I deeply apologise in advance to all the squeamish people but the second photo I absolutely had to share it (you will understand)!!
On Friday night (18/01/13), after a particularly challenging work week for the both of us, Michael came in from Chinchilla and we went into Brisbane City to meet up with friends. We went to the Pig & Whistle (see picture one - outside in the beer garden with pretty lights and two huge brass giraffes) and caught up with Eak's Boss, Aaron and one of Eak's workmates, Sean and his hilariously awesome girlfriend, Katherine. We got there about 10.30pm, had dinner, had a few drinks and went back to Sean & Katherine's, where the boys played poker and we watched a movie. So we got back to Ipswich about 4.30am.
Michael wakes up at 6am, goes off to the toilet then back to bed - lies down then thinks "Shit, I'm going to be sick". So he jumps out of bed with immense pace, he then blacks out and smashes his head, face first into the dresser. He is then lying on his back after knocking himself unconscious.
So I burst out of bed, making sure he is breathing (just completed a refresher first aid course the week before too!) and start banging on his chest and yelling "Babe, wake up... Michael, wake up! ... BABE, BAAABE!!"
After about 20-30 seconds, he becomes conscious and says "what happened? Why are you in my face?" - I reply "you just smashed your face into the dresser and knocked yourself unconscious, you gave me a frigging heart attack!". He then jumps straight up heading to the toilet (the original plan of attack). So I'm chasing after him and yelling "Be careful!" and then I black out, falling gracefully to my knees, slumped over while holding the door frame (just short of falling down the stairs, mind you). Eak emerges, "why are you on the floor?", I come to and say "I just blacked out too".
Frigging fantastic start to the morning really! We were both breaking out in cold sweats, heart racing, dizzy and unable to think clearly. I'm lying in the hallway and Eak is saying "we have been poisoned!, we need to call the ambulance, we need to call Aaron, Sean and Kathrine and see if they are the same!"
Woah woah woah, lets just calm down. We have had two hours sleep, you smell like a brewery and we need to be careful about getting downstairs and to see a doctor. After about 15minutes we decide that it is not worth going to hospital but will head to a clinic when it opens at 8.30am, so I'm watching Eak lying on the couch telling him to stop trying to sleep, he could have a concussion.
We head off to the Doctors clinic, pay $65 to see a nice Dr who promptly tells Eak he has no head injury. He said we had Postural or Orthostatic Hypotension, basically blood pressure not regulated quick enough and causes the dizziness and fainting, commonly found in healthy young adults (wooo not old yet!) who have beautiful elastic blood vessels. So not poisoned!
Two birds, one stone - Eak has had an earache and has been deaf in one ear since well before Christmas so had that checked, needed to have it syringed. That last picture is of Eaks ear wax build up. I'm sorry but we had to share it!
After an extremely eventful morning, we went to Queens Park in Ipswich and had a cup of tea and cake as Eak still had a headache and a few cuts & bruises from his battle with the drawers. We were feeling a bit delicate and not really up to too much so we went off to Brisbane Convention Center to the huge Book Fair. We bought a few cool books and then had some Sushi.
Great end to a bloody eventful day!!
