My Birthday Gift!

It was 9th of July when I went biking around our neighborhood, exactly one week after my brother had been cured of Dengue fever. I was thinking about my upcoming birthday. "Will I be sick again when my birthday comes around, like my past birthdays?" That sentence keeps playing again and again in my mind, but I remain confident that I wont be sick this coming birthday. I felt strong and energetic that day because I can easily scoot around the hilly terrain which was quite difficult if you don't have the stamina, and little did I thought that I was also gonna be diagnosed with Dengue.

July 10th I had a dream about Transformers movie. It was ugly dream, I wanted to wake up but I can't! I also noticed that I'm experiencing this grueling headache while I was dreaming and I felt like a big slab of concrete was placed over me. I know my conscience was awake but my body is still asleep. When I had gathered the strength to wake up and stand I almost fell to the ground because I'm so dizzy, it's really hard to walk! It's like you were heavily drunk. I thought that I just needed more sleep. When my mother checked me out she said that I have a very high fever! I was terrified because my brother just recently had Dengue, and when my fever didn't subside for that day and I was experiencing chills my mother decided to bring me to the hospital.

July 11th, my birthday, while we were waiting for the results of the blood test I was praying to God that hopefully I wont be diagnosed with Dengue, but all of my hope was lost when we entered the doctors room. She greeted us with bad news and, Yes, you've guessed it right! I was diagnosed with Dengue. I was immediately confined in the hospital because my platelet level was low. I prayed to God that my birthday wish was to be cured as soon as possible.
The whole week felt like a year! And every morning the doctor came in saying that my platelet levels keep dropping by the thousands. I admit that I was scared, I still don't want to die, so I keep on praying to God. The whole week was just like the past days. I felt bored and wanted to be cured immediately and I also never felt so scared my whole life. But one day while a nurse was changing my dextrose he said to us that my platelet already rose! I was really happy and so was my mom, and it was confirmed by the doctor a while later. I really felt so happy and thankful to God, My dear Mom, the Nurses and the Doctors who took care of me while I was sick. So we waited until my platelet count normalize.

When we went home I felt so happy! It's good to be back home! I really promised myself that I would be more careful when a mosquito is around and that I would clean our environment and surroundings so that mosquitoes cannot breed near our house.