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so, office conversation spin off - when was the last time you heard of a person fainting?

Posted by Andie (aka Andie) Sep 24 '13, 11:23

does no-one faint anymore?

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fainting happens at weddings often enough, they're out partying the nigh before, they don't normally have breakfast but at the office there's always.. - zeitgeist Sep 24, 12:07
I know some people that have come close, but nothing for many many years. -- nm - JaxSean Sep 24, 12:01
/*faint*/ -- nm - peglegpete Sep 24, 11:58
I fainted in a bar about two years ago. - ty97 Sep 24, 11:45 9
- Jeez. :-( -- nm - Krusty Sep 24, 11:50
- what were you drinking? do you remember? -- nm - Diva Sep 24, 11:50
- And when I woke up... lets just say I could not walk right for a week. -- nm - ty79 Sep 24, 11:49 2
  - and my kidney was missing.... -- nm - Andie Sep 24, 11:50 1
    - and all my ID said my name was Esteban Villarosa. -- nm - Diva Sep 24, 11:52
- yikes. I didn't faint this past Saturday but I felt like I'd been roofied and I swooned. it was quite the mai-tai. - Diva Sep 24, 11:48 3
  - It makes me chuckle that you're out drinking in what feels to me like the middle of the day on a Saturday and Mel is napping - oblique Sep 24, 11:52 2
    - in his defense he had done yard work while I'd been out shopping. -- nm - Diva Sep 24, 11:53 1
      - it was more like 7pm too. - Mel Profit Sep 24, 12:19
passed out in the ER bathroom from blood loss after my colonoscopy around 6 years ago -- nm - Beaker Sep 24, 11:42 11
- Yikes. Hope that colonoscope operator got some more training! -- nm - Dr.Vermin Sep 24, 11:43 10
  - burned off a couple polyps and it didn't carterize right (I had been home for the day and drove myself back) to the ER - WTMI - Beaker Sep 24, 11:50 9
    - How old were you? -- nm - Beryllium Sep 24, 12:02 1
      - 6 years ago or so -- nm - Beaker Sep 24, 12:03
    - This thread is going about as well as expected. Thanks a lot, Andie! -- nm - Roger More Sep 24, 12:00
    - Wow. Anytime you can startle a nurse, you've got a good story! -- nm - Dr.Vermin Sep 24, 11:58
    - augh!! -- nm - Diva Sep 24, 11:55
    - Damn! - Krusty Sep 24, 11:52 3
      - I had been passing blood for most of the day. Once admitted they gace me a gallon of stuff to make me go more - Beaker Sep 24, 12:00 2
        
        I'm glad you went to the ER before something even worse happened to you. -- nm - Krusty Sep 24, 12:04
        
        Katie Couric *never* said it was going to be like this. -- nm - Diva Sep 24, 12:02
I have LBP and come close to fainting relatively often - Reagen Sep 24, 11:41 1
- my wife always gets light headed from this when she stands up too fast -- nm - Beaker Sep 24, 11:42
My daughter fainted in June. She had eaten nothing all day but an icing sandwich for lunch. -- nm - landbeck Sep 24, 11:40 3
- heh. "Icing sandwich." -- nm - Andie Sep 24, 11:40 2
  - Parenting admission; sometimes, I let the kids take care of their own food. Usually, they're pretty balanced! -- nm - landbeck Sep 24, 11:47 1
    - Icing is in a food group. - Krusty Sep 24, 11:48
I used to be the only person I knew who did, but I haven't for years. -- nm - mara Sep 24, 11:39
I found my gf passed out in the bathroom a few months back. - Krusty Sep 24, 11:36 12
- That sounds frightening. - Mel Profit Sep 24, 11:40 5
  - Nope. :-( - Krusty Sep 24, 11:44 4
    - "I'm still cautious about her health and any banging..." -- nm - Spawn Sep 24, 11:46 3
      - Heh. :-) - Krusty Sep 24, 11:47 2
        
        TT/ST absolutely built my Straight Line Filter. -- nm - Mel Profit Sep 24, 11:48
        
        Indeed! -- nm - Spawn Sep 24, 11:48
- Wow. Think I mentioned one of our painters had this happen except she had had a heart episode and had passed. -- nm - Spawn Sep 24, 11:39 1
  - If she wasn't snoring I was calling 911. I went for my phone almost instantly but I then I heard her snore. - Krusty Sep 24, 11:46
- dang. -- nm - Diva Sep 24, 11:39
- Jeebus. -- nm - David Sep 24, 11:38
- that is pretty scary. -- nm - Andie Sep 24, 11:36 1
  - Very much so. -- nm - Krusty Sep 24, 11:38
at my cardio class a young woman passed out for a bit, she was out partying the night before and ate the floor hard 20 minutes in. -- nm - Remlik Sep 24, 11:34
Heat stroke is pretty common here around festival season -- nm - con_carne Sep 24, 11:32
I did when giving blood a few years ago. -- nm - Strongbad Sep 24, 11:29
Brian Fantana. - Mel Profit Sep 24, 11:27
My dad did last week. Busted his ear up hitting furniture on the way down. -- nm - Inigo Sep 24, 11:24 8
- eeesh. low blood pressure, maybe? do they know why? -- nm - Andie Sep 24, 11:26 7
  - They couldn't say, but most likely because he just wasn't eating well. - Inigo Sep 24, 11:32 2
    - Hmm. Hello, clone! That took about two minutes to post. - Inigo Sep 24, 11:34 1
      - I've been noticing a few lag issues. I think it's because of the hosting provider ... - Beryllium Sep 24, 11:41
  - They couldn't say, but most likely because he just wasn't eating well. - Inigo Sep 24, 11:30 2
    - sorry to hear that. -- nm - Andie Sep 24, 11:32 1
      - Thanks. He seems a lot better now. -- nm - Inigo Sep 24, 11:35
  - could have any number of triggers -- (link) - znufrii Sep 24, 11:28

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