
for we'll have nothing for Friday. But I went to
traffic court. Oh bo I, hey last Thursday. So remember
how I got like a bunch of tickets in a row,
all those traffic uh the traffic signal, photo the photo
tickets is what I'm trying to say. Okay, So I'd
gotten one and one of them, John got one, and
then I got a second one. Okay, So John went
and fought his and uh they remember he got his
dismissed in the interest of justice, remember that whole story.
And then I went with my ticket and I had
a different temp temporary judge. I sort of got. This
was like night court because the bailiff was the same.
All the times that I've been there, it's been the
same bailiff. He's a really nice guy, and he like
he's he's super nice. But it was like hey again,
yeah yeah, by the way, Uh, going to court is
a lot like flying on an airplane right now, Like
you don't have to dress up, is what I'm saying.
Is that really? Remember in the old days, Yeah, he'd
be like, let me put on something nice of getting
on an airplane, and now you're like you're lucky wearing pants, right,
you know, nobody cares all in on your Tommy John
hands in your in your lounge wear, you know, yeah,
like looking like an unmade bed. Nobody blinks the night.
People in their flip flops, you know, their slip on planes.
You know. Yeah, same thing at court. Wow, you think
people would like throw on a blazer. You know court,
you're gonna get in front of the judge. No nobody, no,
no wow, no accessories, nothing. People are just like I
got out of bed. You're lucky I showed up for
the court date. So the so the second time. So
when I went first, you go in there and you
get a court date because you're fighting the ticket. You say,
I want to plead not guilty. So then he go
in for your arraignment. That's where you actually do your
official pleading and get a court date. So first one
I went in. I had this temporary judge who was
like not dealing with anybody. He was suffering, No fools,
you don't want to hear any of your story. And
I told you that whole thing where I was like,
I asked the bailiff because he was so nice. I
was like, hey, just can you look at look at
this picture. Do you think I should try to fight it?
And he was like I can't. He's like, I mean
he basically they said, don't try to argue anything with
the judge. That's all for your trial. I see. But
John had gone in before me and he'd gotten his dismissed, right,
So I was like, I mean, why can't So I
went up and I didn't. I didn't want to be
all like white privilege. I wanted to come off like that,
like I'm the exception by I you should look at
you should make an exception. I didn't want to be
that person, but at the same time, I didn't want
to not be that person in case he dismissed it. Right,
So I was just like, can you just look at
the picture and the judge. The judge goes, this is
my story last time. There's a continuation of this. So
the judge last time, just to catch you up, was like, yeah,
I mean I don't know your car's in the crosswalk.
So and I was like, oh, so I guess not guilty.
He's like, what do you want to plead? And I go,
I guess not guilty because I was like what the fuck, Like, right,
I'm not going down without some kind of a fight.
So I plead not guilty. You can plead. So anyway,
he gives me a court date. Now then I had
another one though, so and then that's the story I
told you recently where I went in was all prepared
to be fucked with like the last guy, but this
guy was like every single ticket he was like looking
at them. He was he was like, do you want
to show me something? And then he was like, dismissed
in the interest of justice. So he dismissed my second one.
So now we're two down, too clear one to go.
Now I have to show back up for my actual
court date. I thought very seriously about putting on a blazer,
but I was like, I remember how people were dressed
the last time, and I don't want to stand out,
So like, yeah, I did not. I put on some pants.
Oh okay, I changed out of my sweats, I changed
my clothes from what I slept in the night before.
I put out a brad and I was like, okay,
we're good. No makeup, Like not really do much. So
I go in. It's the same freakin' judge that wouldn't Yeah,
it was that same temporary judge as what the one
who wouldn't dismiss it in the first place. I didn't
get the nice judge. Why does that always have to
happen like that. I was so bummed. Okay, so it
is like the bar from Star Wars. In that courtroom.
It isn't crazy like it's like one weirdo after another,
but there's and it's all red light camera tickets. Oh so,
I mean, but people, but they're fighting. They're fighting. Everybody
wants to fight there, everybody's cut. Now it's a court date.
So now I'm eight thirty in the morning. They're they're
doing all the court they're doing all the trials, right,
all trials. And I was thinking, well, if we're doing
a full on trial, there's going to be like eight
people at the most because they have to get everybody
out by like ten, I think is when the next
all the people for arrangments come in. But no, this
was like a full ass courtroom, like just like it
had been for the arrangments. So I was like, how
are we going to get through all these people? Well,
apparently that's what they were thinking too. They overbooked. Plus
now yeah, plus then there's like they send in a lawyer,
like you know, you can hire a lawyer to go
in for you and fight your ticket mm hmm, which
I don't see the point of that because you're paying
a lawyer. Yeah why and but and there they don't
really seem to have a better chance than anyone else
because I was watching some of them argue the thing
and the judges are so there was lawyers that are
representing people that. Yeah, but they came up and they'd
be like, this is the case case okay. But so
here's the main part of this story. So they have
all these the police officers showed up. So there's like
a police officer who shows up to represent the city
against all of the tickets that are there that day.
One officer, one police officer. Wow, okay, okay, so you
get a chance. They hand you this like freaking dossier
with with like it's like a picture of your car.
It's a picture of your license plate. It's a pick
close up of your face. So that you can't be like,
I'm sorry, that wasn't it wasn't he picture. They're like,
oh really, there's like a big close up right you
you know, pose when you're going through those lights, if
you go through a red light, make sure you you know, smile,
try on a link, don't pick your nose or anything
like that, because that's going to come back to bite
you in the right. So then there's a video that
exists of your crime, so that you get this whole
packet of all of your rights and all the all
the pictures, and then they send you, one at a
time to the back of the room and you meet
with the police officer and he shows you like your video. Right.
So meanwhile I make friends with this woman who is
super nice, and she had she was showing me she'd
gotten two of them as well, and she was showing
them to me, and hers were ridiculous, Like I mean,
she was just like a freaking hair Her bumper was
in the crosswalk, but not even the tires of the car.
It happened. So what the light is green or changing?
So let's say the light's red. Yeah, you pull up.
You know how most people, I'm gonna speak for myself,
I rarely stop completely before the crosswalk, especially if there's
no one around. You know, you pull up and it's
one of those bus lanes, right, So you pull up
to the corner. It's a big corner that you have
to go around. It's like you stop well before it.
And next to you to your right, imagine there's a bus,
there's a bus line. Okay, so that there's a light,
it turns red, and you can only go right when
it's a right arrow, okay, but sometimes you stop, but
then you pull up a little bit so you can
see and you're waiting for the arrow. Well I had pulled,
I had stopped, I was stopped. I didn't go through
a red light. I was stopped, but my front tires
were like half into the crosswalk. And it takes a picture,
takes a picture of you. So if the light is red,
if you're if it consents, even if you're like the
tenius like an inch of your time in the crosswalk,
it just takes a picture. So a lot of them
they dismiss because it's ridiculous because you're not even in
the crosswalk. God, I'm surprised I've never gotten any of those.
I'm like, yeah, so, but so I was going to contend.
My thing was going to be, hey, this was obviously
went through the light. Was feeling very sensitive right during
this like a couple of week period, because how else
do you explain how me and my how we got
three tickets right and we other than that the same night,
same exactly interesting. So this other this other woman that
I made friends with same light. She'd gotten two of them.
So we're together, We're like gonna normal array this shit.
You know. We're just like, yeah, this is ridiculous, Like
we gotta fight this, we gotta fight the power. This
is insane, look, you know. And she'd come in for
an arraignment and also not gotten hers dismissed, and I
was like, those are stupid. But she'd gotten the same
shitty judge too, and now this judge was there. So anyway,
I go back to talk to the police officer and
I'm all like, Okay, I'm gonna we're gonna watch the
tape and I'm gonna be like this is crazy, right,
But I was kind of like Piopo, like all no bite,
because once I sat down with him and he showed
me the tape, I was like, my tires really did
go right into that crosswalk. So I was like, I
go listen, I'm gonna be on. I'm gonna be real
with you. I was like, when I came here from
my arraignment, this guy and then I gave the little
fun over. Now, meanwhile, the judge is meeting with other people,
so I'm way in the back of the room. You
can't hear me. And I'm like, this judge like is
not has like no flexibility. And the cop was like,
I know, he was really nice. Yeah, and he's like,
I know he's And I was like, so what. I
was like, what are my chances? Like? Should should I
plead not guilty? And he's like, I mean you're you
see how you're in the cross right, And I was
like I know, but like and he's like well, and
I said, well, I mean, should I plead no contest?
I go, I mean and he's oh. Right before that,
they had announced because they had too many people. This
brings us back to the there's a lot of people
in the courtroom. He said, if anybody as incentive, if
you want to plead no contest or guilty, we'll cut
your fine in half and you can do traffic court. Oh.
So I was like, now the fine was five hundred dollars.
Oh my god for front of the tire in the crosswalk.
Oh Jesus. So I'm like, okay, I'm going to have
to pay two hundred and fifty dollars and go to
traffic school, which is a pain in the ass, but
or I'm going to lose this case, and then I
can't go to traffic school and I'm going to pay
the full fine if I and then it goes on
your record, right right. So I said to the officer.
I was like, officer, if you were me, what would
you do? And he goes, I cannot tell you what
I can't. I mean, I'm the like, I can't tell
you what to do. I can't give you any And
I was like, all right, blink once if I should
plead no contest. So he blinked once, and I was like, okay,
thank you, Yes, I'll change my plea to no contests.
So yeah, so then they're like so then when they
finally got to me, I was there for a long
say how long did it take? So then there was
another woman, another friend. There was like I made friends
with two separate women, but they did not make friends
with each other because I'm way friendlier than anybody else.
So they were both tolerted. One of the women was
super friendly, the other woman not that friendly. But but
she also came back from her meeting with the police
officer before me, and she was like, yeah, I got
a I'm pleading no contest. And I was like, I
looked at her picture similar to mine. She goes, yeah,
they showed me the video and I was like, damn it.
The other woman she came back from her meeting with
the police officer and she's I was like, hers was ridiculous.
I'm telling you. Hers was like so unfair. She was
not even in the crosswalk, I'm telling your retart. And
she said that the police officer kind of told her
that she should plead, she should try to plead not
guilty on one of them, but just do no contest
on the other one. She because I guess he's given
out advice. He was to her, well, I think because
hers was so blatantly like she didn't do anything. But
so anyway, I don't know what happened with her. The
other one pleaded no contest, got her fine cut in half.
But guess what. So I go up and I go
I want to change my plea. It was kind of exciting,
you know that order. I know, I'm excited. I know.
I was a little bit like, They're like, Stephanie Taylor,
is this you? Is this picture of you? I was like, yes,
it is, sure is Don't I look kind of pretty?
Speaker 2: Though?
Speaker 1: Do I get points for that I'm bat of your eyes, like,
way too late for that. He did not care at all.
He was just like, okay, so you I understand you
want to change your plea. And I was like, yes,
I do. I'm pleading no contest. It's so stupid because
you would think I just burgled my house right with
a change my plea. You'd think I was like, hand,
it's so dumb. It's freaking traffic cor right, but they
take it really seriously. Yeah, so I'm like, plead no contest.
He's like okay. I was like, but I would like
the you know, the reduction of charges that you promised.
Everybody's like of course. So he's like, okay, it's still
was three hundred and fifty dollars because they charge you
one hundred dollars for the court filing fee for traffic school.
That's not even including the traffic school cost.
Speaker 2: So you had to pay for the court filing fees
and then you have to also pay for it.
Speaker 1: I had to pay half the ticket, which was like
a little less than which was like two hundred and
forty five dollars, uh huh yeah, and then which would
have been four ninety. So he cut it down to
two forty five, but then they added another hundred dollars
on for traffic school filing fees. I see yeah, And
so now do you have to go to traffic school? Yes?
Can you do a zoom traffic scho Yeah, I can
do it online. Ah that I don't have to do zoom.
I can just do watch videos and answer questions. Yeah,
but it still takes. They make it so that it takes,
like because if you went to traffic school in person,
it would be like eight hours. Wow, so they make
it like a good six hours. I've did it before
years ago. Yeah. Oh my god, I know it'll be better.
It'll be good stories. Wow. I'm proud of you though
you thought it. Imagine people are. I'm gonna be like, okay,
it's time for the story about going to traffic school.
So on the second question, I had to watch a
f It's not going to be exciting.
Speaker 2: This was exciting though, because I didn't really realize that
they take a picture of your tire in the crosswalk
like that, Like I'm.
Speaker 1: Oh, they must have all these angles because it takes
a picture of your car, it takes a picture of
your tires, it takes a picture of your face. Jesus
my god. Yeah, I should have asked if I could
use one for my headshot. Yeah, really, that would be great. Sorry,
Liz Barlac Photography. I've got Oxnard and Linley. It's right
the corner of ox Oxnard and Linley hooked me up
with these great promo shots. That's awesome you and John.
Oh my god. Wow. One more thing they happened. Yeah,
Albi got accepted to her first college. She did. Yeah,
oh my god, yeah, University of Oregon. Nice. This is
her first application that she turned in and like in
two weeks she got the she got it. Oh my god,
that's awesome. Yeah, it was excited. It's not a hard
school to get into, not like it's not like that's
nice though. Yeah, but you know, she had to write
her her beautiful essay and she had to write she
had to write four essays for these colleges of like
they've all gone fucking crazy with expecting essays. Yeah. But
but yeah, so that's exciting, that's exciting. I'm happy for her.
Speaker 2: I know, I'm really like stressed out about all that,
Like I don't I don't know.
Speaker 1: You know, contrary to popular belief, you really don't have
to do anything until they're a senior. I mean you
can go. I mean I guess when LB was a junior,
we did go. We did go tour a few colleges,
and that was good to get that out of the way.
But I mean, yeah, it didn't require a lot of preparation.
I mean, well, because you write essays. Like when they
start opening up the application period, I mean you can
start like thinking about what schools you might be interested in,
what you want to do. But like, I don't know,
do a lot of kids know what the hell they
want to do for now? That's the hard part, Like
how do you know what you want to you know? Yeah,
I don't know what's going on with Natalia and volleyball.
So she's done, they're completely done with school. And then
so she never made it back on varsity.
Speaker 2: No, she's not good and she's not gonna go next year.
She's not gonna play. She doesn't want to play at
the school anymore. But she's starting with her as the
travel team, the club team that's starting in like a week,
like two weeks or something, and she's getting back in
the swing of that. She doesn't know who's on her team.
Or whatever yet, but so she's doing that. But she
the other day, so I was at the condo for
a couple of days with Wendy and I came home
wind to stay night, and she was telling me Olga
was there and she was they were telling me that
she's been having this sharp pain in her right lower
abdomen and it was like shooting pain, like down her
leg and then it's but starts there and it was
like coming like sort of like a contraction, like it
would come and she would like double over in pain.
Speaker 1: And I was like, why didn't anybody tell me this?
Speaker 2: Why do you guys wait till I come home on
Wednesday night after work? Now, why didn't somebody tell me this?
And Natil I was like, well, I don't know. I
just thought it was she thought maybe she was getting
her period or something.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: And then so we went to bed and I said,
you know, let me know, I'm going to my phone
on blah blah blah. Then she like calls me at
like twelve thirty. She's she's she's trying to sleep but
she can't and she was in pain and she was
crying and she just wanted to be like she just
wanted to relax and go to sleep, and and Wendy
was there, and Wendy was like, you know, and I said,
did Natalia do you want to go to urgent care?
And she's like, I just want to go to bed.
And then I think she was trying. I think we
were thinking maybe it was constipation. So I gave her
some medicine for that, and then she you know whatever,
went to the bathroom and then she went back to sleep.
Speaker 1: And gave her like a laxative that worked immediately.
Speaker 2: No, no, I gave her like a stool softener or whatever.
But she she tried to go to the bathroom whatever.
But she was then okay to go back to sleep.
So then she went back to sleep, but I told her,
you know, call me if you're wake up again.
Speaker 1: So she went through the night.
Speaker 2: But then it's like six point thirty in the morning,
she was in pain, and I said, all right, so
we need to go to urgent care. Wait where did
I wait? I had to go somewhere the next I
can't remember. I had to go running air. I had
to do something. The next morning. Anyway, she was at
the house and yeah, so then uh so Olga picked
her up, took her to.
Speaker 1: Urgent care and then I met.
Speaker 2: Her there and was at the hospital with her all day,
I mean into like eight o'clock at night. She they
thought it was appendicitis, and they did the old They
did like two different ultrasounds, and then they wanted to
do a CT scan, so nothing on the ultrasounds. It
wasn't showing anything on the ultrasound. Then they wanted to
do a CT scan and but they didn't want to.
They try to avoid that because of radiation, I guess.
And she was, you know, they were pushing on her
start like she was in pain. She was crying and
and then they gave her. They gave her an ivy
and they gave her some started off with tiland all
and which I gave her motron and thailand al too,
but didn't really it didn't. I wasn't on top of
it the way they were like, they gave her the
tilan all, then they gave her the motres, like every
two hours they were giving her something.
Speaker 1: So they stayed on top of the pain.
Speaker 2: The pain got better, and they said, why don't you
do it instead of doing a CT scan. It could
be she could have assist on her ovary that is popping. Oh,
And they said, so go why don't you go home?
Speaker 1: But they couldn't see that on the They couldn't do
an ultrasound.
Speaker 2: They did do the ultrasound, but they didn't see. They
couldn't and they're ovary was hard for them to see.
So I but then they saw I don't know what
they saw, but they didn't see it. They didn't see
any appendicitis issues. That didn't but the doctor said that
doesn't mean that it's not appendicides could be the beginning
of appendicitis.
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah. So they couldn't see assist either.
Speaker 2: They couldn't see anything. So they said, go home and
keep an eye on her. Give her the tile and
on the motra in every two hours and she should
be able to she should you know, either it's going
to get worse. If if it gets worse or the same,
bring her back right back and we'll do the CT
and prepper for pendicitis. Or And my dad had it
and my brother had it, and I guess, you know,
it's like some people are saying it's hereditary. Some people
say it's not, but it's genetic whatever. I don't know,
but my brother had it, and my dad had an
emergency a pendicitis, And so anyway, they sent her home
and I stayed on top of the matron in the
time and all with her, and it the pain kind
of got dulled, and then the next morning it went
away and it was like she was okay, she got up,
she went to school, and she was fine.
Speaker 1: So I don't know.
Speaker 2: I remember having like sharp pains and stuff like that,
like ovulation and like just really, you know, it sucks
being a girl, and I used to get like those
pains and stuff. So I don't know if it was
it because she was getting her period and it was
like she was I don't know, I don't know, or
something burst or I don't know, but she was fine
and she was okay, oh that's good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but yeah, you shouldn't have to have surgery. Thank god.
Speaker 2: I thought for sure she was going to have a
penacitis surgery. And it's already, like I was telling Adam, like,
it looks to me like that's.
Speaker 1: What it is.
Speaker 2: But because the way she was describing the pain and
the way it was moving, that's what they were saying.
And but then nothing and wasn't showing anything. So I
don't know, I don't know. It was fine, she was fine.
The next day.
Speaker 1: I would have been like uti, that's what I thought too.
Speaker 2: I was like one another thing, like is there one
of my other problems?
Speaker 1: I get?
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: I would have been like and while we're talking about her,
so I get a lot of UTI. I would have
been like, can I get anything out of being here? Yeah?
I know, right, I know.
Speaker 2: I mean I was like, they were gonna admit her
to the hospital and everything, but after then the surgical
team came and so this was all at urgent care
or you had brought her to the er.
Speaker 1: I took her.
Speaker 2: We took her to urgent care first, and he said
take her to the hospital.
Speaker 1: Oh so he took her to the hospital. Yeah, and
it was like all day into the night.
Speaker 2: I know, I know, that's the worst, like when you
got to sit there and.
Speaker 1: Hey, but yeah, but that was that was my week
with an Italian. Oh my gosh, I know, Caitlin, have
you had any like emergencies with the kids yet? No,
that's good, that's so lucky. Yeah, when Elbie had a
couple of scares, you know, when she was a baby,
when it like I want to say she was six
months and she got sick and she got dehydrated and
had to bring her to the hospital and they had
to IV and the whole thing, and she was very dehydrated. Yeah,
and so she's I guess kind of prone to that.
But then I mean, I know I told you this
story before, but when she was fourteen months, I had
a terrible experience. John was out of town. I brought
her in. She was like standing in her crib and
she like I brought her outside of the crib and
she had puked, and then I put her on the
ground and she like fell over and super lethargic. And
so I brought her into the er and remember this story,
and the guy who took her and she was burning
up with a fever, bring her in, and the guy
who was doing the admitting tested her temperature and he's
like normal, And I was like, m no, there's no
way she doesn't have a fever. I go feel her,
and of course I'm freaking out, you know, my baby,
and she's like I was like, something very bad's gonna happen.
And so when we get they get her into like
the triage room and they took her temperature and she
was it was like almost one hundred and four, and
of course I was couldn't think about anything else, but
like in your face, bitch, you know. I was like, yeah,
that guy tried to tell me that her temperature was normal,
and then so do you remember me telling you this story?
And then he walked around going, uh, broken, this thermometer
is broken. Don't use this thermometer. And I was like, yeah,
no shit, assdleg. Yeah, but then they had to That
was a terrible one they because they couldn't get an
I V on her, remember that story, And then they
ended up having to put tubes down her nose and
keep her overnight in the picu and I slept there
with her on my chest and yeah, and then next day, uh,
it was just it was real bad. Ye next day
she uh well, I think her fever broke like the
next day. But they couldn't get a vein because she
was so dehydrated that they could not get a vein.
They tried her arms, they tried her legs, they tried
her uh you know, her little like in the crook
of her arm, but then they also tried like her
hand and then her like her leg and and and
they were so mean about it, and it was like
just a nightmare. I know.
Speaker 2: They were trying to get the IV in Italia too
the other the other day and she did one side,
she couldn't get it to the other side.
Speaker 1: She couldn't get it.
Speaker 2: And Natalia is just like, oh my god, I'm gonna
kill somebody. And then she was like, I gotta go
get I gotta get somebody else to do it. And
then this other girl did it and then she got
it in fine, but like, ah, it's like it's you know,
come on, it's like they're in pain and she's in pain.
Last thing she needs is somebody's just sitting there digging
for the vein in her arm. Yeah, and blood's all
over the bed sheets and stuff because she's trying to
get it into the eh.
Speaker 1: And by the way, nurses, we've talked about this before,
but nurses are hit and miss. Like teachers. Some of them.
You're like, my god, you're doing the Lord's work. Y
greatest teacher can make your life so great. Yeah, and
the greatest nurse can make all the difference. Right, you
get like a grouchy ass nurse. It just doesn't want
to be there. And it's sick of patience all day
and or whatever. They've been working a twelve hour shift
and they're mean. Yeah, there's nothing worse than a mean nurse.
When you're not feeling well, or when your baby is
sick and people are being asshole, You're like, you need
to get into a different profession immediately. Yeah, sat, Yeah, no,
I know.
Speaker 2: I like when they joke around and they're like, because
they were being jokey with an Italia, you know, oh,
you don't want to take this home as a souvenir.
You know, it's like they've taken the needle out of
her arm, you know that kind of stuff, because you know,
it's like it's nerve racket. I thought she's She's like,
am I gonna have to have surgery? They what? What?
Speaker 1: Where do they go in? How do they you know what?
Am I going to get a scar?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: She had all these questions. I'm like, I don't, you know,
I don't know.
Speaker 2: We have to wait and see, you know, and the
last thing you need is like some you know, somebody
that doesn't want to be there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so yeah, you want somebody who's like having compassion.
I know, I personally know a lot of nurses, and
they're all so nice and they love their job and
they only do it because they're like I love helping
people and I love being a nurse. But just i've
personally experienced some nurses. They're just assholes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, they're like, why, I know, get another job,
get a job as a teacher.
Speaker 1: Just kidding. All right, thanks everybody. Thanks Caylin. You're a parent, now,
don't f it us. It's good letting go.