What a Rough Week

Hello All,
This is the beginning of unit 4 and I can't believe it. The time sure does go by fast. Well I would like to tell you that it has been a rough week. My 7 year old nephew was shot in the foot by either a b.b. gun or a pellet gun and he has to have surgery in the morning to take the b.b. or pellet out. A 12 year old boy who lives down the street from him is the guilty one. he has been trouble since day one.
My brother took his puppy (about 11 months old Australian Shepard) to the emergency pet hospital a few nights ago because he wasn't eating and he was vomiting a lot. He thought that someone had poisoned him. He found out the next day that the puppy hadn't been poisoned, but had some bones stuck in his large intestine that he had eaten. Now keep in mind this is a puppy. Puppies chew and eat everything. So, yesterday morning they took him in for surgery to remove the bones and found that he also had a lot of plastic in his stomach and intestines. They got all of the foreign objects out of his system and was sewing him up and he went into cardiac arrest and died.
So, not only had my nephew been shot in the foot but my niece who is 3 has just lost her puppy. This is the 2nd dog that they have lost this year. They got this one to replace the other. WOW, what a week. Now today is the last day of school for my 10 year old. He is excited to be able to stay up late and sleep in for the summer. Boy, I sure hope that nothing else bad happens to my family. Hopefully things will get better.