Aha, NOT the Central Park Jogger. A different woman raped and beaten about the head and left for dead in Central Park. How cheery. Here's the Central Park Jogger [link]
Wesley: Perhaps the whole point of this experiment is hair. Gunn: I vote he's not in charge.
'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
Natter 42, the Universe, and Everything
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, flaming otters, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
flea - Feb 01, 2006 9:11:44 am PST #4252 of 10002
information libertarian
shrift - Feb 01, 2006 9:12:00 am PST #4253 of 10002
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Glass half full? Barely a quarter full and that's arsenic!
Dude, there's a reason why I'm alternating between "The Worst Day Since Yesterday" and "Grace of God Go I" today. Flogging Molly understands my curmudgeonly angst!
Jessica - Feb 01, 2006 9:12:57 am PST #4254 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
the general public vastly underestimates the damage with head injuries, and Oliver Sacks essays underscored that
The general public also underestimates the extent to which Oliver Sacks is a good wrtier, but a terrible doctor. (This is according to my neurologist uncle who foams at the mouth whenever Sacks' name comes up, and an ex-patient friend of my sister's. The reason my sister's friend is now an ex-patient is because he was kicked out of the office for having a seizure in the waiting room. As in, he was waiting for an appointment, he started to have a seizure in the waiting room, and Sacks called security.)
DavidS - Feb 01, 2006 9:15:31 am PST #4255 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
In brief...it depends. Penetrating injury or not. How much pressure in the brain after the trauma and for how long. Which part of the head got whacked and whether there's nerve damage in there.
I think we can rate him as a Mild-to-Severe head injury, though, from what we know. And as Trudy suggests...
The treatment of TBI has undergone significant change in the last 20 years.
Prognosis:
The Traumatic Coma Data Bank analyzed 780 patients with head injuries and identified 5 factors that correlated with a poor outcome, as follows: (1) age older than 60 years, (2) initial GCS score of less than 5, (3) presence of a fixed dilated pupil, (4) prolonged hypotension or hypoxia early after injury, and (5) presence of a surgical intracranial mass lesion.
Kat - Feb 01, 2006 9:16:11 am PST #4256 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Along the Main Line is nice but pricey. We lived in Bryn Mawr, though there are plenty of places along the main line where you could live and living as far out as Wayne wouldn't be undoable if you planned on commuting by SEPTA). My BATT's family lived in Bala Cynwyd for a bit (which I think is where Billytea lived), Mount Airy (which I loved) and Fairmount. All of those are suburbany.
DavidS - Feb 01, 2006 9:17:21 am PST #4257 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Is this true? That's so... whoa.
Very true. A famous case, and well known around the Bay Area which is crawling with Gettys.
§ ita § - Feb 01, 2006 9:18:24 am PST #4258 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Okay, all this head trauma stuff is freaking me out and I need to be elsewhere.
Which surprises me.
Aims - Feb 01, 2006 9:22:04 am PST #4259 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
A famous case, and well known around the Bay Area which is crawling with Gettys.
Oh yeah? Well, wehave a Getty CENTER. *TWO* even.
(probably not the same family, just wanted to be smug today. I'm done.)
Kat - Feb 01, 2006 9:23:08 am PST #4260 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
They are the same family, Aimee, so be smug.
Aims - Feb 01, 2006 9:23:36 am PST #4261 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Ah, well. Smug smug smug.