In the silence of your room, in the darkness of your dreams.

[sarah_orange]

Gah. I fainted on the train this morning. That was embarrassing. I could feel it coming on - and kinda knew it was going to happen but the train wasn't moving and there was no space. then the dark started coming in from the sides and I was suddenly wondering why I had my face on an armrest as it wasn't very comfortable. Noises filtered back in and I could hear the other passengers panicing about what to do with me. I let them know I was alive and eventually got up and sat in someone's seat. mad. not done that in years. used to faint a lot when I was a teenager - especially when we had heavy robes in the church choir - it was such a horribly familiar sensation when it started.

Had a hot chocolate and a sit down in Leeds station till I felt a little more human.

Amusingly everyone in the office is suitably freaked out and treating me like I might actually drop dead at some point.

Comments

[wibblefish.livejournal.com]

well if you are bored later on you can go & sleep in medical room & no-one will say anything

[sarah-orange.livejournal.com]

medical room? here? there's not even a comfy chair in the building. maybe I could build a nest in the cardboard skip...

[redjel.livejournal.com]

oooo hope you feel better later, make sure you rest well, eat yummy things.

[sarah-orange.livejournal.com]

I might go for a medicinal kip in a bit :D

[zheers.livejournal.com]

okay, slightly freaky, what causes it? you cant claim to be seking attention, and your not pregnant......?

[sarah-orange.livejournal.com]

think it was overheating and low blood sugar maybe. or I could be one of those fainting goats that were around a few years back.

definitely not pregnant!!

[tawdryfilth.livejournal.com]

Oooh dear!
Stuffy trains and standing for too long are a bad combination!

[sarah-orange.livejournal.com]

that was what freaked me out - I didn't notice the train being stuffy - I'm hoping it was and I was just oblivious!

I reckon everyone'll give me a wide bearth on the train tomorrow - oh the joys of having distinctive hair and doing something embarrassing.

[wibblefish.livejournal.com]

fairly cold out, over here anyway, maybe just difference in temp.

[commieglamboy.livejournal.com]

It's all the excitement from Aston Villa's 2-1 win over Birmingham City yesterday, wasn't it? ;)

Hope you're now feeling better.

[sarah-orange.livejournal.com]

hehe no - although I'm always going to be pleased with a result like that - how did you know I was from the Villa side?

I'm feeling a bit weary. kip time?

[commieglamboy.livejournal.com]

Well I know you're not a racist, which pretty much rules you out of supporting Birmingham ;)

If a kip feels right than kip you must. As i'm wearier than a sleep-deprived chimp I take a very pro-kip stance these days!

[lostlorelei.livejournal.com]

Ooh poor thing, hot chocolate does sound the way forward!

[sarah-orange.livejournal.com]

any excuse to have it works for me :D

[maadlucas.livejournal.com]

tbh there's surely much comedy to be had from simply starting to talk to people at great length, then pause and stare for a bit, then carry on as if nothing had happened, looking at anyone who mentions your pauses with utter disdain as if to say they're utterly bonkers.

Or just randomly fall over or off your chair.

Or when someone is talking to you that you find incredibly boring or just don't want to listen (e.g. a boss) just "faint".

Great excuse for just about anything...

[sarah-orange.livejournal.com]

so you advocate milking it then - hmm...

[maadlucas.livejournal.com]

Hey, it works for boobs.

In more ways than one.

[rfish.livejournal.com]

Keep a pot of this with you at all times. In moments of crisis, just snort a line.

[sarah-orange.livejournal.com]

:D

suspicious brown snot would abound.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_pyromancer_/]

Aha - I see my choice of final track last night worked its magic then? :-)

Eeep, fainting. Scary. Don't think you're a goat, I'm sure I'd have noticed one of those in the club before now. Though with all the sheep, perhaps not...

You could use the fainting on the train to advantage - get a seat every day! Wish I'd thought of that the time Arriva Trains Northern (remember them?) turned out a single unit (dogbox / Class 153) for the 0720 Meadowhall - Leeds one day (booked a 2 car 156). Stood all the way, should have fainted and claimed a pew.

Mum only ever fainted once but always remembered it, described one minute sitting in a hotel lounge on a bar-stool, reading, next minute being flat on the floor surrounded by anxious staff and no-idea what happened in between.

[sarah-orange.livejournal.com]

yeah I've been humming it all day. bah!

[sarah-orange.livejournal.com]

they'd have had to climb over me to get out!

[sarah-orange.livejournal.com]

ta jo! I'm thinking of skipping out of the office a bit early - people keep looking at me funny and saying I look terrible. a cup of tea might be nice actually (although I suspect today is not a good day to glue false eyelashes to me!)

[sarah-orange.livejournal.com]

:D

[sarah-orange.livejournal.com]

apart from I only have nick's number - I'm going to have to chase yours up from someone

[jettblackuk.livejournal.com]

Do u have teh habit of fainting? I have only once had that happen to me and it was badness incarnate...Felt like being dragged into a pool of nothingness and I have no memory of what happened prior to it or after until I came round and I was being a loon trying to get away from the ambulance men....

[sarah-orange.livejournal.com]

I used to do it a fair amount as a teenager but not recently at all - i was only out for a few seconds thankfully.

Girly issues?

[amber-missy.livejournal.com]

I used to pass out as a teenager too - about once a month (since pill jabs and no-periods it stopped)... As you've recently changed your contraception, might be worth checking with the docs (especially if it happens again)...?

Re: Girly issues?

[sarah-orange.livejournal.com]

nope - had a coil in for months now so my life is utterly bereft of girl problems at the mo :)

Re: Girly issues?

[amber-missy.livejournal.com]

Has it really been months... Seems like it was only a few weeks ago! My memory is rubbish!

Hope it doesn't happen again anytime soon! *hugs*

[tier-park.livejournal.com]

but the train wasn't moving and there was no space.

I take it was a Nothing rail train. If so, maybe put in a complaint about how their inability to obtain new rolling stock is causing passengers to faint on their overcrowded trains!

Or if not you, the passengers who daily use the service.

http://www.northernrail.org/passenger/contactus

[fraoch.livejournal.com]

That's weird - a colleague of mine fainted in her kitchen this morning. Maybe there's something in the water?

[smoke-rising.livejournal.com]

Blimey. Hope you're okay.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_insecure_/]

eek... that's a bit worrying... hope it's just a one-off thing