Sudden illness, but the show must go on
I’ve been teaching at a hagwon for 9 months, I usually teach adults 1-1 (F6) and this is my first hagwon job. I’ve heard the horror stories and only took it because a friend of mine vouched for it.
Today, I suddenly had a terrible headache but thought I could get through the day. Then I started to feel I was going to faint, lips went numb, foot, arms had pins and needles, body shaking, teeth chattering, felt nauseous. Had no clue what had come over me. I told my boss before my next class and went to the bathroom as I thought I’d throw up. She gave me medicine (소화제) but said I had to do the next hour long class as nobody could cover for me.
I tried but kept getting worse so asked my husband to pick me up and take me to A&E with about ten minutes left of my shift. Then my chest/heart was hurting which happens sometimes, and I was worried as I was hospitalised for pneumonia for two weeks last year.
I had bloods, xray, eeg, they gave me vitamins and medicine through an IV and told me to sleep. A couple hours later, much better.
The doctor said my test results came back normal so it was likely stress-related. Is that possible?
I’m also wondering if, should I be worried if my boss is forcing me to work even if I’m so sick? Any thoughts about either of these things are welcome, I’m a bit of a newb to all this, come from the UK where I never experienced all this before.