1) I wish chat was working tonight. feeling the need to be ... with others but not having focus to read threads
2) I hope the smoke doesn't get worse.
3) I sort of want to post to a thread on more trauma related stuff but then I just don't seem to have it in me
4) I am very sleep deprived.
5) My butt is bruised. heh.... ok, the story...
so, my special needs dog sometimes gets up too fast from sleep and falls down. this is distressing and if she does it, she can freak out trying to get up again and fall and get herself all in a snit. Normally, she does sort herself out but it's upsetting to her. so that started last night sometime between 2 and 3 am. I didn't want to get up to deal with her (sleep deprived) and was hoping she'd sort herself out. instead it seemed she was winding herself up and was really getting distressed. I have to admit, I was annoyed, mixed with worried. I apparently also had an issue with getting up too fast. All my life I've had low pressure and have had issues with being light headed. I've full on fainted a few times and partially fainted many. So I get almost to the bedroom door and am graying out. I reach for the wall, door handle to hold onto until my head clears. Apparently that wasn't enough to keep me on my feet. I didn't quite full on faint but ended up going down hard on my ass. Or maybe I did faint all the way, not quite sure. But first I sat down very hard on the pups waterbowl. As the special pup has problems, this is a very sturdy waterbowl that she can't tip over. I mostly sat in the water bowl but my ass cheek caught the rim. The waterbowl did it's job and did not tip. So... I come to full awareness. I'm on the floor. I think "whoops". Then I think, "why is my butt wet" and then "ouch". It was almost all worth it for the look on my other dog's face. I wouldn't have thought it was possible to mix such complete bewilderment with concern. Like, "umm.... are you ok? Why did you try to sit in the water bowl?" heh. By the time I had myself sorted, special pup was fine. I am choosing to see the humor in the situation. I mean, I freaking sat in the dog dish. Much to the dismay of hyper dog.