The Mary and James Ordeal

As some of you, who are my Facebook friends, know I asked for prayer for Mary last night. As a quick update, Mary and James are doing fine. Last night while I was in the middle of taking an online final test for a class I had taken at Dallas Baptist University last week, Mary came down very ill and started to throw-up. I was unaware of the severity of what was happening until after I had completed the test. At one point she had come in stating she was not feeling well, which evidently went down hill after that. I tended to her the best I could and when everything caulmed down I posted my request. However little did I know what was about to occur.

About two o'clock in the morning she woke me up milling around the house stating that her back was hurting her. She had tried everything, and remained in that perpetual state of up and down for the rest of the morning. Both of us felt it had something to do with her being sick after the migrain headache last night (no that should not be interpreted that I am her migrain).

This morning when I got up at four o'clock in the morning (yes that is normal for me), she was already up (no that is not normal for her). She continued to complain with the back pain for the next two hours while I attempted to get ready for work. Finally, as I was ready to walk out the door, I began to ask her a series of questions to determine if this was one of those, "Oh, I'm pregnate and am just misrable" moments or if it was something which really needed my attention. I determined that it really needed my attention. I had her call the doctor oncall, who instructed her to immediately go to the hospital.

We arrived at the hospital at seven-thirty in the morning and she was admitted in the labor/delivery room. The nurses immediately began to monitor her and ran some test. The doctor suspected kidney stones but the test came out clear. The nurse was the one who put two and two together. She noticed that the monitor was picking up contractions at 3 to 4 minutes apart. Understand that Mary is only 33 weeks along, so we should not be seeing anything like this yet. They gave her a shot to settle the contractions down and to allow Mary to rest. Basically, the back pain was contractions. The doctor then began to question why this happening. I then shared with the doctor what occured last night. After watching Mary for another hour, they determined that Mary was slightly dehidrated, the medicine was working as it should, and the dehidration is what caused the contractions. I was instructed to get her something to eat after she was released (like I needed to be instructed to do this) and make sure she got plenty of rest this afternoon (like I needed to be instructed to do this as well). We left the hospital at one o'clock this afternoon.

Mary has eaten and is resting well right now. I am able to get some rest after completeing my studies for the next twelve weeks. But our rest is short lived, in about seven to eight weeks the little fellow who we were so concerned for will be entering this world. Please continue to pray for Mary and James, while giving God the praise for those who are working in our health care industry!

Lord Bless,

Steven Swaim