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Web MD is pretty much Satan.

I woke up this morning at around 4:30 after having a series of really freaky awake-dreams. You know the kind of dreams where you're not actually asleep but still drowsy enough to sort of hallucinate that things are happening to you? No? Well, anyway.... I woke up and decided to go upstairs to try to get back to sleep. When I got up and started walking, I felt an immediate rush of intense dizziness and I could hardly stand let alone walk. In my stupor, I decided that perhaps it had something to do with low blood sugar or something like that, so I went into the kitchen and ate a banana before heading back to bed.

In the morning, I woke up to find that the dizziness had not subsided. Being the insane hypochondriac that I am, I immediately went on Web MD and concluded that it must either be Type 2 Diabetes or carbon monoxide poisoning. The second option seemed more probable and, with the potential swift and silent death, somewhat more exciting. Pretty certain that I would die if I stayed inside of my house, I called my father to ask for advice.

"Do we have a carbon monoxide detector?? I think I'm dying."

My father suggested that I get dressed and walk over to his apartment. My body felt way too tired to put any effort into putting on clothes and walking outside, but I felt like it might be the carbon monoxide talking. Instead, I went up to my mother's room (which is far away from what I deemed to be the carbon monoxide's source) and sat in her bed with my head out of an open window.

Eventually, my mother came home and I decided that it might be a good idea to take a shower and get dressed while she was home, just in case I passed out or became asphyxiated while in the bathroom. Because I only have two days left before I head back to Brooklyn, my mother wanted to take me to her classes before she and I went back-to-school/apartment shopping. Right now, I'm sitting in the library at UB while my mother is busy becoming Dr. Mom a few buildings over. The dizziness is still here and I'm a little bit freaked out by that. I probably just have a cold or something (after all, carbon monoxide poisoning symptoms are pretty much the same as cold/flu symptoms). But, still. I would probably feel much better if we had a carbon monoxide detector at home. Or even a smoke detector that had batteries in it.

January 14, 2009 at 02:01 PM

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