Overprotective Parents #2

I remember when I got my first fainting episode :

I was at my uncles funeral service around...hmmm....5 years ago? I hadnt eaten at all the night before and slept so late cause I was at my aunts Pantai house the whole night helping out (by sitting there and watching TV) ...During the service, I suddenly saw all white...you know like Welcome to the Black Parade where his eyesight comes and goes when hes dying...yeah exactly like that except the white I was seeing was all fuzzy...Suddenly I started swaying and shaking cause I couldnt balance myself

Mom : *doesnt know whats happening to me* Ruwan! Stop it!
Dad : are you okay?
Me : mmmhmmm.....

After 5 minutes of closing my eyes, I was able to see again, and then after standing up when people came to wish us, I felt fuzzy again and so sat down. So, nothing happened for another 4 years...then in late 2005 I was playing tennis after ages, and I really felt like I couldnt play anymore halfway through the session...somemore it was so damn hot that day...but of couse I very kiasu right so when my coach asked if I could still continue (I was sweating like a I-dunno-what) I was like....doi....


And then 3/4 through the session, my coach wanted to EXTEND THE CLASS...I was like....omg....

And then...

WHITE....WEAK....CANT SEE....WHITE....FUZZY....blablabla...I couldnt see where I was going so I banged my knee into the bench and my mom was going frantic and made me lie down on it (eww) for 10 minutes...when i got up again it was okay, and then I picked up the ball to go play again when....

yep you guessed it...

WHITE....WEAK....CANT SEE....WHITE....FUZZY....blablabla...My mom was like...okay...thats it your going home...on the way to the car I went all white again and my mom had to lead me over to the car (I almost fell into the drain next to the stadium somemore)...Upon arriving at home I was carried into the guest room and forced to rest there and my mom called my dad out of his meeting, and then I was taken to the hospital

My dads cousin is this really good heart specialist in Assunta, and so he gives us free treatment and takes a special interest in my...condition...and so yeah I had to go see him again...

After the examinations,
Doc : well...Ruwan, you have this condition...
Mom : Ruwan, why dont you go wait outside....
Me : huh?! its MY condition!
Dad : yeah, well, well tell you about it later
Me : I WANNA HEAR IT, ITS MY CONDITION!
Doc : ................................
Mom : okay okay *grasps my hand tightly like Im gonna die or something*

Yeah, well apparently I have a currently-minor strain of Marfan's Syndrome (yes, the one on Greys Anatomy, my mom was trying to get me to shut it off when it was showing) where my valves are floppy...signs are my long fingers, my chest, my height, my BMI, my rare misbeat....and stuff...and so some people who have this, later in life, their aorta will expand, burst and then theyll die.


Me : *eyes bulge out, and my throat suddenly becomes very itchy*
Mom & Dad : *look at each other, moms nails dig into my flesh* well, of course this isnt going to happen to HIM! *glares at Doc.*
Doc : oh, no no no! its...errr....well...MOST afflicted people just die of normal causes!
Me : ....................................what has this got to do with my black out spells?
Doc : *relieved that I changed subject* oh, well you have very low pressure and (either hypo or hyper)glucemia, so when you get those spells just take sugar...
Me : okay...so its unrelated
Doc : yep
Me : okay....thats all...thanks
Doc : yes, and theres nothing to worry about right now, but just come back every year for an ECG
Me : sure...but its so cold in that room!
Doc : well...next time you come ill see what the nurse can do about it
Mom : *still staring at me*


When we get back home, for the next week, I was pampered like...a....not even a prince...like a godling! I was pratically FORCED to watch TV the whole day, and nothing I did was wrong, and my dad kept asking if there was anything wrong and kept feeling my forehead and taking my pulse...oh gosh

Then earlier this year, I got the spell again, and I was sick at the time, so after the episode, I was too weak to even get out of bed or even to sms...I just sat in bed, and when I was bored to tears I would be half carried to the TV to watch, since I was too weak to even TYPE at the computer...

Since then, every single flu or minor sickness that I get, my mom will ERUPT IN PANIC relating it to my heart sending my for ECGs and the whole works

I mean...helloo...what am I supposed to surmise from all this? That one day in the restaurant Ill drop into cardiac arrest and be rescued by a doctor couple like in Greys Anatomy? And since my mom does that, my dad thinks you know I worry that Im gonna die everyday or something (when actually I barely remember I have the damn thing) and so tells me stuff like

Dont worry your not going to die....or...
Just ignore your mother, shes being overprotective, like parents do all the time, youll be fine, nothing will happen...

Everytime he talks about it I start fiddling with something to keep myself from laughing


WHY CANT MY PARENTS BE NORMAL?!?!!?