NCT's Baby Boy| 24th member ~ Lai Yu-han

Asthma attack

I left the the dorm two hours earlier than the other members. I headed to the dance studio and placed my bag down. I stretched for a good ten minutes and began going over the dances for our upcoming debut. While I was dancing I felt a little pain in my lungs. I shook it off as if it was a minor problem.

The pain increased in my lungs, by the time I was done going over one section of Take Off. I tried to push through the pain, because I didn't want to hold anybody back or mess up for the debut stage. After I finished going over the choreography, I went over to the corner of the room to focus on my verses.

The pain and tightness in my lungs and chest went away for a little bit. I thought everything was fine, until the tightness and intense feeling of pain came back stronger than ever. I decided to drink some water to maybe ease the pain. I took a small sip and regretted it almost immediately.

The tightness in my chest felt like my airways were closing in. Once again I ignored the pain the weird feeling and went back to going over the lyrics. I heard the door open, and I saw YangYang entering the room first with Ten. I waved at YangYang and he waved back.

Xiaojun came over towards me and engulfed me into a hug. I tried to gently escape his grasp since the pain was worsening. He asked me, "Baby, Yu-Yu are you okay?" I nodded my head not telling the truth. I got out of my system, "I went over the choreography and cleaned it up a bit. I also went over some of the verses for the chorus and ending."

"Well that's amazing. I can't wait to see the improved choreography." I nodded my head and smiled at him. I walked up to Hendery and chatted with him a bit. I asked him, "Do you think we'll have a successful debut?"

He looked down at me. He took a minute to answer, "Of course! I think that if we do well and work together as a group, we'll do amazing and have no doubt about our success." He hugged me, "Hey! Don't worry about failing because I know that we'll succeed. Now smile for me!"

I smiled up at him. I had to crank my neck just to meet his eyes. Twenty minutes later, The members and I have been stretching for the past twenty minutes, and I think we're ready to go over the chorgerophy. Kun asked, "Are you guys ready?"

I nodded my head alongside Ten and WinWin.
WinWin turned on the speaker, and then we started going over the choreography. I was doing fine the first three rounds of the choreography, but then the pain from earlier came back like a minion stuck in a coconut.

It was getting kinda hard to breathe as we continued to dance. Lucas shouted, "FIVE MINUTE WATER BREAK!" I nearly jumped at his shouting. I walked over and held my chest, trying to to make it not too noticeable that I was in pain. I tried to open the water bottle. Once I got the bottle opened, I tried to take a sip.

As soon as I took a sip, my airways started closing up a bit. I tried to not freak out as my lungs were also starting to cave into my airways. Lucas shouted again, "BACK TO THE CHOREOGRAPHY!" I slowly walked back over to my position and got ready for the music. I tried to not swallow my saliva, because if I swallow anymore I might not get any air or oxygen into my system.

I somehow convinced myself that I would be fine. We started on our fourth rerun, the pain was manageable for a little while, but then it got worse as my airways were starting to close up fully.

At this point I felt like I couldn't breathe, my lungs were hurting, and the tightness in my chest was getting even tighter than before. I couldn't breathe anymore which caused me to run over to the corner of the room, while holding my chest.