re: Have you ever fainted?

I was super sick in college one

It felt like my sinuses were full of concrete. And I just felt like dirt. Could drink couldn't eat couldn't breathe. Horrible fever.

My PCP was closed for the weekend and I said frick it. I went to the ER.

I explained to them that I just felt completely awful and my doc was out of town.

So I'm in this ER bed and the doc is trying to straight stick me to draw some blood. I've never been afraid of needles. But I hadn't drank in two days and looking down at this guy trying to poke my deflated veins and how pale and sullen I looked just made me queasy.

I was like "um. Can you stop.... Just.... Hold on.... Stop........ Uh......" And my vision started turning into sparkley TV static. It was like a curtain coming down over my vision and when it covered my entire field of vision I just fell back in the bed.

When I came to a few seconds later I told the nurse I was going to vomit. And puked my brains out in some bucket they gave me.

Eventually they gave me a steroid pill and my sinuses opened up immediately and I could finally breathe and gave me some antibiotics. Brought me a blanket. Let me nap for a bit. And I left.