Thursday, 3 April 2014

My Nightmare Started....

The next morning, the headache had reduced. I thought all the worst had over and it was a sunshine day, a new beginning for me ? But.....the night mare has just started.....
  
I felt very tired and weak. I remembered that morning, the haze had gone and the air was fresh, I went out to the car porch to do some light exercises, hopefully it could help. However, my headache started to resurface after my light breakfast. For the entire morning, I was struggling to overcome the headache. I took medicine on time but the pain did not go away....

I tried to sleep over and over again the whole day and also listening to Buddhist chant music so that I could have a peace of mind to sleep. All the efforts failed. I lost my appetite and started to vomit in the evening.

By the time the sky turned into darkness, my headache became more severe. I waited again to see my two daughters came home at about 7pm. Then, I went to sleep, switching the air conditioner on and off, turned on the fan but the headache kept attacking me....

I used ice pack to put onto my forehead but it did not work as well. Finally, it was about 10pm, I could not stand at all.....I told my wife I would drive myself to Sunway Hospital..she was quite worried as my condition at that time was hard for me to drive alone to hospital. I had vomited more than 6 times by then. I told her I could handle myself. I put on my long pant, a shirt and bring along a sweater and straight jumped into my car. I told my self I must stayed conscious to reach the hospital.

It took me about 15 minutes to reach the hospital. I parked my car and walked fast to the emergency counter. I saw many people were sitting on the chairs, not sure if they were here to accompany friends or family members. I told the staff at the desk counter about my conditions, he checked my blood pressure and temperature and gave me a queue number, I was the next patient. In less than 5 minutes, I was called to a room. A lady named Dr Wong attended to me, I told her my situations and she asked me what type of medicines did I take, I said a flu and a headache medicine but I did not know what was the name of that medicine. I told her I wanted a medicine or injection that could relieve my headache. She said she must checked my record first to make sure what type of medicines I had taken and she asked a nurse to check.

The nurse came back soon and asked me was the medicine in white color round shape ? I said yes. The doctor asked whether someone accompanied me here because the injection could make me feel sleepy. I told her I came alone and asked whether there was a place for me to rest after the injection. She checked with the nurse and later the nurse brought me to a place where there were 3 beds there. I lie down on the bed, the nurse then gave me an injection on my buttock and said this medicine would start to see the effect after a while and she would come back to see me again.

My headache still did not subside after about 10 minutes. The nurse came back asked me how was my condition, I told her the pain still existed. She then said she would check with Dr Wong again. Dr Wong came later and told me if she gave me another injection, then I had to be admitted as the injection would make me sleep, I told her I wanted to be admitted as long as the injection could relief the pain and make me sleep.

The nurse then brought me to another open ward and asked me to lie on a bed. At the same time, my admission process would be assisted by hospital staff. I saw few patients were there as well, including an infant. By that time, I just wished and prayed that nothing bad would happen to me as I still wanted to see my daughters grow up. There were many things that I could not let go......

I did not notice how long I waited there, a nurse came to give me an injection, very soon, I felt very sleepy but my mind still awake as the admission process still not done. A nurse then came to take my blood for lab test followed by a male staff who helped me to do the admission. I told him I wanted a 2 beds room and he said he would arrange.

Later, another nurse came and asked me to sit on a wheel chair so that she could push me to my room. Along the way, I told the nurse I wanted to vomit, she asked if I could hold on....I said no....she then quickly grabbed a black dustbin plastic bag from a nearby cleaner's trolley and passed to me. Immediately, I vomited into the bag. By that time, I all the things inside my stomach already empty and I did not know what else came out from my mouth but I knew it was a liquid. My vomit's sound made few people around to turn their heads to look at me. I knew it was weird but who cares ?

Three times, I vomited three times along the way to my room. When I reached my bed, I quickly jumped onto it, by this time, I felt really sleepy and the pain seemed did not bother me or I was too sleepy until I could not feel the pain. But I still able to read my whatsapp and told my wife I was admitted. Very soon, I fall asleep after the nurse put me on drip again.

What happened next ?

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