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Speaker 2: Welcome back to another episode of am I've Had Mom Podcasts,
Speaker 2: the podcast that just keeps on giving content of the content.
Speaker 2: We do three episodes a week, just in case anyone
Speaker 2: didn't realize that well.
Speaker 3: We cut it back, because we well didn't cut it back.
Speaker 3: We cut them up, really, didn't we. You see a
Speaker 3: really long episode and then we're just like split them
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Speaker 2: Yep, school pickup line ten minutes before you kids get
Speaker 2: in a few of.
Speaker 3: Our listeners actually just lock themselves in the pantry and
Speaker 3: put their AirPods in the Yeah, I've heard of you,
Speaker 3: Like I'm on the DM go, I've locked myself in
Speaker 3: the pantry to listen to this for ten minutes, or
Speaker 3: like put their AirPods in to go out and hang
Speaker 3: up the washing, you know, all those little jobs that
Speaker 3: people forget about that you're lucky enough to be doing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we're on Instagram as well, at am I
Speaker 2: A Bad Mum.
Speaker 1: We do little snippets on there too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we do well snippets where you can see, like
Speaker 3: that little glimpse of crazy come out. That was the
Speaker 3: last snippet, right.
Speaker 1: It was you. You looked like a woman possessed.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, it was fresh, remember, like it was
Speaker 3: so fresh, I think I'd slept on it and everything.
Speaker 3: And then as soon as I saw you, I was
Speaker 3: just like, ah, like this is happening.
Speaker 1: You were triggered.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then you just backed me up and supported
Speaker 3: the cause and said that your daughter had done the
Speaker 3: same same We're all the same thing. And then one
Speaker 3: of the other girls comes through and says, that's why
Speaker 3: I told you to buy the six dollar lunch boxes
Speaker 3: from Aldi. Oh did you know no Bento boxes? Six
Speaker 3: dollars from Aldi? Ah, so much better, good quality. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and she said, and then you can get a couple
Speaker 3: so when they lose them, we just take another one
Speaker 3: out of the cupboard. Yeah, okay, Amanda, you were far
Speaker 3: too organized.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's less annoying. Yeah, six dollars. Yours was like
Speaker 2: forty dollars.
Speaker 3: It was not six dollars. Un. I always like choked, going,
Speaker 3: oh my gosh. But again, it's fine.
Speaker 2: Spend forty dollars on your own lunch box because you
Speaker 2: know that you're not losing that.
Speaker 3: I've got a really good, actual wine cooler bag that
Speaker 3: coust me forty dollars yeah, that's never been lost. No,
Speaker 3: that's always been returned. Am I a bad mum for
Speaker 3: not paying attention to the actual foot that's broken?
Speaker 1: Oh god, this is giving me deja vou.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought of you. It was a week ago
Speaker 3: my niece turned ten, and off everybody went to a
Speaker 3: birthday party for Sophie Claire. Sorry, so I think it's
Speaker 3: my second or third year that I've missed your birthday
Speaker 3: party because I was working to.
Speaker 2: Deliberately rosty yourself on when as kids parties. So the
Speaker 2: girls will be there, I'll be at work.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I genuinely laughed when I was like, oh, tough sitch,
Speaker 3: I'm working again. Nanadee took the girls along to the
Speaker 3: birthday party, which was like an inflatable world obstacle course
Speaker 3: back on the water.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, you didn't actually have works.
Speaker 3: Yeah, do you promise I've got footage? So off I
Speaker 3: went cat footage.
Speaker 1: Yeah, in case no one believed you.
Speaker 3: There's been a few times where you've questioned me and gone,
Speaker 3: you weren't really there, were you? You were just no?
Speaker 3: I wasn't. I promise, No, I don't know.
Speaker 2: It was one of those situations where someone went, could
Speaker 2: you cover my shift, and you went.
Speaker 3: Yeah, i'll do it. I'll take a whole day. How
Speaker 3: many shifts can I have? So yeah, off they go
Speaker 3: and they do that. That's all well and good. Now
Speaker 3: this day in particular was really windy, and this obstacle
Speaker 3: course is an inflatable one which is on open like
Speaker 3: it's on the sea, like it's not in a lake.
Speaker 3: This is actually on the beach. So there was like
Speaker 3: white peak like surf breaking and this whole thing's going
Speaker 3: like I'm talking like my niece whose birthday, buddy it was.
Speaker 3: She vomited out on the course twice because you had seasick,
Speaker 3: but she just kept going, oh god, that's how rough.
Speaker 2: It was so big inflatables, but they're out in the ocean.
Speaker 1: But is it like protected by anything.
Speaker 3: Well, I don't know. I didn't like in red clears.
Speaker 1: What happens if they just fall off the edge?
Speaker 3: I know they have to swim back or something. I'm
Speaker 3: not sure. It wasn't there the wave teket Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: you have to do anyway, even if you're on that.
Speaker 3: The one at the like at the Sunny Coast that
Speaker 3: we've done before is really like challenging. It's not even windy.
Speaker 3: It's not even rough. It's challenging full stop. All went well,
Speaker 3: Like I said, a few of them had little bombs
Speaker 3: here and there that had seasickness, so I would have
Speaker 3: been a treat out there. Then Gracie said she heard
Speaker 3: the buzzy go and that means you've got to come
Speaker 3: in for the next session to start. And she said
Speaker 3: she sort of went to turn around. Her foot has
Speaker 3: gone one way, her body has gone the other way,
Speaker 3: and a wavers caught her at the same time.
Speaker 1: Oh god, this place sounds horrible.
Speaker 3: Yes, So then my brother is out there, Luke, Like,
Speaker 3: Uncle Luke's like, come on, you'll be fine, like knowing
Speaker 3: that sometimes with Gracy girl it can be a little
Speaker 3: bit of drama that's spun on it, and so he
Speaker 3: was like, come on, oh, you'll be right, And he said,
Speaker 3: I felt bad because I was like just ushering in,
Speaker 3: going you'll be fine. It's you know, it's just you've
Speaker 3: hurt your little toa. It's fine.
Speaker 1: So he was on the course.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he was out there. He had to be because
Speaker 3: you to have a number of like adults per child
Speaker 3: when they're under a certain age. Lucky Uncle Luke.
Speaker 2: Yeah, was this like almost like a punishment for him
Speaker 2: not having kids.
Speaker 1: Yeah, here you go, he said.
Speaker 3: He felt a bit like motion sickness too. He was
Speaker 3: like it was hectic. He's like, it was so crazy
Speaker 3: out there. They all had fun, but poor Gracie's pulled
Speaker 3: up with the injury. That's all well and good. Now
Speaker 3: by the time I get home from a massive day
Speaker 3: at work, I'm rocking in. Yeah, no, it really was,
Speaker 3: I promise. I was super tired. But at the same
Speaker 3: time I come home to then seeing my child on crutches.
Speaker 3: Oh god. And I looked at it and I was like,
Speaker 3: this is really necessary a little toe. Come on, dar,
Speaker 3: you don't need that. Just try and apply a little
Speaker 3: bit of pressure on the inside of your foot to
Speaker 3: carry the outside. We will put it up breastt all
Speaker 3: the other stuff.
Speaker 1: Suck it up, have a glass of water.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So then Monday morning comes, no pressure being applied
Speaker 3: to foot, and it was not getting better, Like it
Speaker 3: didn't look any better. It was actually looking like it
Speaker 3: was getting worse. But because it was the start the
Speaker 3: first day of the second week of high school, one
Speaker 3: couldn't miss out. So if we go to high school,
Speaker 3: which her high school is full of stairs and so again,
Speaker 3: because we're both learning the ropes. I didn't know that
Speaker 3: I needed to tell any teachers that she's on crutches.
Speaker 3: I also didn't know how definitive this whole school was
Speaker 3: via stairs. Tough situation to be on crutches. Yeah, it'd
Speaker 3: been a whole day at school looking worse for whar
Speaker 3: I was like, put to my ice on it. You'll
Speaker 3: be fine for your foot up. It's a broken toe.
Speaker 3: We can't do anything with it. Worst case scenario, broken toe.
Speaker 3: You don't do anything with a broken toe, no up
Speaker 3: than rest and strap it.
Speaker 2: So we did that, probably not walk up and downstairs
Speaker 2: at school.
Speaker 3: Anyways. And then comes a Tuesday. I said to her, look,
Speaker 3: just stay home. No, no, I've got to go to school.
Speaker 3: I've got to go. So I thought, why am I
Speaker 3: going to get an X ray for you? If? Anyway?
Speaker 3: Long story short, telehealth doctor calls me really nice, really
Speaker 3: lovely gentlemen, So what foot is it? I was like.
Speaker 1: One of them.
Speaker 3: I was like, oh, that's a good question. I can
Speaker 3: feel him judging me through the phone.
Speaker 1: Why does it even matter what foot it is?
Speaker 3: Because he goes, I can't give you an X ray.
Speaker 3: Consult thing to take to get an X ray if
Speaker 3: I don't have the exact foot that's on that. I
Speaker 3: was like, there's no need to be rude about that.
Speaker 3: It's not my fault that I can't think about what
Speaker 3: foot is broken of hers right now. I just can't
Speaker 3: think if it's left or right, and it goes well,
Speaker 3: I can't give you the consult form then until you
Speaker 3: get me the right foot, so judge it.
Speaker 1: Can you just write on can you just put foot
Speaker 1: X ray? Like TBC.
Speaker 3: I could hear him, I could hear the judgment. It
Speaker 3: was like seeping through the phone. And you know when
Speaker 3: you like feel someone's judgment, especially about parenting, you're already
Speaker 3: like like, it just gets you like wild. It doesn't
Speaker 3: take me much to get over that, but I just
Speaker 3: literally get wild. And then I was like oh, and
Speaker 3: then thinking in my head, I'm trying to strategize how
Speaker 3: I'm going to work out which foot It was whilst
Speaker 3: keeping him on the phone because I said, I'm not
Speaker 3: going to be able to speak to him again. You
Speaker 3: can't ring a doctor back like that. There's another whole
Speaker 3: process in itself. So it's like trying to think where
Speaker 3: would her other shoe be because she's I knew she
Speaker 3: went to school with one shoe on but only a
Speaker 3: sock on the other. So I was like, if I
Speaker 3: can just find that shoe, for the love of God,
Speaker 3: I could not find the shoe. I was like, he goes,
Speaker 3: I have to go. I'll tell your health a point.
Speaker 3: I was like, yep, no worries. I'll find out the
Speaker 3: foot that's broken on my child and I'll come back
Speaker 3: to you.
Speaker 2: I've literally paid no attention. I told her to suck
Speaker 2: it up, keep hopping.
Speaker 3: Was it actually just before you go? I was like,
Speaker 3: and just in case we don't catch eatail and I
Speaker 3: don't get the X ray, let's just say worst case
Speaker 3: scenario if it is broken. From a doctor's perspective, much
Speaker 3: can be done for those sorts of situations. He was like, Rachel,
Speaker 3: we need to know if it's broken or not to
Speaker 3: give you the right the directions, like the right instruction.
Speaker 3: You know. I mean, but it's like kind of like
Speaker 3: strapping it would be good, right, strapping it and keep
Speaker 3: elevating it. Doing that can't do much for a little toe.
Speaker 3: He's like, again, I'll speak to you when you work
Speaker 3: out which foot it is of your child.
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, yeah, side story on that. My
Speaker 2: sister when she was about four, broke her leg ice
Speaker 2: skating and my dad took her to the hospital and
Speaker 2: they x rayed the leg and they were like, no,
Speaker 2: she's all good, Like she's fine, good to go, got
Speaker 2: in the car. My sister went, why did they x
Speaker 2: ray the other leg? My dam was so embarrassed. He
Speaker 2: took her back to another hospital, a different one, so
Speaker 2: he didn't.
Speaker 1: Have to go back.
Speaker 3: I think Katie I would do the same. I'd be horrified.
Speaker 3: I was horrified at myself two days with this child
Speaker 3: with the same broken foot, and I couldn't work out
Speaker 3: which food it was. And I'm thinking, I'm trying to
Speaker 3: picture in my head, like if I was facing this
Speaker 3: way and she was facing this way, what I was like.
Speaker 1: You know, let's look at the positives.
Speaker 2: You didn't have to go on that god awful in
Speaker 2: the ocean.
Speaker 3: You know. I felt sorry for Gracie.
Speaker 2: But what's happening next year for Sophie's party? If it's
Speaker 2: at the same place, another day of busy work.
Speaker 3: I'll be working. You're not even rosted. I'll be working.
Speaker 3: Don't even ask me