The one concussion I had, I was unconscious for about 8 hours then woke up puking. That was fun.
It's good to have cargo. Makes us a target for every other scavenger out there, though, but sometimes that's fun too.
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ChiKat - Nov 18, 2009 7:09:11 am PST #910 of 30000
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
DavidS - Nov 18, 2009 7:10:49 am PST #911 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
EM got concussions twice while she was with me and I'd say she was uh, compromised for about six weeks in each case. She was out of it and forgetful and had a hard time concentrating and found it harder to articulate things.
The first time she knocked herself out was at a pet store. Emmett had run into the back storage area, and she'd run in to collect him. She stooped down to get him and as she stood up in the semi-dark storeroom she cracked her head on one of those big, metal circuit breaker boxes. Laid her right out.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Nov 18, 2009 7:29:20 am PST #912 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
I've only had a mild concussion (after falling backwards off a broken bus ramp in my old powerchair), but it was not a barrel of laughs.
Btw, bus company has admitted liability and I'm waiting on the schedule of damages. That part is decidedly more rewarding.
Frankenbuddha - Nov 18, 2009 7:53:23 am PST #913 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
All this concussion takes makes me wonder if a movie/TV show has ever gotten being knocked unconscious right. Usually, the person comes to and are acting completely normally, except maybe with a headache.
It also makes me think about all those times Giles got cold-cocked.
And also about my landlord, who is still in in-patient rehab for his fall a month ago, entirely due to the head trauma at this point.
§ ita § - Nov 18, 2009 7:59:51 am PST #914 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
NCIS: LA did have a character mention that he was concussed after being knocked out, but he certainly didn't act that way. They just never cover the amount of PAIN involved. It doesn't just hurt where you got hit--it hurts to exist. Everyone looks so spry right afterwards, and with no cumulative damage unless it's a boxing/MMA plot.
Aims - Nov 18, 2009 8:01:30 am PST #915 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
My BiL is has a concussion right now and it is not effing great. He was hit by a car while riding his bike to class on Monday evening. (Loveable) idiot that he is, was wearing no helmet.
DavidS - Nov 18, 2009 8:06:58 am PST #916 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
There have been a flurry of articles recently about how prevalent concussions are in the NFL and the brain damage they cause in players. Helmet on helmet hits almost guarantee it.
The Giants had a catcher retire because he'd been concussed so many times just from foul balls hitting his catcher's mask.
Fred Pete - Nov 18, 2009 8:12:33 am PST #917 of 30000
Ann, that's a ferret.
The Giants had a catcher retire because he'd been concussed so many times just from foul balls hitting his catcher's mask.
And in soccer, D.C. United's Josh Gros had to retire because of after-effects of a concussion.
javachik - Nov 18, 2009 8:17:51 am PST #918 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
The flurry of articles and conversation about concussions is largely due to Malcolm Gladwell's article in the New Yorker. Fascinating, harrowing reading.
Hope you get some help and feel 100% again soon, Anne.
smonster - Nov 18, 2009 8:20:38 am PST #919 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
She was out of it and forgetful and had a hard time concentrating and found it harder to articulate things.
In the category of Everything I Know About Head Injuries I Learned Playing Rugby*, one of my friends who never could learn to put her head to the side when tackling had a temporary stutter after her last few concussions.
My worst one (associated with my blowout fracture ), left me so sensitive to light in the affected eye that a friend made me an eyepatch with electrical tape for my ride home.
* see also: ACL Tears, How to Take Care of a Drunk Person, Dirty Limericks for All Occasions, etc.