 good morning everybody. I want to show you our system of highways and byways in our backyard here. They're a little dirty right now I apologize the snow is starting to melt. They used to be a lot deeper but I came back here and I made sure that the dogs could get to all areas of our yard all winter. We had one highway going straight through there, one going all the way around the perimeter and then a few going through here like this except like I said it's pretty much all melted. I guess I could get the snow plow out and plow them clear again a little bit. Good morning. It's Saturday. The weather's finally starting to agree with me a little bit more that we should start moving toward summertime. This has been our high-tech highway plow. For you who are those who are new we're in Southern Manitoba in Canada. I live just above Western Minnesota on the north side of the line. This is all I do. Diesel really likes it when I do this. He thinks it's a game. Every day all winter I would do this so it's packed down quite a bit. See these big snowdrifts that we got back here? But yeah this way everybody can get to all parts of the yard especially the little guys like Frank the little wiener dog. A little little low rider. He's more of a city dog you know sort of like a low rider pickup truck. Morning. I like your mug over there. Very fancy dog mom. Speaking of which I haven't told the vlog yet. Do you want to tell them the the good news? What's going on with IVF? It begins March 21st. March 21st. I go in for blood work and then about a week later roughly give or take. I go in for blood work and start taking oral medication. Then a week later I go off that oral medication and I start two injections and for I think it's five days I take those two injections and then I go off that one then I start a new injection. Lots of drugs. Lots of drugs. Brittany's gonna be a little bad for a while. We're gonna need a padded room for this girl. Yeah we won't go into all the details I guess cuz a lot of you probably don't want to know all the details of what you've got to go through with this but there's a lot of prescriptions and in the end we might just have a little baby come out of it. Jesus I sure hope so because I'm not going through surgery for nothing. Yeah that's gonna be very uncomfortable. I feel kind of guilty. My part is pretty easy. It's actually kind of enjoyable I mean. I'm just saying my part is all that bad so I'm just trying to be there for her so whenever she's got an appointment I've let work know already whenever she has an appointment I'm gonna be there to drive her in drive her home and there's gonna be a lot of them. So March 21st you start your not the injections right? No your blood work. Yeah and then 28th the injections start. Then the injections start. And then roughly give or take the week of the 4th of April I'll be going into the city like every day or two for an ultrasound to look at my follicles and then it sounds like I'm being harvested like a chicken around the 11 roughly depends on how my body works with medications. Harvested that's the worst part. Makes me feel weird. Egg retrieval. Either way nothing sounds good. So we're hoping to get what 15 to 20 eggs? I'm hoping for 30 or 40 but that might be good. 15 to 20 or so and in the end like they they have to fertilize them and then they turn into what embryos right? Blasto sites. Blasto sites. Fancy words. I'm not a scientist. Yeah and then we're hoping to end off with like five to ten in total but most people don't get that many from what I hear so we'll see. Thankfully I'm not quite at the geriatric pregnancy stage but once you're 32 things start going real quick in you so warn your daughters freeze your eggs. I'm not kidding do it. You heard it right here. Don't wait till later in life to have a family. Freeze your eggs if you plan on doing that. This is the information you signed up for right here on Trucker Josh Vlogs you heard it here first. Infertility is a thing everyone I talk to now I'm trying to like break the stigma of talking about this you know everyone wants to be all hush hush about it. No I talked to everybody about it and everyone I've talked to pretty much like at least 90% of people know at least one person in their family or a close friend or somebody. Yeah pretty much everybody. I didn't know there was a stigma. I'm a vlogger I just talk about everything. Yeah. I don't care. There's no stigma to me. So what the doctor has said there's nothing wrong with either one of us that they can find. There's nothing to be embarrassed about. This is something that a lot of people go through. A lot of couples are going through. There's a lot that we know. Well not no personally but no of. I know personally some people that are going through it. That's true you do don't you at work. Yeah. But yeah if people get very uncomfortable when I talk about my uterus but buckle up. Yeah I don't hold back. All the new subscribers right now are like what did I just click on. I thought this was gonna be trucking. There's a lot more go read the description down below my videos it's not just trucking it's Saturday we have other things going on in our life besides that but that is what I'm usually doing. But the transfer or the implantation would probably happen end of April right? No. May. May mid to end May. They freeze your embryos and then your body needs to go through a full cycle so like you know 28 to like 35 days so that your body can kind of reset or recover from the egg retrieval. Okay so let's say the implantation works in May to June July August October November December 10 February. It'd be about mid May and then February or March so around this time next year. Maybe if it all works out first try. Anyways with all of that out of the way so you're all up to date now and what's going on we're very excited that means that the ball is officially rolling and it's go time. It's go time and our bank accounts will be drained shortly. Very quickly. If you're wondering if you're getting into this and you're wondering how much IVF costs in Manitoba it's different in every province. Here it costs well we can let you know once we're done but we've been told between like 16,000 and $20,000 and they've told us that the prices are actually going up this April as well but they didn't tell us how much of course they didn't they just said they're going up because everything is going up. Nothing like taking advantage of desperate people. Yeah. No kidding. It's pretty unethical but it's privatized healthcare so it's greedy. What can we do? Can't do anything. We just gotta go with it. We have no other clinics competing with them. Yeah there's only one clinic in Manitoba but oh well with that aside money's not really the big the big issue it's the the baby it's gonna come out but the money part is important we gotta make sure that we can pay for it and we're all set. We're starting this day off with Vector and snowman coffee. What's going on over there? What's going on over there? Commander did you see that? I saw it. I saw it. He gets one too. You kidding me mama? I will jump off this to my death. Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh what is that? Oh yummy. She's your baby chickies. I love chickies. Frank did you like it? No. Yes he did. But I ate it anyways. Very excited for eggs. I should see him at my mom's house when we have sleepover. She cooks them eggs. He goes nuts. Yeah your mom spoils the dogs. She thinks of them as her real grand babies. No I don't mean that in a bad way. I mean she she literally goes grandma on them. Yep she goes all out. She definitely goes grandma mode. Yeah that's all right they need that because I'm a little I'm a little uh chintzy. Is that the word? See and you actually treat them like dogs from time to time? Yeah I like to remind them that I'm the boss. I don't. I'm mom. Yeah she's my mom. They're my babies. I'm a crazy dog lady and I know it. But I remind them that I'm the boss. I mean that I go and tell them to stay for no apparent reason and then walk to the other side of the house and see if they'll listen to me. They don't. And then they get brought back until they do listen. I'm the boss. I don't care what she says. Right Diesel? I'm the boss right? Nope mom's the boss. Stephanie is the boss. She's right there. She's right there. She's the boss. It's mom. She has some very nice jeans here. Mom you're the boss right? Very nice. Dad doesn't share his food. Mom you got any more eggs? It's one thing I don't do as much. I don't share my food with the dogs. And she shares everything with the dogs which is cool. But then I make. Everything that's healthy Well yeah everything that's healthy yeah. But it makes me jealous because then the dogs act like they love her more. But really I know deep down in their hearts they love me more. Chevy we dropped mom off at work so it's just us now. Just us. Just the boys at home. Where's the rest of them? Hey does anybody care? All days old ways up on your throne. Mom's at work now. Very sad time. She's mean. Guys here now. I miss her so much. Let's see what else we got here. Oh look at these two guys. We've got Frank and Frank. But to make things simpler we've got big Frank and Weiner. How's it going guys? How's it going? He's had a sore eye but it looks like it's pretty much healed up for the most part. I gotta give him an eye drop at 3.30. He's really gonna love it when I do that. You don't need to shake buddy. He doesn't like those eye drops at all. And this is big Frank. He's just a tank. He's got to be like 340 years old and he's still going strong. He's seen some stuff. Fought in the great milk bone wars. Okay and I got new flags. I ordered these four weeks ago. They finally came. I ordered four of them just in case. One second let me put you down over here. Let me show you my haul. I ordered these like I said four weeks ago and these things right here are so hard to come by. At least in my region that everybody sold out and I ordered these on Amazon and they took four weeks to get here. I got four of them just in case. They're the cheap kind too so they would tatter pretty quickly. I mean you got quadruple stitch here but it's still phrasing the wind pretty quickly. Let's just pull the ester. The ones that I like to fly on the flag poles. At our old place we had a flag pole right and our new place when we build them we have a flag pole there too and then I like to have the stitched ones. The really nice ones. They're called vinyl stitched. I'm going to put these all in the dryer with a wet towel or something. Moist towel just to get the creases out of them. Thank you to those of you who on my Facebook told me how to do that about a month ago too. It works. I got four of these guys. We're set for at least a little while. Look at that. Right there. Right there. Yep. Okay so I'm going to put these in the dryer and get the creases out of them and I hang one in my shop. Might hang one outside the shop too. Might put a little flag pole if they're going to figure out a way to do that without damaging anything. We'll see. Now when you look at that it's the same one. Whoa wrong way. Do not fly your flag that way. Bugs me. There you go. Right side up all the time. This flag right here represents us the Canadian people. Doesn't represent any politicians. It doesn't represent anything but the people. The people are always strong. Always fly it right side up. Okay come with me. Come with me. Throw them in the dryer. So in the United States next door they pledge allegiance to their flag. We don't do that in Canada. We don't pledge allegiance to our this is just a symbol of the people. To us it is very important but we don't pledge allegiance to the cloth. We would pledge allegiance to the community us the people and this is this just when you're going around the world this is just the symbol. This is our family symbol. It's like a family crest. This is ours. Of course there's stuff in there. There's always stuff in there. Much more important things to put in here right now guys. Much more important. Okay we're gonna put it on low heat. I'm gonna just get a towel. Throw a moist towel in there with it and put it in there for like 15, 10, 15 minutes. That'll get rid of all those creases then we can hang one in the shop. Hey oh yeah let's put up one of these fancy bounce sheets in here. I'm all about the bounce sheets. That way they smell nice. Not only does it look beautiful flying in the sky it's also important that it smells nice. You never know you want to create a good impression for the birds or anyone else up there. And then these things here one second these things here that we're in the dryer these are our couch covers. They're the spare couch covers for on here because we have dogs and dogs belong on the couch. We have couch covers that cover our coaches and that way we can just switch these things out whenever they need it. This one's gonna need it soon and good thing we've got clean ones right here and then those ones are going to wash right Chevy? And then you can have your spot there whenever you want. That's the Chevy spot. It says look out he looks out the window from there and he barks at needless things to bark at. Right Chevy? We're working on that right? We're working on it? No you're working on it. I'm not working on it. I don't need to work on anything. Maybe you should work on it too. No you need to stop barking at every little snowflake that blows past the window. Okay? Yeah we're working on it. It's so hard. And these go in the room here and this is my little work area here. I'm gonna be moving most of this work area to the shop soon. As you can tell we have a very small house. I need somewhat of work area in here so for now until this needs to be a baby nursery uh this will be my little office space but once the baby comes along uh I'm gonna need to convert this into a nursery. All right that was my my promise to the wife and my promise to myself. This is uh we want to make this into a nice little space for the kid for for the kid for our kid for the kid for our kid words matter. Okay so uh that's this is another reason we needed the shop right because uh we got stuff all over the place weasels and stuff we need a place to store all our weasels. Right Diesel? You okay bud? I don't really want to be on camera with today man. I didn't do my hair. Stop it. Didn't do my hair man. Not really want to be on the vlog today. You're gonna be on the vlog anyways. Everybody wants to see you. They love you. Whoa of course they do. Look at me. Fair point. Yeah there's this room and then like I've shown you it's not the neatest home but it's the average home I think you could relate. Right we're not perfect. This is the dog bedding here. We have the dog beds for the big guys at night here but they like to mess it all up all the time. Diesel's blanket because he's a he's a princess. He likes to sleep under a blanket under the covers at night and then they get to sleep on the glorious beards of duck dynasty. It provides extra softness and comfort for them sleeping on the beards. And we have this sheet on the bed here. We have our blankets underneath but this is because our dogs are our family and yes they are allowed on the bed as long as their feet are dry and not wet. That's why we put this sheet over our bedding so that they can come up here and then again you just change the sheet. It doesn't get the bedding dirty. And again we don't have a space to dry our clothes because we dry them all in the drying rack here so we have to dry them in our dining room. Right Chevy? It's a little bit small but Dad says wait wait I want to say come here dad on the other side of the jeans. Here he says he's building a brand new house that's going to be way bigger. Lots more space and plus he's got a big fancy shop now where he's going to take all his junk. That's what Mom told me. You call myself junk Chevy? No, Mom does. Oh boy. You getting bored? Do we need to go out and play? Is that a Chevy's favorite thing to do? Are you? What's going on out here mate? What's going on? Hello? Hello, we talking about Dad's junk? You know all the stuff I've got to move over to the shop diesel. Got to move a bunch of the stuff in there so we have space to live in here, right? Living tight on a budget within our means so that we have room in our budget to save for our bigger house that we're going to build in a couple of years. Yes, it's going to be great that we have my own room. My own room too. You guys get your own room but you're going to have to share it. You'll have your own personal access to the outdoors. I really should share with you one of these days the plans. We have our blueprints built out already. It's going to be a custom home that we designed ourselves. The dogs do have a special room of their own where they'll be able to stay in when we're not at the house so that they're not like ripping all over the house. They have a nice big room which is probably going to be about the size of well this half of the house here. It's going to be their own room. They're going to have their own exits into a nice protected outdoor area where they can go outside even if we're not home and do their business and stuff. It'll be a nice fenced-in area so that predators like bears and cougars and stuff can't get in there and they can't get out either. It'll be facing the back into the bush so that they're not distracted by passing cars or anything else that'll make them bark. We don't want them to bark while they're out there and we'll have a little obviously they have cameras in there too and a little uh uh voice like uh you know some of those cameras that you have is a security camera in their outdoor area and then you can talk to them wirelessly so that if they're being bad you can be like hey smart enough go inside they'll freak them out because they won't know where the voice is coming from but we'll at least have that and that'll be so that when we're at home we can we can go out like we're not going to go out overnight but we can go out for like a late dinner in the city or something and stay gone for like 12 hours right now we can't do that the longest we leave these guys we can leave these guys alone is like six to eight hours and that's already pushing it uh so we want to be able to go out for longer periods of time and that way they can let themselves out and stuff because these guys they get lots of lots of time to run around in our yard here too but uh we have to be here to watch them I don't want them barking at the neighbors disturbing the neighborhood I don't want to have animal control or something show up being like hey your dogs are too noisy make them stop I just want to avoid that whole situation so we're very careful and very strict with our dogs outside that they're not allowed to bark so we can't just let them you know roam around the yard when we're not here and start barking and then we're not here to stop it that's I find that to be very annoying and rude when other neighbors do that we don't have any neighbors like that here but when people do just let their dogs bark non-stop outside and don't do anything about it I had a neighbor like that where I used to live uh two houses ago that's one of the reasons we moved because the neighbor down the road just leave their dogs outside in their offensive area all day while they went to work all day and they wouldn't stop barking non-stop the entire time I don't want to be that neighbor we love our dogs a lot they're our family and our children they belong in the house with us and uh they get plenty of time to run around plus we have a dog park like right around the corner we love taking them there they rip around with all the neighborhood dogs in there they love that all right now which one of you is going to do the editing for me today diesel you make Chevy do a thing that's a very big truck wow it's kind of is very nice look a flag wow what is this place Chevy you've been here before this is my shop oh yeah there's some new stuff in here it smells like cleaners that's a bull snot wow very nice now that brits off work we're gonna go out and eat because we haven't gone out to eat in so long well we went a few weeks ago with freaking Sabrina but we haven't been to big smoke in a while that's true this is big smoke it's like the best restaurant in town you can smell it already oh you smell that oh let's remember walkway yep