It was supposed to be a busy but well-organized week. With my son starting school, everything would go back to normal routines: my husband would be busy at his work, while I am trying to find a balance between my work, household chores and learning plan.

Sometimes, you would find that “supposed” is a funny word. A minor incident could change everything that you take for granted, and your whole order of life would have fallen in like a card house.

HIVD (protrusion of intervertebral disc) is not a fatal disease but enough to turn your whole life upside down, luckily if luckily is ever a suitable word for such condition, it is temporary.  

My husband has a slipped disc. It has been quite a while since his last relapse. HIVD can’t be cured, so it is always lurking here in the shadow of our life, just waiting for its next strike.

It’s not fatal, but when it came, it came with a brutal, relentless force.

It might be a blow to his male pride, but to be frankly, I should say that my husband bears zero tolerance towards the pain. And the pain accompanied with HIVD is terrible. My husband collapsed immediately this time, and he even couldn’t manage to go to the hospital.

With the help of healthcare online, we started the slow, painful progress of his recovery.

He can’t get off the bed, he can’t walk, he can’t sit up straight, and he needs to be in bed all the time: eat, urinate, and everything.

He is an adult who needs to be treated as a baby. It’s like going back to nursing a baby again. I feed him, wipe him, dress him, hold the beaker for him when he urinates. Okay, once again I am confirmed that having a second child is definitely a terrible idea, a big No-No.

It’s such a great relieve for both of us that he is recovering. Or I am not sure how long we could hold on without seeing any signs of improvement. It’s really devastrating for anyone if his life was squeezed into such a thimble. He could barely sleep through the night, which means I couldn’t either. In fact, I could manage 3-4 hours of daily sleep--- at top.

A slipped disc might not be fatal, but sometimes the depressions accompanied with it does.