An old friend visits me again

On that fateful day, I woke up as usual in the morning, did the routine stuff like changing into my uniform, eating my breakfast and going to the lobby to wait for the school bus to arrive. As usual, I arrived at school at around 7.00 a.m and climbed 4 stories of stairs to get to class. Upon climbing the 3rd flight of stairs, I heard screaming and yelling from 2 stories above me. No doubt that was from my class, and I rolled my eyes. Typical classmates.

When I first entered the classroom, chairs were all over the floor and tables were overturned. The neatness of the classroom from when I last saw yesterday was now replaced by chaos. My table and chair were even gone and I had to keep bending down and looking under tables to search for my books that will then identify my table. I found my table and took a random chair and sat down heavily, taking off my bag simultaneously. I joined another classmate in playing his iphone and in the blink of an eye, 20 minutes passed. We were actually late for flag raising!

As a facility secretary, I had to be the last to leave the class so that I will be sure that the door is locked. We had two more minutes before flag raising starts and we dashed all the way down the corridor. I was born with epilepsy, and if you didn’t know, epilepsy can cause a person to faint anytime, anywhere, and there will be absolutely no warnings. I suppose I had a seizure, as the next time I woke up, I was on a stretcher, heading into the ambulance and there was a sharp pain in my head. My vision was blurry, and all around me were voices but they seemed like whispers to me, none of them making any sense. The next moment, I blacked out again. I woke up in the hospital, and the first thing I saw were my parents seating next to me, their faces full of concern. The usual sensation came to me, the sharp aching in my head. The last time I had a seizure was almost three years ago and I had thought that I had finally gotten rid of this “old friend” of mine. Who knew that he would visit me once again, just when I thought that I could live like a normal kid again……….