NAPATSORN TREESAP

When I was a third year student, there’s one Wednesday that I felt so sick like I thought I was going to die right there in front of the class. It was the day that I studied Morphology and Syntax, and that Wednesday, I had to take the first quiz. I felt so distressed and wanted to vomit so bad. Many of my classmates said, “Sai, why is your face so pale, are you okay?” I thought like, I still applied red lipstick, how can they recognize that I was sick? At first, I thought maybe it was because I worried too much or maybe because of my period. I chose to believe the second one, for every time I have my period, my face will pale like a vampire or something unhealthy. I forced myself to finish a quiz in time and in a minute that I submitted the quiz, it felt better, so I went to eat noodles with friends. I remembered I seasoned the noodle very spicy because I thought it might blow the worry out of my mind. After I finished eating, while going back to the university, I felt it was hard to breathe, so I asked my friend to rest in her room for a moment.

While I’m at my friends’ room, an hour later, I felt I had diarrhea, so I asked her to take me to buy medicine, for I felt like this was not because of stress or period anymore. A moment later, a thought came into my mind that or I have to eat some ice cream to feel fresh again, but I stopped myself right there in time and walked back to my dormitory.

When I arrived at my room, I took an activated charcoal, a medicine for treating
poisoning, and slept for a while. However, when it was about 8 p.m, I woke up and called
my roommate that if she arrived at the room, I wanted her to wake me to see whether I still
alive or not. Then, my roommate said, “Sai, you should go to hospital now, I will come
after you. We’ll meet there,” so, I did as she suggested.

I took a cab to the hospital, and saw my roommate was there in front of the build-
ing. She took me to see the doctor. I thought I was not the only one that had a pale face, but it wasn’t. The doctor’s face looked like he did not sleep for a week. I hoped he took a nap for a few hours. He asked each symptom that I had, what I had eaten yesterday, and asked where I got the activated charcoal from, so I replied that I bought it from 7-11, and he did nothing but a nod for me. A minute later, he asked me to sleep in the emergency room because the nurse had to inject me. To be honest, I thought it was going to be only one small hypodermic needle, but I was shocked because it’s not just only one, but three, and it’s not small like I used to think. It’s a double size from any needle that I had seen. At that time, I did nothing but prayed for myself to survive. After finishing the injections, I thought they would allow me to go back to my dormitory, but the nurse said, “Please sleep here for a few hours.” Then, I thought to myself, “But my roommate’s waiting for me outside and it was late already. I don’t want her to go back alone, and how can I sleep when the other side of me, there’s a man who got in an accident and had a lot of blood bleeding looking so tortured.”

However, I couldn’t do anything but tried to sleep, and prayed that I could go to Shawn Mendes’s concert in four days. I tried and tried to sleep, but I felt so cold. I felt angry at the hospital because the blanket is so thin. I could not sleep. I felt like I got a fever, and then, the thought came immediately that I forgot the doctor said I got a high temperature, so I stopped blaming the blanket.

I didn’t remember when I fell asleep till the nurse came to wake me up and let me go back to my room. When I came out from the emergency room, I said sorry to my roommate a thousand times, but she said she understood me. I’m so lucky to have the loveliest roommate ever. When I was in my room, I promised myself to look before eating.

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