First time I got to the hospital, it was because of an intense, bitter, and agonizing pain in my chest. I could feel nothing and see nothing. All I remember was a sharp pain as if the center of my chest was being squeezed. Every breath was like a nightmare re-lived. Everything was blurry as I stared at the car ceiling. I was numb, and I was cold. The lightest of touches were intolerable and each sound I heard was unbearable. Everything around me just seemed to worsen the pain. I got to the hospital and I was considered one of the mystery cases. They didn’t know what I had. The pain would keep coming and going, until one week passed, and they figured out I had pericardial effusion, which is the accumulation of fluid around the heart, which leads to pressure on the heart. After they treated that, the pain maintained its consistency, coming and going, but not as severely. The doctors kept me for another week of tests. They ran loads of tests, with which one of them determined I had
First time I got to the hospital, it was because of an intense, bitter, and agonizing pain in my chest. I could feel nothing and see nothing. All I remember was a sharp pain as if the center of my chest was being squeezed. Every breath was like a nightmare re-lived. Everything was blurry as I stared at the car ceiling. I was numb, and I was cold. The lightest of touches were intolerable and each sound I heard was unbearable. Everything around me just seemed to worsen the pain. I got to the hospital and I was considered one of the mystery cases. They didn’t know what I had. The pain would keep coming and going, until one week passed, and they figured out I had pericardial effusion, which is the accumulation of fluid around the heart, which leads to pressure on the heart. After they treated that, the pain maintained its consistency, coming and going, but not as severely. The doctors kept me for another week of tests. They ran loads of tests, with which one of them determined I had