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Rough Week

Our rough week in summary:


Sunday - Alexa biffs it at church and lands on her face.  Bleeds all over Kyle and looks like she got punched in the mouth.  Poor girl.  Later that day, she was outside playing with her favorite toy at the Family Reunion, Roxy the dog.  Roxy lovingly puts her paw on Alexa's face and ends up scratching her--three perfect claw marks running all the way down the side of her face.  She still wanted to play with Roxy though, and was mad we took her inside to clean her up and take it easy.  Here's a video of her "talking" to the dog (growling) earlier in the week.


Monday - Dad is sick starting Sunday and going through Monday.  He is nauseous, pale, light headed, and spends most of the reunion in bed.


Tuesday - Kyle wakes up early and throws up until there's nothing left.  Spends the day tired and miserable.


Wednesday - Jenny copies Kyle and throws up 8 times.


Thursday - Jenny (12 weeks pregnant) is on her way to work and starts bleeding a lot all of the sudden, so she turns around to go back home.  The Dr. rushes her in for another ultrasound, and we find out that there's a tear in the placenta that's causing a lot of blood loss. Baby still looks good and has a great heart rate, but if the tear doesn't heal itself there's still a small chance of miscarriage. Have to stay off my feet as much as possible for the next week until they check again, which is really hard to do!  Especially with a 14 month old who can't exactly put herself into her crib or highchair at this point.  I'm feeling much better and the bleeding had stopped by Friday.  Just weak and tired off and on.
Kyle left notes for me all around the house Friday morning to sit down and touch nothing!
Friday - Kyle flies off the scooter on the way to work.  He takes a nice slide on the road, which they lovingly pick out of him at an Urgent Care Clinic.  Luckily, nothing is broken, but he is very scraped up and sore.  He thought he broke his toe, but it was just a blood vessel that burst under his toenail, so they burned a hole through his toenail to release all the blood/pressure.  Burnt toenail is an interesting smell....We're glad he's ok.  Went to Wal-Mart Friday night to get milk and Jenny rode around in an electric cart with Kyle the gimp walking beside.





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  1. This has NOT been your family's week!!! Stay home and hide out and maybe the bad juju will leave you guys alone!!!

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