stupid shots
This morning at 4:30 as I woke up I felt really tired. So I went back to sleep and extended my streak of missed practices to a week!
And then I went for my physical and shots appointment at the doctor. The physical was dumb as always. I hate having to "turn your head and cough." And then came the fun part! Shots! I had to get a tetnus one and then a meningitis shot. After that she had me lay down and they did the TB test where they do something to your forearm so that there's a bump there and if it changes colors in the next two days it means you're screwed. So a few minutes later as my mom was paying, I felt really dizzy. "Hey mom... I feel kinda dizzy." "Oh crap...."
Soon I was sitting down and my mom was calling a nurse. Then I fainted. It was a pretty good faint for me, I remember having an awesome dream, and when I woke up I looked up and saw 6 doctors/nurses staring back at me. My mom said my lips had turned yellow and I had been making weird noises like I was falling into a coma. So I lay there in the middle of the doctors office for a long time and finally they moved me to a bed where I slept around while they kept taking my blood pressure. I guess the moral of this story is that getting a TB test sucks, because there's a good chance you'll pass out from it.
And the crappy thing is my mom wouldn't let me drive home so now I have no car and my mom wants me to start getting 8 hours of sleep which isn't such a bad thing because my head still hurts and maybe now I can take a day off coaching :) .
And then I went for my physical and shots appointment at the doctor. The physical was dumb as always. I hate having to "turn your head and cough." And then came the fun part! Shots! I had to get a tetnus one and then a meningitis shot. After that she had me lay down and they did the TB test where they do something to your forearm so that there's a bump there and if it changes colors in the next two days it means you're screwed. So a few minutes later as my mom was paying, I felt really dizzy. "Hey mom... I feel kinda dizzy." "Oh crap...."
Soon I was sitting down and my mom was calling a nurse. Then I fainted. It was a pretty good faint for me, I remember having an awesome dream, and when I woke up I looked up and saw 6 doctors/nurses staring back at me. My mom said my lips had turned yellow and I had been making weird noises like I was falling into a coma. So I lay there in the middle of the doctors office for a long time and finally they moved me to a bed where I slept around while they kept taking my blood pressure. I guess the moral of this story is that getting a TB test sucks, because there's a good chance you'll pass out from it.
And the crappy thing is my mom wouldn't let me drive home so now I have no car and my mom wants me to start getting 8 hours of sleep which isn't such a bad thing because my head still hurts and maybe now I can take a day off coaching :) .