Posted under Life & My Thoughts
I just recovered from my battle with the infamous flu, so you can say I was fit to fight a tiger. In fact, I was really fit to fight a tiger. Without the influence of drugs, I was in full form to table out all the work I have cut out for me for the day. There’s lot’s of work to be done as which I would have expected, and it’s killing me…
I was running around the whole morning, from the 8th to the 9th to the 7th to the ground to the 7th again and basically blood rushing activities the whole morning. But then after the first two hours of running around, I felt dizzy, so I sat down a while and my whole world seems to be spinning like a spinning top. After a while, I went back to my place and the work for me for the day was piling up like no body’s business. I lied down for a while to rest my head in hopes that it would be better later.
I went out for lunch with my colleagues in hopes that the fresh air would bring me to a better state to continue my work after lunch. But alas, it did just the opposite, I was now not only feeling dizzy, but I have the urge to vomit. With that circulating around my veins, I just sat there watching them eat while I skipped lunch. Went back to the office and lied down for a while.
I thought I was up to it again as the dizziness subsided a bit and was bearable, which it has always been. So I thought might as well finish up the work which I had to do alone. After completing some of the tasks, I felt really uncomfortable, vomited some white liquid and dizziness started to become a little more serious than I have hoped. I then told my boss that I could not really continue working and it was already 1630 which was another hour to go. He said yes and I hurriedly home hoping to avoid the jam.
I was unlucky too during the drive home, as the jam has already started. For the first time, after mocking for so many years, I find one good thing about driving an auto car. Imagine that you want to vomit, with a small plastic bag in one hand, steering with the other and then WHICH HAND ON THE GEAR! So I guess if you have the urge to vomit and you need to drive, auto cars is the one you should choose, but then again, it was not easy to hold one plastic bag with one hand, steer with the other and lookout for traffic during the after office hour jam with dizziness plaguing your head.
I thought I would be able to manage it, drive home and then see a doctor and get rest, but alas I was wrong. At one time, my whole stomach ached and it got numb until my chest. During that time too, both my hands got numb until I could not feel the steering wheel. At that moment, I was lucky that my vision did not blur with dizziness, if not bang… the headlines: Boy with stomach discomfort hit… something like that.
I was really lucky that it soothed after a few minutes and my feeling came back. When I reach the clinic, I got down, walked like a drug addict and sat in front of the doctor. I barely told the doctor I felt like vomiting and dizziness and I vomited in front of him. I vomited three times and the last one was all yellowish which I guess is what we call “Wong Dam Shui”. My first reaction was apologizing to both the doctor and the nurse there. I create a mess for them. Then the doctor checked a few thing and then gave mi a jab which I still feel pain now.
I think I have always been taking lightly of my physical condition since young, which resulted in the mindset that I could take everything that was thrown at me. I guess I should be more careful next time as the last incident could have easily took away my physical and psychological abilities or even sad to say my life. I guess it’s just to big a gamble when it comes to illnesses as we do not know what it is capable to do coz we do not know what kind of illnesses it is in the first place.
I guess we often do this where we will belittle the condition as we do not know it’s actual cause and impact. I guess we are also in a way boasting. It’s so often that we would say it’s just flu or fever, nothing to worry about and it is so often that these are the symptoms that leads to bigger problems if unattended.
It is better to be careful than to be cared for later.
