Seems recently that every time I wasn't feeling too good, Amy would get the same problems a few days later. It could have started earlier, but when you see each other every week, you would tend to blame the contact for how the illness got passed. The recent cases are really noticeable as we haven't met up with each other for quite some time. It started out with one really bad headache that I got, that was so bad that any light would start making me wince in pain. I guess some might call it a Migraine. I just slept it off with the help of a lot of Panadol and Tiger Balm. Finally getting enough control of the pain to go online, I find that Amy seems to have been struck with the same issue.
Next was a something that went wrong with my stomach. Ok, so I won't go into details but it included dashes to the toilet, and this issue lasted about a week. Problem was, I had to start work the day after the problem showed up and in the end, I ended up taking a day off work to get things settled by my best doctor. While waiting to see my doc, I received a few text messages from Amy, one of which told me she got a similar stomach problem. Hmm... strike 2?
The last one was the strangest. For most of the other common problems, I've sort of mentioned it to Amy one way or another. So I thought maybe it was some form of sympathetic/empathetic illness - where u get the same (possibly) illness out of the empathy/sympathy you feel for the other person. However, this one was very different in that Amy told me her problem before I told her that I had the same thing a few days ahead. I had requested a day off work to go for my regular diabetic check, and during this check, my doc asked if I was feeling giddy and all because I had a low blood pressure reading. I guess it didn't affect me as much as it would my mom or my sis. Or maybe I'm so used to strange things happening to me that I've learnt to compensate? Well whatever it is, Amy sent me a message while I was at work a few days after the check to tell me that she was pissed off with the doctor not believing her, and that she was feeling giddy. Then she told me the doc told her she has low blood pressure, probably accounting for her other problems (the doc obviously can't be bothered to give her a thorough check). That's when she realised why her world was spinning, and I realised that this was getting a bit weird.
At first thinking that the bugs were more mighty, and Singapore being much smaller, than we realised, would be the reason why we were 'sharing' the same problems. Then I thought maybe we were just so close that we were starting to feel each other's problems (like what my mom and me sometimes encounter). The low-blood pressure is just a bit of a shocker, making me think if there is a possibility that I'm feeling what Amy might get before it hits her? Predicting her illnesses?
Now I wonder, if I were to die. Would she end up following me a few days later? Oh My....
2 comments:
Dr Westlake here to tell you it's Migraine + IBS + Vertigo (Ver-tai-go)...
HAHAHAHAHAHA!
Word verification: sycipt - a dodgy script from our doctor.
2nd one is fd poisoning, IBS less problem.
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