Hello everyone, I am excited to participate in this community’s first-ever prompt and I must commend the admins for coming up with this idea. I hope it will be beneficial to everyone in this community. With regard to this week’s prompt, I must confess that I have been blessed with the gift of good health. For the past years of my life, I have never had a life-threatening sickness except for the one that I am sharing below.
It was like a joke to me when I began to develop severe stomach pain that lasted for weeks. At first, I thought it was a reaction to the food I ate, unbeknown to me that it would be an ulcer after the doctor’s diagnosis. It was after, three days of persistent pain that I had to reach out to a doctor. Before then, I was depending on a G tablet to ease my pain. The G tablet was of great help because each time I chew it and drink water; the pain will subside though for a moment. However, my fear became heightened and many people began to suggest all kinds of sicknesses. Some went to the large extent of saying that the sickness might lead to surgery and all of that. Meanwhile, my doze of the G tablet began to increase daily to the extent that I would consume more than two cards of tablets a day. The thing I began with was just a tablet.
To allay my fears, I booked an appointment with a doctor. On that fateful day, I met with him and after I had explained my plight to him, he asked me to run a series of tests which I did. Also, he asked me to lie down on the bed. He used his hands to examine my stomach to know the exact position or spot on my stomach where the pain had been excruciatingly taking place. At the end of this, he came to a conclusion coupled with the results of the test that he concluded that it was an ulcer. He prescribed some drugs for me, and in a few days, I was fine and healthy again.
Notwithstanding, I was not comfortable with the whole matter because that was my first time coming in contact with such sickness. Also, many people said that it was as a result of starvation that the sickness came hence, I should not miss my breakfast for anything else. Beyond starvation, I later realized from my research that the use of inflammatory drugs could also cause ulcers but above all, since I did not know the exact cause of my ulcer, I decided never to miss my breakfast for anything. A day came when the same symptom of stomach ache appeared, that was a day I missed my breakfast. Since then, I never allowed that to happen. Hence, if you're going through this kind of sickness please take your morning food important.
