Tripped over his sheet.
Not a cool comment, kabar.
This is a more common problem than you might think. When you sit up from bed, the blood rushes away from your brain (gravity doing its thing). In people with less than clear arteries, it sometimes takes a little time for the blood to recycle back to the brain. If you try to stand too fast, the lack of blood in the brain causes dizziness and down you go.
My dad had a similar problem the last 10 years or so of his life. It's old age, nothing more. He just had to remember to sit on the edge of the bed for a few seconds in the morning before standing.
He is talking about Byrd’s KKK sheet.
Buddy of mine (75) died in May after falling and hitting his head on concrete. Bob and his wife were out for their morning walk and he stood up rapidly after he bent over to pick up the neighbor’s paper to throw on her porch because “she’s an old lady”, in Bob’s words.
Bob was a character, Korean War vet (187th RCT), retired NYC cop, a fellow gun nut and worked 17 years for the USPS after coming to Florida, been retired about 7 years.
I miss him a lot.
FYI: I have run marathons. There was a point where my pulse was around 43 beats a minute. I used to get dizzy when I got up too fast. Same thing happened to George Bush when he almost choked on a peanut.
“My dad had a similar problem the last 10 years or so of his life. It’s old age, nothing more.”
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Then tell me why I had the same problem as a TEENAGER!! When I was around fourteen to fifteen I had to be very careful getting to my feet if I had been sitting very long. Once I actually passed out and fell flat in the floor. The problem went away by the time I finished high school. I don’t think the problem had much to do with unclear arteries at that age, I was a farm boy eating home grown vegetables every day and walking many miles in an average day, I doubt there were any arteries on the Earth any clearer than mine. I had no kind of chronic illness or weakness either, once I stood long enough for my head to clear I could go and chop wood or whatever I needed to do.