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[pauraque_bk]

So today I felt basically fine, and then as I was ringing up a customer I started to feel dizzy. This went extremely quickly from "I feel dizzy" to "I better sit down after this customer" to "I am rapidly losing consciousness".

I made it to Boss's office and said I needed to sit down or something to that effect, and sat at her desk with my head between my knees for about 15 minutes while she ran out and picked up the line of people that I had abandoned.

I was probably seconds away from blacking out, I couldn't see a thing, my ears were ringing, and I could not sit up. It's a good thing I didn't actually go out cold, because then I imagine Boss would have called 911 and the day would have gotten a lot more interesting. And my bank account too.

When I was able to get up again Boss made me go eat some ginger snaps, which seemed to make me all better... Except that I had already eaten as much as I normally do, so I wasn't having low blood sugar or something. (Coincidentally Boss suffers from panic attacks during which she faints, so she took it very much in stride, perhaps imagining that everyone faints a lot. I don't!)

I guess almost fainting isn't as impressive as really fainting, but it certainly frightened the shit out of me.

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[pauraque]

You may have something there. On doctor's orders I drink minimally because high fluid intake worsens my bladder condition. Obviously I don't try to become dehydrated but since my fluid intake is already low, it's very possible.