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.
On an entirely different topic: My fiancee's father just agreed to come to our wedding.
This is really big. If I weren't stuck in bed with a cold, and also currently in another country from her, there'd be big celebrating.
I had a krav teacher I otherwise liked and respected a great deal who gave me shit for not being on top of my game for months after my worst concussion. Then he got beaned. Oh, I was happy about the schadenfreude. He kept teaching the same thing over and over because his short term memory was shot. At least I knew what my limitations were going to be--I lost my ability to be explosive and loud, but I could cope in advance with the memory loss.
He later bonked me in the head with a fake knife and concussed me again, so all told he won the concussion battle. But he did apologise to me for not getting the impairment.
The krav centre was pretty harsh about what they would and wouldn't allow me to do when they knew I was concussed. I threw a fit because they didn't do that for the guys that got concussed--someone then pointed out to me that I had other things to do with my brain and the guys in question were "just" fighters and krav was all they had, so why hold them back?
Hmm.
On an entirely different topic: My fiancee's father just agreed to come to our wedding.
Wow! That's fantastic news.
Oh, Seska! Wonderful news! It's made my day. So I can just imagine how happy you are.
Heh. I'd be so much happier if I weren't all full of cold. I was pissy at The Girl on the phone. I should really call her back and be less pissy.
But yes, truly awesome news! Woo!
& Damn. Now I really have to get on with planning a wedding.
I hope the doctor can help, Anne.
Yay, Seska!
Lots of health ~ma for your father, Solange. It's so hard to be far away from family when these things are happening.
{{{Anne}}} Feel better.
Yay, Seska and The Girl!!!
Yup, it's a concussion all right. Not much to do but wait it out. Also, if things get worse or don't improve noticeably by Friday, I'm to go in for a scan.
My doc is more worried about the fact that I fell down. Apparently, I'm prone to vaso-vagal reactions, and given that my blood pressure today was 100 over 60, things must have gone seriously low when I hopped out of bed.
