UNLOCKING AMERICAN GIRL DOLL TRAUMA
4/8/202656 min
A LOT has happened in the last week! Kelly has gone to and returned from New York. Lizz has gone in and out of the hospital. Little Sloane's infection from last week wasn't improving and ultimately required surgery. Luckily, she is on the mend but now Lizz has a concerning medical issue of her own. Will she ever get a break?
Over at the Stumpe household, Kelly has a couple new micro-hobbies. First, she has done down the TikTok rabbit hole of American Girl dolls and trying to get her daughter Hattie into them. She had a do...
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First 90 secondsKelly Stumpe· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Welcome to the Carpool Podcast with Kelly.
Lizz St. John· Host0:05
You can't mother your husband.
Kelly Stumpe· Host0:07
No, yeah.
Lizz St. John· Host0:09
And, like, I know, like, let me be like, sometimes I wanna call his mom and be like, "Hey, can you start mothering him again?" [laughs] 'Cause like he needs some help.
Kelly Stumpe· Host0:15
And Liz.
Lizz St. John· Host0:17
And we went to the American Girl store, and they, we had like a tea party. [laughs] Anyway, my stupid, my twin doll was too big for the seat.
Kelly Stumpe· Host0:27
Your mom time-off starts now. Welcome back to the Carpool Podcast with Kelly.
Lizz St. John· Host0:33
And Liz.
Kelly Stumpe· Host0:34
Ooh. And, like, we have lived so many lives since the last time- [laughs] ... we were on this microphone.
Lizz St. John· Host0:42
[laughs] No freaking joke. Oh my gosh.
Kelly Stumpe· Host0:46
Oh my gosh.
Lizz St. John· Host0:47
You've been to and from New York. I've been in and out of the hospital again.
Kelly Stumpe· Host0:51
No, I know, like we could not have had different- We've had Easter.
Lizz St. John· Host0:55
We've had a freaking major holiday.
Kelly Stumpe· Host0:58
Yeah. No, like we couldn't have had more different experiences.
Lizz St. John· Host1:03
Mm-hmm.
Kelly Stumpe· Host1:04
How is Slow-La holding up?
Lizz St. John· Host1:06
Sloane's doing amazing. So we ended up having to, I'll go like a brief version. We ended up, um, they sent us home on antibiotics with her infected gland, and then it just, like, wasn't getting better. In fact, it was getting worse. And so I took her to the ER again, and within like two minutes of getting the ca- the CT scan, they were like, "Oh yeah, she's gonna need surgery." So they had to