Friday, January 06, 2006

the passout game

yesterday I fainted when I woke up to get ready for work.
I woke up because some folks that used to live in my room are in town visiting and I heard them so I decided to get up. They are named Kasia and Stephen.

I went into the bathroom and went #1. As soon as I was finished, I felt like vomiting and my head became very light indeed.

Judging by how quickly the feeling was rushing upon me, I decided I was definitely about to pass out and started making my way to go the ground, as I was doing so I sorta tried to raise my voice and called for help --

-- and then I was in this sort of dream for 10 minutes
-- and then I was no where, and I couldn't figure out where I was, and there was no body and nobody to grab onto.
-- and then I woke up on the floor and Steven was above me, I asked for some help and mentioned something about being on the floor for a really long time.

Turns out I had passed out for about a minute or so, and I had opened the door before I made it to the floor. I woke up and Stephen was looking down at me on the floor and I told him I passed out and asked for help up. It was pretty interesting, because this is how we met. They are good folks and they encouraged me to go to the ER and so we did and it turns out passing out is normal or some jazz. I still felt ill afterwards and so I stayed home. I still feel kinda ill, but I've been drinking liquids and stuff.

I would like to clarify what I meant by my description of the moment where I had no body and nobody to grab onto.
Suddenly I found I was no where, I didn't know where I was, and I couldn't move because there was no body to move. This scared the shit out of me because I didn't know where I was, but I also was not sure who I was, but I knew I must be someone so I had better get that back asap, I needed some reassurance. There was a very huge effort made and then I think I may have started waking up.

Rewind. So before this moment of despair, I believe I had just realized that I was indeed not where I thought I was, and the fear that set in afterwards may have rendered me totally ignorant to my current circumstances. Which means I forgot, and then became afraid until I had a chance to be calm that things were going to be okay anyway.

I do believe at one point I thought I was dead.