What happened to me?
it wasn't until i was working 4 jobs to afford rent while going   to college stimutaneously that i was forced to wake up...

--- it was a nice casual Sunday afternoon after getting home            from a job working as an A.V assistant for a local                           church. that's when i suddenly felt a striking pain
              rage up my spine. 

i tried to disassociate from it.
i tried to sleep it off.
i tried to take a hot shower.
but the pain lasted for hours. 
i could barely move. 

in desperate measures,
i called up each of my divorced parents
who lived across the island. 

i asked for some pain meds.

  they said the drive was too far. 

  so there i was crying because the pain

   was so intense,
       alone
           in my living room. 

i couldn't take it.

i got up and drove myself to the E.R.