- Aug 30, 2001
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I had just turned my computer off and was getting ready to go to bed for the night. As my PC powered off, I took one last pull from my beer and finished it. I stood up and took the bottle to the kitchen and set it on the counter. I then went straight to the bathroom to brush my teeth. Right when I got there I looked at myself in the mirror and started feeling a weird sensation in my stomach. I thought "hmm, that's a weird, unfamiliar feeling..." and then my head started to buzz a little bit and I got very light-headed, very quickly. I thought "OK let's go lay down" and walked out of the bathroom to my bedroom. In this very short time (maybe 2 seconds) between leaving the bathroom and getting to my bedroom it hit me very fast. I felt frantic as I reached my hand around the corner of my bedroom doorframe to turn on the light. As I grabbed the lightswitch, I remember thinking it felt oddly unfamiliar, like that's not how a lightswitch is supposed to feel.
The next thing I remember is waking up face down with a basket of clean laundry on top of me, and a throbbing pain on the right side of my face. I rolled over onto my back and propped my head up because that's what they always do to fighters when they get KO'd. My last conscious thought had been "what happened to this lightswitch?" My first conscious thought after I woke up was "holy shit I didn't even make it to my bed."
As I tried to turn my light on I passed out and fell face first into a clean basket of laundry I had set there earlier in the day. I'm pretty sure my face hit the edge of the basket, flipping it up and eventually on top of me as my body replaced the spot where it was. I came to instantly. In fact I think the noise of me crashing into the laundry basket is what woke me up. I laid there for about 10 minutes, mainly to let myself recuperate, but also because I was scared to try to stand up again. Eventually I did and my legs felt weak, like jello, but they worked. I walked around my apartment a couple times and felt fairly ok. After spending a half hour or so chilling on the couch, I finally went to bed.
I feel normal today, but very confused. Why did this happen? I did nothing out of the ordinary yesterday, ate nothing out of the ordinary. I did go on a decent walk earlier in the day, maybe 4 miles, but that's nothing unusual for me. I didn't drink a whole lot of water yesterday but again it's not out of the ordinary. Very confusing. My first thought was possibly bad sugar levels? There IS a small history of Diabetes in my family, although I just had a physical a month ago with lots of blood work done as well and everything came back fine.
And finally, in a completely ironic twist, the first thing I noticed when I rolled off of my face and onto my back and looked up after fainting was my heavy bag stand I have in my bedroom that's made by a company called "Technical Knockout" with stickers of those words all over it.
The next thing I remember is waking up face down with a basket of clean laundry on top of me, and a throbbing pain on the right side of my face. I rolled over onto my back and propped my head up because that's what they always do to fighters when they get KO'd. My last conscious thought had been "what happened to this lightswitch?" My first conscious thought after I woke up was "holy shit I didn't even make it to my bed."
As I tried to turn my light on I passed out and fell face first into a clean basket of laundry I had set there earlier in the day. I'm pretty sure my face hit the edge of the basket, flipping it up and eventually on top of me as my body replaced the spot where it was. I came to instantly. In fact I think the noise of me crashing into the laundry basket is what woke me up. I laid there for about 10 minutes, mainly to let myself recuperate, but also because I was scared to try to stand up again. Eventually I did and my legs felt weak, like jello, but they worked. I walked around my apartment a couple times and felt fairly ok. After spending a half hour or so chilling on the couch, I finally went to bed.
I feel normal today, but very confused. Why did this happen? I did nothing out of the ordinary yesterday, ate nothing out of the ordinary. I did go on a decent walk earlier in the day, maybe 4 miles, but that's nothing unusual for me. I didn't drink a whole lot of water yesterday but again it's not out of the ordinary. Very confusing. My first thought was possibly bad sugar levels? There IS a small history of Diabetes in my family, although I just had a physical a month ago with lots of blood work done as well and everything came back fine.
And finally, in a completely ironic twist, the first thing I noticed when I rolled off of my face and onto my back and looked up after fainting was my heavy bag stand I have in my bedroom that's made by a company called "Technical Knockout" with stickers of those words all over it.
! Gashed my head open (not badly)
