Debbie talks about waking up on the floor, not knowing what had happened.
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I started feeling the most intense dizziness that I have ever felt in my life. I never felt like that before. I grabbed the sink and I was trying to hold on and it was I was going down in a whirl hole. And the next thing I know I don’t even know how long I was out but I passed out. I woke up on the floor.
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