Content warning: injury including burn

About a week and a half ago, I experienced a syncope (I fainted) and hit the floor with my face. Having experienced both, I do not recommend either. I also don’t recommend fainting while you’re making popcorn in a Whirley Pop, although I do recommend the Whirley Pop in general. Just not, you know, to burn your arm against.

It’s a little alarming to be told by the emergency room staff that yeah, syncopes just happen sometimes, it might be nothing, but it could be something, get checked out if it happens again. I also happen to find myself out of a regular day job this week, and so potentially without insurance soon, although that’s another story for another day.

This is not meant to alarm anybody who might be reading it. I’m all right, and I seem to have recovered from what turned out to be a mild concussion, a number of aches and pains, and a hell of a gash in my chin. Busting my chin at least got me my first-ever stich (wisdom teeth sutures aside), and I got to hold the flashlight while an Urgent Care doctor removed it from the depths of my beard. The burn progresses steadily.

There’s not really a moral to this. If you feel lightheaded, sit down? Especially if you’re at the stove, and even if you’ve never fainted before? Shame the kitchen is too small for a fainting couch.