I'm past the swamp now, and I've been swimming around in the water for a while now. There are two littl statues on the ground, and I tried interacting with both, but they both kill me. I did notice a glowing orb of some kind next to the one on the left hand side, but I can't grab it for some reason. Thank goodness that I found the save point though, cause I would have lost my marbles if I didn't. If someone could direct me on how to grab the glowing orb or how to get to the next portion of the game, I would super duper appreciate that.
EDIT - So I found that I'm supposed to get the blue orb via sitting on the rock. However, that's a problem cause I entered the area with very little health. Now I think what I need to do is find a way to get more health so that I can sit on the rock and get the orb. Because it seems that there's no way to increase your health from this point going forward, I decided to look into the cheat engine that I see everyone talking about. I tried downloading it multiple times, not only did it take forever to work , but when I finally did get a downloaded copy, it doesn't come with a .exe. file for me to actually run in.
I've got myself in one agitated mess if I do say so myself. I just wanted to progress to the next part of the game, is that so bad?