For one over year,
I was totally lost.
Seen specialists,
done physiotherapies,
and gave up all.

Not only did things not improve,
I was becoming
more and more bedridden.

Initially I thought I had a stroke.
Waking up and
not able to find my limbs.
And it takes about half an hour
before I could move them.
After a while, I just got used to it.

And sometimes,
when I woke,
my head just felt so heavy,
that I went back to sleep.
Waking up became
a real challenge to me.

Early 2002,
I found a chiropractor by chance.
He felt something was wrong with my neck.
And I didn't even share with him
the earlier diagnostic.
Suddenly I saw hope again.

He sent me for X-rays once again.
And I started going to him for treatment.
The only reason I stick with this doctor
was because he took me seriously.
At about the same time,
I started acupuncture and
foot reflexology.

The most interesting part about all these was,
the chiropractor,
my family doctor and
the Chinese sin sei
all could tell me the same thing
from the old X-rays I took
when I was seeing the specialist
at our famous local hospital,
which the specialist didn't tell me.
My neck was too straight,
and the spurs from the deformation
was poking on my nerve.

And hence, I started another journey of therapies.