November 22, 2024 • 30 mins
It has been a month to forget for Elliot and his wife.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
My house turned into a total gong show yesterday. Total
mess o, what show? Gong show, gong show. Yeah, it's
a mess. My house is a mess now it was anger.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Is that a nicer way of saying an s show?
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:12):
No, it's horrible. It's horrible. Like the next month of
my house could be the worst month ever.
Speaker 4 (00:17):
Well, you need to clarify what you're speaking of, because
some of us in this room have a little bit
more knowledge.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
The Oh yeah, Jackie also broke something yesterday.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Well you told us that she fell, but she broke
walking the dogs.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Yeah, so she was walking. Oh yeah, oh yeah, we're broken.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Oh you didn't text us or tell us any of that.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
There was a lot of there's a lot of going
on the So anyway, she was out walking the dogs yesterday, right,
and somebody had somebody had what you call it like that,
like did all their leaves and everything. Yeah, And so
she was walking. She's got both dogs with her and
stuff and everything. Fine, she walks them every day. She
knows what she's doing. So one of the streets there's
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a pretty good hill. So she was going down the
and the like over kind of on the side of
the road. There was a big rock that was kind
of buried by some of the leaves, kind of on
the fringe of the leaf pile. Yeah, so she hit
it with her ankle, right, or she stepped on it,
rolled off, fell down, and man, her knees are all
kinds of scraped up. Now, the good news is she
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dropped both leashes. But the dogs didn't go anywhere, like
they just hung out, which was great. But she was like, man,
I am in a lot of pain. And so anyway,
so she was texting me while everything was going on,
and so she managed to like she was like, it
hurts so bad. And of course I'm going like, yeah,
I know, get up the hill, go back to go
back home, you know, and see what's going on. So anyway,
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she makes them back home and she's an unbelievable amount
of pain and her knees are a.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Mess and everything.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
So when she got home, she was like, I'm going
to go to see our doctor, like it's bad, you know.
I was like, okay, yeah, knock yourself out, that's fine.
So she goes to the doctor and the X rayder
and it came back that there is a what is
it called a fifth metatarsal base fracture.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
What does that mean?
Speaker 1 (02:08):
So so they put her in a splint. By the way,
it's her right foot.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Oh okay, so she can't drive either, nothing, nothing, So
Daniel's picking up some extra hours.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
The no, you don't. You don't understand what this is
turned into.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
So the when she left, she she took an uber there, yeah,
to get to the doctor. And so she's got to
go see an orthopedis this morning at eight.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
So we were talking about that yesterday. She's ubering to that.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
The what do you want her to do?
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Exactly? Thank you. Somebody was like, aren't you taking her?
I was like, no, I go work. Somebody gotta pay
that insurance bill. So anyway, the.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Would you take her?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
I can't y, Yeah, I know, but like even if you.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Were home, you couldn't take her. Yeah, But to go
with her, oh, to attend.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Yeah, like to be there and be supportive. I could
be supportive from right here. The uh, well, let's not
go too far.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
When you text her back a half hour later, you good.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
So anyway, so anyway, they they they put her in
a in a splint and wrapped everything up and so
the so between the two, so we're sharing a pair
of crutches. We're sharing the and so we had a
so upstairs there's like a desk chair that rolls, so
we drag that downstairs. So now she's like in just
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like a rolling chair, and so I crutch up behind
her and shove her and then like to get to
wherever we're going. The uh yeah, no it is. It's
such a mess. What's going on in my house. So anyway,
she has to go in today to see what the
extent of it is.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
So they they did give her some information.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
So the fifth meta tarsal base fracture, and I said
this was good, is among the most common fractures of
the foot. However, because it's a smaller bone on the
outside of the foot, it's also predisposed to poor healing
due to limited blood supply getting to that area. So
like with my tibia, they were like, this is great,
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because I mean, it sucks, it's trickier than your fibula,
but there's a lot of blood that gets in that bone.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
So that's good. That's good for healing this thing.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Apparently not, so I says to Jackie, let's wait and see,
because the other sentence in here it says treatment can
include protected weight bearing immobilization. Oh yeah, so like a
boot that you could walk on, yeh, which would be great.
I was like, jack, that would be a home run
total immobilization, which is a cast or surgery. I was like, Jack,
(04:44):
uh huh no, no, Well.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
She's probably gonna do what the orthopedist recommends.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
I also don't know that Jackie's ever brought I don't
think Jackie's ever broken a bone before.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
So the two of us are sitting there last night,
one angrier than the other, popped up all over the place,
the shoving her in a chair, the trying to get
stuff done, and she's in the same boat, right and
so like she and I felt horrible for because she
was still wearing like the like whatever pants she had
on when she when she ate it. But now because
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her her her legs all wrapped.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Up, she had to cut her pants off last night.
I was like, I get it.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
And what is what is her pain level of.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Bad but not horrible?
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Does she get anything beyond like like super strength tilt
all or I.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Told her what I'm like, I just do every night
where it's two Thailand all three Adville choke them down
in a way you go that works, wonders, and that
was given to me by a hospital. They're like, that's
the best thing minus an opioid. That's the best thing
you could do for pain.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
So I do that. I will tell you this.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
It has thickened, not not firmed, but thickened my stool.
The so I gave her some of those last night
and then and then she sent me a text so
she's I don't know whatever time the uber's getting there,
the social uber to the doctor's appointment, and then uber
uber back home.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
I was like, please come back with good news, Like seriously.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Well, that's out of her hands.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
No, I know that, I know that, but it is.
It's horrible timing. It's horrible timing.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
When did the boys come home or were they like,
you know, we'll just to Thanksgiving in the dorms because
at least it's not a couple of years ago when
you did need to get them places.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Correct.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Yeah, now, even though they're coming back, which it's not
ideal that it's the holidays and you guys are both injured,
but at least they are capable of moving around town
on their own.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Oh yeah, oh and by the way, driving us.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Yeah, yeah, that's the other thing, Well, they're not here
forever if you're here for a couple of days. Yeah,
when did they get home? I think they get home
on Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
But Thanksgiving is like the one time that you do
spend in the home because you host.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Well that came up yesterday, canceling Thanksgiving? No no, no, no, no,
are you going.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
To cancel it? On the grander scale?
Speaker 1 (06:59):
The what do you mean?
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Like, maybe just do.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
A Smallero's legs aren't broken, But you're.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Always bragging about how many people you're gonna have over
your house.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Yeah, and now everybody's still planning on coming.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
I haven't even told Juliana yet the no no, But
we were trying to figure out do we do it?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
So I guarantee you she's heard about your god broken ankle. Yeah,
you only mentioned it every ten minutes. No is is
he just follows the blogs? No, no, no, is Where
do we do it?
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (07:32):
What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Like? Do we go to somebody else's house? Do you
know how ridiculous it's gonna be? Because coast Guard Kurt
he goes in for surgery on Tuesday, and she.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Was still gonna be at your house two days before
Thanksgiving and he's going to be over.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
And he's a big helper, like because Menino loves bossing
him around. So he goes in for surgery on surgery, so.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
He had he had Well, I mean, you don't have
to tell me if you don't want to. But I'm
just thinking, like, is he a leg or a foot
injury too, or like arm, No.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
He's a leg, he's a leg.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Okay, Yeah, so you're gonna there's gonna be three of
your sort of hobbling around.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Yeah. And at first it was like, it'll just be uh,
coastguard curtain.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
I sitting on the couch. That'll be awesome. And then
like Jackie can run a bunch of stuff around for us.
But now, so my first thought was, let's do it
at Coastguard Kurts house. Well, that's kind of rude to
just invite everybody over to Coastguard Kurts house and he
can't do a goddamn thing, right, So now the sofa
is gonna be me, Jackie, and Kurt all lined up,
feet propped up in the air.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Horrible, horrible.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
It sucks. But I mean you could always.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Like Kurt's got a bad infection, okay, you could always
let people know like, hey, listen.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
No, no, I'm not canceling Eidy.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
You don't have to cancel it, favorite it back.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
I don't understand what you mean by scale it back
because you like to have do twelve pounds of turkey
instead of you like, yeah, just why uninviting.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Whoever isn't isn't Maybe like a small group of.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
People, there's gonna be our usual twenty five to thirty people.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
That's a nightmare.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Stupid by the way, No, why is that?
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Because you're already immobilized right, and now it's going to
be even harder to get around with all those people there.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
So so bigs will have to step in and do
stuff that Kurt would do, Like Menino's not going to
back it down.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Have you asked them though, do they want to come
because you're a bit dranky? They were, they were already invited.
Do they still want to come?
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Yeah? You think they want? You think they want to
cook instead of Menino?
Speaker 4 (09:26):
I myself want to sign up for hours of this.
Are you just going to a restaurant? Yeah, that's what
we're there, That's what you need to do. Just go
to a restaurant.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Yeah, come to the restaurant.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
With us.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
No, no, no, no, because people have already been told
what they have to get, well, they have to pack
their patients. Yeah, the no what I'm gonna be fine?
Oh god, the I'm gonna sit on the line on
the couch.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
It's a week away and you're cranky. I can only
imagine what Thursday will be like.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
I'm not happy about it.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
I'm not going to do anything about it, though I
understand that.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
I understand that, but like, even like, what am I
What do you want me to do? I'm not canceling Thanksgivving.
It's my favorite holiday. Scale it back, but you keep
saying scale it back. But scaling it back doesn't change anything.
I still can't do.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
It's a big difference to have ten people in your
house as opposed to thirty.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
How is that any difference.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
It's less people, it's less chaotic.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
But I liked it. I like chaos.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
I'd break my own bone to avoid what you do
every year for Thanksgiving, but pushed me down the stairs.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
No, no, but scaling it back doesn't do anything. Like
people are coming, so scaling it back, by the way,
we get twenty people and we're still fond.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
It's your house so you still have and Jackie will have.
You still have an obligation. You're the host, right, yes,
so it's not going to be just chilling on the couch.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
I sent a text at everybody that that's common. Knows
I broke my leg.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Well do they know about Jackie?
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Not yet? Okay, Well we don't know how severe. If
he could be in a boot, Okay, that's what I.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Said to her yesterday when she because she brought up
Thanksgiving and I scowled at her.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
But and I was like, can't we wait and see that?
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Like maybe you just need a boot and you can
hop around all over the case.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
But it's still hurt as the host is still hampered
no matter what the mode of treatment is.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
But the but the majority of the cooking is done
by Steve. Now everybody helps out. But that's why scaling
it back doesn't matter. He's not going to buy a
smaller piece of salmon. He's still going to have some
big ass salmon. Schlept In.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Hobe wants to know of the thirty people on your
guest list, how many of them are visiting angels.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
I don't even know what it is.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
That is that like the people that volunteer to help
the old people.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Right, yes, in home caregivers dedicated to providing compassionate and
life changing care, offering comfort, pieces of mind.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Just for.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Toby and Sanah. What time need.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Me there Juliana Valencia's home care.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
There's some photos. They'll comb your hair, Oh my god.
They'll help with toileting.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
I did tell Jackie you're not using my cast cover
lighthouse keeping lighthouse.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
That means they'll take your they'll take your dishes to
the sin Now.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
That's gonna be a problem. That's gonna be a.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Pretty You're gonna get a little TV tray going. You
need TV trays?
Speaker 1 (12:17):
No, but I can't stand up there and do dishes.
I hope t Biggs doesn't mind doing them.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Yeah, it looks like they also in case anyone there
has by the way, you go the onset dementia, they
can assist with that too.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Where's everybody at? Look?
Speaker 2 (12:34):
You're going to keep asking Jackie, Jackie, what's wrong with
the ankle. They can also help you navigate your tech.
What is the game on the font on your TV?
This is the home page that the picture that you
first see when you go on to America's Choice and
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home care visiting angels dot com is one of their
employees holding the phone of the elderly person up in
front of their face to show them how to use it.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Juliana, I'm done. Can you wipe? Mate?
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Yeah, so you need at least two.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
He's on a news desk next Thursday. She's scrubbing my ass.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Now, this is late notice. But I will type in
your zip code and see if we can find you care. Now,
I don't know what it is gonna be in terms
of scheduling. You are talking about a major holiday. Some
would say it's their favorite holiday.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
But I did.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
But I did say to Jackie, like at least with
at least with like like work, right, I'm fortunate enough
that I have Daniel. Right, So Daniel picks me up
and drops me off. But like this week, this week alone,
I had three doctor's appointments. So Daniel drops me off.
On the way home, Jackie picks me up. Well, what
the f now, Well, what do you mean in terms
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of Jackie can't go anywhere? And by the way, and
here's the other part. And I don't want to make
Jackie break in her foot yesterday, and I feel horrible.
My wife's never broken a bone before, and part of
me was like, you know many i've broken anyway. The
but at least and and here's here's where it gets.
Here's where I was a baby yesterday. Here's where I well,
I got it. I was a big baby about Thanksgiving?
Is I get cabin fever? Like I want to get
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out of the house. That's that's all I want to do.
At least with Jackie, I could get out of the house.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
I could.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
I could go, like jack just drive me to Starbucks. Please,
I'll use rewards, like just get me out of the house.
She can't drive now. Yeah, so like like like two
like two invalids were sitting at home and we didn't
by the way, there was nothing to do. Like grubhub
showed up last night. Everything was fine the but now
now the worst part is I can't go anywhere. I
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mean I can Uber, but that's a waste of money.
What am I gonna tell the uber? What's your destination?
Just a bunch of big circles.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Because you're not sit directly behind me, That's what they'll
tell you. When that's the instruction I'd like. And so
that like that's a problem.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
I can go stand outside, but I can't go anywhere.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
What am I gonna do? Take my scooter and schlep
up and down, George Mason.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Some people will tell you that this is the universe's
signal to you to slow down and be present.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
I am present. I was present.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
I was president on holidays.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Sitting there talking to Jackie, I couldn't have been more present. Well,
I mean you horrible. Jackie had to cut her pants off.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Okay, When do your boys come haven't.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Done that since since our twenties?
Speaker 2 (15:34):
When do your boys come home?
Speaker 1 (15:35):
It depends. One comes home on Tuesday. He flies home, okay.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
The other one.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Drives from Knoxville. They play. This is infun nobody gives
a crap about they play. They have games tonight and Sunday.
But a lot of times what they'll do is that
if they kick the crap out of the team in
the first game, they'll sit front the first line, his line.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
So he was like, if that's the case, I'll come
home over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
But then he found out that both of us can't
do anything, and now he's like, well, maybe i'll stay
till Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
I should stay.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
They come home when my brother comes home yeah, so
I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
But because he knows he's going to be the taxi, yeah,
like yeah, around, he knows the mood of the house.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Yeah, it's bitter and angry, but.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Like Jackie's fine.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Jackie's like I could just sit on the couch for
the next six weeks and watch TV.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
I was like, I'll hang myself, Like I can't do that.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Coast Guard Kurt reached out to me yesterday, this is
before I have to ask him if we could use
his house for Thanksgiving, and he was like, Hey, is
there anything that I can do?
Speaker 3 (16:34):
And I was like yes, and He's like, yeah, name it.
I'll do anything.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
I have great friends, and so I was like, please
come pick me up, take me to your house. And
because he's he's got like a t like he's got
like a TV, but the TV you could sit on
like outside of his house and see the TV through
the window. And so I was like, just pick me up.
Let me sit in your backyard. All I want to
do is sit in the backyard, drink smoke and watch hockey.
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So I'll get home from Gladiator, I'll have Diane drop
me at your house. All I want to do is
sit outside and just drink, smoke and watch TV. Like
that would make me so happy.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
That's all I want to do.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Del has you know who's not in on that, Jackie? Yeah,
Del has a question for you. Does Daniel walk dogs?
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (17:20):
God, I think about that. You do need to help
with walking dogs?
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Going to pull that off?
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Well?
Speaker 1 (17:24):
So this morning, when when Jackie's ubering to her doctor's appointment,
a friend of ours is coming over to walk the dogs, right,
I said to Jacket, they can go outside in the
backyard like they'll they'll. I mean it's this big, but
they'll be fine. So the so I don't know, I
have no idea. We'll figure that out. And from oh, like,
here's what I don't want to do. I don't want
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to hire Rover to come over and walk the dog
an option and the last thing that I'm doing because
Jackie said, do you think that we could talk to
the company that Daniel works for it just hired Daniel
to like, I was like, what to yet Beck and call? No,
there's no way but to sit in the driveway.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Who is the dog walker who's being accused of filming
and only fans video?
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (18:12):
I think it's a Canadian woman, you see Nova Scotia.
You gotta worry about that.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Here's Daniel, here's Daniel doing pooring at our house. But
I was like, jack I don't think we can just
hire Daniel to just like like like, like, who are
we that we're gonna have Daniel just sit outside and
wait until it's time to go?
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Well, isn't also Daniel works? Isn't Aaron gonna have a
saying that? Yes?
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Of course? Like, and that's the other thing I said
to Jackie.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
She wasn't complaining, but I was like, you know, the
station is has been kind enough to pay for Daniel
to like pick me up and then take me home
like they didn't have to do that. I was like,
I can't march into Aaron's office and go, hey, can
we full time Daniel?
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Like there's no way, And.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
You've told me before he has other clients.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Yes, yeah, Daniels driving till ten o'clock.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Last night and then had to get you get you
at too, and then had to get you at too.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Yeah, glad this note didn't start for Daniel. I feel
sorry for him. My god, does that worry you that
he's getting so little rest? It's okay, I'm drowsy.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
But I asked him. I was like, are you okay.
He's like, yeah, I'm good.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Sorry, I'm late. I fell asleep and I stop side.
So the other the other from bones bones rightes. We
used visiting angels when my mother in law broke her leg.
They are now best friends and we have an angel
over at the house for all holidays.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Look at that.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Yeah, it's called Juliana Valencia. She's our angel man.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
The other thing is what luck it is?
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Honestly, Like, that's why I said to Jackie, it's a
total gong show, Like, I don't know if it is.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
You got to stop you one has ever Everybody says.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
That I distracted and start thinking about Chuck Babe more.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
And when will we be right back? Diane, what are
we coming back with more stuff?
Speaker 1 (20:12):
What do Chuck Barrison I have in common both Cia?
A lot of people will think that we're both Cia.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
The no no.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
But that's why I said to Jacket, like, I don't
know whether this is funny or this is pathetic.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
It's a you'll have a story to tell from here
on out, you know.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
What's a fun story to tell about? We had We
had a great Thanksgiving. You know what's a miserable story.
We both sat there getting bed sores because we both
have broken broken bones.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
But this is sort of like when we were talking
about the bad proposals in the moment. It didn't turn
out the way that the people had planned, but it
made for a good story. Diane's right. This is something
you guys will laugh about when you need visiting a
hospice care. Yeah, many years down the road. You know,
when they're testing your long term memory, do you remember?
Speaker 3 (21:01):
No?
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Nope, you know what I remember of Thanksgiving twenty twenty four,
my angel Valencia, it is wiping my ass. No, no,
here's my here's my other question though, because now I'm
gonna have scooters all over the house.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
I got more crutches than I know what to do with.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Is Teresa actually points out that later in your care
you will have an upstairs and a downstairs scooter, so
you'll have to get not just a second one for Jackie,
but a second one for yourself.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
The uh no, no, but is that my walk thing good?
What is that the eyewalk?
Speaker 4 (21:36):
The one that's the peg leg where it's it's almost
like a crutch that adheres to you.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
That like straps to.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
You, so it's a crutch, but instead of it being
on the side under your arms, it's in front of you.
And it's it's got a knee thing like your scooter has,
and your knee goes into it. The eyewalk looks awesome,
and I understand how it is. That guy looks pathetic
going up and downstairs and look at Mary the u oh,
that guy's washing his car. But here's what they don't
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show anybody sitting down is the eye walk. And I
see people with them, like when I go see doctor
and Nunziata, Like I see people in the lobby on
the peg leg but and but look how you gotta
strap it to yourself.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
But is the strap easy to take off for when
you do.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Have to sit down? Because what a pain in the ass.
Because I've never seen these before. I'm gonna have to
take it on and off every time I walk in
the studio.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Yeah, you wouldn't be able to unless you stand nothing.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Because I can't sit and have my stupid peg legs
slamming up against the bottom of the ball, like.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Sit to the side and have it up on a chair.
I don't know. I'm just putting out options.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Do you know how ridiculous that is? By the way,
maybe I should just turn Thanksgiving. Nobody can come to
Thanksgiving unless they're they got to cast somewhere on the
on the box crutch?
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Oh missus ovechkin, can you wipe me.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
The other other hands free crutches or eyewalk? The only one?
Speaker 3 (23:01):
I mean, are they the Kleenex? I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Here's freedom legay. Well, there's a lot of versions of
the eyewalk.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Wait, like a lot of different models or oh really.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
And upgrades over the years, so make sure you're getting
the most Does it come with a cup holder? A
cup holder? That this is not a scooter?
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Right? Which I which I'm gonna need four of now?
Two upstairs, two downstairs?
Speaker 2 (23:28):
You're just gidding?
Speaker 1 (23:29):
How about I'm shoving my wife around in a in
a chair like a desk chair.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
That guy's picking up his kid.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Well, they're showing a lot of people look at that.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Look how pathetic you look going up and down the
stairs though.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Yeah, but if you stand right from front on, it
looks like you're an amputee. You don't tumble make things.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Worse the Oh yeah, no, a fall would be bad.
A fall would be bad. But is this the way
to go?
Speaker 2 (23:54):
I think you should talk to your doctor before you
buy this.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Yes, and Nunziata, Oh, they.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Actually sell these for a Bologne amputees.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Yeah, but that's easy because you don't need the leg
kicking off the back. It's easy using a limb. No,
but they don't have to worry about sitting.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
I mean what they do?
Speaker 4 (24:14):
Are they not allowed? I guess you're gonna spend the
rest of your life standing. Sorry, it's just the way
it goes.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Move out of the way. Where am I going, Kristen?
Where am I going? Line five? Hi? Elliott in the.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
Morning, Hey Elliott, I had one of those eyewalks. Man,
I had a surgery on my ankle. It was garbage.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Oh really tell me why though, Tell me why?
Speaker 5 (24:37):
Oh dude? So the second you sit down, the thing is,
like you said, just straight up and straight sticking out,
so nobody's coming in. Even if you just sit on
the sofa, you have to take the thing off. It's
like six straps. It's laborers. I hated it. Going up
steps was even difficult.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Yeah, well they showed that guy on the commercial that
goes up and down the stairs.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
So crutches and scooter better than I walk.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
I had the scooter. I went with the scooter. I
even got a little bell for it.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Man the all right, No, that's good to hear because
the one thing, hey, thank you sir, Like they showed
the guy washing his car.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
I don't care about washing my car. I can't drive.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Also, is that really at the top of your priority list?
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Oh, I gotta go wash the car, Jackie, don't you
dare cancel Thanksgiving?
Speaker 4 (25:25):
I'm gonna I gotta wash the car. I'm gonna clean
the screens while I'm out.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
I love that you're being a baby about getting from
the front door of a building or home to a
car service. But you think you're gonna have a hose
with your cast splash it all over the place.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Please.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Oh I'm glad to hear because I didn't want to
because Jackie was like, let's get the eyewalk and see
which one works. And I was like, I'm not spending
the eye walks like one hundred and fifty bucks.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
I was like, jack what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Should I finally now pull the trigger on the stair
lift because now it's going to pay for itself.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
You know what?
Speaker 3 (26:02):
I mean I would. I would never do it for myself.
I would do it for Jackie. Here's the other problem.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
I'm sleeping on the I'm sleeping on the air mattress downstairs.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Right.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Well, now she can come join you.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Okay, it doesn't hold two people.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
Get another air mattress. So wait, is it's cheaper than
the eyewalk. And that's the other thing.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
I think Jackie's embarrassed for us to have everybody over
for Thanksgiving with essentially the bed in the middle of
the lake.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Nothing prop it up against a wall. Nobody will notice.
What's that?
Speaker 3 (26:36):
But if we run out of sofa room, I could
just lay on my.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Bed, yeah, and hold on the fitted sheet keeps coming off.
That's okay. Oh, that's okay because Juliana, at that point
we'll say, you know what I've heard you say it enough.
You use your own sheet as underwear. I'm done.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Line three. Hi Elliott in the morning, Hi, good morning Elliott.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Also, do you know how like it sounds like my
family is so pathetic?
Speaker 3 (27:07):
How are the seagulls? Oh they're both they both have
broken bones.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
It just happens. I know, it's it's unfortunate.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
It sucks but you know, you know who you know
who's laid up at home with broken bones?
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Grandma and grandpa. Yep.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
Well, as you age, you're increasing, you're an increased risk
of fall injuries. I mean, how many times have you
read that it's on the Visiting Angels bro.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Sure I have requested one.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
I'm sorry, yes, ma'am. What can I do for you? Hi?
I'm forty two, my fiance's forty three. He has a
shattered broken ankle leg and I have a broken collarbone.
But I want to offer you an I walk for
free because it sucks so bad.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
I see they.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Have Daniel drive you to my house and pick it up.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Of us could drive.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Wait, so the the eyewalk is wait so yeah, so
neither well you can drive with a collarbone and I
have surgery on it and like I have a plate
in it, so I still can't drive yet.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Comming back from that is rough.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
My kid when he broke his collar bone he was
driving a practice.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Well, he was also forced to my dad and much younger.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
He's sixteen.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Forty Hey, so let me ask you this.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
With neither of you able to drive, doesn't it it
sucks ass so bad.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
When you were talking about it. It was like you
were like speaking like my language completely.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
We were both we just like sit there and look
at each other. Sometimes it we like I'm so bored.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Like that's the part like, and I think that's what
really annoyed Jackie yesterday was I was.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
I think Jackie thought I was mad at her. I'm
not mad at her. I love her to death. You're
just it is it crack.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
No, it's it's that it's that ton of bricks that
hits you and goes I'm I'm I'm a prisoner, like
I can't go anywhere.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Yeah, if you're in jail right now, please call to
Elliot as six five five or six e.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
No, but you say that you need to get a
shower seat now, especially with Jackie.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
They can go to my neighbor's backyard.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
You know what.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
I'm gonna get those things that help you pull on
the sock.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
But I did tell Jackie I think I mentioned I'm
not sharing my cast cover with her. She can get
her own. I love I love my cast cover. The Yeah,
maybe the seat. There is something kind of hot though
about like sharing the seat, Like I don't know why,
but that's kind of hot.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
To me, oh, you know who.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
I hope calls it the okay.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Whatever, ma'am, all right, very good. I don't I don't
want the eyewalk though. I don't want the.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Eye walking because maybe ultimately this is karma for decades
of jokes about a bench.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
Christian vander Hugen Dugan.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
She is laughing her ass off right now. So if
the criminals get put down their keystered phones for a second,
we need to keep all lines open for one person
in particular,
My house turned into a total gong show yesterday. Total
mess o, what show? Gong show, gong show. Yeah, it's
a mess. My house is a mess now it was anger.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Is that a nicer way of saying an s show?
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:12):
No, it's horrible. It's horrible. Like the next month of
my house could be the worst month ever.
Speaker 4 (00:17):
Well, you need to clarify what you're speaking of, because
some of us in this room have a little bit
more knowledge.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
The Oh yeah, Jackie also broke something yesterday.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Well you told us that she fell, but she broke
walking the dogs.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Yeah, so she was walking. Oh yeah, oh yeah, we're broken.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Oh you didn't text us or tell us any of that.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
There was a lot of there's a lot of going
on the So anyway, she was out walking the dogs yesterday, right,
and somebody had somebody had what you call it like that,
like did all their leaves and everything. Yeah, And so
she was walking. She's got both dogs with her and
stuff and everything. Fine, she walks them every day. She
knows what she's doing. So one of the streets there's
(00:57):
a pretty good hill. So she was going down the
and the like over kind of on the side of
the road. There was a big rock that was kind
of buried by some of the leaves, kind of on
the fringe of the leaf pile. Yeah, so she hit
it with her ankle, right, or she stepped on it,
rolled off, fell down, and man, her knees are all
kinds of scraped up. Now, the good news is she
(01:20):
dropped both leashes. But the dogs didn't go anywhere, like
they just hung out, which was great. But she was like, man,
I am in a lot of pain. And so anyway,
so she was texting me while everything was going on,
and so she managed to like she was like, it
hurts so bad. And of course I'm going like, yeah,
I know, get up the hill, go back to go
back home, you know, and see what's going on. So anyway,
(01:41):
she makes them back home and she's an unbelievable amount
of pain and her knees are a.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Mess and everything.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
So when she got home, she was like, I'm going
to go to see our doctor, like it's bad, you know.
I was like, okay, yeah, knock yourself out, that's fine.
So she goes to the doctor and the X rayder
and it came back that there is a what is
it called a fifth metatarsal base fracture.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
What does that mean?
Speaker 1 (02:08):
So so they put her in a splint. By the way,
it's her right foot.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Oh okay, so she can't drive either, nothing, nothing, So
Daniel's picking up some extra hours.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
The no, you don't. You don't understand what this is
turned into.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
So the when she left, she she took an uber there, yeah,
to get to the doctor. And so she's got to
go see an orthopedis this morning at eight.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
So we were talking about that yesterday. She's ubering to that.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
The what do you want her to do?
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Exactly? Thank you. Somebody was like, aren't you taking her?
I was like, no, I go work. Somebody gotta pay
that insurance bill. So anyway, the.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Would you take her?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
I can't y, Yeah, I know, but like even if you.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Were home, you couldn't take her. Yeah, But to go
with her, oh, to attend.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Yeah, like to be there and be supportive. I could
be supportive from right here. The uh, well, let's not
go too far.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
When you text her back a half hour later, you good.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
So anyway, so anyway, they they they put her in
a in a splint and wrapped everything up and so
the so between the two, so we're sharing a pair
of crutches. We're sharing the and so we had a
so upstairs there's like a desk chair that rolls, so
we drag that downstairs. So now she's like in just
(03:30):
like a rolling chair, and so I crutch up behind
her and shove her and then like to get to
wherever we're going. The uh yeah, no it is. It's
such a mess. What's going on in my house. So anyway,
she has to go in today to see what the
extent of it is.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
So they they did give her some information.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
So the fifth meta tarsal base fracture, and I said
this was good, is among the most common fractures of
the foot. However, because it's a smaller bone on the
outside of the foot, it's also predisposed to poor healing
due to limited blood supply getting to that area. So
like with my tibia, they were like, this is great,
(04:12):
because I mean, it sucks, it's trickier than your fibula,
but there's a lot of blood that gets in that bone.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
So that's good. That's good for healing this thing.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Apparently not, so I says to Jackie, let's wait and see,
because the other sentence in here it says treatment can
include protected weight bearing immobilization. Oh yeah, so like a
boot that you could walk on, yeh, which would be great.
I was like, jack, that would be a home run
total immobilization, which is a cast or surgery. I was like, Jack,
(04:44):
uh huh no, no, Well.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
She's probably gonna do what the orthopedist recommends.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
I also don't know that Jackie's ever brought I don't
think Jackie's ever broken a bone before.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
So the two of us are sitting there last night,
one angrier than the other, popped up all over the place,
the shoving her in a chair, the trying to get
stuff done, and she's in the same boat, right and
so like she and I felt horrible for because she
was still wearing like the like whatever pants she had
on when she when she ate it. But now because
(05:15):
her her her legs all wrapped.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Up, she had to cut her pants off last night.
I was like, I get it.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
And what is what is her pain level of.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Bad but not horrible?
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Does she get anything beyond like like super strength tilt
all or I.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Told her what I'm like, I just do every night
where it's two Thailand all three Adville choke them down
in a way you go that works, wonders, and that
was given to me by a hospital. They're like, that's
the best thing minus an opioid. That's the best thing
you could do for pain.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
So I do that. I will tell you this.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
It has thickened, not not firmed, but thickened my stool.
The so I gave her some of those last night
and then and then she sent me a text so
she's I don't know whatever time the uber's getting there,
the social uber to the doctor's appointment, and then uber
uber back home.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
I was like, please come back with good news, Like seriously.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Well, that's out of her hands.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
No, I know that, I know that, but it is.
It's horrible timing. It's horrible timing.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
When did the boys come home or were they like,
you know, we'll just to Thanksgiving in the dorms because
at least it's not a couple of years ago when
you did need to get them places.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Correct.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Yeah, now, even though they're coming back, which it's not
ideal that it's the holidays and you guys are both injured,
but at least they are capable of moving around town
on their own.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Oh yeah, oh and by the way, driving us.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Yeah, yeah, that's the other thing, Well, they're not here
forever if you're here for a couple of days. Yeah,
when did they get home? I think they get home
on Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
But Thanksgiving is like the one time that you do
spend in the home because you host.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Well that came up yesterday, canceling Thanksgiving? No no, no, no, no,
are you going.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
To cancel it? On the grander scale?
Speaker 1 (06:59):
The what do you mean?
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Like, maybe just do.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
A Smallero's legs aren't broken, But you're.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Always bragging about how many people you're gonna have over
your house.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Yeah, and now everybody's still planning on coming.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
I haven't even told Juliana yet the no no, But
we were trying to figure out do we do it?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
So I guarantee you she's heard about your god broken ankle. Yeah,
you only mentioned it every ten minutes. No is is
he just follows the blogs? No, no, no, is Where
do we do it?
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (07:32):
What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Like? Do we go to somebody else's house? Do you
know how ridiculous it's gonna be? Because coast Guard Kurt
he goes in for surgery on Tuesday, and she.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Was still gonna be at your house two days before
Thanksgiving and he's going to be over.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
And he's a big helper, like because Menino loves bossing
him around. So he goes in for surgery on surgery, so.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
He had he had Well, I mean, you don't have
to tell me if you don't want to. But I'm
just thinking, like, is he a leg or a foot
injury too, or like arm, No.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
He's a leg, he's a leg.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Okay, Yeah, so you're gonna there's gonna be three of
your sort of hobbling around.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Yeah. And at first it was like, it'll just be uh,
coastguard curtain.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
I sitting on the couch. That'll be awesome. And then
like Jackie can run a bunch of stuff around for us.
But now, so my first thought was, let's do it
at Coastguard Kurts house. Well, that's kind of rude to
just invite everybody over to Coastguard Kurts house and he
can't do a goddamn thing, right, So now the sofa
is gonna be me, Jackie, and Kurt all lined up,
feet propped up in the air.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Horrible, horrible.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
It sucks. But I mean you could always.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Like Kurt's got a bad infection, okay, you could always
let people know like, hey, listen.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
No, no, I'm not canceling Eidy.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
You don't have to cancel it, favorite it back.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
I don't understand what you mean by scale it back
because you like to have do twelve pounds of turkey
instead of you like, yeah, just why uninviting.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Whoever isn't isn't Maybe like a small group of.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
People, there's gonna be our usual twenty five to thirty people.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
That's a nightmare.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Stupid by the way, No, why is that?
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Because you're already immobilized right, and now it's going to
be even harder to get around with all those people there.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
So so bigs will have to step in and do
stuff that Kurt would do, Like Menino's not going to
back it down.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Have you asked them though, do they want to come
because you're a bit dranky? They were, they were already invited.
Do they still want to come?
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Yeah? You think they want? You think they want to
cook instead of Menino?
Speaker 4 (09:26):
I myself want to sign up for hours of this.
Are you just going to a restaurant? Yeah, that's what
we're there, That's what you need to do. Just go
to a restaurant.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Yeah, come to the restaurant.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
With us.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
No, no, no, no, because people have already been told
what they have to get, well, they have to pack
their patients. Yeah, the no what I'm gonna be fine?
Oh god, the I'm gonna sit on the line on
the couch.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
It's a week away and you're cranky. I can only
imagine what Thursday will be like.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
I'm not happy about it.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
I'm not going to do anything about it, though I
understand that.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
I understand that, but like, even like, what am I
What do you want me to do? I'm not canceling Thanksgivving.
It's my favorite holiday. Scale it back, but you keep
saying scale it back. But scaling it back doesn't change anything.
I still can't do.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
It's a big difference to have ten people in your
house as opposed to thirty.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
How is that any difference.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
It's less people, it's less chaotic.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
But I liked it. I like chaos.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
I'd break my own bone to avoid what you do
every year for Thanksgiving, but pushed me down the stairs.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
No, no, but scaling it back doesn't do anything. Like
people are coming, so scaling it back, by the way,
we get twenty people and we're still fond.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
It's your house so you still have and Jackie will have.
You still have an obligation. You're the host, right, yes,
so it's not going to be just chilling on the couch.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
I sent a text at everybody that that's common. Knows
I broke my leg.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Well do they know about Jackie?
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Not yet? Okay, Well we don't know how severe. If
he could be in a boot, Okay, that's what I.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Said to her yesterday when she because she brought up
Thanksgiving and I scowled at her.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
But and I was like, can't we wait and see that?
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Like maybe you just need a boot and you can
hop around all over the case.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
But it's still hurt as the host is still hampered
no matter what the mode of treatment is.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
But the but the majority of the cooking is done
by Steve. Now everybody helps out. But that's why scaling
it back doesn't matter. He's not going to buy a
smaller piece of salmon. He's still going to have some
big ass salmon. Schlept In.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Hobe wants to know of the thirty people on your
guest list, how many of them are visiting angels.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
I don't even know what it is.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
That is that like the people that volunteer to help
the old people.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Right, yes, in home caregivers dedicated to providing compassionate and
life changing care, offering comfort, pieces of mind.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Just for.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Toby and Sanah. What time need.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Me there Juliana Valencia's home care.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
There's some photos. They'll comb your hair, Oh my god.
They'll help with toileting.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
I did tell Jackie you're not using my cast cover
lighthouse keeping lighthouse.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
That means they'll take your they'll take your dishes to
the sin Now.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
That's gonna be a problem. That's gonna be a.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Pretty You're gonna get a little TV tray going. You
need TV trays?
Speaker 1 (12:17):
No, but I can't stand up there and do dishes.
I hope t Biggs doesn't mind doing them.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Yeah, it looks like they also in case anyone there
has by the way, you go the onset dementia, they
can assist with that too.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Where's everybody at? Look?
Speaker 2 (12:34):
You're going to keep asking Jackie, Jackie, what's wrong with
the ankle. They can also help you navigate your tech.
What is the game on the font on your TV?
This is the home page that the picture that you
first see when you go on to America's Choice and
(12:56):
home care visiting angels dot com is one of their
employees holding the phone of the elderly person up in
front of their face to show them how to use it.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Juliana, I'm done. Can you wipe? Mate?
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Yeah, so you need at least two.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
He's on a news desk next Thursday. She's scrubbing my ass.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Now, this is late notice. But I will type in
your zip code and see if we can find you care. Now,
I don't know what it is gonna be in terms
of scheduling. You are talking about a major holiday. Some
would say it's their favorite holiday.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
But I did.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
But I did say to Jackie, like at least with
at least with like like work, right, I'm fortunate enough
that I have Daniel. Right, So Daniel picks me up
and drops me off. But like this week, this week alone,
I had three doctor's appointments. So Daniel drops me off.
On the way home, Jackie picks me up. Well, what
the f now, Well, what do you mean in terms
(14:03):
of Jackie can't go anywhere? And by the way, and
here's the other part. And I don't want to make
Jackie break in her foot yesterday, and I feel horrible.
My wife's never broken a bone before, and part of
me was like, you know many i've broken anyway. The
but at least and and here's here's where it gets.
Here's where I was a baby yesterday. Here's where I well,
I got it. I was a big baby about Thanksgiving?
Is I get cabin fever? Like I want to get
(14:25):
out of the house. That's that's all I want to do.
At least with Jackie, I could get out of the house.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
I could.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
I could go, like jack just drive me to Starbucks. Please,
I'll use rewards, like just get me out of the house.
She can't drive now. Yeah, so like like like two
like two invalids were sitting at home and we didn't
by the way, there was nothing to do. Like grubhub
showed up last night. Everything was fine the but now
now the worst part is I can't go anywhere. I
(14:52):
mean I can Uber, but that's a waste of money.
What am I gonna tell the uber? What's your destination?
Just a bunch of big circles.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Because you're not sit directly behind me, That's what they'll
tell you. When that's the instruction I'd like. And so
that like that's a problem.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
I can go stand outside, but I can't go anywhere.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
What am I gonna do? Take my scooter and schlep
up and down, George Mason.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Some people will tell you that this is the universe's
signal to you to slow down and be present.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
I am present. I was present.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
I was president on holidays.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Sitting there talking to Jackie, I couldn't have been more present. Well,
I mean you horrible. Jackie had to cut her pants off.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Okay, When do your boys come haven't.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Done that since since our twenties?
Speaker 2 (15:34):
When do your boys come home?
Speaker 1 (15:35):
It depends. One comes home on Tuesday. He flies home, okay.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
The other one.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Drives from Knoxville. They play. This is infun nobody gives
a crap about they play. They have games tonight and Sunday.
But a lot of times what they'll do is that
if they kick the crap out of the team in
the first game, they'll sit front the first line, his line.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
So he was like, if that's the case, I'll come
home over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
But then he found out that both of us can't
do anything, and now he's like, well, maybe i'll stay
till Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
I should stay.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
They come home when my brother comes home yeah, so
I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
But because he knows he's going to be the taxi, yeah,
like yeah, around, he knows the mood of the house.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Yeah, it's bitter and angry, but.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Like Jackie's fine.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Jackie's like I could just sit on the couch for
the next six weeks and watch TV.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
I was like, I'll hang myself, Like I can't do that.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Coast Guard Kurt reached out to me yesterday, this is
before I have to ask him if we could use
his house for Thanksgiving, and he was like, Hey, is
there anything that I can do?
Speaker 3 (16:34):
And I was like yes, and He's like, yeah, name it.
I'll do anything.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
I have great friends, and so I was like, please
come pick me up, take me to your house. And
because he's he's got like a t like he's got
like a TV, but the TV you could sit on
like outside of his house and see the TV through
the window. And so I was like, just pick me up.
Let me sit in your backyard. All I want to
do is sit in the backyard, drink smoke and watch hockey.
(17:00):
So I'll get home from Gladiator, I'll have Diane drop
me at your house. All I want to do is
sit outside and just drink, smoke and watch TV. Like
that would make me so happy.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
That's all I want to do.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Del has you know who's not in on that, Jackie? Yeah,
Del has a question for you. Does Daniel walk dogs?
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (17:20):
God, I think about that. You do need to help
with walking dogs?
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Going to pull that off?
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Well?
Speaker 1 (17:24):
So this morning, when when Jackie's ubering to her doctor's appointment,
a friend of ours is coming over to walk the dogs, right,
I said to Jacket, they can go outside in the
backyard like they'll they'll. I mean it's this big, but
they'll be fine. So the so I don't know, I
have no idea. We'll figure that out. And from oh, like,
here's what I don't want to do. I don't want
(17:46):
to hire Rover to come over and walk the dog
an option and the last thing that I'm doing because
Jackie said, do you think that we could talk to
the company that Daniel works for it just hired Daniel
to like, I was like, what to yet Beck and call? No,
there's no way but to sit in the driveway.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Who is the dog walker who's being accused of filming
and only fans video?
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (18:12):
I think it's a Canadian woman, you see Nova Scotia.
You gotta worry about that.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Here's Daniel, here's Daniel doing pooring at our house. But
I was like, jack I don't think we can just
hire Daniel to just like like like, like, who are
we that we're gonna have Daniel just sit outside and
wait until it's time to go?
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Well, isn't also Daniel works? Isn't Aaron gonna have a
saying that? Yes?
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Of course? Like, and that's the other thing I said
to Jackie.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
She wasn't complaining, but I was like, you know, the
station is has been kind enough to pay for Daniel
to like pick me up and then take me home
like they didn't have to do that. I was like,
I can't march into Aaron's office and go, hey, can
we full time Daniel?
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Like there's no way, And.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
You've told me before he has other clients.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Yes, yeah, Daniels driving till ten o'clock.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Last night and then had to get you get you
at too, and then had to get you at too.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Yeah, glad this note didn't start for Daniel. I feel
sorry for him. My god, does that worry you that
he's getting so little rest? It's okay, I'm drowsy.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
But I asked him. I was like, are you okay.
He's like, yeah, I'm good.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Sorry, I'm late. I fell asleep and I stop side.
So the other the other from bones bones rightes. We
used visiting angels when my mother in law broke her leg.
They are now best friends and we have an angel
over at the house for all holidays.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Look at that.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Yeah, it's called Juliana Valencia. She's our angel man.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
The other thing is what luck it is?
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Honestly, Like, that's why I said to Jackie, it's a
total gong show, Like, I don't know if it is.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
You got to stop you one has ever Everybody says.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
That I distracted and start thinking about Chuck Babe more.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
And when will we be right back? Diane, what are
we coming back with more stuff?
Speaker 1 (20:12):
What do Chuck Barrison I have in common both Cia?
A lot of people will think that we're both Cia.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
The no no.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
But that's why I said to Jacket, like, I don't
know whether this is funny or this is pathetic.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
It's a you'll have a story to tell from here
on out, you know.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
What's a fun story to tell about? We had We
had a great Thanksgiving. You know what's a miserable story.
We both sat there getting bed sores because we both
have broken broken bones.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
But this is sort of like when we were talking
about the bad proposals in the moment. It didn't turn
out the way that the people had planned, but it
made for a good story. Diane's right. This is something
you guys will laugh about when you need visiting a
hospice care. Yeah, many years down the road. You know,
when they're testing your long term memory, do you remember?
Speaker 3 (21:01):
No?
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Nope, you know what I remember of Thanksgiving twenty twenty four,
my angel Valencia, it is wiping my ass. No, no,
here's my here's my other question though, because now I'm
gonna have scooters all over the house.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
I got more crutches than I know what to do with.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Is Teresa actually points out that later in your care
you will have an upstairs and a downstairs scooter, so
you'll have to get not just a second one for Jackie,
but a second one for yourself.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
The uh no, no, but is that my walk thing good?
What is that the eyewalk?
Speaker 4 (21:36):
The one that's the peg leg where it's it's almost
like a crutch that adheres to you.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
That like straps to.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
You, so it's a crutch, but instead of it being
on the side under your arms, it's in front of you.
And it's it's got a knee thing like your scooter has,
and your knee goes into it. The eyewalk looks awesome,
and I understand how it is. That guy looks pathetic
going up and downstairs and look at Mary the u oh,
that guy's washing his car. But here's what they don't
(22:02):
show anybody sitting down is the eye walk. And I
see people with them, like when I go see doctor
and Nunziata, Like I see people in the lobby on
the peg leg but and but look how you gotta
strap it to yourself.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
But is the strap easy to take off for when
you do.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Have to sit down? Because what a pain in the ass.
Because I've never seen these before. I'm gonna have to
take it on and off every time I walk in
the studio.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Yeah, you wouldn't be able to unless you stand nothing.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Because I can't sit and have my stupid peg legs
slamming up against the bottom of the ball, like.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Sit to the side and have it up on a chair.
I don't know. I'm just putting out options.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Do you know how ridiculous that is? By the way,
maybe I should just turn Thanksgiving. Nobody can come to
Thanksgiving unless they're they got to cast somewhere on the
on the box crutch?
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Oh missus ovechkin, can you wipe me.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
The other other hands free crutches or eyewalk? The only one?
Speaker 3 (23:01):
I mean, are they the Kleenex? I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Here's freedom legay. Well, there's a lot of versions of
the eyewalk.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Wait, like a lot of different models or oh really.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
And upgrades over the years, so make sure you're getting
the most Does it come with a cup holder? A
cup holder? That this is not a scooter?
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Right? Which I which I'm gonna need four of now?
Two upstairs, two downstairs?
Speaker 2 (23:28):
You're just gidding?
Speaker 1 (23:29):
How about I'm shoving my wife around in a in
a chair like a desk chair.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
That guy's picking up his kid.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Well, they're showing a lot of people look at that.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Look how pathetic you look going up and down the
stairs though.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Yeah, but if you stand right from front on, it
looks like you're an amputee. You don't tumble make things.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Worse the Oh yeah, no, a fall would be bad.
A fall would be bad. But is this the way
to go?
Speaker 2 (23:54):
I think you should talk to your doctor before you
buy this.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Yes, and Nunziata, Oh, they.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Actually sell these for a Bologne amputees.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Yeah, but that's easy because you don't need the leg
kicking off the back. It's easy using a limb. No,
but they don't have to worry about sitting.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
I mean what they do?
Speaker 4 (24:14):
Are they not allowed? I guess you're gonna spend the
rest of your life standing. Sorry, it's just the way
it goes.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Move out of the way. Where am I going, Kristen?
Where am I going? Line five? Hi? Elliott in the.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
Morning, Hey Elliott, I had one of those eyewalks. Man,
I had a surgery on my ankle. It was garbage.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Oh really tell me why though, Tell me why?
Speaker 5 (24:37):
Oh dude? So the second you sit down, the thing is,
like you said, just straight up and straight sticking out,
so nobody's coming in. Even if you just sit on
the sofa, you have to take the thing off. It's
like six straps. It's laborers. I hated it. Going up
steps was even difficult.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Yeah, well they showed that guy on the commercial that
goes up and down the stairs.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
So crutches and scooter better than I walk.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
I had the scooter. I went with the scooter. I
even got a little bell for it.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Man the all right, No, that's good to hear because
the one thing, hey, thank you sir, Like they showed
the guy washing his car.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
I don't care about washing my car. I can't drive.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Also, is that really at the top of your priority list?
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Oh, I gotta go wash the car, Jackie, don't you
dare cancel Thanksgiving?
Speaker 4 (25:25):
I'm gonna I gotta wash the car. I'm gonna clean
the screens while I'm out.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
I love that you're being a baby about getting from
the front door of a building or home to a
car service. But you think you're gonna have a hose
with your cast splash it all over the place.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Please.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Oh I'm glad to hear because I didn't want to
because Jackie was like, let's get the eyewalk and see
which one works. And I was like, I'm not spending
the eye walks like one hundred and fifty bucks.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
I was like, jack what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Should I finally now pull the trigger on the stair
lift because now it's going to pay for itself.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
You know what?
Speaker 3 (26:02):
I mean I would. I would never do it for myself.
I would do it for Jackie. Here's the other problem.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
I'm sleeping on the I'm sleeping on the air mattress downstairs.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Right.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Well, now she can come join you.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Okay, it doesn't hold two people.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
Get another air mattress. So wait, is it's cheaper than
the eyewalk. And that's the other thing.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
I think Jackie's embarrassed for us to have everybody over
for Thanksgiving with essentially the bed in the middle of
the lake.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Nothing prop it up against a wall. Nobody will notice.
What's that?
Speaker 3 (26:36):
But if we run out of sofa room, I could
just lay on my.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Bed, yeah, and hold on the fitted sheet keeps coming off.
That's okay. Oh, that's okay because Juliana, at that point
we'll say, you know what I've heard you say it enough.
You use your own sheet as underwear. I'm done.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Line three. Hi Elliott in the morning, Hi, good morning Elliott.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Also, do you know how like it sounds like my
family is so pathetic?
Speaker 3 (27:07):
How are the seagulls? Oh they're both they both have
broken bones.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
It just happens. I know, it's it's unfortunate.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
It sucks but you know, you know who you know
who's laid up at home with broken bones?
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Grandma and grandpa. Yep.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
Well, as you age, you're increasing, you're an increased risk
of fall injuries. I mean, how many times have you
read that it's on the Visiting Angels bro.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Sure I have requested one.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
I'm sorry, yes, ma'am. What can I do for you? Hi?
I'm forty two, my fiance's forty three. He has a
shattered broken ankle leg and I have a broken collarbone.
But I want to offer you an I walk for
free because it sucks so bad.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
I see they.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Have Daniel drive you to my house and pick it up.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Of us could drive.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Wait, so the the eyewalk is wait so yeah, so
neither well you can drive with a collarbone and I
have surgery on it and like I have a plate
in it, so I still can't drive yet.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Comming back from that is rough.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
My kid when he broke his collar bone he was
driving a practice.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Well, he was also forced to my dad and much younger.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
He's sixteen.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Forty Hey, so let me ask you this.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
With neither of you able to drive, doesn't it it
sucks ass so bad.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
When you were talking about it. It was like you
were like speaking like my language completely.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
We were both we just like sit there and look
at each other. Sometimes it we like I'm so bored.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Like that's the part like, and I think that's what
really annoyed Jackie yesterday was I was.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
I think Jackie thought I was mad at her. I'm
not mad at her. I love her to death. You're
just it is it crack.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
No, it's it's that it's that ton of bricks that
hits you and goes I'm I'm I'm a prisoner, like
I can't go anywhere.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Yeah, if you're in jail right now, please call to
Elliot as six five five or six e.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
No, but you say that you need to get a
shower seat now, especially with Jackie.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
They can go to my neighbor's backyard.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
You know what.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
I'm gonna get those things that help you pull on
the sock.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
But I did tell Jackie I think I mentioned I'm
not sharing my cast cover with her. She can get
her own. I love I love my cast cover. The Yeah,
maybe the seat. There is something kind of hot though
about like sharing the seat, Like I don't know why,
but that's kind of hot.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
To me, oh, you know who.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
I hope calls it the okay.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Whatever, ma'am, all right, very good. I don't I don't
want the eyewalk though. I don't want the.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Eye walking because maybe ultimately this is karma for decades
of jokes about a bench.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
Christian vander Hugen Dugan.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
She is laughing her ass off right now. So if
the criminals get put down their keystered phones for a second,
we need to keep all lines open for one person
in particular,
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