MARGIENARY

After a flood scare from the two typhoons that passed by our province, I was all energized and enthusiastic because of the sunny Wednesday.  I was awakened by a visit from my eldest brother and was bragging to him my newly-acquired waterbed :) when my dad came over to the house and was looking for Sarah.  I asked why and he said he needs her to text someone to send a tricycle over to take my little nephew to the hospital.  My nephew's parents brought him down from the village at my request but after one night with us, he began to develop a fever.  So Bong volunteered to take them to the hospital.   Alone in the house, I forced myself to eat breakfast so I can take my meds and was waiting for Bong to come home so he can help me to the bathroom. (Yes, at this point, I need help getting out of bed and taking a bath cuz bending or anything that puts pressure on my lower abdomen hurts a lot and aggravates bleeding.  But while lying flat on my back, I suddenly ...

Right now, I am writing this update to avoid having to personally describe to anyone how we are doing right now.  I just don't know what to say anymore.  I always try to be brave when people ask me how I am doing and I end up trying to embellish on the facts to make the news sound more palatable and hopeful than the way I feel or the doctor observes.    I bought a waterbed today at a garage sale in Bagabag.  I am having difficulty turning to my sides, and getting up with the mattress on my bed.  The mattress seems to push the wrong muscles then I get all sore and numb from my waist down to my achilles tendon.  I hope the buoyancy of a waterbed will make it more comfortable for me.  We're still trying to figure out how to bring it home though.  The frame is too big.  We'll see. I went to the sonologist last Monday but again, there were already many patients lined up outside her door so I had to be rescheduled for the next day.  Tha...

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...

Just an entry I lifted from my facebook notes for some of you who are multipliers but not (yet) a citizen of planet facebook. :) 1.  There are only two things that i like hot: coffee and Lee Kum Kee chilli sauce.  I specially don't like hot showers. This is probably because my mom accidentally poured hot water on me when I was 2 or 3.  She was bathing me in a big basin and instead of using the lukewarm water, she dipped the dipper into the wrong pot and got a boiling water.  So when I feel something hot on my skin, I bolt. 2.  The first English fiction (full-length novel) I've ever read was entitled Raquela when I was 13.  It was shoved into my face by a dorm parent after she confiscated all my Filipino teen romance novelettes.  I still do not appreciate the shoving :) but I am glad that she forced me to read the book until the end.  She quizzed me with details after every chapter to make sure that I did read the whole thing.  The setting o...

I haven't been here for quite a while, but I haven't been around anything or any place recently anyway. I decided to come by and write an update for fear of developing a carpal tunnel (like Lolo Trueblue:) from perpetually pressing on those little buttons on my phone's keypad to reply to friends' text messages asking how I am doing. Actually there is not much to write. I have been spending my time in bed getting tired of resting. I never knew that resting can be very tiring! I wouldn't have done it for or to myself if not for the fact that the life of someone very important to me depends on it. Yup, for those of you who still do not know, I am having a high-risk pregnancy. I have what medical people called subchorionic hematoma (SCH) where a part of the placenta detached itself from the lining of the womb and a pocket of blood collects in between this tear. I won't get into any more details for fear of grossing you all out. :) You may click here if you ...

Wow!  'haven't been here for quite a while, but I haven't been around anything or any place recently anyway.  I decided to come by and write an update for fear of developing a carpal tunnel from perpetually pressing on those little buttons on my phone's keypad to reply to friends' text messages asking how I am doing. Actually there is not much to write.  I have been spending my time in bed getting tired of resting.  I never knew that resting can be really tiring!  I wouldn't have done it for or to myself if not for the fact that the life of someone very important to me depends on it.  Yup, for those of you who still do not know, I am having a high-risk pregnancy.  I have what medical people called subchorionic hematoma (SCH) where a part of the placenta detached itself from the lining of the womb and a pocket of blood collects in between this tear.  I won't get into any more details for fear of grossing you all out. :)  You m...