urgent medical hell with 7 children

boy look this one there's going to be a

lot of detail here it's going to be

about 12 and a half minutes before we

get to talking Summer and the medical

hell so forgive me but there's a lot of

updating here to get you to why we have

seven children what's going on with like

work and startups and stuff so this is

really look if you're interested in

what's going on my world you're going to

get everything in this okay so buckle up

here we go hey everyone meet Kevin here

in this video you're going to get a full

update on meet Kevin we're going to talk

medical hell that we've gone through and

what's going on what's still to come

we're going to answer the question of do

I really have seven children and how did

that happen if so we're going to talk

status of Health who's in the hospital

who's left in the hospital why what's

going on we're going to get into some of

the details of that so buckle up for

that we'll talk uh a little update on

work I'll probably start with that so I

can get that out of the way mostly

because that's going to be the quicker

update and so this really if you're

curious on what it's like to be in this

sort of world here's a little bit of

insight for you uh if not hey we'll be

back with economic and sort of political

news whatever probably tomorrow but

let's get into it so first yes I have

been posting way less two years ago I

was posting about five times a day now

I'm lucky if I'm posting five times a

week now I have a strategy to ramp that

up while still being able to handle

everything else that's going on it's

really just going to come down to waking

up earlier in the morning I've done that

in the past we're going to get back into

that Groove uh now so that way we can uh

really produce when children are quiet

people are quiet employees aren't

working they're not at work right agents

AR everything's peaceful so that's

probably what I'll do at the same time

we've got an event that we're planning

if you haven't heard on June 21st to

June 23rd I'll link it down below we're

basically trying to put on what we hope

and expect will be the biggest Finance

event of the Year got a lot of interest

in this we've been doing a lot of

interviews with folks and inviting

people so stay tuned we think we're

going to have a lot of really exciting

announcements coming as we announce new

speakers we're going to raise the price

for the event so you can check that out

at me kevin.com June 21st to 23rd

inperson 3-day Finance event of the year

in Vegas so again as more details come

out kind of raise the price on that uh

speaking of work yes people have been

wondering are there two startups the

answer is yes there are two startups one

takes up the vast majority of my time

the other is kind of like this little

candle that's lit it involved me getting

all of the uh six different licenses I

got at the end of the year has to do

with a broker dealer uh that's really

kind of a slowburn project that'll take

quite a while and it doesn't take a lot

of time right now because we're mostly

waiting on outside forces but what's um

really neat is that'll end up benefiting

house hack I expect so it's really

exciting house hack you already know

about this my real estate startup that

takes up a lot of time I'll give you a

really really kind of quick example I've

got some blurry pictures here as well

that I think are kind of funny uh and

and these this was sort of me running

around on Friday uh and uh what was

funny about it mostly was I don't know

why I got these blurry photos of it but

I have these blurry photos of me outside

this building this right here was just

an example of one of the appointments

meeting a city uh for an affordable

house housing project that we're working

on this is for the benefit of houske

investors and uh what's remarkable is

that day I left here at like

6:55 this is after doing the market open

live stream we're still doing the

morning I've got a 7:15 flight to go

meet this city uh before meeting the

city at an 8:30 appointment to walk a

building with contractors walk another

building at 8:55 so yeah they're like 2

minutes apart so it was okay almost walk

between the too uh 9:15 conference call

negotiating an $18 million deal uh then

I got to get to Texas to meet the CEO of

uh robotics startup which was pretty

cool uh and uh then we had negotiations

later in the day uh uh with uh with some

other individuals catching up really

really exciting stuff going on but then

I got to be back in on the west coast to

tour more projects and single families

and multifamilies and multiple different

states and then of course I got to get

back for d night because I have to be

able to spend time with Lauren and so we

were able to uh get back in time all

within this sort of crazy 36-hour span

here's Lauren she's actually holding up

with the children we're about to talk

about so point is there is a lot that

goes on and I don't really film much of

it mostly because some of the things I

can't film because when we're in

negotiations on it maybe we can film

them and post them in the future but we

also don't really want to blow our

negotiations while we're in the middle

of negotiations so kind of a weird

balance but that's just an example that

was just like a 36- hour example and

then you got to be able to have

one-on-one time with the kids as well so

let's now talk children are there really

seven

children yes there are seven children

Lauren uh gave natural birth to both

Jack and Max uh both Jack and Max are

healthy they're kicking butt they're

great they're they're strong little boys

Jack's eight Zim

uh with me this was pretty cool and I

try to take Jack and maxing try to make

sure I could still spend one-on-one time

with them that's really important

because as they grow up I don't want

them to feel like they're shafted

because there are more children here's

Max with one of the twins that was born

in October so let's talk twins for a

moment Lauren had fertility issues for

Jack and Max uh she had to take this

drug called Clomid to even get pregnant

and there were shots involved in this

it's it's crazy but after Jack and Max

she actually stopped responding to any

kind of fertility treatment so it's like

okay you might end up being blessed with

two children and that might be it we've

always wanted to have more children

we've always sort of felt like only

children I've had um two half sisters

for example but they're like 11 years in

both directions so I always kind of felt

like I grew up as an only child and

through

uh and sort of other fertility measures

we're blessed with these twins these

twins are amazing this is Claire right

here healthy they both spent about 5

days in the NICU they were born in about

36 weeks on October 26th and uh these

they're absolutely adorable little girls

we see them both getting their own

little personalities here you could see

right here for example if I mess with uh

Ella look at her face over here look at

Claire's it's like this is too

suspicious sir

it's really cute it's really fun it's

amazing we're so blessed to have these

two and they're they're a super amazing

part of life like having children is so

amazing I I feel like I have my work

babies with amazing employees a great

team really shout out to the whole team

doing everything that's going on would

not be possible without the people

helping both me and Lauren Lauren's got

her own team obviously she needs it

because yes it is true we did not only

have twins on October 26th but then

also we had triplets on

2224 kind of a cool date but we had

triplets not on purpose within 3 months

and a week of having twins let's just

say we were getting really unlucky with

timing with fertility and how contracts

were working out and and babies not

sticking and and and things were just

not working and then all of a sudden

everything started working and the way

contracts were set up were not

anticipating that and it was either go

through or kind of lose all the money

and and progress you've already made in

fertility so we're like oh wow okay so

we might have two pregnancies going at

the same time and then all of a sudden

we get

eggslit situations we're like wait a

minute what long and short of it yes we

have seven children so so you met Jack

he's eight you met Max he's six you met

the twins Ella and Claire they're are

strong chunky girls we love them they're

so adorable it's so cute when babies

fatten up because when they're born they

they kind of look a whole lot more

meager and and not that strong now

you've got uh them learning how to roll

over and look at

them it's it's adorable but that's just

the part of the story that doesn't

involve the

intensity so then come the triplets now

some of you have already heard that we

had emergency surgeries involved with

one of them we're going to talk about

her in just a moment but first let's get

Jay and violet out of the way so Jay

he's you know he's got to add some

weight he kind of looks like a little

Grandpa right now but this is Jay he is

a one of the new five babies that we

have he's great he's really responsive I

just fed him took like 40 minutes for

him to feed he's super adorable right

before filming this video I fed him he's

great he actually got sick with RSV now

Ella and Claire they did not get the RSV

vaccine we felt they were far enough in

their age and their weights and their

progression and even though they were

born in October they did not get the RSV

vaccine uh some of the RSV vaccines have

been out a lot longer some of them a lot

shorter and everybody has to kind of

personally decide what they want their

children to get you know we're we're a

big fan of of the ogs you know like the

chickenpox and the hepatitis and stuff

but some of the newer stuff were were're

let's say we put more thought into it

right uh and that's this is not medical

advice for somebody to or to not get but

anyway he got the RSV vaccine and so did

violet now what's interesting is they

got it a day

before actually getting sick with RSV

now that's a little bit of a bummer

because it means you can't actually get

your immunity up the reason they got it

is because they're substantially smaller

Jay for example he's barely six lb which

is okay probably explains why

Jay he did pretty well with RSV got sick

one of the reasons we got him vaccinated

is because he did have a condition known

as num thorax basically means his lung

collapsed so his lung collapsed all the

air goes into his chest cavity they got

to puncture him uh with a needle to let

the air out and then they got to

basically rehabilitate the child and and

make sure his lung could expand again

he's healed x-ray everything good but

you

know viral conditions probably not great

with lung collapse we'll say he's been a

champ totally perfect Violet though

she's not even five pounds she's in the

four pound range and unfortunately she

was starting to have trouble breathing

so even though she required no support

after her being born she was on room a

from being born uh feeding tube for a

little while but they pretty much all

are at that age until they can feed she

pretty much needed no help but after

getting RSV she was having trouble

breathing and we decided it was best for

her to go to the hospital which ended up

being the right thing to do because

she's been there for 6 days now just

getting breathing support uh she's doing

fine she's going to be okay but it's a

roller coaster mostly because here we

are thinking like yay we're we're down

to one in the hospital no you're going

back in the hospital so Violet's in the

hospital she's going to be okay she

should be out hopefully

tomorrow uh but what happens with the

little ones when they have trouble

breathing they can their oxygen levels

can be okay but eventually the trouble

breathing wears on them so much to where

they're they're taking these deep

breaths their Skin's pulling under their

ribs if and and their lips kind of turn

in a little bit eventually their muscles

wear out and they're not actually able

to keep up with the excessive breathing

that they need to do to get past all the

congestion they have and of course you

do like the saline uh uh you know sprays

and and the uh extractions uh to try to

minimize the mucus they have but anyway

now we got to talk summer this is summer

now I've already broken down what

happened when she was born in a

different video quick catchup she had a

condition known as mcone ilas bonium

ilas is this blockage at the end of her

small intestine and it leads to

essentially all your kind of stomach

stuff getting stuck blocked and then

ruptures you get a perforation of the

small intestine it all spills out into

your gut this is her when she was born

this is not good it's really bad

meconium ilas essentially led her to go

into surgery right away way emergency

surgery and the surgeon called me and

said look there are three things that

can cause moonium ilas there's

malformation in other words the small

intestines were just they grew wrong

there's looping or cystic fibrosis which

often times is an an early death

sentence to your life you have trouble

breathing you have to have special diets

you could uh there are some treatments

for certain forms of cystic fibrosis

which could help you sort of get through

it it's generally deemed to be incurable

and a life-shortening disease and we're

like that's not good this is really bad

and really scary and this is also odd

because we're looking at this going hey

surgeon how is this possible if we're

both tested for cystic fibrosis and

we're both Negative they like well there

you know that that's good but there

could be a mutation in the child itself

and we've done like 23 and me and we're

negative on 23 and me this was my SEMA 4

scan from before as we were going

through uh fertility and it just says

reduce risk over here which I think is

just sort of like their You Know cover

your butt way of saying you you

shouldn't have cystic fibrosis or

shouldn't be a carrier of it anyway I'm

on the phone with a surgeon I'm like

well what about is there no fourth

potential option here you're saying it's

not malformation you're saying it's not

looping so so you're trying to point to

CF and I'm like what about stenosis

which would be like a narrowing of the

intestine which could be caused by

external stresses which could be caused

by a lack of blood flow to the area

something known as uh like anemic

Condition it's just a fancy word for

that and we're like this sucks like how

are we going to know like well you're

going to have to wait 9 days for the

newborn screen to come back and we're

like so for N9 days we're just in like

hell and Agony over like what are we

going to do because it's not just if she

has it we you know she she's got this

life altering condition we have to deal

with but she's a freaking identical twin

with Violet so that means the other one

has it and we're like oh my gosh this

this sucks I'm like why why why why are

you saying Mone so we're like you know

researching monei ilas freaking out for

9 days straight it is so so commonly

associated that is Mone Milas this

condition is so commonly associated with

cystic fibrosis that we were literally

getting people's flash cards coming up

on Google for medical like boards and

exams where it's like if meconium ilas

is present or child presents with

meconium ilas what is the likely cause

and the answer is always C cystic

fibrosis so we're like whoa this is this

is weird like this child could have had

a mutation or whatever even though it'

be like a genetic lightning bolt is

weird and the surgeons are saying it's

this so of course we're being the

Frantic parents and we're like but but

doctors there are studies that show it

could not be like for example here's one

I think this is from

1993 meconium ilas in absence of cystic

fibrosis meconium ilas is the earliest

clinical manifestation of cystic

fibrosis in 10 to 20% of affected

patients but it is a rare phenomenon in

patients who do do not have cystic

fibrosis in other words 10 to 20% of

kids with CF have monei milus but it's

really rare to have mumus without having

CF so they did a study and they found in

their study that

21.6% of newborns with meconium ilas did

not have cystic fibrosis and we're

like okay that means there's a 79%

chance the kid has cystic fibrosis

that's like if you're flipping a coin

you're eight out of 10 times it's cystic

fibrosis we're like wow that's not great

and so obviously uh oh it was a 1992

piece which is weird that's when I was

born but anyway uh then then we're

wondering like there there has to be

another potential reason what other

potential reasons could there be and so

I'm debating with doctors in rounds I'm

like well can't it be stenosis or some

form of lack of blood flow or this and

they're like well you know we'll we'll

do more test yes we'll wait for the

newborn scream meanwhile I'm hunting for

more potential reasons I find more

studies here's another example of one

where you get meconium ilas in absence

of cystic fibrosis all the doctors

meanwhile they're like whatever man you

could do all your research it's we think

it's CF so we're just going to keep

waiting for the results to come back so

Lauren and I we're Mega stressed and

we're like what are we going to do all I

can try to do is just do more research

and I found found one thing here that I

thought was really interesting first of

all this piece here indicated that out

of 55 newborns admitted there were

actually 16 so about 29% without cystic

fibrosis who presented with monei ilus

well something I saw in this that was

really interesting as well is they

suggested Associated risk factors for

mcon ilus were potentially maternal

diabetes Well come to find out that the

surrogate who was carrying these

triplets had maternal diabetes like huh

this is very

interesting so what happens N9 days go

by child's you know recovering from the

two surgeries she's been through she has

an osty bag which basically means she uh

has uh her small intestine hooked up to

a little bag so her small intestine

comes through her tummy

and there's a little bag and this was

the little presentation I got from

her she uh she's not very happy I think

in this situation I don't blame her at

all we love her she's so strong she's

getting through this and it's it's been

wild fortunately she's been off uh off

CPAP now for a few days this is her she

started actually um bottle feeding a day

ago but she not done yet it doesn't mean

she doesn't have CF cuz she's bottle

feeding it doesn't mean she doesn't

still have another surgery she does so

she's still the nicku so you know we we

pray for summer like please like stay

strong get through this just visited her

and held her yesterday she's adorable

she actually still got uh a pick line in

her as well if you by the way have not

seen what that is yet it's pretty wild

I'll explain that really quickly and

then I want to tell you the results of

the tests that came up but I just want

to

say mad respect to every person who has

to deal with either the medical

community or is working in the medical

community or has relatives dealing with

this sort of stuff we just had an uncle

in Canada three aortic aneurysms goes in

for surgery surgery goes well on that

and then

dies for breathing complications and

we're just like this this is all

happening at the same time it's kind of

one of those things where it's like when

it rains it poures and it's it's

terrible because you know shout out to

Brian we we love Brian Brian

great human it's it's so terrible at the

same time my dad goes in for hip surgery

and it's like ah can't walk anymore

because there's so much arthritis and

then he goes in for hip surgery and what

happens in the hip surgery they're like

good news the hip surgery is good bad

news his bladder doesn't work anymore so

now he's on a catheter and walks around

with a bag and it's like you got to go

visit a urologist and try to get through

this and it's like bro too much too much

of this so anyway I'm pulling up right

now an x-ray image of this is actually

probably the most the lat let me I'm

going to use this one right here so

we've got an x-ray image here and what's

pretty crazy about these x-ray images is

you can actually see what a pick line is

in case you've never heard of it before

uh it's basically uh a central catheter

and it provides nutrition to a child

directly to their heart this is crazy to

me but uh I'm going to show you this by

zooming in as far as I can look at this

this this right here in her arm is the

pick line it follows sorry like not

meant to be gruesome here but this

follows her veins going to her heart so

I know it kind of looks funky that's

because it sort of like the vein doesn't

necessarily follow a bone path but

anyway this gets fished through her

veins this line keep following this goes

all the way up right here and look where

it stops Boop right there you see that

this is her heart this is Summer's heart

and there's literally a line that could

give her nutrition directly to her heart

she's actually still has that pick line

in place she is uh off getting that tpn

uh it's like some form of uh nutrition

that they get I forget what it stands

for TPM total total perinatal nutrition

or something like that I've had way too

much exposure to medical terms and I

don't want it

anymore anyway so then we get the

newborn screen results and everybody at

the the hospitals like Kevin and Lauren

are freaking out they're having a

miserable time trying to figure out

what's going on with their child and

they just want to know like we just want

to know just give us give us the answer

because the weight is killing us and so

this is uh this is summer again so we

get the newbor screen they're like good

news newborn screen negative for CF

we're like oh my gosh thank God this is

so good and we're like ready to

celebrate let's go have drinks whatever

but wait we want to do more genetic

testing we're like no no no no no no

we're done we're done they're like come

into the hospital and we can explain I'm

like okay how are we supposed to be

excited when now you're saying come into

the hospital so you get so I go to the

hospital meanwhile keep in mind she's a

6 and 1 half hour drive away from

me go to the hospital I'm in the rounds

with the doctors and I'm like look Mone

milus in absence of CF this study 21%

this one

29% parents negative for CF newborn

screen negative for CF what is your

freaking problem why are you so

convinced it's still CF you're like well

Kevin here's the newborn screen it shows

she had elevated IRT levels supposed to

get a score of under 70 on this anything

over 70 you know is is an elevated level

and there's a little note on the newborn

screen that says negative for CF uh

however with the elevated IR levels

consider additional testing if parent

presents uh with uh CF conditions uh

family member has CF or child has

clinical condition of CF and and I'm

like okay we don't have family history

we don't have siblings they're like

Kevin mcone amilius clinical condition

I'm like no no not again like what are

you going to do well we're going to do

do a custom genetic panel uh through

invite hey who remembers that company

through invite to screen for CF I'm like

you're you this is like a lightning bolt

of lightning bolt of lightning bolt to

for for all of this to occur and for her

to have C if they're like well that's

just what we think and I'm like they're

so freaking by the book that they they

are are more focused on this like one in

a billion chance than trying to provide

some like relaxation to parents who are

freaking

out it's exhausting so

anyway I suppose there's this rare

chance that the child could have a CF

despite all of these conditions uh

suggesting that no and and really their

argument is hey IRT levels so I snap

back I I'm getting a little frustrated I

feel bad but it's just like it's so

stressful as apparent and again this is

where I've learned how to just be like

so much more chill with people and like

love and and you know don't let the

small things bother you because there's

so many like really big severe things

that can actually be major problems in

your life and it's it's not necessary to

sweat the small stuff when let's just

say there are a lot bigger issues that

could happen in life and so we're like

all right what are these IRT levels

snapping back going look she could have

high IRT levels for a whole lot of

reasons premature delivery check

premature she was born in 32 weeks how

about another one oh C-section delivery

she had that as well okay how about

another one how about stress at Birth

the child presented with Mone emilus and

all they hear is huh see that's why we

got to check for C like no anyway her

IRT score was

86 uh through research I found out that

generally uh if you have a cystic

fibrosis patient you're going to have

IRT scores in the range of 125 to like 5

00 it's like that number goes off the

chart so I'm like 86 all these

conditions present yes it's higher than

it should be this is still stressful

it's like we're trying to celebrate but

now we

can't yesterday finally I'm in with the

doctors again

finally we're

free but this has been like so like

hellish like I just like want to cry

over the experience and it's it's just

like it sounds weak but it I'll tell you

it's weakening going through uh like

look February was like hell uh this uh

you know we got this on yesterday so the

second but February was was just the the

month of Hell emergency delivery for

children you've got twins at home then

there's RSV one child has to go back to

the hospital you a family member who

dies you've got dad who's got

complications in the hospital we're just

like please be done uh and then

obviously the children of of work as

well so needless to say the last like

you know four weeks here have been

absolutely insane uh we are so grateful

that we could now hopefully be on the

men's we still have one surgery to go

for baby summer and at the same time as

we've got one surgery to go probably in

about 5 weeks for baby summer you know I

got a job to do so you get sellers who

are like oh just quick example the

I have to deal with sellers are

like oh yeah all units are renovated I

go into a unit I go bro one of them's

got mold literally growing in the poor

tenants cabinets and you're not taking

care of this tenant are you kidding me

give me money credits we joke in the

office

credits so needless to say house hack

has its fundraise going

house.com uh that is a that is the top

priority along with family second

startups a little candle that's going uh

and my goal is to try to provide some

more value in videos here by having an

earlier schedule but um wow I just want

to say through this experience I think

I've definitely mellowed out a lot with

with like don't sweat the small stuff

because it can get real serious really

fast it's uh I feel like Made Me Love a

lot more seven children are definitely

my purpose in life but so are my two

baby startups because you need a balance

I can't only do children I need work as

well that's my

sanity and um honestly that I I just owe

all of you a huge thank you so thank you

for being here I love you all and we'll

see you in the next one goodbye