<itwill@happen.com> wrote in message
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On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 07:28:39 -0500, Su Zanadu wrote:

Woods wrote:

I'm staying away from ice for a while,
SuZanne, thanks. (I just started
being able to drive at night again!)

Why couldn't you drive at night?

Oh, sorry - thought I'd mentioned it before. I got a nasty whack on the
head falling on ice a couple of months ago, while curling (read:
shuffleboard on ice). The only thing I noticed at the time was being
dizzy, but it ended up that I was a whole lot more messed up than that.
Long story short, driving at night was still too much for me to 'figure
out' until about a week. (2 weeks ago I got lost only a mile from my
house, which in my area is around the corner).

Anyway, I didn't realize that I couldn't handle driving at night yet when
we were on our way down to Mississippi, and my husband asked if I was

okay

to drive (it was 6 am and still dark out). Sure, no problem at all! (sez
I). So, I hope behind the wheel and off we go - for about a mile on the
interstate, and I can't figure out where the car is supposed to go or how
to get it to go there. I knew right away that was not a Good Thing, so I
tell my husband that I'm really having problems and can't drive. Sez he
"There's a rest area in 40 miles". As if! I got off at the next exit,

and

that was the end of any attempts to drive at night for 4 weeks.

I was pretty messed up, from what my family tells me. I have no
recollection of it, but they claim I was doing stuff like having a
conversation, then just stop talking in the middle of a sentence with no
recollection of the conversation, or repeating the same thing 3 times in

a

5 minute conversation. I didn't notice anything (besides the driving at
night) until 2 weeks ago when I noticed that I couldn't add 2 numbers
without a piece of paper to write it down on and realized that wasn't
normal - which I guess means I'm a whole lot better because I was
supposedly doing lots of stuff like that and it all seemed completely
normal.

Now the other half is insisting on side airbags on our next car. Guess I
freaked him out just a little bit. (Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Woods
was experiencing all the benefits of riding the Tilt-a-whirl without
having to pay for the ride!)

Oh, and my sixteen-year-old thinks it's a hoot to call me brain damaged.

;-)

Woods

Sounds like you suffered from a pretty bad concussion.

Have you had an MRI or CAT Scan done? If not you should, don't want to
scare you but with such a blow there is always the possibility of a
blood clot.

I don't see any mention of you getting this checked out, it's not
something to be ignored and hope that it gets better.

Tony

Good point. I sustained a head injury when I was hit by a car at age 16.
My MD had my brain checked out 6 ways to Sunday (no MRIs back then, though).
(I remember the EEG...had to go downtown Montreal on bus and subway with my
mother (she would not drive in the city). The electrodes were glued to my
scalp and they had to remove the glue with acetone. I was mortified having
to travel home with my hair in that state!) Nothing showed up...however, my
parents date my OCD-tendencies to that accident.

Don't fool around, Woods, get the tests done.

<itwill@happen.com> wrote in message
news:1107266721.fcd5900249a47a60132ce858ac970e22@teranews...

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 07:28:39 -0500, Su Zanadu wrote:

Woods wrote:

I'm staying away from ice for a while,
SuZanne, thanks. (I just started
being able to drive at night again!)

Why couldn't you drive at night?

Oh, sorry - thought I'd mentioned it before. I got a nasty whack on the
head falling on ice a couple of months ago, while curling (read:
shuffleboard on ice). The only thing I noticed at the time was being
dizzy, but it ended up that I was a whole lot more messed up than that.
Long story short, driving at night was still too much for me to 'figure
out' until about a week. (2 weeks ago I got lost only a mile from my
house, which in my area is around the corner).

Anyway, I didn't realize that I couldn't handle driving at night yet when
we were on our way down to Mississippi, and my husband asked if I was

okay

to drive (it was 6 am and still dark out). Sure, no problem at all! (sez
I). So, I hope behind the wheel and off we go - for about a mile on the
interstate, and I can't figure out where the car is supposed to go or how
to get it to go there. I knew right away that was not a Good Thing, so I
tell my husband that I'm really having problems and can't drive. Sez he
"There's a rest area in 40 miles". As if! I got off at the next exit,

and

that was the end of any attempts to drive at night for 4 weeks.

I was pretty messed up, from what my family tells me. I have no
recollection of it, but they claim I was doing stuff like having a
conversation, then just stop talking in the middle of a sentence with no
recollection of the conversation, or repeating the same thing 3 times in

a

5 minute conversation. I didn't notice anything (besides the driving at
night) until 2 weeks ago when I noticed that I couldn't add 2 numbers
without a piece of paper to write it down on and realized that wasn't
normal - which I guess means I'm a whole lot better because I was
supposedly doing lots of stuff like that and it all seemed completely
normal.

Now the other half is insisting on side airbags on our next car. Guess I
freaked him out just a little bit. (Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Woods
was experiencing all the benefits of riding the Tilt-a-whirl without
having to pay for the ride!)

Oh, and my sixteen-year-old thinks it's a hoot to call me brain damaged.

;-)

Woods

Sounds like you suffered from a pretty bad concussion.

Have you had an MRI or CAT Scan done? If not you should, don't want to
scare you but with such a blow there is always the possibility of a
blood clot.

I don't see any mention of you getting this checked out, it's not
something to be ignored and hope that it gets better.

Tony

See? You CAN be human when you try. May I join you in wishing Woods a
complete and speedy recovery.

itwill@happen.com wrote:

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 07:28:39 -0500, Su Zanadu wrote:

Woods wrote:

I'm staying away from ice for a while,
SuZanne, thanks. (I just started
being able to drive at night again!)

Why couldn't you drive at night?

Oh, sorry - thought I'd mentioned it before. I got a nasty whack on the
head falling on ice a couple of months ago, while curling (read:
shuffleboard on ice). The only thing I noticed at the time was being
dizzy, but it ended up that I was a whole lot more messed up than that.
Long story short, driving at night was still too much for me to 'figure
out' until about a week. (2 weeks ago I got lost only a mile from my
house, which in my area is around the corner).

Anyway, I didn't realize that I couldn't handle driving at night yet when
we were on our way down to Mississippi, and my husband asked if I was okay
to drive (it was 6 am and still dark out). Sure, no problem at all! (sez
I). So, I hope behind the wheel and off we go - for about a mile on the
interstate, and I can't figure out where the car is supposed to go or how
to get it to go there. I knew right away that was not a Good Thing, so I
tell my husband that I'm really having problems and can't drive. Sez he
"There's a rest area in 40 miles". As if! I got off at the next exit, and
that was the end of any attempts to drive at night for 4 weeks.

I was pretty messed up, from what my family tells me. I have no
recollection of it, but they claim I was doing stuff like having a
conversation, then just stop talking in the middle of a sentence with no
recollection of the conversation, or repeating the same thing 3 times in a
5 minute conversation. I didn't notice anything (besides the driving at
night) until 2 weeks ago when I noticed that I couldn't add 2 numbers
without a piece of paper to write it down on and realized that wasn't
normal - which I guess means I'm a whole lot better because I was
supposedly doing lots of stuff like that and it all seemed completely
normal.

Now the other half is insisting on side airbags on our next car. Guess I
freaked him out just a little bit. (Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Woods
was experiencing all the benefits of riding the Tilt-a-whirl without
having to pay for the ride!)

Oh, and my sixteen-year-old thinks it's a hoot to call me brain damaged. ;-)

Woods

Sounds like you suffered from a pretty bad concussion.

Have you had an MRI or CAT Scan done? If not you should, don't want to
scare you but with such a blow there is always the possibility of a
blood clot.

I don't see any mention of you getting this checked out, it's not
something to be ignored and hope that it gets better.

Thank you, Tony - that's very sweet of you, and I really appreciate your
concern.

Yes, I was all checked out at the time, and the CT scan came up clean.
My physician said I'd had a slight concussion, but that may have been
based on my telling her that I wasn't having any of the problems she
listed out (I was not a good source for that particular info) - I'm not
really sure how they tell degrees of concussions. I thought the ER Dr.
had said I didn't have one, but evidently that was not the case.
According to my husband I was incoherent in the ER, so maybe I
misunderstood the Dr, but I do know that the CT scan was clean.

As much as I find the experience humorous, I'm not fooling around with
it, or taking chances. I've done some research on the net, and found
that a series of mild head injuries can be life threatening (!), so now
I'm walking around on slippery surfaces like I'm 90 years old, and
wouldn't take the stairs for 6 weeks (which I'm sure annoyed the heck
out of people on the elevator who needed floor 6 and had to stop on
floor 2 because of me, but - too bad!).
Anyway, thank you again for your concern and advice - it means a great
deal to me.
Woods