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I'm not exactly sure how I should start this video I don't do personal updates like this all that often but I guess I'll just start out with kind of the headline news I am a father now baby's healthy mommy's healthy so everything's great there I wanted to talk a little bit about my experience over the past couple weeks though because for one if I don't make a video about this I'm not gonna make a video about anything and for two a lot has gone on I actually had to write down a couple pages of notes just to remind myself everything that's happened over the past couple weeks and it's not all about the babies so I'm just gonna talk about it let you guys know what went on yes I'll be sharing a little bit of the baby towards the end but I am gonna try to keep up with my promise to not turn my channel into a channel about our new baby she will be popping up from time to time but I am gonna be still focusing on text so don't worry about that so my story begins in the last week of April 2019 and I told you guys that my baby was due in late April but the actual due date was April 25th on the 25th the baby hadn't come yet so we were still just trying to go about business as usual and that morning Joe came over he is my editor he also has been helping me film stuff and in the morning we were getting ready to go and we looked at hero my large dog who's down here snoring and he wasn't right Joe noticed at first I noticed he seemed a little off and then just over the course of maybe five or ten minutes he suddenly couldn't stand up anymore he was wobbling to the side we tried to let him into the backyard and he could just tell something was very much wrong and it escalated pretty quickly from the point where I was like all right am I gonna have to have my wife take him into the vet to like oh we need to take him into the vet right now so we cancel treating for that day we took an emergency trip down to our vet which is located in Fullerton and they did an initial diagnosis basically they were worried that he might have had a stroke there were possible other complications that could have happened so they referred us to a specialist in Orange County called the Orange County Veterinary Specialists they're actually located in Tustin we drove down there and there they were able to do a bit more of a diagnosis and eventually they determined that he had what is known as vestibular disease and if you're not familiar with that it is actually somewhat common in older dogs and I've heard sometimes even more common in larger dogs but basically it just happens it's a sudden onset of vertigo so the dog can't maintain balance and they fall over and it's very noticeable in the eyes the eyes will constantly track back and forth over and over again like the dog can't stay focused on a single point of reference so I tweeted out that day to ask for some support for people I tweeted again as we were on the way back from our vet because at that point we knew he had vestibular disease or we were pretty sure of it nystagmus is the condition for the eyes and you can kind of see it here in this video that I tweeted out sort of the eye shifting back and forth so just for those of you who might have a dog an older dog or a larger dog in particular keeping that for this type of behavior because it just happens they don't really know exactly why it can sometimes be caused by an ear infection so what they sent us home from the vet with that day was some antibiotics to counter potentially an ear infection also same painkillers and they basically told us it's just gonna take a week to ten days plus for it to sort of slowly wear off often dogs can recover from this fully or recover from it mostly they might still have a little bit of a head tilt that comes out of it and sometimes they can still have a little bit of bad balance after the fact fortunately at this point Hiro is doing much much much better he still does have that little bit of its head tilts and he doesn't always walk in a straight line but he's doing way better and he's very much back to his old self so that was good but that is definitely not the end of the story as I already mentioned that was my wife's due date the day our baby was supposed to be born if our baby was on time for things which probably isn't gonna be the case for her lifetime that's probably hereditary but the point is we were kind of on edge because we knew that the baby could come at any minute so for the next 4 5 days or so we were just kind of going about business as usual as much as we could waiting for a baby to come did some doctors appointments eventually they decided to schedule my wife to be induced to have labor induced on May 1st now quick note here about our dogs we have two of them Noorie is a cardigan Welsh Corgi she's a smaller dog she's very well behaved and everyone loves her Hiro is a larger dog and he's very lovable but he's also what is known as a bully breeds so people are sometimes a little bit more intimidated by him and there's certain rules at certain places about boarding dogs like pit bulls he's a pitbull Mastiff mix in case you were wondering he is also a pound puppy and ever since we got him he has had very very bad separation anxiety if I'm not around or if my wife's not around he gets really nervous we can generally leave him here with nori and the two of them together are okay chillin for a while and we have a camera so we can keep an eye on them and everything but just over the past six months or so when we have boarded here oh he's gotten more and more nervous and more and more not happy with being in a kennel and so the place where we typically board him we can't bore him anymore so we had arranged for Joe to come over and house it and save us there so that my wife and I could go into the hospital for the delivery of our baby baby and we would be confident knowing that our dogs are here and had someone to keep an eye on them and even more so now that Hiro had just gone through this vestibular disease thing which she was still recovering from we wanted to make sure somebody had kept an eye on him so next fast forward to Tuesday April 30th and this was a night that we had awesome Hardware Kyle came over here we broadcast the live show from right here where we usually do and then Kyle went home and later that night I had let Hiro and nori into the back yard to do their business and a few minutes later I noticed Hiro coughing or hacking he was over on the side of our yard and again it was just a situation where at first I was like okay do you have something caught in your throat he kept hacking over and over again he started to get really like full body like he's that he was trying to clear something out of his throat again incredibly concerning and I was like all right I have we need to take him in it was late at night this time but fortunately we actually have an overnight emergency vet that's relatively close to us here as well so it took in there had to wait around for a little bit of time basically they found that he did have something caught in the back of his throat it might have been a fox tail or something from the backyard I either as a result of that or it was just caught because we brought him in for that but he also had a bunch of air in his belly which is known as bloat in larger dogs and especially with larger dogs if they get bloated their stomach can actually flip upside down it's a very common problem for big dogs especially if they eat very quickly and take a lot of air and if that happens basically the dog dies unfortunately so that was a big concern for us they kept him at that facility overnights we woke up first thing the next morning went and took picked him up from there took him to our vet in Fullerton again took him down to the specialists in Tustin and then they had to keep him there for a day or two in order to monitor him keeping him on some pain medications they did some x-rays and they were updating us on his status so again reminder this was now six or seven days after my wife's initial due dates are dog is in the vet done in tustin we need to go to the kaiser permanente where we're going to be delivering our baby which is in Baldwin Park not exactly very close to each other and we have a situation where we have to get our dogs back home together at some point so we started doing a bunch of phone tag and coordinating with my parents and with Joe Joe also was scheduled to see Avengers end game which we were trying to be sensitive to he eventually very graciously postponed his Avengers end game viewing dates so that was very nice of him again Joe was super clutch this entire past week I must say but after we had finally gotten all that coordinated for my parents to pick the dogs up and go and meet Joe at our house and so we were gonna go into the hospital we got a call from the hospital that's they were very full in the labor and delivery area and asked if we could push the induction back one more day which was a little frustrating because we were ready to go but also helpful because it meant that the following day on May 2nd my wife and I were able to go pick up Hiro bring him home Joe came over and we did a transition there Joe then stayed at our house we went to the hospital for our scheduled induction on the evening of May 2nd and then we sort of switched from the prior week of oh no what the heck is happening with our dog - the following week which was we're having a baby now which was very exciting but also of course a little scary to sum up the next couple days though basically it was a labor and delivery situation I'm not gonna go into too many details there but the very very good news is that my daughter Hana was born on May 4th at 1:52 a.m. she weighed 8 pounds and 1 ounce and she is super happy and healthy and she poops she poops and cries a lot but but we we love her we love her so much yes we are prepared for essentially a lifetime of made the fourth jokes since she was now born on Star Wars day we didn't name her Leia or array or anything like that though so um actually she's she's kind of slightly named after Deva from over watching I'm don't want to get into that but the next few days was not necessarily easy either I don't know how many of you out there have kids or expecting to have kids or anything like that but it's a it's a new and kind of crazy experience and if I can impress one thing upon you watching this video it's that once the baby is born there's sort of an aftermath time there which can which can go by relatively easily and quickly but it can also be very hard as well so we had two complications our baby had jaundice and that's very common you can use photo therapy it actually gave us this led fiber-optic thing to set her up with in her crib when she was sleeping at night to provide more blue light on her skin because that is one of the ways that you deal with jaundice levels fortunately our Billie her bilirubin levels is what happened the actual name of the thing that accumulates in the blood fortunately her jaundice was never acute enough that she had to go to the newborn intensive care unit or anything like that so it was just something we needed to monitor and take care of as for my wife Diana she also had some complications I'm not going to go into the details of those just suffice it to say that they were uncomfortable and frustrating but not life-threatening so it was just a situation where we were really ready to go home with our baby after such a long and stressful week and we just had to stay at the hospital for like two-and-a-half extra days and wait and sort of wait and wait and and and that got really frustrating but we finally finally were able to go home on the evening of May 6th and then the very next morning we had to go right back to the hospital for more checkups and everything but point being we are incredibly happy because my wife is happy and healthy and recovering as best you can baby is doing super great I can't I can't tell you guys how cute I think she is I hope you agree if you don't you're stupid and wrong so since May 6 we have just been here at home doing our best to maintain keep things under control we've had a bunch of help from friends and family which has been super awesome and yeah just you got a you got to clean the baby you got to feed the baby and a burp the baby the baby is kind of in control at this point but we're okay with it we're gonna get through it and I just wanted to share this little slice of our life with you guys in case you were wondering what's going on with Paul where I have been over the past couple weeks maybe a little bit more detail about some of the stuff I've been tweeting there's another picture I tweeted of Hiro when we took him to the park after he was recovering from his vestibular disease where he's just super happy so that's that's the other really great thing is Hiro recovering while doing really well and he's still he's still kicking so we're looking forward to spending more time with him thank you guys so much for watching this video the I don't know what kind of questions you might have but feel free to leave them in the comments section below hit the thumbs up button if you enjoyed it I should be back to a relatively normal schedule within the next couple weeks but please bear with me I would probably be a little bit more sporadic than usual but I've already got a couple video shots so so that's awesome again a huge huge thank you to Joe he's we could not have done this this without him I can't I can't like as we were being kept at the hospital and I had to keep calling Joe or texting him and be like hey so we don't know when we can leave are you okay to stick around longer and he was just he was just super awesome to do that and stick around and he did eventually get to see endgame and what would you think Joe oh oh he's alright he's okay no it was really good Game of Thrones that's what sucks now hey I'm getting distracted thank you so much for watching guys we'll see you in the next video I've never seen I've never seen hiccups this cute before oh do you think of the hiccups ah I see