Please pardon my short absence. The past week has been extremely busy, as well as having been an emotional rollercoaster. There are lots of things that happen in my life that I don't discuss here, for various reasons. Right now I’m feeling a little overwhelmed, and this page, along with some other important things in my life, was shunted aside as a result.

I had a very odd incident Saturday morning. I was on my way to the beach as usual, and decided to stop to get a smoothie from Jamba Juice. All was well as I parked the car and ordered my drink. Right after I walked out the door, though, the world slid suddenly and violently to the left, and I ended up on the ground. It wasn’t a matter of "oh, I feel a little dizzy, maybe I should sit down somewhere," but a matter of "BAM! I’m on the ground, how the hell did I get here?" I am positive that I didn’t trip on anything, as there was nothing there to trip on and I didn’t stub my toes at all, and I very definitely remember everything sliding to the left. I don’t remember feeling a weakness in my legs or anything, either. I didn’t black out, either.

Some very nice people in the parking lot made sure I was OK, and I sat shakily in the car for a good 15 minutes before I felt sure that I was going to be OK to drive. By afternoon I had gotten over my fear of sudden death, but was still a bit looped by it. My mom extracted a promise that I would go immediately to the emergency room if anything even remotely similar happened again.

I want to think that my weird incident is simply the result of not having eaten very much the previous two days, although I didn’t by any stretch of the imagination starve myself or anything. And, as I said, it was all of a sudden, not that weak-with-hunger feeling. I moved up my Thursday doctor’s appointment to tomorrow. We’ll see what she has to say.
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