Saturday, January 29, 2011

#5 A problem you encountered and how you solved or managed it: Dislocated ?

Finally, it is time once again for the last assignment post. I do not know how to put this in words, but it might be too much of a coincidence. For this last theme "A problem I met and how I solved it" was one that I have been worrying about and I was afraid that I could not have something to write about as the dateline get closer. However, just yesterday, something happened which gave me something to write about for this theme. As for my post title, I named it "Dislocated?" with a question mark. If you want to know why does it have a question mark, continue reading on!

Let me tell you about a history of my back. My back has been hurting me for quite a few months, especially whenever I sneeze. My mother also told me to visit a doctor, but I did not want to. Nevertheless, I had no choice, but to go to the clinic just a stone throw away from my house after what had happened yesterday.

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Our class was playing soccer for Physical Education (PE) lesson for the second week and we started off with simple warm up like kicking the ball in a straight line with each other and some header training. I paired up with Lee Chuan and we started the warm up. During the kicking of the ball, I was enjoying myself as I like playing soccer as a recreational sport. When Mr Amir, our PE teacher, told us to start the header training, Lee Chuan and I had to pick balls whenever the ball flew out of our reach. This was the time where I felt a "punch" on my back. When I was bending down to pick up the ball, I felt a sudden pain on my back. It was one of the worst since I had this back problem. I tolerated the pain throughout the whole PE lesson and in fact, I even played in a match for about twenty minutes.

After the PE lesson ended, I went back to class and I felt I could not stand it anymore. I decided to head home. After bearing the pain when Derek, Jun Rong and I went to the library to do some things, I packed my bag and Viknesh as well as Derek followed me to the General Office. Madam Ding, my assistant form teacher, accompanied me in the General Office as my classmates headed back to the classroom. I called my parents to see who could come and fetch me but at that time, my father was in a meeting and my mother needed to take one hour to reach the school. So, the kind staffs in the General Office helped me dial for a taxi.

(Photo:Self-taken)

I was also given a form to fill in as I left school during curriculum time. This was the first form I was given in two years since I went Victoria School for studies. I hope I would not receive this form again as I had to miss lesson. There was actually a Chemistry test on that day, but I could not take it as I had to go home. (I studied for it!) Also, my friends told me there was a change in the format of a section that will be tested in examinations for Geography.




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 When the taxi reached it was a Mercedes taxi! I never took one before and it was also the first time I am taking a taxi myself! After the taxi driver started driving me back to my home, he asked me how long I have been in Singapore. I was astonished. I replied him, telling him that I am a Singaporean and he said he that the way I speak Chinese sounds like people from China! This was not the first time I was mistaken as someone from China so I was quite used to it.

When I reached home, the taxi fare was $14.10 and my mother decided to bring me to the doctor. After analyzing, the doctor told us that I might have a dislocated bone on my back which might be in contact with my veins, causing the pain. He suggested to me to go for an X-ray scan and if my bone is really dislocated, there were a few solutions. Firstly, I could take his medicine and hope it will recover. If it does not, I would have to go for therapy and the worst case scenario is to go for an operation. After that I was given a medical certificate for that day and I could not attend PE lessons for two weeks.

It might be me being stubborn and not going for a check-up first or it might be that my back was already that bad from the start. Anyway, I hope I can recover quickly and be able to be as active as before. Let me end of the final assignment post with this song by Adam Lambert, called "No Boundaries". This song motives me to get well soon and I hope it does to you too! Enjoy!

(Quote of the day: "Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain - William Faulkner)

                 (Many thanks to YouTube uploader:xxAyaMikagexx)

Posted by Yi Jie at 8:23 PM