As I mentioned on my last blog, I have the problem of low blood sugar (also known as hypoglycemia). For the reason, I have fainted many times in my life. Luckily, it doesn't threaten my life in most of the time. To reduce the incidence of hypoglycemia, I have to live a regular life such as three meals every day, and have to bring candies with me all the time.

But before I tell you more about my stories, I need to make it clear that I am not always a sickly person. Instead, in most cases, I am in very good health. For instance, I haven't been ill in the whole year of 2015, not even caught a cold. Believe it or not, I can even count out how many times I have been to hospital in the past ten years. What's more, I am good at sports. During my college years, I run the fastest than any girl in my class, and I could also jump high and jump far. Before I went to college, I almost took part in every school sport carnival. In other words, if I don't tell you I am hypoglycemic, you will never think it will happen to me.

Sometimes I couldn't help thinking if I had taken good care of myself in the past, I would probably not suffer from hypoglycemia so often. However, in my daily life I tend to neglect my own health just as most young people do. I have to admit that it is all because of me. The first time I fainted was when I took an English midterm test in class. I was in the second year of my middle school then. Young as I was, I cared about everything except health. At that time, I lived in school dormitory with my weekly living expenses of 25RMB. Since it was the first time that I could manage my own money, I preferred buying snacks to meals like every teenager girl. What's worse, craze for saving money also flooded over me. Every week on the last two days in school I would only have one meal each day. Yeah, I saved money from skipping meals. It is very stupid of me to risk my health for money and to look only the interest at present. Before I fainted, I only had one small bread for both breakfast and lunch on that day. As you could imagine, under exam stress with hunger, all of a sudden, my blood sugar level dropped too low to provide energy for me. So I shivered and fainted. I did not know how my teacher and classmates reacted to it. All I knew was when I woke up I was on a drip in hospital. From then on, I started to pay attention to my body conditions. Heard from a doctor, my blood pressure is much lower than most ordinary people. Apparently, it is a dangerous thing to my life.

When I was in high school, once again I skipped my meals. But this time was not for money, but for study. Everyday I was told if I did not try my best I would be surpassed by other students, and would finally be left behind, which was totally unbearable to me. I saved my time from eatting and sleeping in order to study more. Thanks to my hard work, I was always one of the top students both in my class and in the school. What's more, I passed the College Entrance Examination with a reasonable result. But as I could remember, the heavy price was that I fainted more than 5 times in the whole three years. I suffered a lot from hypoglycemia. I should have reached a balance between life and study. I should have known the importance of good health.

But when I was in college, I repeated the same stupid mistake. Admittedly, I am from a poor farmer's family, and I am the third child in my family. I have two elder sisters and one younger brother, all of whom are college students in Hubei Province. But my university is in Dalian, Liaoning Province, a city far from my hometown. My life in Dalian was hard, for my tuition fee and living expenses are relatively high. To ease economic burdens on my parents' shoulders, I cut down on my living expenses, and lied to my parents I did not need that much money they used to give to me. To support myself, I took low-paid parttime jobs and won school scholarships. Different from most of my classmates who are the only child in their families, money was always a big concern to me. I had to do reckoning every day, wondering "Did I have enough money for food?" or "Did I have extra money for fun?" So most of the time I bought myself the cheapest meal, and seldom had fruits. Not soon after, this kind of living style induced severe malnutrition, and with it the rate of fainting increased greatly.

The most unforgetable fainting experience occurred in the last year of my college. In an early morning, I fainted suddenly and fell down, knocking my head on the ground. I lost my consciousness immediately. Thanks to my roomates and teachers, I was sent to hospital by ambulance timely, and was taken good care in ICU (Intensive Care Unit). Were it not for them, I would be a dead man now!

The reasons why I wrote such a long blog are as follows: firstly, I want to draw your attention to your own health. I want you to take good care of yourself, and never risk your health for something else. As the saying goes, "your body is the capital of revolution"; secondly, I want you, especially young people, to answer carefully what matters most in different phrases of your life, and what is the right way to achieve something you want; last but not least, I want you to think over and over again what would you do if you saw such an emergency happened right in front of you, or if you had the similar accident. I want you to equip yourself with first aid knowledge. Sooner or later, it will benefit you and people around you!