🌟 אחוזה יוקרתית למכירה בלוקה, טוסקנה

So, this is not going to be our normal video. Um, oh, I'm going to cry already. [laughter] I think that that's to be expected.

Um, so we wanted to give you guys um a brief um family health update um in something that's kind of overtaken our life the last um week and a half, two weeks. I don't even know. haven't slept in since who knows a while.

Um when um but um Chloe has spent the last week and a half in the hospital. Is that right? About it was about a week.

We've been out for a little a little bit just kind of y getting back to normal life. Um and she has been diagnosed with um a lifelong disease that we have to now learn how to manage. Um she's doing amazing.

We're a mess. Um, I'm a mess. Let's just [laughter] be clear.

I was trying to sympathize. Um, naturally. Um, so get my thoughts together as lack of sleep and caffeine.

So, I'll start with just kind of how I guess how we got here because um it is something that is important for people to understand the signs and symptoms and um Chloe started just not feeling very well. Like it it was kind of like everything was hurting. Everything was just kind of uh there wasn't like one thing that was like wrong.

She just felt very very tired and was just not feeling well. and we noticed she was drinking a ton, which Khloe is notoriously a hard person to get to drink enough water. And so that was kind of alarming to us.

And the thing that stood out to me is she was saying that she was getting up three times a night to use the bathroom. And it's like that doesn't make any sense at all. I was thinking it's nothing cuz she was she was actually sick with just a common cold.

So I was thinking, okay, your electrolytes are out of balance. And um Heather started um I don't know. I I guess it maybe like mother's intuition or something, but one night she was just I was just like, man, she has just not been feeling good.

And I can't figure out what it is because it's like sometimes her ears were hurting, but then sometimes they were fine. Sometimes her throat was hurt. It was just kind of weird.

And so I was just asking her, "Okay, tell me all of your symptoms. " And then we were think I was thinking back to how much she'd been drinking and getting up to use the bathroom. And it was just like this light bulb went off and I was like, "We have to go check her sugar.

" Like, "We have to go check her blood sugar. " Um, and I I pretty much I pretty much knew right away. Obviously, I didn't want to get too like you don't know until you know.

Um, ahead of myself, I guess, but Brady was like, "No, no, like it's I'm sure she's fine. I'm sure she's she wanted to take her to the hospital immediately. " And I was like, "Okay, her symptoms are she's tired.

Well, she's sick and she's also growing. " So that it's like let's not get ahead of ourselves. And skipping to the end, like husbands trust your wives [laughter] in their intuition because the following day we picked her up from school and she was unrecognizable.

Um she looked to me like she had lost 10% of her body weight. She was so barely walk. Um it was really scary.

It Yeah. So we immediately I was like, "Okay, I'm on board with you. Let's take her to the hospital.

Let's get her tested. " Yeah. So we went straight to the urgent care.

um close by and because I knew like first the first thing we have to do is is check her blood sugar just to know what like where it's at. Um they were amazing. Like these women were just the kindest, sweetest, most incredible um women.

And we checked her blood sugar and it was 388 385 I think. Pretty much confirmed she had type 1 diabetes. we knew right away.

Um she just looked at me and and she knew I understood um you know what that means and it was just kind of Yeah. So then we had to make a plan for how to get to her hospital as as soon as possible. Heather knew a lot about type 1 diabetes because your sister is who also a doctor um has type 1 diabetes.

So she was at least more prepared. I was learning all of this on the fly in the hospital and I it became an extreme emergency to get her to proper care immediately. Um so we rushed to the nearest um larger hospital cuz we were at an urgent care.

One of the amazing nurses that was working with us was just finishing her shift and she um volunteered to come with us to the hospital and ended up staying with us from I think it was 700 p. m. until 2 It was 2:00 a.

m. By the time we got home it was like 4:00 or 5 a. m.

Oh yeah, that's right. Yeah. me and Chloe ended up and she guided us through that entire process which um was um definitely challenging with a local hospital and ultimately the local hospital said her levels are too bad and with her being a child we can't help you.

She needs more specialized care. So Khloe had to take a fourish four or five hour um ambulance ride um to San Jose the Capitol to go to the National Children's Hospital. Um and then she spent two days in the ICU.

Um they were incredible. It was a great hospital. They were able to stabilize her very quickly.

Um and poor Chloe who went from being extremely needle phobic who the first finger prick to check her blood levels was a a 45minute fight um to almost having to hold her down to do that. um to then spending the next um two three days ultimately a week in the hospital of doing 50 plus [snorts] IVs and needle pricks and blood draws and injections and just horrific. She will have four shots a day for the rest of her life for the rest of her life.

Um um and I guess just from an educational standpoint for those who don't know what type 1 diabetes is, it's a genetic disorder um where I'm not qualified to explain [laughter] this. Maybe I should. Um so we in a normal body um you eat food and your glucose spikes and then your body makes insulin and it brings that down.

um where Chloe's not making enough insulin. Her pancreas isn't making enough insulin, so she's going up, but then she can't come down. So, we have to give her the insulin to bring her down.

But what's very complicated about that is now that we are in introducing insulin into her body, we're the ones controlling it. So, if she doesn't eat enough, then she'll crash and then and then we have to get her sugar really quickly because it's dangerous to be too high and it's dangerous to be too low. So, it's a lot of figuring out what she's eating, when she's eating, how much she's eating, you know, how much insulin she's getting.

Um it's it's a lot to um to process and you know she's she is doing so well with all of it and um I don't know but that there is new technology I I don't know how new it is actually but um there is technology available to help with the shots daily. Um, which me and Chloe are actually getting ready to head back to the States in like 45 minutes. We need to leave for the airport um to take her back because we're going to go get her a pump.

I'm not sure how quickly that can happen, but that's something that will more easily regulate her insulin for her. She'll have a glucose monitor that will continually check her blood sugar levels and she'll have a pump that will help. So once we can get that set up for her, it'll be a lot more um back to normal.

She's still going to have to, you know, be very mindful um of of watching things and and being conscious of what she's eating and everything. But um I'm very very thankful for modern medicine. This whole thing has made me so grateful.

Um, number one, from the very first day, grateful for Heather and trusting her intuition and seeing this with almost no signs at all. Um, be clear about that. And the challenging thing with kids is a lot of [snorts] times, as I learned later, they often don't get diagnosed until they're in a coma.

Yeah. Um, and um, this disease was fatal um, 100% just 80 years ago, I think. And for modern medicine to be able to give her insulin [snorts] um is a miracle and it will allow her to live a long and full life that wasn't previously possible.

Yeah. Um and like this new technology that's coming out, everything is getting more and more easy to live a long [snorts] and very full life without it impacting things too much. And yes, currently um four shots a day for a 10-year-old is horrific, but she's handling it um beautifully like a champ.

Um it's more of an annoyance, a nuisance, and eventually it'll become like brushing your teeth. And um these pumps and this new technology um well um is horrifically expensive. Um [laughter] and definitely puts a little bit of stress on our family.

It [snorts] is unbelievable in the fact that it will just, you know, slowly drip insulin into her rather than h having to um inject herself four times a day. Um um this certainly knocked the wind out of us. Um the it's it's not something you expect to face within weeks of moving to a new country.

Yeah. Um, of course we had done some research about the health care system here and all of that, but we figured we'd have time to figure out the best hospitals to go to and um, we certainly did not turn into an emergency [snorts] situation. I know in in our past videos there were tons of questions about the health care system here.

Um, it's something that varies. So there's the public system, which is what we um, uh, worked through on this process, and then there's the private system. And um the hospital that we ended up in 6 hours away was unbelievably um amazing, but that's 6 hours away.

So there are um private hospitals that are amazing. We just need to learn where they are. And the the very first I guess we encountered three different hospitals.

The first was an urgent care. The first one, which is 10 minutes down the road, was unbelievably amazing. Just so good.

And for any minor things that we have going on, like that's that's who I want taking care of me. Like they're amazing. But as far as the technology that we want to be able to give her um that doesn't um fully exist here, they have other options, but they're just not as up to date.

She would have to wear like this huge computer on her belt and a tube that connects to her stomach. Just it's not the it's not the most um upto-date technology we have [clears throat] available in literally 30 more minutes. They're heading to the airport to fly back um to see an endocrin androinologist there in order to um hopefully get fitted with a pump and new sensors that will actually alert our phones because um we're it's all new.

So, we're fighting highs and we're fighting lows and lows can get dangerous very very fast. So, this new technology can actually alert our phones, alert the school nurses phones. The school has been unbelievable.

They they proactively requested a meeting with their nurse. They're they've got a guy from the Red Cross on the team. They the counselor, the principal, we all had this fivep person meeting creating an emergency plan and um what does she need?

They're bending certain rules for her in order to make sure that she has the best um care and and um chance possible. And they're concerned with not just her physical well-being, but her emotional well-being and and how they're going to communicate it to the other students in the class of like what's going on with Chloe and why she's allowed to have her device or if a a beep starts going off because she's low, her her sugar's low, like they they're going to inform them and so she doesn't get made fun of and things like that. As far as communication, I feel like I should say that um I had a long conversation with Khloe about her right to privacy and she wanted to share this um because she hopes that um at least from my perspective, her bravery and facing this hopefully can inspire somebody um with whatever they're facing.

And I think it is important for people to be aware of the symptoms because early detection is is very important. So if your kid's drinking tons and tons and tons and it's just very tired all the time, just go check their sugar. Just go.

I mean, maybe it's fine, but just just check it. Yeah. Okay.

Attempting to on a lighter note [laughter] something more positive and light. Um uh and just give a general um family update. Um, so as far as here in Costa Rica, aside from this, um, things have just been amazing.

Like the kids are making so many relationships. We're working towards that. There's so much, I don't know if you'd call it infrastructure or ways to meet people here.

There's a lot of ways to be social programs and um the church that we're connected with and just um constant meetings on the beach and um Alexa went to a bonfire on the beach and just constantly getting together with uh kids after school and all of that. It's an incredible place and we're we're feeling so thankful. But that doesn't diminish at all our love for Italy and for sure.

Um we have always said that that will always be a home to us. It's just that it can't be a full-time home to us for the bureaucratical reasons and and now for the school reasons as well. Um but we plan to be back there as often as we can during the kids get a very long um winter Christmas break and a long summer break as well.

Um and and also spring break is a what is that three to four weeks? I think it's two and a half weeks. We're hoping to as often as we are able to to be there and to um continue working on that property until it's fully finished.

It was supposed to be finished before we left last time. We had that all lined up. It was supposed to be completely finished and um we faced some annoying um bureaucratical challenges.

It'll be done when it's done. You know, that's the [laughter] thing. It'll be finished when it's finished.

At this point, I don't even know. It'll it will eventually it will be finished. I think certainly by the end of this summer yeah I think so too and if it's not I'm going to be really really frustrated.

I think that's if a lot of you I know watch our friends the newbies in Portugal and that is the challenge of um Europe um timelines deadlines finishing things it just doesn't work. So it's moments like this that make me extremely grateful. Grateful for the medical care that we have access to.

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As far as Costa Rica um goes, we are working with our architect. We've got some amazing drawings. Obviously, we're going to be focused on um getting the initial just rough house put together so that we can move out of our rental into that.

And then beyond that, there's a lot of plans as far as a greenhouse and Heather wants to do a little pottery studio, which I would love to build something like that out of stone. That'd be amazing. Um I've been going to all of the uh quaries around here looking at the stone.

There's a lot of really unique, beautiful stone that we can work with here. Um, as well as we're going to adapt some Costa Rican design as well. Um, and actually, as I said that, there's a lot of crossover in the style of how they do stone walls here um, versus Italy.

So, it's going to be quite similar actually. I don't I don't want to give away too many plants, but it's an incredible property just with the wildlife and being able to uh just casually interact, not interact with them, but watch them on a daily basis. And all of the initial projects that we've been doing so far with the loud digging of the well and [laughter] all of that, it hasn't really impacted them at all.

So, we're not not concerned at all um with that. And um they live quite happily with um humans close by all around here. But while we were in the hospital, the rains came.

Um so it's finally looking green here. Um and hopefully that continues. Um we have um a really strong El Nino effect going on.

From what I understand, the strongest in like the last 50 years or something. So pretty heavy drought um this time of year, which probably will um continue. Um, but it gives us more time to build because usually this time like October especially is like you don't get much work done usually because it's so rainy.

Um, but not this year. So there's I guess some be able to get started I think. Yeah.

Um so we'll get started here um quickly and move through everything rather quickly I believe. Yeah. Beyond that just wanted to share that update.

We're getting on our feet. Um, we still plan to have a video a week from now, but if that doesn't happen, then you know why. Um, we're just kind of getting back on our feet.

Or if I'm not in it or you'll [laughter] understand why if there is if there is um there likely won't be in it, but um they're heading back now. Um and with that, I think it's now time to head to the airport. We need to get going.

Um y Yeah. But thank you so much for your support, your love, um, and just being here. Just very grateful for all of you.

And next week we will have a more regular video for you. But with that, thank you so much and we'll see you next week.