I had a little bit of an adventure today while waiting in line to pay for my groceries. It went like this:
I was standing in line waiting to have my groceries scanned and I noticed the lady in front of me in line. She was one of those women who looked entirely perfectly put together, with not a hair out of place. She had extremely expensive shoes on, was wearing a beautiful outfit (not to dressy...perfect for going out to get groceries), a huge diamond ring, and to finish it all off, had a VERY cute little boy in her cart. All of these things I had to take note of quickly, for as I was standing there, I was hit with another one of these fun 'low blood pressure' episodes. This was the worst one yet. I started to feel the beginnings of the passing out hints...you know...dizziness, sudden perspiration, blackness in the corners of your vision...
So trying to look equally as put together as the lady in front of me, I tried as nonchalontly as I could to just leeean forward on my cart and...look like I'm patiently waiting. Now what's going on at the till is that another till has a new cashier on it so our cashier has left to help her and we are not moving. So all hopes of paying and dashing back to the car are gone. The leaning is not helping. Blackness is closing in. I send up a quick prayer: "PLEASE God...not now. oh please". The lady looks back at me and gives me a funny look. I probably look like a train wreck. I feel like one. Usually what I do if I'm going to pass out is I put my head between my knees. I look around...nope, no option to try that. Not even to bend over because there's some weird guy behind me and I'm certainly not going to bend over in front of him! So...I pretend there is something extremely interesting at the bottom of my purse and lean over as far as I possible can into the depths of my large bag, WILLING away this episode. The perspiration begins to fade. The cashier comes back. Perfect lady ahead of me finishes up, and I force myself upwards and onwards, manage to bag my own groceries (thanks a lot, Extra Foods...you make my life miserable now that I have to bag my own stuff) and get the hey out of there. Crisis averted.
Phew.
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Oh my word Jos, I had that with Cass! Sudden unexplainable low blood pressure. The first time it hit me, we were at my parents church. I was standing, singing the hymns and I started to get all clammy, then lightheaded, then darkness at the corners of my vision. It was scary. I stayed standing til the song was done, they sat with my head on the pew in front of me for the rest of the service. It would happen at least every other day til she was born. Almost three months. Just in the morning though. One time it happened while I was at my doctor and she hooked me up to the pressure cuff. My pressure dropped down to 90 over 50! BAD. But then it climbed up again. My doc wasn't really worried. I was. I don't remember what she had me do. I do remember, it was not an issue with Caed.
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