Blind-sided

Have you ever had the wind knocked out of you?   Had the sudden and unexpected instantly deflate you?  Make it so that breathing is hard and painful?  Feel like you can't breathe, can't move?

Sometimes that's the way the pain comes.  Nothing gradual about it.  No warning.  Just a bright red dodge ball caught in the stomach during gym class.  Whipping your head so fast you don't know what hit you. One minute you are good and the next - BAM.  And, as I've said before, you'd do just about anything to get rid of it.

Pain, that jack of all trades, is pretty darn good at blind-siding it's victims.