I sprained my knee more than normal people. This is because roughly 7 years back I broke my ankle and since then I kept having injury on the same leg. No wonder I was told once I hurt it, there’s a big chance that I’d hurt it again and again.

My last recent hurt was on the day I attended Skin Food event. I didn’t really take good care of the injury due to the current work load so I recovered quite slow. Not even 2 weeks after I could walk properly, I injured the same knee again. It was a Tuesday where I’d need to visit all the clients to send magazines, invoices and mandarin oranges. I dragged one of my boss along to carry the oranges for me but there are a few places where I’d just hopped out of the car and speed walk a distance to the client office. Yeap. He kept stopping at the wrong side which resulted the long walk. I felt the hurt at the end of the day where everything slowed down. By the next day (Wed) I can feel the tightness in my knee so I decided to visit the chinese doctor recommended by my second boss the next day.

On Thursday, my boss fetch me over and I had a painful massage. Immediately I can see my knee swollen and he put on some herb medicine patch on my knee for 6 hours. After taking out, I have to wait for another 1 hour before I can bath. That means I can only bath at 10.30pm! Sucks.

I can see that my leg is double the size by night time. The pain is getting more and more unbearable. I panicked. But I waited patiently until it’s 9.30pm and when I took the patch off, I was so shocked. My whole leg is double the size and it hurts just touching the knee. I didn’t sleep the whole night as the pain is getting worse. I can feel the vein underneath my knee pumping blood in pain. I knew it’s be worse the next morning. I was right. I can’t even put down my leg on the floor. I waited for 10 minutes and start standing up and I couldn’t. I walked to the kitchen slowly in pain and I nearly fainted due to the pain. That’s when I vomited. Mum had already cooking the chinese med so I had some milo and I went back to sleep. I was waken up by mum around 8.30am as the chinese med is ready. I slept for another half and hour and walked to the washroom. The pain has not subside yet. I vomited the second time in the washroom. All the milo and the med are all out. Desperate for solution, I took a muscle relaxation med and went back to sleep. Then I had fever. I slept again and woke up realising the pain subsided a little. The muscle relaxation med is working. Yet I still can’t move and lied on bed.

Feeling hopeless I called the chinese doctor. That bugger is still sleeping! He did answer the call after a long ringing but I can’t even understand a word he said. He said he didn’t know what was wrong with me and told me to see him. I said I can’t cause I’m staying too far away. Then he adviced me to take antibiotic as he suspect there’s infection inside. I really doubt there’s any infection as I was OK before I see him. It was just a tiny bit of pain and after seeing him I was in hell lots of pain! But I took his advice and took antibiotic anyway. I was desperate!

Due to the pain, fever and the fact that I can’t stand or walk, I missed my company’s dinner. All thanks to the chinese doctor.