A Funny Feeling
I breathed in deeply.
It’s still there.
The dull ache in my chest wouldn’t go away.
I googled “heart attack signs” and mulled over the first search result:
Pressure, tightness, pain, or a squeezing or aching sensation in your chest or arms that may spread to your neck, jaw or back.
Okay.
I immediately excused myself from what I was doing and took a cab to the nearest clinic.
But my heart was fine. It was most likely a panic attack.
I never did figure out what triggered it. I wasn’t stressed. Or at least I wasn’t conscious of being stressed.
Is it possible to have developed a phobia suddenly? But what was the phobia? I hadn’t done anything out of the ordinary.
It freaked me out.
Looking back, that should have been my first clue that something was wrong.
The tremors confirmed it.
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My name is Elrica. I am 35 years old and I have Parkinson’s Disease. This is part of a larger collection of writing that records my experience living with the neurological condition.
