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[randomdreams]

This morning I got up, hopped in the shower, and fainted.
I faint a lot, but usually what that means is I stand up, get dizzy, grab the wall, and have to sit down for several seconds.
This was a complete blackout, fall through the shower curtain, and stay on the floor for quite a while until N had pulled the curtain off me and started checking for a pulse.
It may be the same low blood pressure problems I've had for years: standing in a really hot shower is the sort of thing that leads to fainting.
Nevertheless I'm going back to the doctor.

Anyway, I took the day off because I had an awful headache. Apparently I hit my head pretty hard.
So I did a bunch of housework, got the new DSL modem FINALLY hooked up and functioning, cut down a bunch of stupid elm trees that keep coming back every year, watered all the plants, walked the dog several kilometers. Not much involving power tools.

Greyhound legs look particularly alien.



I went over to the junkyard to get steel for the deck railing and found some drillbits that were more than two meters long. I kind of want one.


Some newspaper blew into the yard. It's had a long journey.


I set up the foundry and did some more casting, just scrap processing.


In doing so I found the last bits of the Subaru engine block I broke up and mostly melted down years ago.


Whilst organizing the workshop I got out the old glass annealing oven. I recently bought a fancy PID controller for it, that'll replace the kind of scary triac-based control system I built for it many years ago. That's the last step I need for the 3d-print-to-aluminum-casting toolchain.

Comments

[amaebi]

YIKES!

I hope that you're all right, or can be so shortly.

[randomdreams]

I will be. Seemed to do fine today, albeit I had a near-faint during a heavy coughing spell. But it's hard to say if that's just the same as always only a little worse, or if it's something fundamentally different and new.

[amaebi]

*gentle handpat*

[annie_r]

I appreciate that you need to stay busy for your mental health, but what you get accomplished while 'taking a day off' boggles me.

I used to get the shower fainting, but never actually blacked out or hurt myself. I also stopped taking showers immediately upon getting out of bed (animals get taken care of first these days.) Can you install shower bars? or a stool? Not just for old people!

[estro]

I appreciate that you need to stay busy for your mental health, but what you get accomplished while 'taking a day off' boggles me.

This. Specifically your taking a day off due to injury is far more productive than most people's taking a day off to get stuff done (including me).

[randomdreams]

I had so much to do, and it's kind of nice to have at least an assumed limitation of not doing anything potentially dangerous, so then I can focus on stuff that just never gets done because all the potentially dangerous jobs are higher priority.
Like, I pretty much didn't even touch the 'clean up the cut-down apple tree' project, even though I need to asap so I can mow, because it's all chainsaw/chopsaw work, and boy do I not need to be messing with that if I'm dizzy.

[randomdreams]

I am, by the way, quite willing to sit down in the shower. I've had to do it a number of other times I've gotten dizzy. This time, though, I apparently didn't think I needed to.

[myka]

hope your head feels better

[randomdreams]

It did today!

[twoeleven]

I'm strongly in favor of the "not dying" thing, so yeah, having a chat with the doctor seems like a good idea.

[randomdreams]

He's not a particularly assertive doctor, so my past experience has been that I go in, say "this is what happened, these are the conditions, and from that I suspect it's this thing" and he usually says "yeah, that sounds likely" -- but, at least, he does usually do something to confirm it.

[twoeleven]

Maybe he could recommend treatment this time? :P

[ivy]

Yikes, to hitting your head. That sounds dramatically unfun; my sympathies.