Why don't you try some ice and see if it helps?

I did, but there doesn't seem to be any change.

What concerns me is that you can't find a bruise or cut or something to explain the external pain.

When I looked in the mirror a little bit ago (to do the pupil check, which is entertaining as HELL), there is a definite mark now, that is aggressively hot pink.

This is a completely bizarre hypothesis, but you know how some bruises don't really bloom until a day or two later? Maybe this is something like that.

Honestly, that's all I was thinking it was, until I googled and got all the Natasha Richardson and TBI results.

Is the pink area warm to the touch?

there is a definite mark now, that is aggressively hot pink.

That actually makes me feel better.

I wouldn't go, but then again, inverted. I mean, I'd eventually go, because it would make my headache worse, and I'm just embarrassed to go for any other reason not involving my insides on the outside or something from the outside on my insides.

But that's what I would do. Knowing that I'd be there in less than a week anyway.

As advice goes, the thing that kills you when you whack your head probably doesn't hurt much because it's brain stuff and that doesn't hurt. I'm not sure why Tim doesn't understand. You hit yourself really hard, and that hurts when that happens. Sometimes it's your head, and sometimes it's not your head. Usually it's my head. I don't think it bruises often either.

Hey, maybe me not going to the ER for that is why my head hurts 23/7 now.

Um, if there's any other way I can totally fail to be useful, just holler.

Could it be something different like a bite that was coincidentally in the same place?

Hi all. I skipped a bunch because I fell way behind (although I did just read about Teppy's head-trauma-drama....

I found out over the weekend that my grandma (dad's mom) has about a month left to live.

I'm kind of not dealing with it right now. She's 95 or so, and had a good run, and she is in pain, so at least that will be over. But my dad and I are still having issues between us (we're kind of not speaking), and I just don't even know how to respond or deal, so I'm just not.

But when I think about it, in the very brief moments that I do think about out, I can't handle it, so I stop.

It'd be a good time to reach out to your dad, Sean.

He, is after all, losing a parent.

I know my Dad didn't cry after his father died until he got home to see me.

Oh, Sean, that is terrible. I'm so sorry, especially that you have added family pain to complicate matters.

Thanks for coming to update us, I miss having you around.

psst, Strix, backflung.