Doctor says I have a mild concussion.

[Quindiana Jones]

Tuesday. Between 13 and 1400 hours.

Quin is swinging off his chair. His friend says "remember when you did a ninja backwards roll when you fell off that?". Quin replies an affirmative, and says he thinks he can do it again. Quin pushes back. Two loud thump whacks hit the ground. Quin swears, and stumbles around for a seat. Very dizzy and headachey.


Tuesday. Roughly 2200 hours.

Quin is texting his woman. He passes out. He wakes up an hour and a half later, apologises, then falls asleep.


Wednesday. 0740 hours.

Quin's friends calls him. Quin thinks "Oh bugger, I have to leave the house in 10 minutes!" Quin quickly gets ready for college, and manages to get on the bus looking his usual fine self.


Wednesday. Later.

Quin goes to the First Aid man, who tells him that he usually doesn't get many cases, especially head trauma ones. Quin feels special. Quin is told to come back if it gets worse, and he will be taken to hospital.


Wednesday. Slightly more later.

Quin goes back to reception, and tries to find First Aid man. Turns out, First Aid man is busy with an even better head trauma case - one who actually fell unconscious. Quin feels a bit gutted. Quin gets taken to hospital with his head trauma buddy.


Wednesday. Laterer.

Quin is diagnosed with mild concussion, and is told to take Paracetamol every four hours, and Ibuprofen every 3. Quin goes back to college and continues life.


Wednesday. Evening.

Quin makes a thread on an internet forum.


So yeah, I have mild concussion. It's cool. It's like a big hand is gripping my brain in a tight, and slightly painful, grip, whilst covering my ears.



Topic is: Have you ever had any cool head injuries? What, and How?

My other head injury involves my forehead, a hockey stick, and plenty of blood and swearing. Now I have a cool scar, but luckily my hair covers it.

[Psychotic]

One time my brother thought it would be GREAT FUN to smash a heavy metal computer chair down on the back of my head. Hilarity, blood, and a concussion ensued! Probably would've needed a fair few stitches but I am a real man who toughs out anything up to and including mortal wounds without seeing a doctor.

[Jess]

I cracked my head open on the corner of a paving slab when I was like, four. You could see my skull! I had butterfly stiches and now I have a scar on my forehead which I hatehatehatehate.

[Quindiana Jones]

I had butterfly stitched for the hockey incident. But it got scabbed over, so taking them off was bloody torture, and resulted in a second scar.

[Bunny]

When I was little I split my head open on three different occasions. Each time I passed out for half the day and woke up with a big headache and an inability to understand basic speech for several minutes afterwards.

It was fun. One time, I caught a fly with my bare hands.

[Rantz]

When I was about a month old, I had encephalitis (which I survived iirc). I rode an ambulance. They would not let me steer

[fire_of_avalon]

I've never hurt my head. Only my face.

[Cookie]

It wasn't my head, but I crashed into my mate with my bike and my handlebar dug into his head. Then his step dad put hairgel on it as a solution. It was proper funny.

[rubah]

the only head injuries I've sustained were pimples and blackheads

We did have a couple who were going out in high school that both got concussions within a few months of one another. One was a football player who got it by flying off a four-wheeler (fortunate for him there wasn't a telephone pole. Another kid from school died from flying off his four wheeler into a phone pole), but his then-girlfriend got hers by slipping in the bathroom before a football game and bashing her head on the tile floor.

it was kinda funny at the time xD

[Quindiana Jones]

Still is. :laugh:

[escobert]

I received 3 mild concussions in football. All were odd and I saw everything as either purple or orange.

[Evastio]

A concussion is when you fall unconscious and go so brain dead that you can't even tell how much time has passed by since you've had it right?

I've had that happen to me before. I went sliding down stair rails one time, I was about to run into some people so I tried to stop but ended up falling off the rail and landing on my head. As soon as my head hit the stairs I found myself somehow "warped" (don't laugh at this, it's the best word I can think of to describe this) to the ground. My friends claimed that I was lying down on the ground unreactive for a minute. The strange thing was that I literally just hit my head on the stairs then ended up on the ground getting up after realizing I was down on the ground without experiencing the rest of the tumble down the stairs or the minute where I stayed unresponsive.

[mooglebunni608]

Not really, although I have had a number of heavy items chucked at my head by my loving sister, including a heavy candle >< Pain and headaches ensued.

[Big D]

A concussion is when you fall unconscious and go so brain dead that you can't even tell how much time has passed by since you've had it right?

No, it sounds like you're thinking of a coma, though being 'brain dead' is something else entirely.

Concussion can indeed be serious business, though. A fair few rugby players in my country have died from concussion due to ignoring medical advice, by simply drinking a moderate amount of alcohol or enjoying a hot shower in the immediate aftermath of their injury.

[Jojee]

I had MASSIVE amounts of head injuries when I was younger.

One time my cousin's friend was trying to throw a gigantic stone at a window but it hit me instead Had to go to doctor for that, was too young to remember what happened. (I was 3)

Then my cousin held up a red handkerchief and told me to run through it like a bull, and backed up against the wall and I ran through super fast and crashed into the wall with my head That was bad.

Then my cousin pushed me down the cement stairs and I hit my head.

Then...

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