Now, I don\u2019t want you thinking that I faint willy-nilly<\/span>. The sight of blood, even my own, doesn\u2019t make me weak in the knees. Neither do dead bodies \u2014 I see 3-5 cadavers every year as a police chaplain.<\/p>\n No, I faint in very specific circumstances: in a clinical<\/span> setting, when a physician is describing the internal functions of my body, usually accompanied by a drawing or x-ray.<\/p>\n It first happened in college. I had reffed a hockey tournament that had me skating 14 hours a day for three days straight. By the end of the tourney, I couldn\u2019t even walk. I went to the college infirmary and was told I has severe tendinitis<\/span> in both ankles, and, as the doc drew pictures of my tendons on that white paper they pull over the exam table, I went down. This week, it happened as soon as he popped the x-rays of my knee on the light box.<\/p>\n I also occasionally faint at the sight of really bad theology.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Now, I don\u2019t want you thinking that I faint willy-nilly. The sight of blood, even my own, doesn\u2019t make me weak in the knees. Neither do dead bodies \u2014 I see 3-5 cadavers every year as a police chaplain. No, I faint in very specific circumstances: in a clinical setting, when a physician is describing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n