On the 28th of February 2001, Buck and Luciene moved to the Amazon Basin of Brazil. We lived in Macapá, right on the equator. Why would a web designer give up his career and take his family from their comfortable life in Columbus, Ohio, USA, to live on the Amazon River? We came with a vision to save the Amazon, to tell people about Jesus, and plant a Vineyard church. We have planted a church, and we are turning it over to the national leaders, heading back to the States in Sept. 2009.

 

I had a bit of a scare these past days. The other night, I couldn’t sleep. The room was spinning and I kept thinking that I was going to vomit. I couldn’t lie down because the room spun, and I couldn’t stand up because that would make me feel like I was going to black out. When even my tongue started swelling up, I began to understand that this wasn’t just some weird flu, this just might be a blood pressure problem.

We had spent everything with the baby being born, and our current support hadn’t arrived, so I couldn’t go to any of the good hospitals, and I just couldn’t bring myself to go to the public emergency room. Thursday morning, Luciene talked me into going to the public health center close to the house, and things went surprisingly well. When I got there, I spent some time walking around, trying to find out which long line I was supposed to wait in, when I asked a guy, Sergio, where they take blood pressure. I guess he could see that I wasn’t doing very well, and sat me right down and took my blood pressure. It was indeed very high, 18 over 12, and he got me an emergency entrance to the doctor, which didn’t make the people that had been waiting in line for hours very happy, but he got me right in there.

They gave me a couple of shots, and some medicine under my tongue, and gave me a prescription. I know some people that own pharmacy’s so I was able to get the prescription. I am still very dizzy, I can’t bend down or look up without feeling like I am going to pass out, but the doctor said it would probably take a couple of days for the medicine to take effect. Thanks so much to everyone that has prayed for us. We sure covet your continued prayers.
posted by Eduardo Buck at Friday, June 03, 2005