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[turps]

It was an interesting day yesterday.

I'd gone to a safari park in the lake district with James, Kayleigh and Shauna. Had a nice day, walked lots, enjoyed seeing the animals. Fed a giraffe, which was awesome, was lining up to feed the lemurs, and went all funny. I can't actually remember anything after that for a few minutes as apparently, I went into a gradual faint. Staggering away saying I needed to lean against the wall, got led toward a seat by Kayleigh, ploughing through three pushchairs on the way, Kayleigh yelled at a man to stand up from the seat, and I just passed out. I can't remember anything until I came to and saw I was surrounded by park staff and an ambulance was on its way.

They were great, did lots of tests but were happy to let me go home as long as I went to see my own doctor today, which I did. He's pretty sure it was a faint too, and told me they won't investigate unless it happens again. But, if I feel one coming on I need to lie down flat. So I've been amusing myself thinking about just lying down in the middle of shopping or something. Better that than remembering how scary yesterday was. Even more so for Kayleigh, James and Shauna as I can't remember most of it.

Then we got stuck in a traffic jam on a little country road for two hours, about ten cars back from a nasty accident. I swear, we should have just stayed home. But saying that, I can't regret the giraffe feeding. They have given us four free passes to go back, but I suspect it'll be a while if we ever do return.

We did get some nice photos before everything went wrong. Two I like a lot are behind

Comments

how cool you got to feed the giraffe!

[dine]

When I was a child back in the dark ages, one could feed animals at the zoo - you could take in vegetables, and buy these biscuity things and feed many of the critters. The giraffe enclosure was sunken, so people outside were around neck height, and it was easy for them to lower their heads over the fence to eat out of your hand.

no idea what had reminded him, but about a year ago my dad added the following on the end of a note, which reminded me of those fun memories, which I'd not thought of possibly decades - "Remember when we could feed the giraffe at the zoo? What a soft nose!"

did you enjoy the soft noses?

Re: how cool you got to feed the giraffe!

[turps]

I did enjoy the soft noses, very much so. It was such an amazing experience having them so close and being able to touch. It really showed that giraffes are huge, and so powerful.

The way you could pet the giraffes makes much more sense than the way we did. It didn't look comfortable the way the had to bow their heads and splay their legs.

[frausorge]

oof! Glad to hear they didn't find anything more serious. I hope you won't be plagued by any more such incidents.

[turps]

It was strange because there wasn't a thing stat wise when I was checked over. I just felt a bit wiped out. So hopefully it was just one of those things.

[i_amthecosmos]

Yikes! Fainting is a scary thing. At least I've only fainted from a sitting position.

[turps]

Fainting was horribly scary, I hope it doesn't happen again.

[nopseud]

Feeding giraffes is the literal best. Their tongues are so cool.

Not cool is the fainting. I've fainted a few times and it's HORRIBLE. (With me it's usually because I've got too hot and not noticed.) Fingers crossed it was just a one off.

[turps]

Their tongues are fabulous. In fact, they're fabulous in general. I never realised how powerful they actually are until I was so close.

It is horrible. I hated the feeling of being so out of control, and of being the centre of so much attention. I hope it was just a combination of the weather, travelling so long and walking so much.

[ephemera]

Eeep - not fun on the fainting - I do hope it's not a new regular thing.

Feeding giraffes sounds amazing though, and I don't think I want to know what James is doing to that bear!

[turps]

You and me both. I didn't like it at all!

Feeding the giraffes was amazing, and what we travelled so long to do. Their tongues are ridiculously long. And James is a ridiculous person. We were supposed to be nicely posing with that bear *g*

[sperrywink]

You wilting violet, you! *g*

Glad it seems to be nothing serious, and I hope it doesn't happen again. It is scary. I fainted dead away twice as a teenager, and both times were in public. The second time, EMS were called for me as well, but it was an altitude change that caused it, so we knew it wasn't serious.

[turps]

That's me, making a fuss always *g*

It was such a weird thing. I really don't like being out of control like that. However, at least I didn't go down in the animal pen. That would have been so much worse.

[turlough]

Eeep! Fainting like that must have been so scary! It happened to me several times when I was younger. Most often because I hadn't had a proper breakfast and was in a hurry to get to work. Standing up from your seat on the tube and suddenly feeling everything going into whiteout is NOT my idea of a good way to start the day :-( I'll keep my fingers crossed you will never have to go through it again!

You got to pet a giraffe! I'm so envious!

[turps]

No, that wouldn't be a good way to start the day at all. It's such a scary feeling, especially as there's nothing you can really do to stop it. I mean, my doctor did say to lie down if I felt like it was going to happen again, but often that's just not practical. So, I hope it just doesn't happen at all.

Petting the giraffe was amazing. They're fabulous animals.

[turlough]

Sitting down and putting your head down between your knees also helps. Not as effective as lying down but it's better than nothing.