To want to know how is the guard that fainted?

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Just that. It was gut wrenching to watch and it's been in my mind since

*oops parade not paraesthesia, weird autocorrect 😂

It didn't look like the kind of fall that a cuppa tea and a biscuit would cure to me. I wouldn't be surprised if he knocked out teeth or fractured his jaw. It looked awful falling on to the stone floor.

Not in this case, but on other parades, one of the hazards is being stabbed by the bayonet of a fainting person. They aren’t sharpened (well, not supposed to be, anyway), but can still potentially do a nasty injury.

I think it's weird not to? Does this mean we can never show any concern for a stranger? Someone tripping over on the pavement? Someone missing a step and falling out of a bus? You'd just walk past and leave them to it would you? You must live in a sad cold world if that's how you feel!

He'll probably feel unwell for a few days but will be fine.

It's scary when it happens.

I broke my nose and my tooth ripped my lip from a low blood pressure pass out.

It takes time to recover.

Are we only allowed now to be concerned about people we know?

When did that start? Are we to stop caring about everyone who might be suffering?

It happens a lot on parades etc. looks dreadful but generally they are ok. They won't live down the ribbing for a while though!

There's a specific type of jaw fracture called a "guardsman fracture" classically due to falling direct onto the chin without hands out to stop you, like fainting soldiers on parade. radiopaedia.org/articles/guardsman-fracture?lang=gb

It'll be a story for the grandkids though!

Oh poor guy, that looked really painful.

My young DS faints easily and always worries me he will end up hurting himself like this.

That's not what the news said. It said they change around the coffin every 20 minutes. I saw a change after an hour at one point. But falling face first on to a stone floor is not going to be good.

Having been a fainter on parade:.

i never actually fainted on parade but watching the person in front of you go and you not being allowed to catch them is horrible

I agree. How hysterical

i never actually fainted on parade but watching the person in front of you go and you not being allowed to catch them is horrible

back row for me, straight down (my dad was proud i stayed to attention even as i landed. Go me) my mum later told me there was an audible gasp among the onlookers. And that the stretcher bearers did a gleeful little jump before rushing onto the parade ground

This has not been the case for many many years..... Purely down to the fact the meals are pay as you go now.

That looked like a horrid fall, blood from his head and he did not look like a young man either, he looked like an OAP.

It's not just the fainting tho, he banged his face on the floor from a raised step.

Exactly. Now I am slightly shocked at the comments. My god

It was just worrying that he seemed to fall onto the stone floor from the height of the section of catafalque he was standing on.

Exactly. Maybe I should have specified. I know fainting is normal, my daughter faints and often in the bathroom, I am so scared of the concussions.

Why cant you catch them? That seems cruel if it is possible.

You're aren't meant to move, or even watch if it's not happening directly in your line of sight.

I saw lots of people fall but don't remember any serious injuries from it. The guy in front of me went backwards and the noise his head made as it hit the floor was 😬

My DD has POTS and so faints with alarming regularity. Pre diagnosis and when first at high school, they tried to encourage her to carry on when she felt wobbly and she fainted right at the top of the stone stairs. Her maths teacher caught her when another student clocked what was unfolding and screamed. Said teacher is now my colleague and he still goes pale when he remembers it. I live in fear of it happening on a stone or tiled floor and her not being able to get down safely.

Maybe the people that queried your use of 'gutwrenching' didn't watch it.

My gut sank as I watched. It's the definition of gut wrenching!!

@GobbolinoTheWitchesCat Yes.

He'll be very embarrassed, but fine. It's really common among the guardsmen, as you'd expect when standing for so long.

We get at least one fainter every year at out local remembrance parade.

This is an interesting article. Apparently they're taught to faint to attention and to my reckoning he got it right

www.hellomagazine.com/healthandbeauty/health-and-fitness/20220915151182/why-do-queen-royal-guards-faint/