In Sickness and Health

Hi dear,
I've been lyin in my bed since last Saturday. When I got home from work, after workin for a whole night, I felt dizzy and couldn't breathe. It was like as if I was drowning in water or what. I tried hard to sleep, to get rid of the dizziness. But, it didn't work very well.

Saturday night, my illness got worse, I got fever and my nose was blocked. It's just got worse and worse, the next day I woke up. My nose, and the area around, got swollen. And, runny too. I really really couldn't breathe through my nose. Had to do it with my mouth. I had no choice, I had to go to doctor --at last. So I went to Perhati, in Jalan Proklamasi. It's a special clinic for ear, nose, and throat.

The doctor there --his name was Abdi Bumi (servant of the earth), great eh?-- said that I have rhinitis. It's a kind of inflammation in polyp area of so. In short, I had to take bed rest for a day or two. Imagine, two days full in my bed. He gave me a prescription of three medicines. Ciprofloxacin 500, rhinofed 300, and vectrine. I bought it and drank it right away.

Monday morning I felt better. Still hard to breathe, though. Until it was time to have lunch. I ate my soup and porridge slowly. Amazingly, I could eat through and through unlike two days before. During my illness, I'd always gasped for breath while I was eating coz I'd had to do two tasks (eat and breathe) with only one organ (mouth). But at that very lunch, I ate normally. It seemed that my nose wasn't runny and blocked anymore.

Then I realized how I'd had been treating my health. When I'm in good condition, I never cared much about my body. I take it for granted that I can eat, breathe, walk, laugh properly. I never consider those things as a wonderful gift from "above", until the gift is taken.