What does it feel like when you get a concussion?

[Marshwheeling]

Last time I endoed my dirt bike somebody asked me who is president. My answer as reported to me later was: "I don't know, but I don't like him." (To keep this from going political, I won't say what year this was.) That answer earned me a ride out of the woods in the back of a pickup. By the time I came to, I was so full of opiates, I can't say it hurt. I was in a fog for several days; in fact my wife says the fog never left me.

I have had three concussions riding motorcycles. If not for good helmets, any one of them could have left me drooling in my bib. Somehow, he ones I got playing hockey don't seem to have had any lasting effect.

I never hurt my head playing racquetball, but I did shred a meniscus once. That had a more lasting effect on me than any concussion. Racquetball is a wonderful sport, but it does take its toll on the body.

 

[P&R Fan]

I'm home, in one piece, and I feel fine. Kinda tired after 7 1/2 hours of boring surveillance, but fine. No headaches, no nausea, and I can still remember who played in all 47 Super Bowls without a problem.

Can't remember what I did two days ago, but I've always been that way.

I'm goin' to bed now. Thanks for caring.
Jim

 

[quneur]

Even Batman needs to see the doctor once in awhile. Give 'em a call.

 

[laskt9]

You clearly did not read the post above yours

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[Dominus_Lex]

I'm home, in one piece, and I feel fine. Kinda tired after 7 1/2 hours of boring surveillance, but fine. No headaches, no nausea, and I can still remember who played in all 47 Super Bowls without a problem.

Can't remember what I did two days ago, but I've always been that way.

I'm goin' to bed now. Thanks for caring.
Jim

Jim:

Just in case you think the guys are over reacting, as we age the blood vessels in the head loose the ability to expand and contract under pressure (in effect this is a loss of elasticity). Thus what was a good bell ringer in a young fella can be a very serious issue as we age. The scary thing about this is it is neither easy to see or quick. The bleed can be slow, so a person "is fine" for several days, and dead one morning.

To be clear I am not a Dr. so this is nothing more then what little I know about the subject. The real story is how I know about this. I lost my dad at 70 to this very situation. Four of his buddy's saw him fall (to a man they did not see his head hit anything, and said it looked like he simply lost his footing and landed on his rear end), all bought into the "I'm Fine" story, until they tried to wake him up to golf the next morning....

In short, I'm happy to hear all is well. But everyone out there needs to know just how dangerous a "bump to the head" can be.

 

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[Mickey D]

I pulled a pinball machine over on top of me on the concrete floor when I was 8 or 9. Can't remember which.
Nobody left to tell the tale. Concussion, broken nose.
Wish I had that pinball machine today.

You would be a wizard.

 

[P&R Fan]

Got to bed at about 0300 this morning. All my life it has always taken me a long time to go to sleep. I had laid there for a while and I felt Missus Fan putting her hand on my chest. I was kinda amused and asked what she was doing. Just checkin' to see if I had assumed room temperature. I hadn't.
I got about 6 hours of sleep, and actually feel better than I usually do. No aches, no pains, no nausea, and the bump on my head, which was really big, is almost gone. I was kinda disappointed on that, it made me taller.

I'm gonna be OK, I feel fine as frogs hair.
Jim