Rhandyl: [00:00:00] Hey y'all. Welcome back to Raising Disabled. So we are going to talk to you guys about another high low buffalo, and we started this. We've had one high low Buffalo episode, and we're here to update you guys. If you haven't listened to the first one, it's a fun game slash conversation starter.

You talk about some highs, some lows, and then Buffalo is just like a random thing that has happened recently. I guess I'll start with my highs. We last up. Dated you guys, middle of July. Mm-hmm.

So since then both of my kiddos have had birthdays. So Remi, she turned nine and my son Barrett turned four, which is crazy. Like when I was buying the number balloons, I was just like, how is this happening? I know it's gone by fast. It really has, and it's, but for me it's so crazy like Remis. Birthday compared to Barrett's birthday. I feel like the years have gone [00:01:00] by slower for her. I don't really know why that is. Mm-hmm. , And then for him, they, it's like, how are you? I feel like I just delivered you. But anyway. Yeah. But Remi feels but her infancy seems decade ago, you know, I mean, it's almost a decade ago. 

Deonna: It's the time flies when you're having fun. But you know, when you have such a traumatic birth, that's not fun. So it drags out maybe. I don't know. I'm sure. 

Rhandyl: Yeah. And just with all of the hospitalization stuff, I don't know. But it's blessing that she's made it to nine. Honestly. It's crazy. It, It's crazy. , We had multiple things going on my son's birthday. Ended up on a Saturday and we had a wedding to go to. And it was at a pool, like a pool party, so it was great. And he's four so he probably honestly thought that the wedding was his birthday party. And then of course he opened his gifts and he had a party at his daycare. And he had a blast and he, that's cute. Was, you know, happy.

And then Remi's birthday it was on a school day. And so she, every year on her birthday, I get her balloon and tie it to [00:02:00] the front of her wheelchair and she, yep. She loves to hit people with it or hit things with it. And so I was like, sorry to the nurse you know, one day outta the year, you're just gonna have to get banged in the head all day with a balloon hit in the head. Yeah. So that happened and she, I don't know how, but it was one of the foil balloons and they usually really sturdy, but by the time she got home from school, it was like, it had a hole in it. It was completely deflated. So I'm like, you had a blast of that. Make it through the day, that balloon.

Yeah. But they had. A cute little banner. She had the best day at school. She got to pick the movie that they got to watch during free time. Um Aw. And she got to eat a cupcake and it was just cute. She had a big day. That's good. And then quite a few of her nurses came over that evening and opened up gifts and I gave her an option.

You know, do you wanna get in the pool or do you, wanna not, because she's been loving the pool this summer and it was a nice enough afternoon. Yeah. But she didn't want to, and so I wanted to give her the choice like all afternoon after school. You know, what do you wanna do? And 

Deonna: does she answer in her AAC for stuff like that? 

Rhandyl: Yeah. Okay. [00:03:00] She does or she'll verbalize like she actually verbalize, no. Wow. I was trying to get her to use her device and then she was just, she just said no. And and then we were like, okay, do you wanna watch Bluey? Because she is still obsessed with Bluey.

And so she immediately went into her device and went to Bluey Go, or Bluey watch or something. And so that's what we did. And before dinner and presents and all the things. So , we had chill birthdays just at home with them. And then we were doing a, combination birthday party with my sister's son because he's also an August baby back home in Shamrock soon. And it's gonna be a triple themed. Gosh. And like, 'cause all of our family is there chaos. And they'll all be there in one place and no one has to travel other than us. And we were gonna go anyway,

Deonna: the one, one family that it's so hard to travel.

Rhandyl: I know, but it's funny we had already planned this like months ago that we were going and it, just worked out , and we had it planned another weekend, which, i'll get two in my lows. Why it's [00:04:00] been scheduled Yeah. To later on. But you have some fun lows. Those are the big highs for us, but yeah. What about you? You guys have been busy as well. 

Deonna: Yeah, we had a lot of fun in the last part of summer. I mean, we had a lot of fun this whole summer, but we were waiting for this trip. So back in we were supposed to give Allie descendant zombies world tour tickets because she loves these Disney Channel movies. Yeah. They're like her whole personality right now and she was we were supposed to give it to her on her birthday, which is like end of January, but. She bugged the crap out of us so bad about these tickets that we ended up having to give them to her just on a random day. 'Cause she was like getting anxiety about not getting to go. Aw.

So we went to Oklahoma City, which is five hours away, but she had, they just did the concert a few weeks ago. So she kind of had to wait a long time, [00:05:00] but she got dressed up in her full. You know, zombies, Addison cheerleader costume. Yeah. Me and her went by ourselves. Dane and Cole were like with us on the trip because we went to Oklahoma City for a few days and then we went to Houston to go do all her doctor stuff after that, that 

Rhandyl: Oklahoma City. There's a lot of fun things to do there. 

Deonna: There is. I had no idea. I, like we didn't do a lot of the touristy things because we weren't there very long, but we did the Zombies Descendants show the first night, and it was so much fun. Like I. I know every word, every song because we've, you know, seen it so many times and yeah, I mean, me and her were just jamming out the whole time. She loves these, it was the real characters from the movies, and wow. You know, she was freaking out. She has, she loves Malachi Barton and Freya Sky, and so she was just, every time they came out, she was just screaming her head [00:06:00] off and aw, neither one of us had voices when we left.

It was loud. It's the loudest concert I've ever been to because you're in the room with all these little girls and they're just screaming at the top of their lungs.. We thought about trying it without Allie's headphones, and within just a few seconds she's I need the headphones. I was like, I need headphones. This is crazy. But that was so much fun. That was one of those like. It's gonna be a core memory kind of thing now. Oh yeah. Like it was so nice,

and I have to just say for anybody that's listening, that's from Oklahoma. That is the nicest and most accommodating experience I've ever had in my life with Allie. Like we walked up to Paycom Center and we were gonna have to stand in the sun waiting in line. Oh. Like in Texas, I love Texas, but you know, when we're standing in line in Texas in the sun, you're standing in the line in the sun you know, and this, these people came up to us and were like, she [00:07:00] just can't be in the sun. We're gonna go. And we cut in front of 60 people. Oh wow. And they moved us to the front, so we'd be in the shade and everybody was talking to us and just being like so friendly. And then when we got inside, I never had to touch a door. The entire time we were there. Oh, that's amazing. They were even opening our bathroom stall doors for us, like trying to help me, you know, 'cause it's hard to get her in there sometimes. The angle's weird. These women were like holding the stall door open for me and like at one point, this lady. Like we were walking and these ladies were kind of, people were just in front of us, like it didn't bother me. And this one lady's everybody move and yelled out. And I was like, oh my gosh. But everybody was like, so nice. I was like this is amazing. Nice. But it was so much fun.

And then the next day we went to the Oklahoma City bombing site, which I hadn't been to in 20 years. [00:08:00] And that was kind of weird. I mean, my kids don't obviously know what that was, so we went and looked and that was emotional. There's all these, have you seen it? Yeah. Oh yeah, I've been there. Yeah. There's all these empty chairs everywhere and the kid ones are smaller. Yeah. And because in that. In that day there was like a daycare. Daycare. In that building. And I just remember that I do too. So Well, as a kid, like I feel like every millennial. Yeah. You know what I mean? 

Rhandyl: Actually, really, We were, where I grew up is, it's not terribly far from OKC. Oh, that's right. Yeah. And so we, we would go to OKC a lot as mm-hmm. A family growing up. And then it's a neat town. We had friends that lived there and we had a close family friend that was actually working in a building nearby when that happened. Oh my gosh. I just remember so vividly . How traumatic that was. And

Deonna: I think it was like our generation's first experience. Seeing something really traumatic, like on tv. Yeah. Or that was mine. [00:09:00] I, 'cause it happened in 95, 96, something like that. But we went and looked at that and that was kind of, you know, my kids now know what that was and everything.

Yeah. But then we went to the children's museum and that is a destination. If you've never been to the Oklahoma City Children's Museum. Like it's worth driving to Oklahoma City just to do that one thing. Like it's one of the largest in the United States, but it's humongous. I was thinking about how Barrett would like it 'cause there's just, oh yeah. Playgrounds everywhere and there's, you know, thousands of exhibits you can interact with and touch. And it was accessible except for the playgrounds and stuff. Yeah. But Allie and Cole loved that place and I mean, the Oklahoma City was fun,

but then we went down to Houston for all her doctor's appointments and they all went pretty well. We had one kind of wouldn't say, I'll talk about it during the lows, but just one tough part of it. But yeah, it was. It was my turn to do her sleep study, [00:10:00] which I hate doing sleep studies with her you don't sleep. At all 

Rhandyl: 'cause you and Dane take turns every year. 

Deonna: We do. Who has this? And I try to trick him. I try to be like, she's never done well with me and she always does well with you. He's don't even I am not doing this again. And so it, she did really well. They actually were having issues with some of her stuff. And she slept through all of it. Like they had to turn the lights on at one point. She never woke up. Yeah. But the sleep study, they put all that crap on your face and your hair and they put that net on your face. It sucks. But she did really great. And you know, we always bribe her. We're like, we'll buy you something tomorrow if you. Do good. Yeah, you know, never above bribery,

but we saw the doctors and that just fills routine at this point, which is nice. Oh yeah. For most of 'em. And we went to a disability expo, so that was interesting. We got these new wheels [00:11:00] for Allie, the front casters, they're called frog legs and they, they kind of reduce the shock, like when she's going over tile or stuff like that, it reduces the shock and we put 'em on her and she said she could feel a big difference in like the smooth ride. And so shout out to them. That was a cool little, you know, company, but we tried out some stuff. You know how it is. Most stuff is too expensive. Yeah. You know, they're like, oh, this will be 15. Like new and insurance. $15,000 cover. 

Rhandyl: Yeah. 

Deonna: Yeah. We were looking at this one van and it was like $130,000. We were like, oh my gosh. But and then 

Rhandyl: I bet it was cool to see though, all the new it.

Deonna: There's a lot, there's a lot happening. I mean, in innovation we got to go see the zing standards booth, which is funny 'cause they're our sponsor. Yeah. And so that was neat getting to see what they're working on in the future, but.

And then the kids just, you know, started school. I'm kind of [00:12:00] happy they're back at school. I like being alone during the day so I can just get my work done. Yeah, so been okay with that. And then I. Yeah, that's pretty much it.

My kids got asked to be in a wedding by one of our nurses, and they've never been in a wedding before, so they're super excited about that. They're gonna be her something blue, so they'll wear blue and I love that. I think that's such a neat, new tradition, I guess. But they're coming up with all these cool stuff. Like I got married pre Pinterest, so my wedding was so basic, like we didn't know all these cool ideas. But yeah, that's pretty much what our highs have been.

We are gonna transition into the lows and you have. Really bad lows. I I don't have as many as you, this was rough. This was a rough time for you. 

Rhandyl: Yeah. Our family's had a really rough month. So Remi at the very end of July. , It was a normal weekend, [00:13:00] morning. She was. Just laying in bed awake. We were getting her breakfast ready, myself and her nurse and no alarms are going off. Nothing. She's awake. She is, you know, just hanging out, waiting on us to get her up and walk her into the kitchen to eat. And the nurse walks back there to get her, and then I hear her yell from the. Room, bring the oxygen. 'cause we had just taken the tank and the ambu bag into the kitchen. 'cause that's where she was going. Oh yeah. So I'm like sprinting back there with everything and worst feeling ever. Yeah. And so I'm just so thankful that I was there, you know? But she had dec cannulated herself and. We have video footage, 

Deonna: which means ripping her trach out. 

Rhandyl: Yes, yes. Which means, yeah, it wasn't, we have video footage in the room that records and we can see back. Yeah. But like those are always fun to watch. I know. She was just kind of fidgeting with her trach and I guess it came out, it wasn't anything blatant., Yeah. So [00:14:00] it was like an accident. And she was on her ventilator, which was crazy. 'Cause it didn't alarm, she was on her daytime settings, which is like way low pressure. And I guess it wasn't showing a big enough leak. I'm not sure. Yeah. To show disconnection.

Yeah. When we found her, she was unconscious and. It took me a while, probably a day to actually watch the footage. But she was unconscious for, it's still worse for about five minutes. She was unconscious. Yeah. So literally from the time 

Deonna: and I'm sure just blue Oh, looking horrible.

Rhandyl: Totally. Yeah. It was, . Horrible. All those things. But the nurse, before I even got back to the room, I already had the trach back in. We immediately started bagging her, got her oxygen back up, but she was not snapping out of it. And we have a rescue med that. We got when she did this about a year ago. Yeah. She was diagnosed with hypoxic seizures, so mm-hmm. once her oxygen saturations got so low, she kind of goes into the seizure state and so that's where she was. And so it's this nasal med that you just like squirt up her nose and you're supposed to Right. We have two doses. [00:15:00] We squirted one, we waited the 10, 20 minutes. Nothing was happening. She was just not waking up. And so then we did the second one.

That's a one 10 minutes. Yeah. So then we did a second one, waited another 10, and nothing's happening. She's getting ventilated, but she's just not wake waking up and her eyes are like, super dilated.

And I'm like, oh my gosh. You know, my, were her eyes open. I was having the worst, no, but like we could open her because it would be really freaky. Yeah. Okay. But, so I called her pediatrician. So because this is on a weekend, it's a Sunday. Nothing ever happens like during the work hours. Never. And then she actually answers and then I tell her what's going on? She's like, you need to call the ambulance. And so, yeah, my husband was out of town. Like he was out of state when this was going on. Of course. And yeah. So we get on the ambulance, get to the er they get stable. 

Deonna: That was y'alls first ambulance ride, right?

Rhandyl: Yeah, because we usually are able to transport her and get like direct admin or something. Yeah, I remember. [00:16:00] But. With my son there, it was just, there was, yeah, no way. And my husband not being there. I've always been so scared of the ambulance situation. But it was actually a lot smoother than I had anticipated and I didn't have to fight.

Yeah, it's not that bad. Yeah. But yeah, so we get there they get her stable takes forever to get IVs, , they did like a CT scan EEG. Everything looked good with her brain. So that was a Godsend. But then it just took her probably. 12 hours to start actually making purposeful movements which was scary.

Yeah. At least. And a lot of that was probably due to a lot of the meds that they were pushing. Yeah, maybe, but. Basically had to get her paralyzed so that she would ventilate properly and then, mm-hmm. Then we just had to monitor. She stayed in the PICU for about three days and then we were able to go home and then she is completely by the grace of God, completely back to her [00:17:00] normal sassy self.

I mean, it's just like a miracle that, , being unconscious for that long I think all of her, that freaked me out so bad, everything I really think that , her entire body was just working to keep her organs alive. And so nothing else was going on. Luckily though, she's still with us and she's turned nine now. But yeah, so she's back in school and happy. That sucked.

And then the weekend before, so when my, when she was hospitalized, my parents came to town to help and then they left to go to the mountains with my brother's, older two kids. Mm-hmm. And so they were there. My dad got really sick, thought it was altitude sickness. And I left a day early, headed back down, thought as soon as I got out of altitude, , he would be fine. Yeah. But he just started feeling worse and worse and worse. And my mom ended up stopping on the way. From driving back to Texas stopping at like a rural ER because he was just doing so bad [00:18:00] and anyway, he ended up pat.

Deonna: Yeah, when you told me where he went to the hospital, I was like, oh my gosh. 'cause I used to live up there and I'm like, this is not good. Yeah. What do you 

Rhandyl: They air flighted him to Amarillo, which is with the closest larger city from where he was and then ended up. Air flighting him to Dallas and he ended up in Dallas. He's he was literally hiking the day before this happened. He was very healthy. Farmer Rancher works all the time. Yeah. Active, very active. Active. Yeah. Like 61 years old. Not really any health history, but he had a valve in his heart. That basically blew out.

I guess he had some re like regurgitation in it. Yeah, we're not sure whether it was a coincidence or whether it did have something to do with the altitude, but anyway, there was a lot of stuff that went on before they had to decide to do open heart surgery. Yeah. And so 

Deonna: it was a drawn out thing.

Rhandyl: It was, yeah, a lot. And he ended up, the meds that he got, he ended up having to be on dialysis for a few [00:19:00] days to , get him stable enough to have surgery. And so it was just so much, so freaky all at one time. And then, yeah, so I flew there and stayed for a week with my mom and my siblings were there.

And that was super unexpected. And that happened right after my son's birthday. And then, so the weekend that we had the whole planned birthday thing, obviously we were in Dallas and all the things were going on. Yeah. So that didn't happen. Well and school, my dad is, school was like starting. Oh yeah.

It was a tough, we trying to, you know, before school. Yeah. We're trying to get it all planned before school started just to, . People not have to travel during the school year. But yeah, anyway, that didn't happen. You know, plans are just kind of by the wayside. But yeah, so he's home though, and he's just recovering and doing rehab and Oh, thank goodness. Trying to yeah, so they were able to fix it. Thankfully, and his heart function is great that there's no blockages. His heart, His heart muscles and themselves were strong. He was just, the mitral valve just blew out. And so it was crazy. That all [00:20:00] that, I mean, he was, had just been here and was like helping us take care of Yeah. So that's been a lot's cleaning your life. Yeah. Oh my gosh.

And to see I mean, I've seen Remi intubated you know, but just to walk in and see my dad that is like this strong. The hardest worker I know. Mm-hmm. And taught me likehmm. So much work ethic and just knowing how active he's been his whole life to yeah, walking in and seeing him intubated.

It was like, oh my gosh. I mean, 

Deonna: well you're used to seeing Remi and everyone made these states, you know, it's like different. 

Rhandyl: It's so different. And I'm the only person in my family me and my husband have any medical background. And so yeah, , they wanted me in every round. They wanted me asking all the questions. 'cause I, yeah, you know, I kind of knew what was going on and so I was having to be, the backbone for everyone. And then I'm secretly like, falling apart. But I can't show it. And so, yeah. He was trying to [00:21:00] battle all that it was. Yeah. But I was happy to do it and that's what I was there for. But it was also so hard. Oh my gosh. It was just all the traumatic feelings I had just had the week prior to, yeah. With Remi and . Then this was a whole new experience for me to have a parent, like on their deathbed. Yeah. And having to advocate 

Deonna: and having your dad look vulnerable yeah. That's the worst. You know, 

Rhandyl: and like transitioning from caregiver advocate to daughter advocate. For my, it was just it was definitely a new traumatic experience for me. But he's home and doing well and my sister's an OT, I'm a PTA. We sent him home with a full home exercise program and like bothering the heck out of him.

Deonna: He's like, I just wanna chill off. Yeah. He's, we're annoying him so much, but no, that was so much. Just all at once. I mean, it sounds like your dad's kind of like my dad and it's even like recently I saw my dad just like after having a procedure, like he was, it was really [00:22:00] routine. But when you see your dad in that hospital gown and you're that close to him like us, and they're like those cowboy kind of guys.

It's just, it is hard seeing 'em in with an IV even and just in that hospital gown. So seeing your dad intubated. You're, yeah, you might need some therapy over that one 'cause that one's gonna be, oh my gosh, that's gonna stick with you for a while. It was wild. I hate that happen, but I'm glad both turned out okay. Yeah. Thankfully. Golly. Yeah. Well, our, your low are not as low as yours. 

Rhandyl: That's good. But yeah. Oh my gosh. That's not getting any lower. 

Deonna: Can't get much worse than that. Seriously? No. The only low we had was we had to switch Allie's, new ventilator. And that's just hard. Like we've had the same ventilator. She's completely ventilator dependent. If you take her off the ventilator. For more than probably a minute. I think she'd probably die. Like [00:23:00] I, you know, she doesn't have a good reserve and her lungs just don't do the work. We had to switch ventilators because the ventilator we're currently on, they don't make it anymore, and they're not making new. Products for it. And so our, it was okay, like our pulmonologist at Texas Children's Villa Franco, she did like a good job transitioning ally to the vent, but there were tears from Allie it was like a four hour ordeal. I don't even know how long we were in there,

but it just was hard because. It doesn't have as good of a battery. It like, there's negatives to it and it just it sounds stupid to people listening probably, but that's a difference between her being out somewhere for 12 hours to six. I mean it, yeah. You know, so you're having to think okay, we need battery backups, we need chargers, we need this, we need that. Oh, yeah. It just was kind of like a bummer that we had to switch, but it is what it is. Like we, we've handled it. Okay.

And then [00:24:00] some of our nurses that we really love had to take other jobs. And so every time, and you're in the same boat as us right now, like when you lose a nurse or anything like that, you're just. Dang it. Like you, you love these people like family. And they have to do, you know, go do a different job or whatever. Like I totally understand that all the time. 

Rhandyl: Yeah. At the end of the day, I mean, it is a job, but it's so hard it 'cause they become family.

Deonna: But you miss, you miss them. You have to train a whole new person. Yeah. Allie has to get comfortable and get to know an all new person. Like it's just. Which luckily one of our nurses took one of the days from us, so we didn't have to go searching. But yeah, still kind of on the hunt for that, but you know, like you same. Yeah. So if you're a nurse in Lubbock, Texas, call us up please.

But. So now we'll go into our buffalo and like we said, a buffalo is just something fun or [00:25:00] random that you did or something crazy that happened to you. So what is your buffalo? 

Rhandyl: Well, I was thinking, and it's birthday related, so I was so excited. So I grew up in a two-story home. A little backstory. I don't know where my mom was during this, probably doing laundry or cooking or something, you know, like I was raised in the nineties just go do whatever and yeah. I don't know where our moms were ever, yeah, she was a stay at home mom, but, oh my gosh. So my friends mine was too.

Yeah. Yeah., I remember. My friends, me and my brother, we would get in a laundry basket at the top of the stairs and we thought we were being safe. Yeah. We'd put like a bicycle helmet on and we'd get my dad's ties out of the closet and try to, yeah. Pretend they were seat belts or whatever and we would smart go get in the laundry basket and start.

Just having someone push us down the staircase and we would never make it to the bottom. We made it maybe halfway down before we started like flipping head over hills. Yeah. It was ridiculous. So unsafe. I mean, there's so many things in my childhood like I don't know how to It's a miracle. Miracle year life.

Yeah. Yeah. But they have these things now we have a basement and so we have a [00:26:00] staircase and they have these staircase slides. And I was like, oh my gosh, this is gonna be the best combo birthday gift for both of the kids. Yeah. Because a lot of times in physical therapy Remi's PT will have her walk up the stairs. And then her favorite thing is to slide down on her bottom. And so I was like, oh man. Her reward will be the slide slide on the stairs. Yeah. So we put it together and. Let's just say the slides are not made for every staircase, so we've kind of had to. Redneck engineer it a little bit like ghetto. Rig it. Yeah.

Yeah. I was like, oh my gosh, this is so much fun. And my husband, he's always the one I'm always the, oh, everything will be fine. It's gonna be fun. And he's always, yep. I dunno if it's, 'cause he works in trauma, but he's always thinking of the worst case scenarios. And he tells me they're, if you're gonna pinch their fingers, they're going to Yeah. It's gonna come apart somewhere, you know? And I'm like, oh my gosh. you're the biggest party pooper. And he is

Deonna: Dane and Cole are the same person.

Rhandyl: So he's going through all the, and I'm like, I'm gonna have Barrett, [00:27:00] my poor son. He's gonna be the stuntman in the morning before we try this out. The tester Remi, and he did and everything was fine. And he did it like quite a few times. So then it comes to Remi's turn, she gets home from school and I was so excited. And so her PT was there. She goes down the slide one time, everything's fine.

Then when she like does so good, she's hustling, like walking up good up the stairs. And then the second time down, what does she do? She smashes her finger like so bad and we didn't realize it at first. But anyway, so that was a little bit of a fail, and then I decided, no, this is gonna be fun. I was like, it was all me. I was like, selfishly, like this is my childhood dream. You wanted it to happen? Yeah. You know, like home alone, you watch the Yeah. Like all the things. And so I was like, this is gonna be the best thing ever for the kids.

And so , I just put her in my lap and I was like, I don't know the weight capacity, but we're going down this thing and sure enough, it falls apart and then it makes this loud noise and [00:28:00] then she freaks out and I'm like, just so mad. But anyway. My husband actually immediately went to Lowe's and got. All this stuff and he re-engineered it to where it is super stable and it works. Oh good. And it works great now. So anyway, I wanna come try it kind of a, I know it's, and I have this huge beanbag, like big at the end, beanbag at the end, and you just like slam into it. It's so fun. 

Deonna: That was my only concern is like what my body was gonna do when it got to that turn. Yeah. 

Rhandyl: Nope. We've got a big Okay. At the bottom. Yeah. But yeah. I wanna come try it. That's our, that's the buffalo It was. That was a little high and low in the buffalo, but yeah. Yeah. 

Deonna: Hey, what about y'all?

Well, we, yeah, we used to go down, my nana had a you know, multi-level cabin and we used to go down the stairs with a mattress, but I feel like our parents, oh, see parents, that's safer. I feel like our parents let us do stupid stuff. My brother was definitely more into dumb stuff than me. I was like the, you know, safe one, but yeah.[00:29:00] 

Sometimes with my brother, I'm like, where were our parents? You are crazy. He was sneaky. He was sneaky. Yeah. So our buffalo is that when we were in Houston, and you've talked about this already. Oh yeah. With Remi, but we went to Blueys house and it's at the Galleria Mall. It's in Houston. And so we went and did that and it was so much fun.

She was so excited and she loves Bluey and bingo. She's loved them since she was really little. Yeah. And she's kind of aging out of it now, which makes us kind of sad. But we were like, do you wanna do this? Or is this too little kid or whatever, and she's no, I wanna do it. I wanna go inside the house.

It's so cool. So it's so fun and there's like a magic door that opens, and every room in the house is very pretty like realistic to what the show looks like. They played all the games, and so me and Cole and Allie went in there together and Cole just took her and they played all the games with the, there's kind [00:30:00] of like actors that are in the house that are interacting with the kids and being silly and, yeah. Yeah. She loved all the same stuff for me. Loved and it pretty accessible. There were a couple spots where there was like. Stairs that we couldn't go up to. But not very much. It was pretty like if you live in anywhere in Texas and your kid loves bluey, it is a fun, fun experience.

And so we totally, we went down there and saw the water wall. Have you seen the water wall that's right there by the Galleria? It's really pretty. It's like a fountain, but it's huge. But yeah, we did the Blue East House. She had so much fun and at the end when we got to go. Meat Bluey and bingo. She was, she hates mascots typically. Oh, wow. But she loved these. She was all about it. And yeah. Kind of random. But yeah, if you live in Texas, that is a very fun thing. The kids were just. Going crazy for it. There's like trap doors and I mean, it's just a fun Oh yeah. Silly [00:31:00] experience. But so yeah, it's wild as you can tell, we had a lot happen.

Good and bad. And that's just, I mean, that's a typical thing with any family is just a lot of high low in Buffalo. You had a lot of extremes and so I'm glad that, you know everything's okay with your dad and with Remi because that, 

Rhandyl: thank you. Yeah. 

Deonna: I think it's just so hard for us because like even when you told me Remi was in the hospital, it just made me feel sick to my stomach for the whole time.

Yeah. Like you adopt these kids in your mind. They're not your kids. Yeah. But you know how the mom and dad feel, so it's oh my gosh. And then when you told me your dad came up, I. Oh my gosh. 

Rhandyl: Deonna brought me coffee. I was like, oh, just anybody can just bring me coffee. 'cause you know, I mean, anybody that knows you don't sleep when you, when your kid's No. Inpatient. So I was just like, living on caffeine. 

Deonna: Yeah. UMC got a new UMC, got a picu, which was really nice to go see. And some of the [00:32:00] nurses saw me and they were like, is your daughter admitted? I'm like, no. My friend's daughter's admitted. Yeah. Not good though. 

Rhandyl: Yeah, we become very, yeah. Familiar. Yeah. With the staff. Unfortunately 

Deonna: all the nurses know us. It's embarrassing, but it is what it is. But yeah, so that's what's been going on with us. And you know, we will I don't know what to say. I'm like I'm thinking, yeah. So that's, I can end what's been going on with us. We kind of, to just share what's going on in our lives on a day to day, so you have a idea of where we're coming from when we do these episodes.

But that's it and we'll see you next time.

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