Welcome to Is This Real Life, a Bravo podcast that relates our favorite shows to our own lives in the world around us.

I'm your host, Mandy Sleutzer. Let's get to it.

Hi, everyone. I hope you had a wonderful week. I am solo on the podcast this week because I've had a tough week and I just wasn't able to record with a guest. And so I decided to just take to the mic, share what's going on in my life, talk about some of the stuff going on in the

Bravo world, and then I will chat OC and the Real Housewives of New Jersey.

So this week, I brought my dog to an internal medicine vet, which is a veterinarian that

specializes in animals' internal organs. And I've been seeing this kind of vet, which is a veterinarian that specializes in an animal's internal organs.

And I've been seen this kind of vet the last couple of years because of my dog's chronic

GI issues. And the last two and a half months, her GI issues have been a lot worse than

they had previously been. And it's been pretty tough.

So they did an ultrasound and unfortunately found another problem,

which is that her kidneys changed a bit and she is going to be developing kidney disease

at some point.

They don't know at what point that will happen.

Is it two years in the future, five years in the future?

We don't know.

And for someone like me with generalized anxiety disorder, finding out what's going to happen

to your pet, but not when it's going to happen.

It's quite a challenge for me to accept.

And I think it's hard for anyone, but it just sent me into a bit of a spiral.

And then a few days later, I had to bring Stasi in for an endoscopy and colonoscopy because they wanted to take a biopsy of her tissue to see what's going on under a microscope to see if we can kind of try and figure some things out.

So, you know, I had to leave her overnight. And it's just, it's been a lot. It's been a lot.

I have like an entire dog pharmacy at home. I've got like every drug you can imagine. I have

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