MARGIENARY

The week that led up to the checking of Psalms for a language in the coastal town of Isabela has been unbelievably tight. Add to it the 2 weeks of checking while managing an ongoing house construction, two meetings with bosses and colleagues, hearing a news about a good friend having a stroke_ and the stress of it all seemed to have done me in.  For the last three nights, the heart acted up again, with its scary chest tightness, and the chest pain of course came with its sparring partner, hypertension. I have been trying to get my blood pressure to a safe level the last two days, but until now, I still feel like the scalp on the back of my head is being pulled off and my skull feels like it is being squeezed too tight.  We truly praise God that we were finally able to complete the translation checking that had been in the works for the last few months.  Due to unforeseen circumstances such as sickness among the translators, schedules that can't be synched, dis...

I had my sonogram yesterday and the doctor saw that the placental bleeding is now very minimal and the baby's heartbeat has decreased but still within normal range.  Praise the Lord and thank you for all your thoughts and prayers for these past months. However, the sonogram also revealed that I have a scanty and therefore inadequate amniotic fluid in my womb.  Amniotic fluid (AF) is the water that enables the development of the baby's lungs and limbs.  The baby drinks it and then excrete it as urine, the mother's lungs purifies it, returns it to the womb and the baby swallows it again, and the cycle goes on.  The AF is also responsible for the development of the baby's muscles and extremities as it facilitates movement.  Low amniotic fluid may be caused by a leaky membrane, high blood pressure, diabetes, dehydration, or worst-- defective kidneys or no kidneys at all of the baby.  Low AF usually results to miscarriage or stillbirth.  So after the sonogr...