Fainting Spell

A few days ago one of the women at the teacher-training course fainted. It was after five, when most of the participants had left, and only Melody, Daniel, myself and two Indian women were there, one of which was the person who fainted. The girl had apparently fainted about four times in the last two years, and I believe the spell was brought on by a combination of dehydration, low blood pressure and some stress caused by an issue in her family. Luckily Daniel has her CPR. We turned her on her side so she wouldn’t swallow her tongue, gave her water mixed with salt (good for dehydration) during the moments where she was partially coherent, and called Sohayl. I forget if I mentioned it before, but Sohayl has a medical degree.

Daniel wanted some sugar, in case the girl had low blood pressure, but we had none so she ran out into the street to ask one of the neighbours. There was a man standing in the yard of the house across from us, and she explained to him the situation and asked for sugar. Apparently he spoke enough English to understand, and not help us at all. He went away. Finally Daniel managed to talk to the daughter of the family, who called the mother and they came to the house with a tiny bowl of sugar. We gave the unconscious woman some sugary water. The neighbours stayed for a couple of minutes, asked us what had happened, then asked us for the sugar back, and left.

Sohayl came and took the girl to a nearby clinic. She’s fine and still attending the teacher-training course so all ended well.