 Good morning. Today we have, well, Brit has a prenatal appointment. I'm going along with her. I've had to miss the last couple, so I gotta be here for this one. You ready? Well, once I've de-shedded. What are we all supposed to be learning at this appointment? This will be the day that we, I'm getting an exam to determine whether or not I need a C-section, but all signs point to yes, unfortunately, but what can you do? That's right. My baby's okay, and I wanna ask about hospital tours and stuff, and ask if I still get a maternity suite, even though I'm a surgical patient. I've heard that some people haven't gotten one in this town if they got a C-section, which I don't find right, but yeah, ask all the annoying questions of the doctor that you probably won't know. Okay, but the big thing is we gotta find out today if it's gonna be a C-section or not. Yes. And if it's a C-section, what I've learned from Britt is that then the baby is delivered a week early. If not earlier. Which means that it would then be delivered around March 25th instead of its due date on April 1st. So. You might not get to share a birthday, but that's okay, as long as the baby's healthy. I'm thinking more so along the lines of my time off, because my time off, I've booked off since March 17th, or on March 17th, which is Friday, which would only give me one week to make sure everything is ready before the baby comes in instead of two. No pressure. But at least then with a C-section, you know when the baby's coming. Well, you hope. Like you know pretty much down to the day, down to the hour almost. Unless you're my cousin Ashley, and then you go into labor a week before your C-section anyway. Well, don't do that. I'll do that. I'm gonna start confusing work if I have to keep changing it. We don't know what we're doing. It's our first baby, if you're new. It's our first one. We've been trying for a very long time. Five and a half years. Five and a half years. This was an IVF baby. So we went through, she went through a lot. Oh, we went through it together. We, let's say we. It's a big thing. It's a big thing for us. So we're excited. We're gonna go talk to the doctor now and learn some more. Geez, we got back. We came back. So it was a good appointment, I think. Yeah, got a lot of information. Mm-hmm. We have officially made the decision to have a C-section. Well, I made the decision. Josh supported it. It was really up to us. We had three options. And I decided that in my gut, I felt like a C-section was the safest option. So it's not ideal. It's not my birthing dream, but that's okay. It's okay as long as the kid's okay. That's what matters. So that means that the baby will be here before it's due date on April 1st. Yeah, no shared birthday, but that's okay. Still special that the due date was April 1st. Mm-hmm. So it'll be, we're expecting, we don't know the exact date yet. We have to go and talk, have a meeting with the surgeon and figure out an exact date when they wanna book it in. That could change as well also. Like you said before, your cousin had an early one. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, so a week or two before the due date, I guess, between that timeline. Around March 25th or something, but at least we'll know the day where it will be no later than this day at this time. We just have to figure out what day that is. Yeah. But everything else looked good, right? Yeah. Healthy baby. Baby's heart rate's still 150 or above. 150 to 153, I think something like that. But yeah, everything was good. Belly size is still pretty normal. Yeah, not gaining a lot of weight, so that's good. Baby needs to gain weight, I don't need to gain weight. So yeah, everything's going really, really well and our doctor's still amazing and has the most soothing voice in the entire world. It's true. Human value in that man. Just he walks into the room and he starts talking and everybody's anxiety is just, he has a voice. He's a really good doctor. He's good at what he does. I'm sure he doesn't talk like that all the time. We were talking about that too. If he did, he'd be the most relaxing human to live with. I just fall asleep all the time. The only other concern that we had was my blood pressure was really, really high. They took it four or five times and it was significantly higher. So we do have a blood pressure cuff at home so now I gotta take my blood pressure every day. Yeah, and write it down for him and I'll see him in I think six or seven days from now. So now it's every week until? No, it's every second week until March hits. It's just that he's not there the week after so I had to make my appointment sooner. Which works out fine for the blood pressure results so. Okay. So it's a good appointment. That's that. Nice to meet you, heart. So on to another topic, diesel. A couple of days ago I mentioned at the end of my vlog that diesel's been having a lot of anxiety problems and panic attacks in the truck as he's gotten older. The first time I noticed it was years ago when we crossed the ferry to Newfoundland in Canada. It's an eight hour ferry ride and he has to wait in the truck while I'm upstairs and when I got back he was having, he had a little bit of a panic attacks or shaking and clinging to my side and there wasn't anything I could do to console him or bring his anxiety down. It just had to wait for it to pass. And then it didn't really happen much but lately as he's come on the road with me any abnormal noises like if I go down a gravel road in summertime or if I hit rumble strips when sometimes they're on the center line or right on the line. If the truck just goes to those rumble strips just once he starts shaking a little bit and the noise of the truck. So he's been having some anxiety problems. So he's been mostly retired here at home at home but we're gonna try something diesel. We got you a gift. We got you something that might help. It's called a thunder shirt. And this is for dog anxiety. It's great for fireworks, thunderstorms, separation anxiety, car and air travel, leash pulling, barking, licking and more. And that's what it looks like. And it pretty much gives them pressure around their torso that comforts them. So we're gonna give it a shot and see if it helps them. He's a diesel. So it recommends in the instructions to first present it to him for the first time as a plate to put treats on it. So that he associates it with something positive. Yes. That's a lot of treats. Oh, lucky boy. Diesel, come. Diesel. Come on in. I got something for you. One second, I'll tell you, that's a fancy plate for you. One second. Okay, you see this? Look, we're gonna come over here where mom can see. Oh, oh, everyone. Look, right there, fucking the rest of them. He's a look. Hey, hey, look, over here. Oh, oh, now you see him. Oh, oh, oh, yeah. Boy, oh, some of your favorites, right? Some zoops. It's a good thing. Okay. So, come here, Diesel. I'm gonna put this on you like this. We've got the other boys locked up just for now so that we can do this as stress-free as possible. Yeah, so we don't trigger his anxiety before this thing's even on and associated with something bad. That one like that. And this goes around here. Diesel. Diesel, you wanna spin around so they can see what I'm doing on this side? Diesel, come here. No. Nope. Well, it's Velcro on this side. Goes under, wraps up in here like this, and then this flap goes over that like that. Oh. Wow. Thundershirt. Diesel, you look like a star horse. So sporty. Do you feel relaxed? Did you wrap it tight enough? Has to be like a firm hug. Not a tight hug. Don't hurt his belly, but a firm hug. It's pretty stretchy materials. Yeah. Do you have any circulation? No. That's pretty good. All right. How, Ezel? Is it diesel? You look so good, so handsome. What do you think? Wow, what a good boy. Does it feel calming? Show starting. So we're gonna try this in the truck with him and see if it helps. What do you think? Come here, go outside. It's supposed to help with barking. It was only two barks, so it wasn't bad. Not bad, he didn't cry after. Do you wanna bring it with your brothers? See what they think of your new outfit? They're gonna be so jealous. You're gonna have to take it. All right, weaner. Did he get a new shirt? I need one too. You don't need one. Damn, we're... You just got a bag of $70 food. Yeah. We'll see if this helps you. It's like getting a big hug all the time. We just switched over Frankie's food to a neuro care food because he's got dementia and he was sundowning really, really bad for those of you who don't know what sundowning is. Humans do it too with dementia and Alzheimer's. It's very common for them to get confused once the sun starts to go down and Frankie was walking in circles, he was confused, he was crying. He was taking Christmas ornaments off the tree. It was just, he wasn't himself. I could tell something was wrong and he is old. We don't know how old but he is older. So we decided to try out a recommended Purina pro plan neuro care kibble for him and we got a free bag from the vet and then today we went and picked up the second bag and it was like 67, 73 I think is the exact amount after tax for a six pound bag of food. This right here. Yeah, there she is. You guys are expensive. So expensive. But they're the healthiest seniors in town. That's right. So yeah, I mean thankfully he's a little guy. He's less than 20 pounds. So he doesn't take a lot to feed but I have, I don't know if it's just placebo effect on me or not but I have noticed a lot of improvement. He seems to be a lot less confused and crying a lot less. He's clingy or lately but I think he's just picking up on that from Wiener because he takes a lot of cues from Wiener. So, hey Frank, Frank, hey you, hey you. Ice shabby. Frankie, you want attention from your dad? Hey big guy. Time to get back to work. We got the throne all set up. Plush blankets, soft, comfortable. You know what that means? You've got the weasel in his thunder shirt. I'm just under weasel. I'm so relaxed right now guys. You don't even, you don't even know. So relaxed. This thing is awesome. This is my thunder shirt. I'm my thunder weasel. And I just wanna sleep. It's so nice. I've never been so stressed free in my life. You do look pretty relaxed, Diesel. You think it's gonna help? We're gonna give it a shot. We're not going far, okay? Just gonna go to the paw. And a couple other short runs. We'll be home in a couple of days, okay? You definitely do look like you're pretty relaxed. Hope it's working. I guess I could have looked at the forecast before I left. That is my bad. That is unlike me. But it's a cold one today. Cab there just walked him. He's keeping warm. I don't know if you can see him. Probably too dark. He's in the passenger seat right there. It is minus 31 outside Celsius. You're wondering what that is Fahrenheit, it's cold. We're gonna sleep right here on this wonderful lot because our facility is right behind over there. The big office and everything and there's a driver's lounge. So if my truck suddenly decides to quit running, I have some more warm diesel and I can go. You can see diesel in the back window here now. Some money. First thing in the morning, I've gotta go get loaded. It's like I've been telling you we've gotta rush off to the paw. This whole week is gonna be like this about minus 30 at night and about minus 25 during the day. What is what it is part of the job up here. This is our home and we can take it. We don't mind the cold. Well, we'd rather not have the cold. But you know what? We'll deal with it. I've got old blues grill cover all buttoned up for the night. If this engine is warm as possible. I've got my fuel tanks full of fuel. Keep warm in these cold temperatures. Some people ask how do you live in these cold temperatures? The only reason you're here in Manitoba is because you wanna work. That's the only reason anybody ever moved here is you wanna work. And that's the only way to keep warm. You gotta work. You gotta keep moving. As soon as you stop, you freeze. You stop, you die. You go, go, go, go, go. We don't become a G7 country by being lazy and doing nothing. You gotta work hard. You gotta keep going. You gotta keep things moving. Doesn't matter what the temperature is outside. Doesn't matter if it's snowing, raining. If the sun is shining, if it's 100 degrees Fahrenheit or if it's minus 40, you keep going and you keep working. And that's the attitude of everybody who moves here. Because there's no other reason to be here. If there wasn't money to be made here, believe me, everybody here would be gone. Money, the great uniter. No matter where you come from, you wanna make some money? Here's the catch. It's in Manitoba. It's too much for a lot of people and they just go, nope. And they go straight to Toronto or straight to Vancouver. That's fine. You guys can't take the cold. You guys aren't tough enough. Fine, Toronto and Vancouver for you. You wanna be on the prairies, you gotta be a little tougher. I'm not even joking. You gotta be tough to be on the prairies. You have to deal with extreme heat in the summertime, extreme mosquitoes and bugs. Sorry, my mustache is itching me right here and wintertime is cold, so we get the extreme of everything. But you know what, it's home and I love it. And I wouldn't trade it for anything and I will defend it with everything in me on its own. Diesel, how'd you like your thunder shirt today? I know the lighting's not the greatest in here. I took it off, it's right here. How'd you like, it actually seemed to really help him. Like honestly, I can't really make an assessment based off one day or one evening with like not even 100 kilometers or 60 miles behind us. Lots of see how it goes through this whole trip. But it seemed to keep him calm. You know, the roads are pretty rough right now because it's so cold. Any moisture that's like seeped into any of the cracks on the road is all expanding, like freezing and expanding right now. So it makes the roads really rough at this time of year. So the road, truck was bouncing around as we were bobdailing to the yard here. And he had his thunder shirt on and he seemed to be doing just fine. Seemed to just be relaxing, just chillin' in the back. Once we got here, I took it off of him. What do you think, Diesel? You think that thunder shirt's gonna do you some good? I hope so, cause I really wanna take him with on more trips. The shirt is supposed to be like, it's supposed to be like a big hug, right? So when he's feeling stressed out or, you know, a little bit nervous, the shirt's supposed to make him feel like he's, you know, nice and cozy, getting a nice hug. And studies have shown that it really does help. I will let you know if it works or not. The brand is Thunder Shirt, I believe that's what it's called. I showed it to you before. If you wanna try it on your dogs after you see how Diesel works on it. I'm not sponsored by them or anything. I don't know the owners, I've never talked to them. This is just something that I bought myself. This is actually a recommendation from my wife, Britt. She's the one that said that we should get this for Diesel like years ago already. Thunder Shirt, that's the brand for dog anxiety. It's great for fireworks, thunderstorms, separation anxiety, car and air travel, leash pulling, barking and licking and more. 100% satisfaction guarantee. Well, there you have it. 100%. What does it say on the back here? Let me read this to you. I find this fascinating. It says here, how it works. The Thunder Shirt's patented design applies gentle constant pressure on a dog's torso. And this pressure has an amazing calming effect for most dogs. Used for symptoms including panting, shaking, drooling, barking, whining, hiding, scratching, licking, bolting, eliminating indoors and more. Yeah, that's what happened with Diesel. When he had his little bit of panic attacks, he would just sit beside me and shake, which was strange, right? Cause he grew up in the truck with me. This is all he knows. He knows what's going on. He knows where we are. He knows what's happening and he's grown up around and he's loved it his whole life. He's gonna be turning 12 this year in like 10 years of his life. But, you know, something in here, he's started having anxiety in his older age. So, here it says, feels like a hug. It says, pressure has been used to successfully reduce anxiety for many years for both animals and humans. Examples include parents swaddling infants, veterinarians using squeeze shoots when vaccinating cattle, and people with autism using pressure to relieve persistent anxiety. So, I'm not doing an ad for them, but I'll let you know how it goes. Just like I always say, I only talk about products with you that work for me and that I actually use myself. And if I haven't come to a conclusion yet, I'll let you know. Just like this, we were just trying to stay for the first time. So, thanks for joining us today, guys. It was very nice and very exciting to be back. The weasel is back. Guess who's back? It's me, it's Weasel. Can you go do some trucking? Guys, Sunday Weasel here, Sunday shirt. You ain't good. I'm an old man now. You are getting a little old, aren't you, Diesel? So old, so old. You give me, I'm so old and wise, I can sense it. Sure, you bet. You are pretty smart, that's for sure. And I am happy to have you back in the truck with me. I hope that this really works out. It's not the same without you, bud. I don't like trucking without my weasel. And they've all been asking about you. They've been missing you. And I told them you're relaxing at home enjoying the semi-retirement. Don't touch my posh. Don't touch it, just seeing I don't like the most. Okay? Like this, bud? Yeah, so don't touch my posh. A little crumpy? He's never liked it when I touched his posh. So, hit that subscribe button. Tomorrow we'll be trucking and it's gonna be cold. So, I hope you tune in to keep me warm by clicking the like button. It helps keep me warm. So, right now go down below the video, click the like button. And if you really wanna send me a cup of hot chocolate or something, hit that subscribe button and the bell. And what will feel like a wave of warmth will wash over me and keep me from freezing solid and I won't die. So, I appreciate it. 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