Wednesday, February 25, 2004

My Tendon Problems Are Back.. DAMMIT!

ARGH... I screamed the moment I tried to stand up after getting out of my bed. My inner ankles were hurting like hell, for no apparent reason.. No sprain, no wadsoever injury.. So I guess my tendon problems were back. I had never officially diagnosed it before, so I dun really noe wad it is. But the best guess is arthritis.. It occurs to me once in every few mths, on different parts of my body. My neck, knees, wrists, fingers, ankles, toes, sole. Sometimes lucky can recover within one day, sometimes need 3 to 4 days. And today it happens to be on somewhere between my inner shin n sole (on the right leg). Great.. N dat means I'll have to limp through the day.

Throughout the whole day, I was cursing n swearing quietly to myself.. Had to limp around my house, n sometimes when i accidentally put my right leg down too hard i'll be stunned by the suddenly sharp pain on my sole. Aniwae in the afternoon I decided to go back TP settle some stuff n meet Laibao for lunch.

Outside my house, I can sae dat my limping had attracted alot of attention. Got a grp of sec sku gals staring at mi amusingly like as if I a baby who juz learned walking liddat.. And an auntie who actually OFFERED to help mi up the bus when I had trouble getting up. I almost died of humiliation.. Everytime Hao Gong Ming textbook sae to help auntie but now is auntie helping mi..

Back in TP, I couldn't escape the fate of attracting attention too. Laibao noticed my limping not long after I walked into his lab, n asked wad happened.. N i had to tell the whole story abt dis problem I haf. Guess Eddy didn't bother to notice it. Since Laibao was still busy I went ard 1st. Limped past the cleaner auntie, the security guard, past my lecturers too!

Finally, Laibao was done wif his stuff. We went to Mensa to eat vegetarian. Wanted to order a chicken breast from the western stall but they sae that they no longer sell chicken breast.. damn.. should haf removed it from the menu mah.. so misleading.. Wasn't really full after the vegetarian meal, so I went to buy a sushit.. n a cup of bandung. Aniwae, saw Ray in Mensa too. The moment I 'walked' up to him, 1st thing he asked was "wad happened to ur leg??".. N when I was leaving Mensa, the canteen auntie oso said "ur leg injured izzit? be careful hoh..".. After lunch, was feeling abit sian, so decided to LIMP around bedok reservoir instead of juz seating there. Little did I realize that I've made a decision which I'd regret for the rest of the day.

At Bedok Reservoir, we discovered a weird tree which had SPIKES on its trunk. It looked like the same specie as the surrounding tree, but dunno y got spikes.. Maybe is barnacles.. After walking for abt 10 mins, my legs decided to call it a day. It was getting more n more painful, so we sat on a bench to let my leg rest n we juz play ard wif our ringtones. After Laibao left, I realized that even limping became progressively harder. so, instead of crossing the bridge, i took 15 on the TP side to allow it to go Parkway, loop back to pasir ris, den took 12 home (cuz 12 brings mi to the bus-stop nearest my house). Throughout the bus ride, I suddenly fell into a depressed state again. Still being damn hurt by Eddy's words.. Even more hurting than my leg today.. From the bus stop to my house, my limping became even more exaggerated. Can sae I was even worse than Xie Shaoguang in Golden Pillow..

I heaved a big sigh of relief when I reached home. By then, I already couldn't limp animore without a support. But dammit.. no one was at home, n I had to go boil some water in order to take my medicine wif. dangerous sia.. a baikar trying to boil water alone at home.. reminds me of those tv shows whereby crippled guy tries to boil water, falls over n knock the pot n causes the house to be on fire. gd ting everyting went on smoothly. went to my room to rest until my mum n bro came back.

my mum came back, with LOTS of chicken rice. I ate 2 packets of it.. suddenly haf a craving for chicken rice. i got humiliated again when my bro offered to support mi ard the house.. "i'm NOT crippled yet la (actually, i'm sort of crippled.. onli temporarily.. wahahah)!!". After dinner, I juz sat in my room, brooding, wif minimal movement ard the house. Bathing was a huge problem too.. I almost fell n knocked myself into the pails n basins my mum washes the clothes wif..

right now, the greatest worry is that I wun be able to make it to big splash tmr if my leg doesn't recover in time.. if that happens, i'm going to cry.. n i'll truly curse my tendon problem!

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