Being brutally punished

Being in a very strict Taiwanese family, this is what you get when you make a mistake...
Just kidding. It is what my back looks like right now though...

Well, I got a serious heatstroke yesterday at noon time. I stupidly chose the wrong time to arrive in Taichung by train. When I stepped out of the train station, I could immediately felt the 34C heat surrounding me. I just felt like being trapped by the invisible still heat wave. Even on the motor scooter, the breeze was superheated... The heatstroke later on turned into a fever, which stayed with me for the entire day yesterday. My head felt really heavy and for the first time in my whole stay in Taiwan, I actually didn't feel like eating anything! This is good, after a week filled with like 10 meal plans with various relatives and friends.

I was still feeling rather ill the next day, so my mum somehow tricked me into getting my neck and back scraped using a special marble knife like thing. It's a Chinese remedy for heatstroke. The heat trapped in the body supposedly gets 'scraped out'. It hurt like hell whilst being scraped, especially by the super strong lady who did it to me. It doesn't help being ticklish because when I complained that it tickled she said she would scrape harder so I wouldn't feel the tickle...

My head felt better afterwards, but I wonder if it was the neck and back feeling too painful that overwhelmed the ache in my head...

Please excuse my fatness...