As some of you may or may not know, my wife has been pregnant for about 7 weeks now. This morning at about 8:30 (or yesterday morning, I guess, by the time you read this) she started to get pains in her abdomen that, fifteen minutes later, had spread to her entire torso and completely incapacitated her. I tried getting her to the car but she blacked out, so I called 911 and had an ambulance do it for me. In the ER we learned that her pregnancy was "tubal," meaning that the baby was growing in the fallopian tube rather than in the uterus--you know, where there's actually room. The pain she felt at 8:30 was the tube exploding because the embryo had finally grown too big for it. By the time they got her into surgery at 10:15 there was 2.5 liters of blood in her abdominal cavity, which the doctor said is the most he's ever seen. Once they got her all cleaned out and patched up she was fine, and she's been resting in the hospital ever since. They're going to keep her there until Sunday, and my mother-in-law and Mustard and his wife are staying with us until then.