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you ever sick and bedridden? Of course, one may not wish to be ill or bedridden. Still, it an experience. Unfortunately for me, I such an experience last year. When I began sneezing one fine morning, I never thought I would be going in for a protracted illness. That evening, I temperature and pain in the joints. My mother prepared the usual medicament and gave it to me, and made me go to bed early. The following day I could not get up from bed. I running a high temperature and severe pain in the joints. People in the house suspected whether I might be getting smallpox or any fever like that. I kept on a diet. The same condition continues for three more days. So our family doctor advised my admitted to the General Hospital. After the formalities, I given a bed in the general ward, and I kept under observation.

The experience novel to me, but it very irksome when several doctors came and examined me one after another. Remember it a general hospital, so there many doctors, some trainees included. So I felt very much annoyed when I to stick my tongue out for these doctors. In between, there the nurses who strutted about in their starched uniform. A chart maintained about my health. First, my blood examined and then my stools. Many the surmises that made. Some said it a strange fever that started in Pahang. Some said it paratyphoid. So they pricking me with different types of injections. By this time, the novelty of in the hospital wore away. I got fed up with the smell of Dettol, the ward's cheerless look, and the monotonous scene of different types of patients lying there. Somehow, the injections began to work. My temperature came down to normal. So I advised to go home and take a rest. What a relief from the boredom of the hospital after a fortnight there.

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