It's a Painful Day...

It's a Painful Day today...

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I woke up bright and early at 7.30am...
To get ready for school, a class that starts at 9am...
By 8.10am, I am done with everything, except for breakfast...

Mom heat up a Kueh for me...
Happily, I slather some chilli on it, and proceed to enjoy my breakfast...

But at the second bite...


I Choked on my food...

The intense horrible feeling of suffocation gripped me hard and fast...
I struggled to get to my feet...

My whole body convulsed...
My lungs were on fire...
I couldn't see properly...

I stumbled to the kitchen sink...
Trying to force the morsel of food out of my windpipe...

But I did not have enough air in my lungs to cough it out...
And my body instinctively tried to inhale air in...
It did no good to the food stuck in there...

It hurts...
It was a very terrible feeling, not being able to breathe...
Fear and panic strike me...

But I was lucky...
I started to cough fiercely...
The food got dislodge and expelled out...

But unfortunately...
The spasms my body went through brought about by the violent coughing, has cause some serious damaged...


A split second later...


Pain, scarlet pain...


I couldn't move...

It was so painful that my legs couldn't move, and I nearly collapsed to the floor...
But I had a good grip on the kitchen sink, so I support myself and forced my way to a chair...
My head started swimming and I felt a little light-headed...

Every movement I make is a torture...
I cannot stand up without pain...
I cannot walk properly...
I cannot even bend at all...

The pain was concentrated at the area at the bottom of my spine...

Both my parents voiced out their fears...
That my spine could have been injured...
That maybe something is broken down there...

(Because sometime last year, my lower back got slammed rather hard at some hard surface, and it hurts for a few days...
So maybe it could be an old injury...)

Otherwise, why would it hurt so much everything I moved my lower body...

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In the end, I went to see the doctor at the polyclinic...

I was given priority in the queue because of my condition...

The doctor examine my body...
She poke and prodded on my lower back and tummy...
Asking me if I felt pain at the places she pushed...

She tested my legs...
Asking my to lift them up, wriggle my toes and whether if I can feel her fingers on my feet...

She arranged a urine test, and an X-Ray examination...
And several hours later...
I went back to my doctor with the results...

And...


Thank goodness everything seems normal...

No broken spine...
No kidney/lungs/whatever organs failure...

However, my doctor still haven't figure out what exactly is causing the pain...
Could be some torn muscles/nerve/ligaments/something there...

But my spine isn't broken...

My prayers have been answered...

Thank You God...