Learn Real-Life English: One of the Hardest Times of My Life

Hello friends. Today we are going to continue learning real life English, but we're going to talk about something a little bit more serious, okay? I just want to give an update to you guys, my friends on the channel. And an update means when somebody tells you about what has been going on in their life. So today I'm going to give you guys an update what has been happening in my life, My family's life, Connor is back there playing. Um, and I'm going to speak slowly and clearly so that you can understand, but it's a serious topic. So I'm just going to talk with you guys like I would talk with a friend because like I say, I'm your English speaking friend, Kyle. So it has been a very difficult two months for my family. Very difficult. And you guys know I'm a positive person. I try my best to be happy and be strong and handle difficult situations good. But the last two months have been so hard for my family. And it has been a challenge for us. It has been a test for us. It's been a challenge for my marriage with my beautiful wife. It's been a challenge for me as a father and a husband. It's been definitely the hardest two months of my marriage. It's been the hardest two months of my wife's life, for sure, she told me that, and it has been one of the hardest times of my life, not the hardest, because some other things have happened to me in the past, so I was a little bit more prepared for it, but it was a very difficult time. So, what has been going on? What has been happening? Well, guys, most of you know that around two months ago, we had a daughter, okay, Abigail. We had a baby. We call her Abby. So Abby came to us on the beginning of July and for a week or two everything was normal. She was a normal baby. She would sleep, she would eat, you know, normal things. Sometimes it's hard to get them to sleep, but as a parent you know that, okay? You know, okay, it's not always easy, but she was a normal baby. And then something really bad started happening. Something started making Abby cry, ah, cry, but not normal crying. She would be screaming, ah, ah. And guys, when I tell you all day, I mean all day long. Okay, so Abby would wake up and start screaming. She would go to sleep and wake up again and start screaming. So This lasted for weeks and we could not sleep, we could not eat, we could not go to the bathroom because every second of the day we had to hold Abby and try our best to help her stop crying. But nothing worked. Nothing worked. So we took her to the doctor and the doctor told us, Oh, well, that's just, babies do that sometimes. And we said, no, we can see and hear she has pain. She's screaming in pain. She's not crying because she's hungry or tired. She's screaming because she's in pain. Guys, it got so bad. One time I had her in the car with me, and Connor was with me too. And Abby was in the back seat. She was screaming and crying. And Connor started crying. And he said, it sounds like she's suffocating. Like she can't breathe because she was crying so bad. And I had to tell him, I know, buddy. It's going to be okay. But it was so hard for me to hear my daughter screaming and to see my son crying in the front seat. Wow, guys. Such a difficult situation. So difficult. So this whole thing just kept getting more and more difficult. We took her to one doctor and the doctor told us that basically there's nothing you can do there's something that some babies have called colic and colic is when babies just cry for no reason and online if you look online for colic it will say when a baby cries for maybe three hours three days a week with no stopping that's colic. But what Abby was doing guys was crying for like eight or nine hours a day, every day, no stop. Nothing you could do helps her. You try and give her a bottle for her to drink and she drinks for a second and then starts screaming as it was hell. It was, it was so difficult. So, so difficult, very hard. So we went through this for Weeks. We went to another doctor. That doctor said the same thing. So I started looking online. I started looking for symptoms like what causes a baby to scream when they eat. What causes a baby to never sleep. And I found some parents online that were talking about how their babies were allergic to cow's milk. Okay. Now the milk. We were giving Abby two things to eat. She was drinking a formula, which is a powder that you put in water, shake up, and give to your baby. That was made from cow's milk, and my wife was breastfeeding her, which means giving her the milk from the mother. And if a mother is eating cheese and drinking milk and eating dairy, that will go through her and through her breast milk. And sometimes when certain babies are very little, their stomachs are very sensitive, and that can hurt them. So, I read online that a lot of parents said it's the milk from the cow, and that hurts some babies. It could be like 10 to 20 percent of babies cannot eat cow's milk protein. Now, the doctors didn't say anything about this. They didn't warn us about this, and when we brought Abby in and told them what was going on, they did not say this could be possible. But I was willing to try anything to help my baby. So I looked and I looked and I read and I read hours a day, guys. I was on YouTube watching videos about this. I was reading about this, trying to find something to help my baby. And finally, I found out about this cow's milk protein allergy, which is what they call it when your baby cannot take cow's milk. And I saw some people say that they bought a special formula, which is very expensive. It costs a lot of money. And it changed their lives. Their baby stopped crying and it made everything better. So I bought this formula for Abby, this special hypoallergenic formula. And what hypoallergenic means is if you are allergic to something, if you eat something and it gives you a bad reaction, hypoallergenic means it will not give you a bad reaction. So they changed something with the protein from the milk in this formula, and babies can drink it and it won't hurt their stomach. From the first bottle of this that I gave to Abby, she drank it without crying. And I was like, wow. Okay, and that first day, she still cried, but it was less and less and less. So we kept doing that, and she was better, but then my wife breastfed her again, and my wife was still eating cheese and milk and stuff, so Abby got sick again. So we went through another week. So we took her to the doctor again, another doctor. That doctor said, oh, it's normal, blah, blah, blah. And I said, well, I gave her this formula and it really helped. And the doctor said, well, let's just give her that for a month. But if I didn't say that, the doctor was not going to say anything about it. So when my wife heard that from the doctor, she said, okay, let's do that. And I bought a bunch of this expensive formula and we started giving it to her. and she got better and better and better. She's finally sleeping. She's finally not screaming in pain. She's finally a normal baby, okay? And then something else happens. After we finally get Abby okay, a tornado comes guys. A tornado is where there's winds, crazy winds that spin like this and they tear down trees and tear up houses. I showed a little bit in my last video of what our yard looks like and our power went off. Our electricity went off. So right when we got Abby feeling better, a huge storm comes and destroys my city, guys. And guess how long we did not have electricity? 12 days. 12 days, guys. It was the first time in five years that I could not post a video. I was very sad about that. But other than that, we did not have air conditioning in our house. So it was very, very hot. We're in the summer here. You can see how bright the sun is. and Abby did not like the heat in the house so it was hard to make her sleep and there's other things too like we have machines for sound for her that she likes we could not use those she likes to hear the fans and we could not use those so just when we get her okay the the lights go out the power goes out so we have another struggle so we had to deal with 12 days with no electricity and Abby's new formula has to be refrigerated. So I had to drive for like an hour to find a place that did have electricity to buy ice to keep Abby's formula cold. So guys, finally, like four days ago, the electricity came back on and we're finally getting things back to normal. Abby is feeling so much better. It's still, oh, the sun, a cloud went in front of the sun. That felt nice for a minute. But it's still difficult, you know, she's still a baby, she still cries, but she's not screaming in pain anymore. There were some times, guys, that were so hard because we knew, we knew that there was nothing we could do. And she was screaming and screaming and screaming. My wife and I had to take turns dealing with the screaming. One of us would go in the room and put earplugs in our ears so we could not hear it, so that we could sleep, while the other one held her while she screamed. And guys, let me tell you, holding your baby while they're screaming and there's nothing you can do, that's one of the toughest things I've ever had to deal with. It's terrible. You feel very sad for your baby and you just wish you could help them. So I'm so happy we found something that worked, that formula finally started helping Abby feel so much better. And you know, there was a lot of things that happened, guys, like the power went out. But I had to take a lot of time off of my job. I could not go to my job and leave my wife at home with a screaming baby for 12 hours because I work for 12 hours when I'm at my job. So imagine that. I'm supposed to go to work and my wife is just losing her mind. And guys, that's something we say, losing your mind when you're going crazy, okay? You're going crazy. And we were losing our minds for a while there, guys. Anyways, and If my wife and I did not have such a strong marriage, if we were not such good partners, this would have never worked. We would have fought every day, but that's one thing I'm truly grateful for is... I found the woman for me. My wife is my true partner, you know. You could say my soulmate, the person I know I'm supposed to be with, and she knows that I'm there for her too. If our relationship was not so strong, we would have never made it through this hard time. Because when I had to call off of work to call my job and say, I'm not coming in, we say calling off, I had to miss so much work, guys. So that means we did not have as much money coming in. If I did not have this YouTube channel, we would have been in big trouble. If I had not created my products that bring me money, we would have been in big trouble. So it was just stress and more stress and more stress and more problems. But I'm so grateful for these few things that I have an incredible wife. who we have a great relationship with. My son Connor, I don't know if you can see him because I can't see the screen, but he was incredible. He is the best big brother, guys. And when Abby was screaming and crying, he did not get upset. All he wanted to do was help her. He would help me. He would get a bottle for her. He would hold her so I could go make a bottle. Connor was a hero during this hard two months, guys. My wife has become such an incredible mother. You should see her with Abby. She's so good. And in this hard times, we found out that we have an incredible neighbor, too. Our neighbors helped us a lot. They have a generator, which is something that makes electricity. It's a machine. You pour gas into it, and it makes electricity. They plugged a cord from their generator all the way to our refrigerator so that we could keep Abby's formula cold and have food for those 12 days. Wow, I'm grateful that we have a good relationship, my wife and I, my son helped so much, our neighbors helped us, and you guys. Because like I said, if I didn't have the extra money coming in from this channel, I would not have been able to call off of work. And I would have had to tell my wife, baby, I'm sorry, but I have to go to work or we're going to lose the house. So it was bad. I had to use a lot of our savings, a lot of the money that I had for emergencies. So that's another thing I'm grateful for, that I thought ahead. I planned for the future in the past and saved up as much money as I could. But it's been hard, guys. It's been difficult. But I'm the kind of person that thinks that things happen for a reason. You know, good or bad, this made us stronger. This made Connor into an incredible brother. This made my wife stronger and prepared her to be a strong mother. And, you know, it's given me more strength to lead my family and go forward and achieve the things that I want to achieve in my life. So, yeah, guys, that is the update. Wanted to tell you guys what's going on in my life, my family's life. If you want to support the channel. You guys know I made the native English starter kit. There's some really great tools in there for you. There's a link in that below. If you want to get the most out of these videos and practice your speaking with the AI version of me, you could click the link to Kyle AI down below and practice for a week for free. There's tons of great features on Sprout, tons of videos from myself and other great creators like Jay from English by Jay. Tons of things like you could save vocabulary, practice with voice messages on Sprout. So if you wanna support the channel and my mission, those are some great ways to do it down below. And if not, you're supporting me already just by watching, guys. And I appreciate that so, so much. So thank you for being here. Thank you for caring about me and my family. A lot of you guys have sent me nice messages. Appreciate you all. Love you all. See you in the next video.