X had become so fragile inside. His mind had been on the verge of explosion from all the confusion and stress in his life. Everything seemed to be piling up. He couldn’t escape the sense of a black veil over his thoughts. He’d failed to see the good in anything. One day he’d gone mountain biking with his riding partner from work. They’d been going for quite some time, but X in recent weeks had been having trouble keeping the pace. On this particular day, X had been exhausted.
Lately, he’d been feeling fits of fatigue. Deep fights with exhaustion that had struck him at work and when he’d gone home at night. He’d fought to keep up with his partner, but he couldn’t. Overwhelmed by fatigue, X had taken a bad fall down a steep incline, tumbling through some small trees to the bottom of the hill. Luckily, X had got up from the fall with mere bumps, cuts and bruises. They’d changed X’s flat tire and rode on. The accident was quickly forgotten until a few weeks later.
X’s exhaustion had grown worse. The 3:00 afternoon blues at work had been a battle to keep his eyes open. He’d felt a pain in his lower back that made it difficult to sit at his desk. At night had been his greatest discomfort. He’d awake in the middle of the night, his pillow soaked with cold sweat, with a profound aching in his left quadriceps. In the beginning, he’d thought it was a muscle cramp so he’d got up and took an aspirin. The night pains in his leg continued each night. X ignored them. It became so painful at times that X pounded with his fist on his leg, trying to alleviate what he thought was a muscular pain. It had been a pain much more profound than that however. X can’t remember how long the pains persisted.
Eventually, the pain continued on through the daytime. It became unbearable to live with. At this point, X had noticed that the muscle in his quadriceps was hard, and tight with a large bump. This pain coupled with the negative emotions in his mind felt like a terror within. X had finally gone to see a doctor. They’d taken some x-rays and had decided that the pain was probably due to the mountain biking accident weeks before.
It seemed completely probable to X and he thought nothing of it, continuing to take the prescribed pain medication until it passed. It didn’t pass. The pain had grown worse at night and his sheets would be wet with sweat each morning. The bump on his leg had grown tremendously. X had called the doctor on a Thursday afternoon to schedule another appointment. The doctor recommended that X have a MRI on the following Monday. X had been a little worried at this point, but he had absolutely no idea what would be in store for him for the weekend.
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