"and bad mistakes,I've made a few" tthank you Freddy !
I have never fainted but I do have epilepsy ,so I have been the life of a party only to regain consciousness days or weeks later in a hospital.
My worst experience ever was the summer of 2013 .I took my sleeping pill and went to bed ,I was found" DIB " from having epilepsy I am pretty good at regaining consciousness and acting like I have some idea as to what the hell is going on .
This time I wasn't fooling anyone .An old Neurologist that I was angry with and tired some 10 years prior was telling me "how good I looked" my first thought was he was smoking crack ,my second thought was must be bad dream ,I fired him .as you can imagine I had not yet figured out I wasn't in bed at home anymore .I was in ICU
He said to me when the doctor asks me the day date and all of the normal stuff I will be wrong ,and I thought what are you going to go out and come back.in ? I thought somebody was pranking me .it was anything but a joke as the days went on and I began t speak ,I suddenly found I loved a man who had been angry with and talked alot of trash about.
As the story unfolded he told me he was cutting thru the ER.on the way to see a patient ,and saw me "slid in for resusitation " he said my face was somewhere between cement and purple " but he remembered my face as a former patient so he lingered to "see if I made it" they got me back and I immediately went into a coma "you scared the shit out of me ,we don't know why people go in or if they come out of comas"
He wasn't there as my doctor ,my actual neurologist though I was a vegetable they had not detected brain activity for 3 days ,the guy that I fired and angry with ,insisted that if anybody could "come back " it was me ,I had more fire and drive than any 10 people and decided to make it his mission to be there to welcome me back it was nearly a month between going to bed and coming out of the coma ,and I certainly had no idea what had happened ,a few days before I was discharged when I started making jokes and being more like myself ,he wasn't there anymore whenever I opened my eyes and asked a nurse where he went
She then told me she had neever seem a doctor do this before ,he had to go back to work ,to make money.,he did work at that hospital but had to transfer his patients to other Doctors ,well waiting for me ,he was there as a friend ,he wasn't getting paid ,I wasn't his patient !.
In any event when you lose consciousness its generally a split second when your memory stops and when it starts again site the world seems fuzzy.and we are a bit crappy and confused but as I say i.learned to be pretty chill about things and take nothing for granted because there isn't much difference between seconds and weeks ,I have "woken" up from seizures in minites and sometimes get put into a drug induced coma and find out it's a week later .either way you don't feel any different really .