The Day I had an " HEART ATTACK "

This happened when I was in DR Congo, Central Africa. I was part of the UN peace-keeping mission there. I don’t remember the exact date, but it was sometime in May 2005. I had recently celebrated my birthday. It was one morning, when I skipped breakfast has I was getting late to work. I was in a mad morning rush and just had a glass of apple juice (packaged variety).
All was fine and I was going through my normal work, when at around 10 am I felt this heaviness in chest, right above my heart. It was not a pain, but it felt as if something heavy was placed on my heart. I tried to suppress the uneasiness, but could not understand, as to what was happening. I asked my boss for relief from my duty and went to my room. I tried to sleep and rest, but the heaviness never seemed to leave. I could not eat my lunch properly, in fact I was not able to eat a bit. It is then, when I realized that something serious was happening to me. Since it was the heart, I believed it must be something really bad. I wanted to talk to someone, but to whom I did not know. My roommate was fast asleep, enjoying his afternoon siesta. I was lying down on the bed, trying to tell myself, that I am fine. My HEART wanted to believe that all was fine, but the uneasiness did not permit such a thought. All kind of thoughts passed through my mind. I was certain, my DEATH was eminent. There I was in an alien land, far away from my home, my family and my new born child. Suddenly I felt like talking to all of them. I checked the balance in my phone. I had 10 dollars worth talk-time. I called up my mom, dad, my friend, my sister and finally my wife. I even talked to my 1 year old son, who could hardly speak. But I wanted to listen to his blabbering. All were surprised at me calling them, at that time of the day. I did not give any reason, just said that I felt like talking to them. The calls stopped, only when the balance exhausted. By now I was pretty sure that it was an “HEART ATTACK” and that these were my last few hours on earth.
At around 4pm, my roommate got up. I told him about my problem. He suggested I go to the medical room. I did, but that did not help, as I was not able to explain my predicament. The nurse suggested I take a stroll in open air. But I was not convinced. This went on till 7pm. I was waiting for the moment, when I would collapse and that’s it. Somehow it was not happening. Then my boss barged into my room. He enquired about my condition, I told him the sequence of events . He listened and at the end told me in his typical Tamil baritone, “ GO SPEND TIME IN THE TOILET”. I was like,” WHAT?????’’. He said, “ I am serious, go and sit, even if u don’t feel like”. Saying this, he went away. I gave it a thought, and decided to give it a try. What happened inside? need not be told here. But I came out bit relieved. Miraculously, I was feeling much better. I was thinking about it, when my Boss came in again with a packet of ENO antacid. He asked me about my condition, I told him, that I felt better. He gave this big laugh and said “it was just GAS man, and here have this Eno”. I dissolved the packet of antacid and drank it, and “burppppp burpp burp”, out went my HEART ATTACK.