An Unwanted Vacation
Thursday morning, around 4AM, I showed up at the hospital with a bloody face, looking generally disheveled. They ended up admitting me to the already full hospital, which meant I had to lay around ER until almost 2PM. It was a particularly icy morning, so I got to see a some of people come in with broken hips and some bad cases of whiplash.
It all started Wednesday afternoon. I felt a growing pain in my back, and it only seemed to get worse as the day went on. I put it down to some exercises I had done, evidently incorrectly. I didn’t eat much that day, not because I wasn’t hungry, but because I was overwhelmed by the number of calories in Dunkin’ Donuts’ Glazed Cake Donut (350!).
I went to bed feeling vaguely uneasy, but put it down to the (slight) hunger and back pain.I woke up around 3:30AM and went to the bathroom. A little nausea set in as I started to make my way back to my bedroom and …
BOOM!
… the next thing I remember is laying in the doorway of my five-year-old’s bedroom yelling about some pain while my daughter screamed “Daddy! Are you okay?!?” I can’t figure out how I got there except that I must have fallen on the banister when I fainted and fallen away from my doorway and the stairway down.
Did you know your blood pressure drops dramatically with the onset of nausea? I didn’t till yesterday. There wasn’t much danger of me vomiting, but lack of food and perhaps a little dehydration caused me to faint when the nausea set in.
Anyway, that’s where I’ve been and why I haven’t replied to any of the great comments half of the people reading this weblog left on that post I made a few hours before The Fall.
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dvfmama tells me I need to stop obsessing about food. The kids are starting to count calories!
It all started Wednesday afternoon. I felt a growing pain in my back, and it only seemed to get worse as the day went on. I put it down to some exercises I had done, evidently incorrectly. I didn’t eat much that day, not because I wasn’t hungry, but because I was overwhelmed by the number of calories in Dunkin’ Donuts’ Glazed Cake Donut (350!).
I went to bed feeling vaguely uneasy, but put it down to the (slight) hunger and back pain.I woke up around 3:30AM and went to the bathroom. A little nausea set in as I started to make my way back to my bedroom and …
BOOM!
… the next thing I remember is laying in the doorway of my five-year-old’s bedroom yelling about some pain while my daughter screamed “Daddy! Are you okay?!?” I can’t figure out how I got there except that I must have fallen on the banister when I fainted and fallen away from my doorway and the stairway down.
Did you know your blood pressure drops dramatically with the onset of nausea? I didn’t till yesterday. There wasn’t much danger of me vomiting, but lack of food and perhaps a little dehydration caused me to faint when the nausea set in.
Anyway, that’s where I’ve been and why I haven’t replied to any of the great comments half of the people reading this weblog left on that post I made a few hours before The Fall.
dvfmama tells me I need to stop obsessing about food. The kids are starting to count calories!