It was my understanding that the reason they didn't want the big physical activity after concussion was that real damage could occur if you had a head injury with an existing concussion. Although many athletes play with them anyway. In school sports the kids will beg to not have a concussion diagnosed because they won't be able to play.

Bottom line. Adults get to make their own decisions.

God doesn't feel like it and nobody else has the authority.

I'm not religious, but I do love this sentence.

Robin, I've already exceeded the amount of rest the neurologist would have recommended for my concussion. If the centre won't let me train now, I don't when they ever will. But I know the head instructor is jittery, and while it's my choice to train, it's his choice to prevent me from doing it there. You'll notice no assignment of usable choice to the PT.

I am having more headaches than normal. But it occurs to me, I'm not having more headaches than the week before the concussion. It was a migraine pileup that preceeded both faints. I used to be having more and worse ones, along with a cascade of other post-concussive symptoms.

I'm miserable now, but sadly I was miserable right beforehand too. I only just realised that.

Does she think the headaches would abate of you stopped all training?

She never said. But she's never causally linked the headaches to training, which I think is fair, because I've had them pretty badly while not exercising at all. Just not this consistently. Her call.

The part that might not get me unbanned is the "of course, at any point post-concussion, the patient is at more risk for another." I'm just not the only concussed one there, and if we add up bangs to the head, I probably don't even rank.

However, I'm recent, and I'm a chick, and I look young. And I was too shortsighted to just suffer at home. I'm fairly sure all those things work to some degree against me.

Week of Dressing Dangerously: the woman's oldest daughter needs a hard smack upside the head.

This may go without saying, but we have never Fame Audited a fetus before.

We'll need artists, great artists, who'll sacrifice their eyes for one brief gaze upon the Brangelina infant (or, as we like to call it, the Infangelina), sketch its glory quickly, then spend their rest of their lives as blind babbling fools, jibbering in some monastery somewhere.

To which we can also say: Oh, TomKitten, your ass just got served.

ita, it seems like you are making a very informed decision. I can understand the PT's concerned, but that concern should have been expressed to you, period. It's up to you what you do with that info.

Project Runway: Can they all fail? None of those outfits look like they'd make it past the rules commitee of the sport.

my fists, they are raised and shaking.

What Robin said. (I love when I wait long enough to say anything that I can just say that!)

I am burning my new favorite candle. LEATHER. it smells so YUMMY, like a saddle shop.

Ooh, leather. That sounds nice.