- My mom's like, "I need to get there,
"I need to come there, I need to see you, I need..."
Mom.
Now all of a sudden my mom's here.
"Shayla, the only car that they have available
is a convertible Mustang."
Hey guys, my name is Shayla
and I make these videos every Wednesday.
I've been traveling full time since 2015
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I live places for months at a time,
so right now I'm living in Washington State,
for the next four months.
Also if you're interested in this sweatshirt, Hey Bear,
at the end of the video I'll tell you when it's going live.
I was going to New York last week,
but instead I ended up in the hospital.
I have a rash on my face.
It's like all over my back, on my forehead,
it's going down the side of my face.
It's from the medication that I'm on.
So I was going to just ignore that and be like hey guys,
let me talk to you about jet lag.
And if you're interested in that video,
just let me know and I'll make that.
I don't even know where to start with this,
so I'm just going to start.
Last Sunday, a week and a half ago,
I had a fever of almost 102
and I was like uh, I'm fine, I'm fine.
We go in to the emergency room,
they take my temperature and they bring me back.
One person comes in with this like moveable computer
ans starts taking my insurance information.
Another person's coming in to take my vitals.
Another person is coming in to give me an IV.
Like, they're doing all the things at once.
I learned that I cope by making jokes and laughing.
I didn't really realize,
how much of a comedian I would become,
but, I was pretty funny.
I'm sitting there getting all of this stuff done to me
and I'm like, man this is like at the salon
when someone does your toes,
the same time as they do your nails.
And then the blood person comes in
and I was like, oop the vampire's here.
Apparently it's not the first time he's heard that.
Nobody like then usually so after they do it,
if they do a good job,
I'm always like, great job, thank you so, thank you.
Then he just kind of laughed at me and I was like, yeah.
The the IV person comes in.
Can you watch the needle go in?
I can't do that.
My sister, when we were little,
I think she had appendicitis and I'm like watching
the whole thing happen.
And all of a sudden the nurse goes,
"You should maybe take her out of here."
I was just ghost white
and about to pass out.
I just don't watch anymore, I just don't look.
And Seth, he's like, "Oh I have to look
"to make sure that they're doing it right."
Okay good, you watch.
I told her, I was like "Oh this is just
"going to be like this blood is, super easy."
And she's like, well this is a bigger needle.
And I was like, why would you tell me that?
I look at Seth, I'm just so glad
that this needle is so much smaller than the other one.
She kind of paused and was like, it's so small
So then they tell me okay,
you're going to be admitted into the hospital.
We're going to bring you up to the hospital in a little bit.
And I was like, where are we?
You're in the ER.
I was like, oh they're separate things.
They were like, "Okay do you want to walk up there?
"Do you want us to get a wheelchair?
"Or do you just want to go on the bed?"
Like a magic carpet? If you don't mind,
I would love to just lay here and just get there.
Because I ate they had to delay surgery until the morning
and the surgery was just like "Oh we need to
"go and check in for the infection."
We were on our way to go get the surgery,
and I have chills.
There is an oven that is set at 102 degrees,
that they just pull these blades out of
and just put on you and it was magical.
You're so cold and and the all of a sudden,
they're like
Warm.
This is amazing.
Seth could only come with me so far,
and then I had to do it on my own.
Until surgery room, and they like strap me
on the table and put my arms out.
Anesthesia, I was like.
I'm like waiting for them to be,
"Okay, we're going to do the anesthesia now.
"So I'm going to put this mask on, start counting backwards."
They just put the mask on and I think I was
still talking through the mask while they were doing it.
I think I was just like, making jokes.
And then all of a sudden I was getting wheeled Seth,
and then I was like, "I can walk to my bed."
And then Seth had to go to school.
While all of this is happening, my mom is like,
"I need to get there.
"I need to come there. I need to see you. I need..."
I was just like, "Mom, you do not have to come.
"It's fine."
And Seth was like, "Well, Shayla's like one of those people
"that like hard on the outside and soft on the inside.
"She's going to say not to come
"but you should probably come."
And I was like, "Seth.
"How do you know me so well?"
Now all of a sudden my mom's here
and she's like, "Shayla, the only car that
"they have available is a convertible mustang."
Get your convertible and come on down. Come on up.
It was like a relay team
when my mom got there, Seth pasted the baton to
my mom and Seth took off and my mom was there now.
And so she was taking over so that
he could go to sleep so that he could study
and do class in the academy.
So there's this like chair thing that Seth
and my mom bad to sleep on.
Are you comfortable? Is that comfortable?
It looks like plastic.
And they're like, "No no, it's fine. It's fine."
Asking Seth like what are some things
that I should talk about.
He said talk about how uncomfortable
the bed was that I had to sleep on,
and that your mom had to sleep on the other nights.
Seth, you told me that that was comfortable.
He's like, "Yeah."
I have this IV in and every time they put
a certain antibiotic in there it just, it burned.
But I think it's fine because I don't want them
to stick me with another IV.
So I'm like, "Can we turn it down?"
And they were like, "No."
It's starting to get puffy and cold or something.
So they had to do it on this side and I was like, "Fine"
So Messy Mel did it and I just felt
blood running down my arm
but it didn't hurt at all.
Don't worry. Don't worry about the blood.
I was like "It didn't even hurt so it's fine."
Just clean up the blood, it's fine.
For some reason I feel like I need
to make them feel better.
I'm constantly just trying to be like,
"Thank you so much." "You're so wonderful."
Trying to make them feel better.
Then, the antibiotic went in, it didn't hurt anymore.
But my mom is like me, or I guess
I'm in just like my mom. We are loud.
We laugh a lot. We talk loud.
We take up a lot of space.
People were walking past our rooms,
just looking inside like, "What are they doing in there?"
I get out of the hospital on Wednesday.
And that's when I made that video.
It was in the convertible.
There was some medical emergency stuff.
She leaves, I start talking my oral meds.
And all of a sudden, I start getting this rash all over.
And it's just like mostly on my face and my neck
and like the places that you can see really easily.
I'm getting a rash.
And they're like, "Oh, stop taking this medication."
I was like, "Okay, thank you, bye."
And it was really shitty.
Just taking your health for granted
and then all of a sudden, getting it taken from you.
I feel like everything happens for a reason.
And like with depression, I used to be the person
"Oh, just be happy. Fake it till you make it."
"Go out and do stuff and be fun."
Before I was in the hospital,
I was so tired I didn't want to go anywhere.
Seth was like taking me on outings
like walks, and stuff and I was like,
"this is helping a lot."
I'm not making this video at all
to be like feel bad for me.
This is how I --
I'm making this video to say like,
I sympathize so much harder with people
who are experiencing health issues,
meatal health issues, physical health whatever
Because it is hard.
And you just take that for granted so much
and I've got these videos so
I put make up on once a week at least
and just like figure out some fun stuff to talk about.
But like Oh man.
So comment below if you want to share
what you've been going through or what's going on.
I'm a share-er. And that helps me.
If you're not, then don't share.
Also, this sweatshirt.
'Hey Bear'
So there's a yellow one and there's a gray one.
And I will be getting both,
but I started with the yellow, to see
how the colors work together and I love it.
If you're a patron, you will be getting
a discounted rate on these sweatshirts.
If you're not a patron yet,
you can still a patron.
How this is going to work is
these will go live, these
and these. I've also got "All of the things" t-shirt.
You can't see it but it's like outlined in white.
It just looks kind of funky.
So it's going to be white print so that's going to be better.
I'll do a separate video about the t-shirts
so that you know when it's launching,
and all the details when it's finally finalized.
If you're on my mailing list,
you'll get it in an e-mail.
On Instagram, @livingonaoneway
There's a lot of ways that you can find out about it.
Let me know if you want a jet lag video,
if you watch the needle or if you don't,
if you have any good stories, or bad stories
about being in the hospital.
Thank you guys all so much for watching.
I will see you next Wednesday.
TeeTee how you feeling when you come home this time?
You're never going to want to leave again.
Tell your TeeTee how much
she's going to love you.
Who's in the mirror right there?
(baby coos)
He loves you. I love you.
We love you.
It's nap time so (baby cries)
Bennett, can you say hi to your Teetee?
There you go. Can you smile for mama?
(baby laughs)
Oh, she's going to die.
So that was beautiful except for the drool right there.
(Dance music)