Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Tell me 1.
[00:00:02] Speaker B: Do you want to play it?
[00:00:10] Speaker A: Getting to know you Getting to know all about you Getting to know you Getting to know what to do
[00:00:28] Speaker C: Getting
[00:00:29] Speaker A: to know you Getting to know all about you.
[00:00:36] Speaker D: All right. And in this, dare I say micro episode of the if it's not one thing, It's Joanna podcast, we're going to talk with, I don't know, should we call her the General? Because it feels like that should be her term. Latrice back on the pod for a little update.
[00:00:54] Speaker B: And listen, I mean, I'm a little worried that we shared her name and her information. I mean, already one of my friends has hired Latrice to help out with her mom, which is great. Listen, I want Latrice to rule the caregiving empire, and she should. And we adore her, by the way, as we do with all of our caregivers. But yeah, they're all really. How lucky are we, right?
[00:01:18] Speaker D: So lucky.
[00:01:19] Speaker B: My gosh. Every single one of them. And they're. I love our group chats. I love when you send like a hey, I got you all Girl Scout cookies. And I love pictures of or video of Brandy's baby. I mean, that one of that baby playing the piano with mom last week. I just.
[00:01:35] Speaker D: She's our sixth caregiver. Should we put her to work? She's doing something.
[00:01:38] Speaker B: That'll be the thing.
[00:01:40] Speaker D: Without question.
[00:01:41] Speaker B: Before we get to Latrice, I have two community related things that I've been meaning to discuss with you. I have kind of told you a little bit about them, but we haven't really talked about them on the pot. Okay, so one, a few weeks ago, it's actually been a little while. You went to la. How was that, by the way?
[00:01:55] Speaker D: Great, Wonderful, thank you.
[00:01:57] Speaker B: Good. And I stayed with mom as I do when you leave town. And listen, it's never a fun conversation to have, but I think it's meaningful to bring up that there are often some toilet issues.
For better or worse, mom has a pretty healthy colon and as a result, there have been some clog issues. And so I can't remember which caregiver was there, but they said we have a code brown in mom's bathroom and I had to go to our local area, Ace Hardware, Durst Lumber to be exact, which is less than a mile.
[00:02:31] Speaker D: The use of the term code brown did not go unnoticed, by the way. That is the proper term.
[00:02:35] Speaker B: Thank you. I hope. So this is the hardware store where dad would go and just spend hours. They had this old counter. It's an old hardware store. That's obviously been fixed up through the years, but it's classic. There's a big counter in love. It's a big counter in the back that has a popcorn machine. And that's where they do the. The key. You know, when you have a. You need to have a key made. And dad would just go hang out with those guys.
[00:03:00] Speaker D: Oh, and by the way, you are greeted by a full size polar bear. When you walk through the entrance.
That's what greets you.
[00:03:07] Speaker B: I think it's real. I mean, it's not. It's not a lie.
[00:03:09] Speaker D: I think it's a taxidermied polar bear.
[00:03:11] Speaker E: I don't know.
[00:03:11] Speaker D: I'm assuming it is.
[00:03:13] Speaker B: It's not a live polar bear. It is in a large glass. It's in a large glass cage.
[00:03:19] Speaker D: Unhumanly being kept in a cage. It's been slaughtered and then taxed their meat. So it's much better.
[00:03:25] Speaker B: Yeah, well, I mean, yeah, yeah. It lives in.
[00:03:29] Speaker E: It's many years old. It was back.
[00:03:31] Speaker D: Back in the day when taxidermy was still cool.
[00:03:33] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah.
Killing polar bears, maybe not as controversial as today. Nonetheless, Derslumber is really a special place. And so I went in. I was in a panic because I had to leave mom on her own because we didn't have a caregiver there. But this situation had to be handled. And so I went. And of course, AI had helped me through the things that I should be doing, but I didn't exactly know how to find all the equipment. So I go to the back counter. A lovely young man named Nick comes and helps me. And he guides me to the section where you buy. I think it's called an auger. Am I. Yeah, that's it.
[00:04:07] Speaker D: That's it.
[00:04:07] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:04:08] Speaker D: I also had to look that up once myself.
[00:04:11] Speaker B: Toilet experts, you know, in addition to everything else. So anyway, not only does he guide me there, but he tells me, you don't need the most expensive one. You could do this. He shows me how to use it. I would have absolutely used it wrong. Turns out that you have to push it in all the way before you start cranking. Anyway, he said, I want you to go home and try this and if it doesn't work, call me and I will help walk you through this. And sure enough, he gave me such complete and accurate directions. I get home within minutes. I mean, listen, it wasn't pretty, but it was solved within minutes. And so I called Durst to let him know because he said, I want you to tell me if it's okay. And what can I do? Et cetera, et cetera. And he said, you know, we're your family here. And I had explained it looked like I was in a panic. And I told him we were taking care of my mom. And he said, we're your family here. You should be calling on us to help you with whatever you need. And I did call the manager and just tell them how amazing he was. But it just felt like, in that instance when he said it, and I really was probably ready to burst into tears, it just felt like, so nice, you know, if I had to wait for a plumber to come over and all those things. And it was an easy fix and I could do it, but just the fact that he said that just warmed my heart.
[00:05:23] Speaker D: Very nice.
Very nice.
[00:05:25] Speaker B: Yeah. So now I got good. Sorry.
[00:05:28] Speaker D: I was gonna say good for Nick. And we're definitely gonna be plugging them in the notes about this pod today, for sure.
It's worth a mention.
[00:05:35] Speaker B: It is worth a Michigan. It's worth a mention. Okay, then we go a mile down the block. And now there is a place. I don't know how long they've been open. I would say maybe within a year. It's called Barkside. And this has become.
[00:05:47] Speaker E: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
[00:05:49] Speaker B: My gosh. So my friend Christine, it's bigger than AI, folks.
[00:05:53] Speaker D: This is the next big trend.
[00:05:55] Speaker B: Yeah, I want in on this business. This is Joy. So my friend Christine calls me several Sundays ago. She's dog sitting, and she's going to take the dog to Barkside in Southfield, a couple miles from Mom. It is an indoor outdoor dog park where people just come and bring their dogs. And I would assume you have to meet some criteria with your dog. But basically, the dogs go off leash. They roam around inside and outside, and the people just sit in these Adirondack chairs and they serve, I think. I don't know if they have a full bar. I know they serve beer, coffee. They usually have a food truck out front. And everybody just hangs out and dogs just run around and play with each other. They play with you. And I thought, ugh. I mean, mom is such a dog lover. I have to bring mom here. So now this has become part of our ritual that I've been bringing mom to Barkside every week. And we are the only ones there who don't have our own dog. And all the staff has gotten to know her. So when she comes in, they say, who are you registering? And I say, just us. And because mom sits on her, she has a walker that has A little seat on it. She could never get in and out of those Adirondack chairs. And navigating the benches would be tricky. But she sits on the top of her walker, which puts her up a little bit higher. And I don't know if it's just that mom is a dog magnet or if it's the location of her seat, but every single dog comes in there and just greets her with.
Joanna is here, and she is laughing and giggling to the point where we have stayed for a couple hours now. And, you know, I'm always trying to think of, well, what can I do with her that doesn't.
[00:07:30] Speaker D: She's usually like, let me. I gotta get out of here. And back home. She's not like that when she goes.
[00:07:34] Speaker B: Not at all. And you know that usually on Sunday afternoons, I bring her to my house, we'll do some cooking or some baking, we'll watch a movie. And she's getting up and saying, all right, I gotta go. She is not feeling that way at this place. And I've met really cool people. I've run into some people I know. I saw my friend Noah there recently, which was so exciting. And everybody's so funny. Which dog is yours? Oh, no, we don't. We don't have a dog.
[00:07:56] Speaker D: Well, I don't know if we can say that. I have a suggestion for you. Next time, I think you should bring Oscar, our cute little robot puppy, and just see what happens. Now, I don't want a dog to, like, treat him as a toy and eat him and kill him, but, like, bring it in with mom, that's her dog, and see what happens. That might be interesting.
[00:08:13] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh. That's the best idea, because, you know, Oscar doesn't have a leash, but you can be off leash at Barkside. Yeah, I wonder if we get charged. Humans are free, but yet, what if
[00:08:22] Speaker D: they make you put a leash on Oscar? Like, that's. Sorry, that's policy. He's got to have one.
[00:08:26] Speaker B: No, nobody's leashed. It's the. Such a joy they have.
[00:08:29] Speaker D: Oh, no, there's no policy. You're saying you don't have to have a leash?
[00:08:33] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. You don't. There's no leash.
I will say that I sent you a picture of this little dog, maybe, like, I don't know, 10, 12 pounds, and it comes in with its owner, just walks right in, and all the big dogs just gather around this little dog, and it just takes the biggest poop right in the middle of all the big dogs. And Then just gets up and walks away. And the Barkside people just come immediately. They clean up the poop. It's like it never happened. But it just.
[00:08:59] Speaker D: Code Brown.
It's gone full circle.
[00:09:02] Speaker B: Code Brown. I think we should. Yeah, we can stop the conversation there. But the point is that I feel so grateful that we have won communities of people around us who want to help us, including Nick, the guy at Durst Lumber, but also just the people at Barkside who, you know, they know Mom's situation. They can. They, you know, obviously I told them, look, my mom has Alzheimer's. I think it's. This is such a special place. And they are so welcoming and so lovely. Everybody comes and says hi, and she's just reveling in the joy of Barkside.
[00:09:35] Speaker D: So fantastic. Those are very important community notes.
All right, let's get to Latrice. As you guys know, we recently, the three of us, the siblings, talked about the status report about mom and how she's doing. And we're going to be having our caregivers from time to time, also come on and give us their feedback. And so here is Latrice's after this interlude of music by Mom.
[00:10:09] Speaker A: You see the moon and the night you got to have them all because they're here.
And when that fight starts to be a better B.
Got to have it all tonight Somewhere over the rainbow Skies are blue.
[00:10:51] Speaker E: All right, I've just started recording. Very casual.
How are you doing, Latrice?
[00:10:57] Speaker C: I'm good. How are you?
[00:10:58] Speaker E: I'm good.
So we're having our discussions here with all of our wonderful Dream team members about Joanna and just getting feedback on what you think you've witnessed. Latrice, now, you've been here over a year, right?
[00:11:16] Speaker C: It's been almost two.
[00:11:18] Speaker E: Almost two already. My God.
[00:11:20] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:11:20] Speaker E: And of course, our listeners know Latrice, because you've been on before talking about caregiving and the role you do and all the work that you do and how it's been with Mom. And so any. Any thoughts over the past almost two years, what have you noticed? Change wise with Mom.
[00:11:38] Speaker C: Change wise. She's not getting any worse.
I feel like she's very content.
She loved the fact that she's home.
And I don't feel like she's getting worse.
She's doing very well.
[00:11:54] Speaker E: It's funny that you say that because we, you know, Julie, Karen and I also did a little powwow about what we see. And the amazing thing is I haven't noticed, like, a precipitous decline.
[00:12:06] Speaker C: No, no.
[00:12:06] Speaker E: She seems to be kind of hanging in there.
[00:12:08] Speaker C: And she's a tough cookie.
[00:12:10] Speaker E: She's a tough cookie.
[00:12:12] Speaker C: She's. I mean, she's still doing this. This lady reads every single day.
[00:12:18] Speaker E: She does.
[00:12:20] Speaker C: She sings every single day.
[00:12:23] Speaker E: Yeah. I mean, the only thing, the couple things we notice. You tell. Tell me if you agree, like, she's not playing the piano on her own as much.
[00:12:31] Speaker C: She's not playing the piano as much, but she still.
She's reading.
That is a hundred percent.
I don't know anybody that can still read a book word for word at her age.
[00:12:47] Speaker E: Her eyes are very good because even when she's watching tv, she can read the subtitles and she can read out loud. So. Yeah, the reading is very sharp.
[00:12:55] Speaker C: It's very sharp.
[00:12:56] Speaker E: And she enjoys reading out loud. Speaking. Yeah.
[00:13:00] Speaker C: And she still talked. I mean, when we sit there.
You know what? She's been singing a lot lately.
It's like she know opening day is coming.
Yeah.
[00:13:11] Speaker E: Isn't that weird? She's been singing Take Me out to the Ball game.
[00:13:14] Speaker B: You heard her.
[00:13:14] Speaker E: She's not even a baseball fan.
[00:13:16] Speaker C: She's been singing that song every night for dinner. When she comes in this kitchen, she is singing Take Me out to the Ball.
[00:13:25] Speaker E: That's just beyond weird because she's not a big sports fan.
[00:13:28] Speaker C: I don't know if anybody. If she was single with anybody else. I noticed at least three times last week and this week she's been singing that song.
[00:13:36] Speaker E: Never heard that before.
And so that's definitely new.
And it also just seems like she's watching less tv.
[00:13:43] Speaker C: She's watching less tv. She loves her music, though.
[00:13:46] Speaker E: Yeah, she loves the music and she loves to sing along. Sometimes I catch her in that front chair and she's just kind of has her eyes closed and she's moving along.
Yeah.
[00:13:58] Speaker C: Even at bedtime, though, I always grab her hands and when I walk her to the bed, we do a little dance. And she remembers every time I grab her hands what time it is. Me and her do a little dance back and forth.
[00:14:11] Speaker E: That's the get in bed dance.
[00:14:13] Speaker C: That's the get in bed dance. But I don't see any changes. She's not. She's not declining at all.
Her brain is very sharp.
[00:14:22] Speaker E: Yeah. Your conversation. She's still able to respond and participate. And she seems to recognize you when you come in and all that. Right.
[00:14:31] Speaker C: I mean. And she eats very well.
Yeah, she does. I mean, it's Jojo is Jojo.
And it's been.
[00:14:42] Speaker E: She's a tank.
[00:14:43] Speaker C: And I've worked with a lot of people and it's been literally about almost two years, Andrew.
[00:14:49] Speaker E: Yeah, that's right. Because it was like late spring of 24 that we moved her back home. That's right.
[00:14:55] Speaker C: And she's doing well. If you ask me, she's doing very well. You ask her a question, she answers it.
It's dinner time. Jojo, you ready to eat? Yes.
So I don't think, I don't think, I think she's great.
She's very content here and I love it.
[00:15:13] Speaker E: Yeah. And how is she? Like one thing I've also noticed is that just the sleep patterns. Cuz I remember like last year or early on when she came back when the days were short, like it got dark really early in the depth of winter. Remember we had trouble keeping it out. She would want to go to bed at like 5:30 or 6. But we haven't had. Winter's over, we haven't had that problem.
[00:15:37] Speaker C: But I was thinking because you know daylight is coming back again. What is it? Sunday?
[00:15:42] Speaker E: Sunday, yeah.
[00:15:42] Speaker C: So it might start, it's going to start getting dark later. I was just telling my sister I think she might, her, her body might think about that daylight outside and we might, we don't know though.
[00:15:55] Speaker E: Well that's normal though.
[00:15:56] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:15:56] Speaker E: In the longer day months you guys don't you get it ready for it but you don't put her in bed. She'll stay up till 8 sometimes so that's gonna happen. But I just, I was interested to know that like she, she didn't have that like trigger of wanting to go to bed really early like at 5:30 this past winter she's been. And in the mornings I've also noticed, you know like I keep the, the, the, the motion sensor alerts on with the cameras at night. So like if I get up in the morning I usually check to see what's happened at night. And when I open the door for you in the morning, I like make sure she's still not ruming, you know, moving around or anything and there's just been no movement whatsoever. Usually there's like a few movements during the night but even if she's just tossing and turning, it'll, it'll register. She's been sleeping just absolutely beautifully all night long. And when you go there in the morning to get her up, is she already up?
[00:16:46] Speaker C: Normally sometimes she's woke.
[00:16:48] Speaker E: Okay.
[00:16:49] Speaker C: When I go in about 7:30, 7:40, she's woke but she's just laying there.
Sometimes she wake up a little later. The least she'll be up probably about 7:50. But when she wake up, I turn on the light, I say, good morning. Good morning, sunshine.
[00:17:06] Speaker E: And she's ready to go.
[00:17:07] Speaker C: She's ready to go.
[00:17:08] Speaker E: She waits.
[00:17:09] Speaker C: She waits. Yeah.
[00:17:10] Speaker E: She doesn't get out of bed on her own anymore, really.
[00:17:12] Speaker B: And.
[00:17:12] Speaker C: And she really does. Even when it comes to getting in it. She won't even want to get in it by herself. So I think she's noticing.
She's a lot more careful than she's been.
[00:17:23] Speaker E: Yeah, we've heard that. You know, getting in and out of the shower. Has that been more difficult, do you think, lately?
[00:17:29] Speaker C: Difficult. She's scared.
[00:17:31] Speaker E: Okay.
[00:17:33] Speaker C: So that's what I've noticed, like, when she's scared. So when I talk to her, I say, take your foot and go all the way in.
And we count. And it's better for her, but she's more scared.
[00:17:46] Speaker E: She's done it a million times.
[00:17:47] Speaker C: She's done it a million times. And she's failed before, you know, so she's scared, so that's okay. But when it comes to bedtime, I think she's noticing more. I'm standing in this bed until somebody come wake me up.
[00:17:59] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:17:59] Speaker C: And get me up.
[00:18:00] Speaker E: Right. Yeah. Because I. I remember in the beginning she would be very common for her to get up out of bed on her own and start roaming around and just gathering herself in a room and stuff like that, which is fine. She. Obviously she can. She's independent and able to move around without falling down. But. Yeah, I've noticed she's been waiting.
[00:18:17] Speaker C: But I think after a route, after you get. It's like a routine when you get so used to doing. She's used to doing the things now, so she know somebody's gonna come in there and wake me up this morning and get me up and ready for bed.
[00:18:29] Speaker E: That's true. I mean, we were thinking of having someone come in and kind of like get rid of that step into the shower.
[00:18:37] Speaker C: Do you think that's important?
[00:18:38] Speaker E: Do you think that would be helpful?
[00:18:39] Speaker C: I think it will because it'd be easiest. Easier for us to even get her to go in there because that step
[00:18:46] Speaker E: seems to be a big.
[00:18:47] Speaker C: That's the nervous part. That's the problem.
[00:18:50] Speaker E: Yeah. I mean, I really haven't.
[00:18:52] Speaker C: If she can just walk through there, she'll be fine.
[00:18:55] Speaker E: Yeah, that seems to be the way it is.
[00:18:57] Speaker C: Yeah. If she can just walk through the shower and get in, it'll be fine. It's that big stuff. Step that she's constantly looking at. And it makes her nervous and I understand.
[00:19:07] Speaker E: Yeah, yeah, I get it. So any other suggestions? Anything we should change? Anything you should keep an eye on anything.
[00:19:15] Speaker C: I think we should keep doing the things that we're doing. And that's it. She's great.
She's great. Andrew. I don't think it's. It's nothing for you guys to worry about.
Jojo is great.
[00:19:29] Speaker E: I mean, it's without a doubt a certainty at this point that bringing her home was the best thing for her.
[00:19:37] Speaker C: It was the best thing that you guys could have did because she's. She's amazing. Like, she enjoys this house.
She enjoys her company.
She enjoys this house. I think that was the best thing for you guys to do. Her being there.
It just doesn't fit in with her.
[00:19:57] Speaker E: No, no, she loves it now. And. And also, you know, we were putting the chair out to prevent her from escaping, but she.
[00:20:04] Speaker D: Now she forgot about it.
[00:20:05] Speaker C: But she forgot about it.
[00:20:05] Speaker E: She doesn't do it anymore.
[00:20:06] Speaker C: Even when it came to the blinds, she forgot about it. It's just certain things that she will do, but it only be about a week or two and it's done.
[00:20:16] Speaker E: Right.
[00:20:16] Speaker C: She forget about it.
[00:20:17] Speaker E: She has gotten a little bit more active also in moving the blinds and the front row. Yeah. She'll like slide them up a little bit.
[00:20:23] Speaker C: She go from one thing to the next. So she'll do that now and then she'll forget about it.
[00:20:28] Speaker E: Yeah. Right.
[00:20:28] Speaker C: It's not an ongoing thing.
[00:20:30] Speaker E: Right.
[00:20:31] Speaker C: So that's good too. You know what I'm saying? You don't have to worry about her. We thought she was going to walk out that door.
[00:20:38] Speaker E: Well, she. One time she did, but she didn't get very far.
[00:20:40] Speaker D: I mean, she didn't walk out. She opened the door and she was
[00:20:43] Speaker B: like, no, we start putting the chair.
[00:20:45] Speaker C: When we start putting the chair there.
[00:20:47] Speaker E: Yeah. No, she wasn't. She forgot about it.
[00:20:50] Speaker C: She forgot about it. Yeah. So it's nothing to worry about. It's like when she see one thing, she. She used to open up the blinds. That's the thing. So now she done start doing the blinds again because she. Remember I used to open up the blinds. So let me open up the blinds today.
[00:21:04] Speaker E: Uhhuh.
[00:21:05] Speaker C: But it's just something that she'll eventually forget about again, right?
[00:21:10] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:21:11] Speaker C: So that's. I mean, I. The brain has a prop. This is the thing. She's thinking about what she used to do and what she's used to doing.
So that's when she started doing it again.
[00:21:23] Speaker E: Right.
[00:21:25] Speaker C: A week or two passed. Guess what? She's not doing it anymore.
[00:21:29] Speaker E: Yeah, that's true.
[00:21:30] Speaker C: She forgot about it again.
[00:21:31] Speaker E: It's very interesting.
[00:21:32] Speaker C: Even when it came to the microwave, she would go to the microwave and she would look at it every night and say, okay, and then she'll leave it. But she will come in here at least five times and look at the microwave and look at the time. But eventually she stopped looking at it.
[00:21:47] Speaker E: Yeah, yeah. Things just ebb and flow. Different habits, but it's nothing.
[00:21:53] Speaker C: It's nothing to worry about when it comes to her.
[00:21:56] Speaker E: All right, final question. What can we be doing more for you? How are you doing?
[00:22:00] Speaker C: I'm great.
[00:22:02] Speaker E: Yeah?
[00:22:02] Speaker C: Nothing.
[00:22:03] Speaker E: You still having fun?
[00:22:04] Speaker C: I'm still having fun here. You guys love us and we love, love you, so.
[00:22:08] Speaker E: Absolutely.
[00:22:09] Speaker C: You know, long as we can make Jojo happy, there's nothing you can do. Keep those treats coming.
[00:22:16] Speaker E: We're good with the treats. That's a good suggestion.
[00:22:18] Speaker C: We love those treats.
[00:22:20] Speaker E: We got some treats. We'll keep those coming. Absolutely.
[00:22:23] Speaker C: You guys are amazing. I couldn't be working for a better family. You guys are amazing.
[00:22:28] Speaker E: Well, the feeling is absolutely mutual.
[00:22:30] Speaker C: You guys are amazing.
[00:22:32] Speaker E: Thank you for everything. You.
[00:22:33] Speaker C: So cheers to many more years together.
[00:22:35] Speaker E: Yeah. Here's cheers to us. Here's cheers to us. Cheers to us, babe. Absolutely.
[00:22:39] Speaker C: All right.
[00:22:40] Speaker E: Thanks, Latrice, for that update and that feedback, and we will be right back.
[00:23:04] Speaker A: In a happy production.
And what an happy face.
And when you see the moonlight I know it would be for me.
[00:23:32] Speaker B: We are back following a very sweet conversation with lovely Latrice.
Takeaways.
[00:23:38] Speaker D: I think the takeaway is that we're all seeing kind of the same thing, which is, miraculously, there's not much decline going on. She's kind of doing okay. Sorry, guys. Not much drama. There hasn't been a fall. I'm knocking on wood, but there hasn't been a fall. She's definitely declining generally, but in the major areas of moving around and talking, there's been some minor behavioral changes, but overall, she's doing very well. And this move back home is safe to say has been wonderful for her physically.
[00:24:06] Speaker B: I've noticed mobility is becoming a little more of a challenge sometimes getting in and out of the car. When we were at Barkside last week, she was sitting in the seat on the walker, and then I went to get her to stand up so I could turn the walker around so she could grab the handles, and I thought, oh, we're gonna have a calamity here, because she was having a really hard time up and getting her balance.
So I've noticed that things that maybe used to go a little quicker, we have to take a lot more time with her. So physically I am seeing a little bit, but in other ways really everything seems to be pretty status quo. You know, she's going to outlive us. She's going to do it.
[00:24:41] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:24:42] Speaker D: No, I think what was my over under, I think when she went into the assisted living facility, I had an over under of like 10 years. I'm, I think I'm sticking to that.
[00:24:51] Speaker B: Oh my God.
[00:24:52] Speaker D: I gave her 87 when she went in there. She's going to make it to 97. She's 89 right now. Right? She's going to be 90 in November.
Yeah, I'm sticking with it.
[00:25:03] Speaker B: You're sticking with 97? I'm not even going to comment.
[00:25:06] Speaker D: I guess we shouldn't be. Is there a Polymarket or Kalshee we can go to on this one? I found out you could actually. Another community note that we can end with. I found out that you can actually start your own. Obviously people who are involved in it know this themselves, but there's these prediction markets out there. Polymarket and Kelsey and you can start your own prediction market. So like, I mean if she goes another five years, maybe we start one and we have people start betting on it and we use the proceeds from that to fund whatever care we need. I'm just, you know, spitballing here.
There might be a, a business opportunity we can monetize Mom. I guess we're doing that right now if things go well with the pod.
[00:25:43] Speaker B: Yeah, I guess. I think I'd rather monetize the pod than monetize moms under over. But I mean, I like your gumption.
[00:25:52] Speaker D: Anyway, it seems like she's doing well right now and that it's likely she's going to continue to be doing well for the foreseeable immediate future.
[00:26:01] Speaker B: Listeners, how is your mom or dad or loved one doing? We'd love to hear from you. You can email us@ifitsnot onemail.com either the numeral or the word. In the meantime, as always, please like listen, share, subscribe and we look forward to catching you next time.
[00:26:19] Speaker D: And you know why we look forward to that, Karen?
[00:26:22] Speaker B: Because still be alive.
[00:26:24] Speaker D: You can just say why.
Because if it's not one thing, it's Joanna.
[00:26:30] Speaker B: Joanna.
Good job.
[00:26:32] Speaker D: We haven't said that in a while. All right, here's mom to play us out. Talk to you later.
[00:26:39] Speaker A: All around, but I never heard them ringing no, I never hurt them at all Till there was you There were sighs in the sky But I never knew you Knew me because I was one of those News for you.
