Terminalcoffee discussion

Have you ever had a concussion? What was it like? Did you recover?

There seems to be no shortage of sports-related concussions lately...here's another article about one.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/08/spo...

i haven't had any concussions that i know of, but my brain hasn't been checked since i was five.

I've never had one, but I gave my sister a minor concussion once by accident.

I got a concussion when I was around 8-9 after I fell off a large snow pile in my backyard and landed on my head. I remember being told I could not go to sleep for several hours or else I would risk not waking up. Pretty scary at that age. Also remember being very dizzy and nauseous. I recovered fully (although some would argue that point).

Suddenly so much about you people is becoming clear...

ducks

Who's a duck? Heidi's a bear, and there are some sock monkeys, zombie or otherwise, and somebody said that the lord loves a duck over in the redhead discussion. But who's a duck???

Or are you just trying to say we're quackers?

ive had three concussions since i was a kid...two from sports and one from taking a tumble down long wooden stairs...not pleasent.
im surprised im still alive.

A couple years back I was helping my son with an escaped cow. I had my hand on her flank and was running alongside of her when I lost my balance. I tried to get my feet under me, but ended up falling flat on my face - just missed a cow patty. My son said that I was momentarily knocked out, but I replied that I was just counting stars. It was never confirmed that I had a concussion, but I had all the symptoms. Plus, I had scrapes and bruises all down my face. I had my own rodeo and didn't even leave the farm.

At least you got a good story out of it, Janice. Papa was a rodeo, but not everybody gets one of their very own.

I got a concussion and a cracked jaw when I was 9, at church camp of all places. I rolled my eyes at this 17 yr. old councelor in training after she sushed me durning chapel. She tracked me down at the basketball court after we were dismissed and decided slamming my head repeatedly into the bleachers was a fit punishement for "disrespecting my elders".
The doctor encouraged my mother to press charges and petition the court for a mandatory mental evaluation on the girl (as her behavior was far from normal). My mother refused, stating that that would be an un-christian thing to do and forgiveness is god's way (I only wish I was lying).

I am not bitter, I am not bitter, I am...so very bitter!

Yes. No fun. No.

A couple years back I was helping my son with an escaped cow.

Oh, Janice, I realize this type of event is probably commonplace for you, but I love this sentence more than I can express.

A what? A pin cushion?

i could probably use you as a pin cushion.

You'd like that wouldn't you?

the website name in the corner is very apt...

RandomAnthony wrote: "A couple years back I was helping my son with an escaped cow.

Oh, Janice, I realize this type of event is probably commonplace for you, but I love this sentence more than I can express."

LOL! Sing along to John Denver... Ohhh, life on the farm...

Some of our neighbors do the old style cattle drive when they move their herds out to the leases for summer grazing. You never want to get stuck behind one headed down the highway. Running cows stream mucus and manure like rainfall.

When you see a herd of cattle running down the road the proper epithet is "oh shit"!

oh i have def been concussed many times. ( i love the word concussed) i was hit in the head with a ball bat as well as a homemade club when i was 10. hit in the head with a thrown softball when i was 40 that knocked me out. wait, that happened twice. i've done headers off of mountain bikes and raised up into lots of things that almost knocked me out

I've never had one, but my mom reportedly dropped me down the stairs when I was a baby.

I had a bad one when I was 15, ended up in the ICU and everything. I had to take anitseizure meds for a couple of years afterwards.

I had one when I was 12 or 13, from a bicycle accident. It was serious enough that I was not allowed to sleep for 36 hours. At the time I think the sleep deprivation affected me more than the smack on the head.

Yes. Twice that I know of, both work related. I suspect at least once more in a nasty spill off my bike.

i think i am concussed now

1st concussion: age 6 when I was shoved off the swing and hit my head on a big rock. 2nd : getting my head banged against a wall by my ex . 3rd: getting my head smashed against the kitchen floor 17 times when I was 29 (the last beating he ever gave me). 4th: bad auto accident in 1991.

My wife tried to kill me by striking me upside the head with a garage door this weekend.

It was an accident, really. I told her to shut the garage door while I was using the leafblower; I didn't realize she was in the process of shutting the door while I had the leafblower going, which, in turn, led me to get hit with the garage door.

Luckily, I did not get a concussion.

Did you get "apology nookie?"

Yeah. There were tears involved.

Gus wrote: "Yeah. There were tears involved."

In the accident or in the nookie?

Both. My wife thought she'd killed me, or at least suffered a serious head injury. Then during the nookie, she kept crying, and I barked, "stop crying, this is all your fault."

(I AM SO KIDDING ABOUT THAT.)