Wednesday, July 21, 2010

The One Where I Needed Vitamins ...


Everything was a blur ... I couldn't remember how I got there or what happened before that. As I scanned my surroundings, I began to grasp that I was lying on a bed made of cold metal. The icy sensation stung the receptors on my skin. Blinding my vision were a cluster of bright spotlights hanging overhead.

I hear voices of several people ... all speaking at once. I couldn't comprehend what they were talking about ... it was all just frenzied noise to me but I noted the sense of urgency in their tone. I closed my eyes ... shielding them from the annoying glare and tried to block out the mutterings ... it was then that I could perceive echoes of beepings.

It all came together like a completed puzzle. I suddenly knew where I was ... I was in an ER ... a hospital's emergency room. The doctors and nurses were busy buzzing around me ... trying to fix me up. I struggled to remember what was wrong with me in the first place but couldn't quite stick a finger to it no matter how hard I tried.

Another weird thing was that none of these people seem to realize that I was awake and aware of what's going on around me. I wondered if this was suppose to be like this.

The beepings increased in frequency and instantly resulted in a gibberish of medical jargons being spat all over the room ... reminds me of episodes I used to watch from Grey's.

Out of no where, a face appeared in front of me, probably belonging to a young female attendee ... I studied her dire expression as she tried to explain to me what's going on. I register nothing except for the continuous beeping noise.

And then I understood a few out of the hundreds of words she was attempting to jam into my drowzy state of mind. Apparently ... my body is lacking in vitamin C ... hahaha ... I kid you not and for some reason, this is a grave situation ... so serious that a team of specialist has to be present to administer the 'procedure'.

They tried every method ... double dosage of 1000mg capsules, liquid injection throught the IV (I think it's Redoxon :p) and ... using some sort of laser tech by exposing my skin to some richly vitamin C enhanced lighting. O_O

But alas ... my body seems to be rejecting everything and suddenly I go into a seizure before the beeping sound went into one long monotonous hum.

Someone shouted 'CLEAR!!!' as they tried to shock me back to life with the defibrillator (see photo above).

That was also the moment I jolted from my dream. I woke up feeling drowzy ... as if recovering from a heavy dose of GA. Oh what a rush ...

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