Yesterday was when I thought of the inevitability of what could happen when something goes wrong with your body. It was when I realized how perfectly the human body and that was when I experienced the fear of something going wrong with it. I guess we just take this intricate machinery of the human body just as granted. It all started off with a pain in the lower ribs on the left side. I was so gripped with anxiety as to what it might be…in any case, after an extensive session with the doctor listening to the heart and checking for the lungs and all that, it was established that it was nothing more than a tight muscle or a muscle ‘knot’ on the left-side. Got some muscle relaxants and the NSAID pin killers and things are getting back to normal again. But the whole process of going through the ECG, chest x-rays, etc…and waiting with the anxiety as to what the doctor might diagnose is a painful experience in itself. I was just imagining how lives turn topsy-turvy for some people after a session with the doctor and receiving a ‘positive’ diagnosis. Well, I still have the Heart Ultrasound to go…looking for a heart murmur, but nothing major I think.