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randomdreams) wrote2017-04-24 09:02 pm
randomdreams) wrote2017-04-24 09:02 pm
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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.
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.
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I hope that you're all right, or can be so shortly.
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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!
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