Jenney Journal, part 3

Jenney fell again while I was helping her to the bathroom, and I caught her. She had been having a headache and thought she needed to pee, but once it subsided realized she in fact did not. I took her back to bed and didn’t give her the option this time. We were going to the ER.

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Jenney Journal, part 2

I heard a crash from upstairs. I ran up to find Jenney naked on the floor of the bathroom. She had blacked out and fell on her way to the toilet. She’d been taking baths every so often as she found the water somewhat soothing, and wasn’t bothering to put clothes back on since she just went back to bed. I urged her to go to the ER. She refused saying we had an appointment on Monday with the OB who could advise us better. She didn’t want to go and have them charge us more money and say, “Take some Tylenol” again. But after that I watched her like a hawk and didn’t let her go to the bathroom alone.

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Jenney Journal, part 1

Jenney’s migraines started on Feb 10th while we were in San Diego visiting her mom. We had planned on taking the kids to Disney while we were there but Jenney could barely leave her bed, much less the house. She had vomited a couple times as well. The migraines came anywhere from 15 to 50 minutes at a time, lasted 5 to 10 minutes, and only seemed to subside at night or in the mornings. We started keeping a log.

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Karate; Body Programming

Karate is an advanced programming language for the body. Each movement is a letter in an alphabet which when strung together form words. These words are practiced in routines which become expressions, phrases, and functions stored in your muscle memory. Once stored, they can be quickly called upon to solve problems of a physical nature.

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