In this vlog, Victor Justin Rhodes provides a candid, day‑in‑the‑life update of his family’s recent challenges and activities. He begins by describing his severe back spasms and the self‑administered muscular treatment he’s using to manage the pain. He then shares the medical situation of his wife Rebecca, who has been placed on complete bed rest after a night of high heart rate and vomiting; the vlog details her recent thyroid test results indicating hyperthyroidism, the pending use of a beta‑blocker, and the various labs and an EKG performed at the hospital. Victor also documents a short car ride with their infant son Henry, noting that Henry’s health checks (EKG, urine) came back fine. The family then returns home to a busy farm setting where a sawmill crew is installing solar tube lights and cutting lumber. Victor explains how they are processing pine and hardwood into dimensional lumber to build walls for a butchering shed, highlighting the cost‑saving DIY approach. Throughout, the vlog emphasizes family support—hugs, encouragement, and collaborative effort—as they navigate health concerns and farm work.
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Hey, Gideon, can you please go? We'll get clothes on, buddy. I'm not gonna be able to help him. I'm gonna have to hope for the best because I'm in a bad way this morning. I am not putting you guys on your legs. I've got you on your little legs because I'm gonna have to keep my hands close to my body. Sorry if you're just right up in my face. I'm staying extra long too. Usually just do 3 minutes, but because it's muscular treatment, I'm gonna do 6. All right, I think my time's about up. I like that already. Feels so much better. I get why the athletes do this after a big fight or game or whatever. I kind of wish I would have went through the effort to find my shoes. It's a little bit colder when you do that in the morning and the grass is frosted. Speaking of shoes, there's Mr. Brown's shoes. There's your shoes, Mr. Brown. Hey, you came out! Good job. Oh, and you have shoes. Okay, well, there's your other ones. Will you bring them in? That's an improvement because on the way down there I had one jolt of pain. No jolts of pain on the way back.
Sawmill people are here, so I'm going to show you them. They're gonna set up and I'll bring you— Papa will bring you out when they're done setting up.
My back's still spasming, so hopefully I'll just walk slow and see what's going on over here. Brushing it off in case there's any rocks or anything on there that would dull his blade. Randolph is above there somewhere putting in another solar tube. Check out that solar tube light. There'll be 3 in here total. Just got off the phone with the doctor. They've put Rebecca on complete bed rest because of the incident last night. High heart rate, throwing up. Boy, when it, when it rains, it storms, doesn't it, Becca? Yeah. Both of us are out. You're stepping it up nicely. You happy with that car seat holder in the back? Yeah. We actually have to go to the hospital. Rebecca's heart rate last night My doctor wants me to go get checked out. We got your blood test result back today for your thyroid. You have too much thyroid hormone, hormone in you, so they might have to do a blocker, a beta blocker. But we're gonna go see because I'm nursing.
It's a tricky thing.
How about, guys? Hugs. Hopefully we'll be right back. We'll be back very soon. Definitely hope so. By dinner. You're riding in the back with your baby.
I am.
I've never— All right. I've never ridden in a car before. I know, right? Except home from the gas station. We're at the hospital. Mr. Henry has a knack for taking car rides. Yes, he does. First home from his birth at the gas station. Second car ride is to the hospital. What a guy. I know. We've seen the doctor. I'm holding little baby. He's asleep. I guess you're text updating everybody. They did an EKG.
They did an EKG.
He's totally fine.
They took my urine, which I'm sure is gonna be be fine. She's got all my labs, everything looks good. Obviously my thyroid is hyper at this point, which means I just stopped taking my medicine.
She just confirmed what your doctor suspected and confirmed that there wasn't anything more going on. Yeah.
I'm gonna make it, Justin.
Alright.
You're stuck with me for another 40 years.
Hey buddy, we're back! You come and give me a hug? This is nice. You guys happy we're back? Yeah. Mom's okay. Glad to be back together. They confirmed that she's okay. They just adjusted her meds.
They did some tests.
Nothing crazy like a thyroid storm. Little Henry did excellent in the car ride. He did.
Will you take him out?
He was a little fussy, but once we got him in, he, uh, chilled out. My back is still hurting, but it's not— I'm not having shooting pains like I was this morning, so I feel like that's progress. Meanwhile, while we were gone, look at this stack of lumber. Holy smokes, we're sawing up our own lumber. One, because wood is so expensive, but we're gonna wall our shed up there. Wow, they estimated they'd be done with 3 days. I would say, yeah, I would say they probably knocked out more than a third today. So we're gonna take those boards and wall our butchering shed here in our farm shed. We're getting the pines turned into 2x4s and all the hardwood turned into like 1x8s, 1x10s. Just for sightings. Meanwhile, Jonah's made you a diaper kit.
I know, isn't that fun?
Wow.
We'll help you.
And then there's your cloth.
That's awesome. That's cool. Good job. Thank you. Grandma's stepping it up. Making potatoes. I gotta show you guys this though. We're eating our last goose. All right, I'd say that's a happy ending. I'm walking around without jolts of pain. Rebecca does not have a thyroid storm and we got goose in the oven.
