yesterday there was an “incident”… i had gone busking with hobbit at the madrona park farmers’ market. we played for a couple of hours, and then i had given hobbit a ride back to his place. i was feeling a bit light-headed when we arrived, but i hadn’t drunk anything since before we started busking, and i had spent an hour or so, standing in the sun (it was actually quite enjoyable) waiting for hobbit to arrive, so i figured i’d get a drink of water and everything would be fine… but then hobbit and i got to talking, and we smoked some cannabis, and i forgot about getting a drink. i was talking about something, and passed out.
the thing that was weird about it was that i had the feeling that something was wrong with my brain, five minutes or so before i actually passed out, but it didn’t register until afterward.
there’s a possibility that it was PTE, because this has happened to me in the past, and i have experienced a TBI… and there are a lot of things that i have read about absence seizures that match what happened to me, but they happen infrequently and unpredictably enough that i doubt there would be any way of telling without spending huge quantites of money for medical tests.
needless to say, i drank water, and stopped on my way home to get something sweet (in case my blood sugar was low), and i made it home okay. i went to bed around 9:00 and slept really soundly, but i’m still really tired today.
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kinda scary, glad it turned out fine. i guess it’s just a reminder to tend to your basic physical needs, i.e. hydration, etc. when you feel fine, so you don’t get around to not feeling fine.
as with my original injury, it was probably more scary for the other person than it was for me… i tend to look at that sort of thing as weird and interesting…
and i wasn’t feeling bad, i was feeling a little dehydrated and a little light-headed, but i didn’t feel like there was something immediately wrong.
i wonder if it would have happened if i had gotten something to drink before we left the farmers’ market…
right, well i wonder that, too. and there’s no way of knowing now, but best to be on the safe side in future, i guess.
yeah, i guess a water bottle is going to have to be added to my busking kit…