Well, I take you back to my first ever date post separation and can look back now and think my god what an adventure I was about to undertake.
I had found someone on the beloved Facebook randomly and had been chatting over email for a few days when it was decided to meet up at a pub very close to her for drinks on Australia Day - what better way to celebrate our nation than a good old fashioned blind date !
NS as she shall be known from this point is a lovely woman, was really friendly on the first date depsite being as incredibly nervous as I was venturing back out into the land of dating after all of my misadventures and drama previously.
Sufficed to say the date went well and we ended up heading back to her house which was close by for some more cheaper drinking ( now everything was above board and no hanky panky occured - I am a gentleman remember !!!) It was a really good first date full of chat and we seemed really comfortable with each other. She DID mention early on in the date that she was epileptic however was on medication and had not had a seizure for several years. That should have been my first alarm bell :)
I ended up staying the night at her house on the couch as the celebrations continued deep into the night - good ol' Australia :) I woke the next morning and at her prompting entered her room for a chat. And so it begins.....
Supposedly that the medication that she was on does not necessarily agree with alcohol and sort of counteracts its benefits. NS then entered into a seizure mid sentence and for those of you who have never seen one, it was probably the most scary thing I have seen. Her body turned blue, frothed a bit at the mouth and arched her body in what looked like agony for approximately 1-2 minutes but of course it seemed like forever. A few seconds later she started talking and appeared lucid. Not knowing much about epilepsy I figured she was through the worst and was back to conscious state ! It was then she divulged that she had completely dislocated her shoulder and could not pop it back in. It was also then I realised that she sleeps naked. It was also then I realised that she was not out of the seizure when I was told that I could not call her parents for help, I was to dress her in matching bra and panties and approriate clothing, do her hair ( I went for a neat stylish ponytail haha) and makeup (blush anyone !) and drive her to the hospital so they could put her shoulder back in. Now, I'm DEFINITELY not an expert but I thought my makeup efforts weren't too prostitute looking and despite coping a blast for not initially dressing her in matching underwear, I thought I did ok too not being a complete pervert checking out my naked, post-seizure date.
Driving NS to the hospital after assisting down 2 flights of stairs and helping her into my car she was in complete agony so I knew that all I had to do was get her there and fixed. Unfortunately not even the meidcal staff could pop it back in easily so NS then went under anaesthesia to pop it back in while her first date answered questions about the list of medications she was on (ummmm no idea), when her last seizure was (well........ she said a few years ago I think !) and then sat in the waiting room for another 8 hours while all this happened to drive her home again - sore and sorry but thankful.
I remember driving home afterwards, dropping my butt on the couch and thinking out loud - WTF !?!?!?! I can look back and laugh now, little did I know that this was only the start of many a dating debacle ! :)
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