well you got a prayer in memphis
Mar. 7th, 2023 09:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wychwoodI am finally out of schedule madness, and the inevitable period of floppiness succeeding it, and have a perfectly reasonable calendar (until next week) and it's marvellous. I played a computer game! I wasted time when I could have been doing something useful! When was the last time I had the chance! I haven't even left the building today! Blissful.
The concert went well, although I yet again went horrible and faint during it... I had to go off-stage and lie down, which is the first time since the concert subsequently referred to as "The Fainting Requiem" due to the sheer number of people who had to go off (I think there were seven of us stacked up in a dressing room by the end, and the chorus management were doing relays fetching new victims), but I've had several times I've had to sit down due to a funny turn. I think it's a combination of the standing (mostly the standing) with the general effort of the singing and the fact that I'm always really tired by the concert because of the busy days before it. I was pretty much fine as soon as I lay down, as ever, but it's not all that much consolation.
I'm thinking about strategies - it's difficult, because I feel fine right up until I abruptly don't, so it's hard to do anything in advance... a friend suggested that support stockings might help, so I might look into that. And I will be making sure that I pre-emptively sit down if there are any particularly long stands. And I made it 70 minutes into this one, which isn't so completely terrible. Just frustrating, after all the rehearsals and the effort, not to get to do the whole thing! And people seemed terribly enthusiastic coming out at the end. Anyway, I will keep working at this.
We're balancing on the edge of spring right now, the light rolling out longer every day, and some lovely sunshine today, but it's gone bitterly cold again - snow in the forecast over the next few days, although it probably won't stick, looking at the temperatures. I'm really going to enjoy tonight's hot water bottle...
The concert went well, although I yet again went horrible and faint during it... I had to go off-stage and lie down, which is the first time since the concert subsequently referred to as "The Fainting Requiem" due to the sheer number of people who had to go off (I think there were seven of us stacked up in a dressing room by the end, and the chorus management were doing relays fetching new victims), but I've had several times I've had to sit down due to a funny turn. I think it's a combination of the standing (mostly the standing) with the general effort of the singing and the fact that I'm always really tired by the concert because of the busy days before it. I was pretty much fine as soon as I lay down, as ever, but it's not all that much consolation.
I'm thinking about strategies - it's difficult, because I feel fine right up until I abruptly don't, so it's hard to do anything in advance... a friend suggested that support stockings might help, so I might look into that. And I will be making sure that I pre-emptively sit down if there are any particularly long stands. And I made it 70 minutes into this one, which isn't so completely terrible. Just frustrating, after all the rehearsals and the effort, not to get to do the whole thing! And people seemed terribly enthusiastic coming out at the end. Anyway, I will keep working at this.
We're balancing on the edge of spring right now, the light rolling out longer every day, and some lovely sunshine today, but it's gone bitterly cold again - snow in the forecast over the next few days, although it probably won't stick, looking at the temperatures. I'm really going to enjoy tonight's hot water bottle...
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Date: 2023-03-08 02:24 am (UTC)Hurrah for some relaxation time!
The recommended means of avoiding fainting on parade is to wiggle one's toes. (Clenching and relaxing leg muscles shows. Which is not the same as not working, and perhaps it doesn't show if one is behind choir stalls or fellow choristers.)
This sounds like the same kind of thing, particularly the way it sneaks up on you. It's not usually a strictly cardio health issue -- at least not the fainting on parade version -- but a blood volume pooling in the extremities thing, so the support hose might well be a good thing.
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Date: 2023-03-08 08:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-03-09 12:34 am (UTC)Feet not hurting seems like progress in a direction, if not all the directions.
I hope the hose help!