Near Fainting Incident

Rebecca suddenly fell ill last Saturday afternoon while on her way to a Red Cross CCA meeting. Indeed, as she said, its such an irony... to have missed this Red Cross meeting and ended up in a hospital instead. *Laugh*... =)

After 3 injections and a relatively comprehensive check-up, the doctor diagnosed it as stomach flu. This time it was rather serious as Rebecca nearly fainted from the intense pain... and no passenger in the MRT bothered to help! Some Singaporeans are really heartless and selfish. How can Rebecca be crounching on the floor in pain and nobody even bothered to ask if they could help? Or even offer her a seat?! Even if I didn't know her, I would come up and ask if she needed to notify the MRT staff on duty.

Don't tell me that Singaporeans will only respond when someone places a suspicious bag at the corner of the train? Or worse still, each person is waiting for other people to press that $5,000 emergency button to inform the driver? Oh dear... what kind of nation are we becoming? So terrible...

Thankfully, Rebecca managed to drag herself to the approach the staff at Tanjong Pagar MRT station for help... and she was ushered to rest at the staff lounge and given a blanket to keep warm. In the end, it was still so uncomfortable and faint that Rebecca requested for an ambulance to send her to the hospital.

The ambulance brought her to the Accident & Emergency (A&E) section of Singapore General Hospital (SGH) where the doctor and nurses attended to her. I was glad that her sister, and thereafter her parents came to see her. Rebecca was also put on a drip to replenish water loss due to three times of diarrhoea.

While all these was happening, I was so worried throughout my lesson at SHRi. I couldn't even concentrate for the entire 3 hours lecture (probably paying 5% of attention). My heart was thumping for the entire time, with my fingers trembling at certain times too. I was so worried, as I did not know what was happening and how she was doing. It was a really stressful time for me.

After the class ended, I immediately rushed to meet my brother to pass him the 2 tickets for the Singapore-Malaysia Asean Cup match at National Stadium. We had intended to watch the soccer match (support Singapore, of coz) but we didn't expect things to turn out this way. Yet, even though I had to pay $20 for both tickets (my brother could not sell it away), it was still worth it because my precious girlfriend's health is at stake. And of coz, there is another good news which I will elaborate in the next Blog entry.

Anyway, I rushed to SGH... brisk walking through the long stretch of roads and sheltered passageways... and also asked for directions on how to walk to A&E Observation Ward 1. While brisk walking there, I was thinking... Wow... this is really a far walk! Those who cannot afford to take taxi or are not coming in either car or ambulance... sure have a long walk ahead of them.

Finally, I reached... but Rebecca was already in the midst of being discharged from the A&E. While her parents were settling the bill, I looked for her and sat down next to her, to see how she's feeling. Then all 4 of us took a taxi back to her home. It was indeed an eventful afternoon!