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- slashfan7964
According to my doctor, 10-15 points is what the average concussion can cause. However my cause was severe enough to clearly cause more according to the results of several 6 hour long sessions of IQ testing. It short, it was quite the ordeal. I was knocked clean out when it happened, it was result of a full sprint head on head collision during a game of American football (when I still played). Apparently, according to witnesses, my feet went up in there air and I was out cold on the field. I remember waking up and just laying their thinking WTF is going on, then I saw the medic staff and the coach all around me, eventually they got my gear off and grabbed my legs and arms and carried me off the field (I remember everyone clapping), in which I sat hunched over on the bench until the ambulance arrived, then they put my on a stretcher. Once I got in the dude asked me a bunch of questions but at this point everything was a blur and I was pretty in and out of it. And of all things it happened on the night of one my uncles wedding. October 12, 2008. It was a Saturday afternoon. Not a good day at all.
From that point on they ran random check up/follow up tests throughout the past few years. I was issued a "504 Plan" which basically just gave me extra help in school, I got extended time during tests, sometimes up to 4 hours or more, tests were given to me in peices, they were read to me if I needed it, extra periods called "AIS", basically was like extra help, a guided study hall kind of thing, that kind of thing. Some of the random tests had me check for hand strength, one of them I remember pretty clearly was on a computer, they were showing a bunch of letters and each time one appeared I was required to press the space bar. If the letter "x" appeared, I couldn't hit the space bar like rest....I failed that pretty badly when before it wouldn't have been an issue. Another one was identifying basic objects with index cards and stupid stuff like that. I was stuck there on several occassions performaing various task such as these during this rehabilitation period. Was sooooo annoying haha.
At this point my school had no idea what to do with me anymore so that's when I started attending full day courses in the alternative school and started Auto Tech. Best decision I ever made in my life. A lot more laid back, easier, and the potential to make more money from my trade is there. In fact if I hadn't gone, I would have failed 10th grade, repeated and likely dropped out as a sophomore, and I'd be a bum on the street right now living on drugs with no life going anywhere. My life was headed in the worst possible direction. I made the choice to go there and God I am glad I did. Needless to say the school pays $16,000 a year for me to go their now. Couldn't be happier with that choice. At the time, I hated myself and the fact I had to leave everyone and all my friends behind but now I can rub it in their face and be like i'm going to mka emore money than you
I will say though it was very hectic and the doctor that delt with me said she had never really seen one that affected anyone so badly. I remeber overhearing her and the other guy that worked with her as well say my change in attitude was drastic, I went from a straight A student to having less than a 50 in everything, not caring, attention span was completely destroyed, I was in shambles. I couldn't do my homework because I would literally forget everything that had been taught to me that day at school, I would have severe mental breakdowns over nothing, etc. Things have lightened up a bit over the last year or so but up until then my life has been a nightmare, as far s this condition. They said the damage was most likely permanent, I think it was called PCS or something like that, post concussion syndrome or something, can't remember. But my doctor straight up told me if it happens again I WILL die.
I beleive it may have also called another condition in my neck called "torticollis", a stupid crazy excrutiating pain that shoots down your nerves in your spine if you tilt your head the wrong way, causing you to kind of lean to one side. Think the whiplash effect form the injury itself my have had some kind of impact. Not fun.
Sorry for the huge long post, Iit's just something that really affected my life and I tend to drag it on and on. Really pains me to think about it these days. So yeah when someone asks if I am messed up in the head or adds any smart remark that's similar, I get really, really offended.
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But no different from anywhere else in the world.
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