Help! I've fallen and I can't get up!
Sep. 2nd, 2010 12:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fuzzybluemonkeys
Okay, so you know how sometimes you stand up too fast, and you get all dizzy/light-headed (and for me my vision goes out for a few seconds)?
Well, this morning I went from crouching by the litter box, and made it as far as (only a few steps really) the kitchen where I had left the twisty tie, and then turned around to head back when the vision blackout hits. Normally, I just stand still for a bit until the dizziness passes and move on. But today, I guess since I was already sort of in motion (I'm gonna blame it on that lest I be forced to blame it on something medical/health-related and start freaking out), I lost balance and fell, landing on the cat carrier, which was a good thing because it broke my fall, but also a bad thing because there was an empty cookie tin on top of it, and I slammed into that which slammed into the wall, thus denting it (the wall not the tin).
I'd say this was an indication of how hard I fell, but it's more likely an indication of how crappy the drywall/whateverthehell is (like, seriously, it looked like cardboard).
So now, my lower back/butt feels like it has a purple* tin-sized ring of bruising on it. And at the time I just got up and kept going in get-ready-for-work-autopilot mode, but it occurs to me now that maybe I should have waited a bit and made sure I wasn't going to fall over again or something.
*I haven't checked the actual color, but suffice to say, it does not feel nice.
And to top it all off, I scared the crap out of poor Bootsie, who was still trembling in his hiding place between the headboard and the wall when I left.
Sigh.
Well, this morning I went from crouching by the litter box, and made it as far as (only a few steps really) the kitchen where I had left the twisty tie, and then turned around to head back when the vision blackout hits. Normally, I just stand still for a bit until the dizziness passes and move on. But today, I guess since I was already sort of in motion (I'm gonna blame it on that lest I be forced to blame it on something medical/health-related and start freaking out), I lost balance and fell, landing on the cat carrier, which was a good thing because it broke my fall, but also a bad thing because there was an empty cookie tin on top of it, and I slammed into that which slammed into the wall, thus denting it (the wall not the tin).
I'd say this was an indication of how hard I fell, but it's more likely an indication of how crappy the drywall/whateverthehell is (like, seriously, it looked like cardboard).
So now, my lower back/butt feels like it has a purple* tin-sized ring of bruising on it. And at the time I just got up and kept going in get-ready-for-work-autopilot mode, but it occurs to me now that maybe I should have waited a bit and made sure I wasn't going to fall over again or something.
*I haven't checked the actual color, but suffice to say, it does not feel nice.
And to top it all off, I scared the crap out of poor Bootsie, who was still trembling in his hiding place between the headboard and the wall when I left.
Sigh.
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Date: 2010-09-05 10:24 pm (UTC)If it's orthostatic intolerance, you don't normally have bp problems, but periodically your body goes "limp" when you stand up.
With the vision side effect it sounds like mine - the hypotension (medical speak for low blood pressure) and either way it isn't a medical thing to freak out over. Most my doctors have ever said to me was, "Yeah, your bp wouldn't rise fast enough - get up slowly." And I've passed out and had EMTs freaked.
Basically, it's a risk anytime your head, neck and shoulders ALL lean forward or back (prone). If it's bad enough where your face gets that sticky hot feeling and you feel queasy - put your head down. I go to a full out faint because my bp goes VERY low, so it helps me to not only lay on my back, but to put my feet up.
The basic idea is that Gravity is a Bitch. Let her win. And put the head even or below the heart.
Drywall *is* cardboard, silly fuzzy. That's why homes kinda dissolve in floods.
*hugs*
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Date: 2010-09-05 11:27 pm (UTC)Drywall *is* cardboard, silly fuzzy.
*sputters* But.. but...
Okay there is part of me that just rebels against the notion that my walls are made of cardboard. Then again, I have a step stool that I made out of matt board scraps (ostensibly for my cat, but it totally holds my weight), so cardboard can be pretty sturdy.
Help! I've fallen and I can't get up!
Date: 2010-09-02 04:38 pm (UTC)Re: Help! I've fallen and I can't get up!
Date: 2010-09-02 09:51 pm (UTC)I've been okay consciousness-wise so far, my butt just hurts from where it hit the tin.
Re: Help! I've fallen and I can't get up!
Date: 2010-09-02 10:21 pm (UTC)Re: Help! I've fallen and I can't get up!
Date: 2010-09-03 01:06 am (UTC)also if the wall is that flimsy you should not have to pay i mean its not like you hit it with a sledge hammer you fainted and it caused damage thats acidental wich should be covered
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Date: 2010-09-03 01:51 am (UTC)