Fainted

Fainted.  Today sucked. I was up all night with Laila grumbling about how no one wanted to go out and live a little while we sat in bed and did nothing all night.  The next morning we had a skin clinical tutorial where we see over 20 patients with different skin diseases.  We woke up late, as it was the 8^th day of the week we had to be up early and missed our bus to the clinic so we walked the 1.5 miles there (waiting for the next bus would have taken longer). We arrived just in the nick of time and were thrust into a group of my peers some of which I knew.  Our first rotation was in the break room where we enjoyed pastries, water, and coffee.  Then we went to our first patient who had alopecia universalis (baldness all over their body).  It was a very interesting case and even though we only had 5 minutes we were able to ask plenty of questions.  The second patient was their with their mother and we all crowded into this tiny exam room (all 13 of us).  I was at the far end and as we got started I knew something was wrong.  The room felt incredibly hot and I could feel the blood draining from my face.  I thought to myself “5 minutes, only 5 minutes and we can get out of this hot room”.  I leaned back hard into a counter and braced myself as best as I could.  It was like I started to dream and then I awoke to standing in the middle of the room with everyone’s hands on me.  I dazedly looked around and asked what was going on.  “You fell over” was the reply.  I couldn’t believe it.  They sat me down and lifted my legs while the dermatologist asked, “Was it something you saw?” Ya, sure, it was the scared skin that sent me over the edge… Luckily the only thing I hurt was my pride, which didn’t get any better as I laid out in the hallway and every 5 minutes a group of my peers past by on their way to another patient and inquired as to why I was there. I finished out my rotation still a bit light headed and everyone joked with me, which made the embarrassment tolerable.  Though I worry about surgery and standing for long periods of time… We’ll see how this will turn out.  Now I am on a bus up to Bellingham to see my sister, brother, and nieces.  It’s going to be a lonnnnggg week.  Until next time….