No I was not in bed at the time. That would not be interesting at all. No, I was in fact sitting at my desk where I work and the sun would have been high in the sky. If you are anything like me, when you are overwhelmed by work you tend to skip drinking water and maybe give lunch a miss altogether.
Well it was just another normal day at the office. I tried to get up and felt my vision fading to black. For whatever reason i realized I was lacking in fluids and instintively knew I had to get to the kitchenette (which happened to be my closest watering hole). The difficulty of acheiving that task increases substantially when you are practically blind. Somewhere between getting there and NOT drinking water I passed out and don't remember much else until I woke up.
Apparently I made a loud enough bang when my head hit the bench that colleagues became curious and came by to see what was going on. Now the first thing someone tried to do was get me onto my feet. BAD move!! I blacked out again. Take two. This time when I came to I decided to stay put on the floor for a while. Eventually an ambulance arrived and proceeded to take me to hospital. A hospital worker thought he had seen me somewhere before but I didn't think so. Probably just a case of de ja vu. To cut a short story even shorter they figured out that lo and behold i was dehydrated and proceeded to place me on a drip. Turns out it is very hard to find a vein when you are dehydrated. Several rather painful attempts later and I was not looking forward to each subsequent attempt. Eventually they found a vein and that was that.
Moral of the story: drink some fluids throughout the day or at least eat foods with high water content such as melons. A little trouble to do this now could save you embarrassment and a free (if you have insurance) trip to the hospital. It could also save your veins a lot of grief!
That's it for this one. Until next time, stay watered!
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