Dialogue for a character after concussion

[ashtemsing]

Hi

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[xenia_27]

I've had a concussion when I was about 10. I don't remember what happened to me but I went home and went to bed. When my mother came home she understood right away that something was wrong, I was sleeping in the middle of the day, couldn't tell her what happened to me, didn't really understood what was going on. confusion is the right word I was really confused. :) But it was only on the first day.

[bopeepsheep]

Last time I was concussed [it's happened a lot...] I sounded absolutely normal except I kept forgetting what I was trying to say. It was my focus that had gone, rather than the ability to speak normally. It got easier over the next 6-8hrs.

[lied_ohne_worte]

Well, there was a really publicised concussion last year when Christoph Kramer played the football World Cup final for fifteen minutes or so after he'd been concussed. After the injury, they had asked him the usual questions about his name etc., apparently, and thought he was fine (he had lost consciousness though). He played a bit erratically, but not so you'd have thought he was badly off

[nuranar]

There's a very similar story about Roger Staubach, the Cowboys quarterback in the 1980s. This was before they were figuring out that concussions were not something to be shaken off. He'd been hit and had been on the sidelines for a few minutes, not looking particularly bad. Then at some point he walked over to one of the coaches and ask, "Who are we playing today?" They took him out after that.

[lied_ohne_worte]

Oh dear.

It's appalling how various sports still treat that sort of thing so lightly, particularly as I believe it can be very dangerous if someone is hit again while concussed.

In the match I mention, the TV showed one repeat after the other of Kramer's head colliding with an Argentinian shoulder and him the just flopping to the ground, and we were all shouting at the TV to stop the repeats because it hurt just to watch. I couldn't believe it when he went back in, utter madness.

[nuranar]

Well, they certainly don't treat them lightly now. That was over 30 years ago.

Ugh, that sounds horrible! And clearly a very stupid thing to go back in. Those boneless falls don't just happen without cause.

[phyloxena]

In my personal experience (a very bright child with severe concussion): simplified vocabulary, broken grammar, disjointed or improperly formed sentences. Back to more or less normal in a week - I was, obviously, very attuned to the progress, somebody less motivated would probably say that third day was ok already.

[learnsslowly]

I've not been concussion myself, but knew someone who concussion themselves running into a goal post during a rugby match. He had no loss of consciousness and the blow hadn't seemed that hard, but a short time after, he realised that although he understood in general what was going on (He was a schoolboy playing in a rugby match between school.)he couldn't remember any specifics - his name, the name of the school, which of the two adults on present was associated with his school, his age....

He did retain enough general understanding to decide this was serious and randomly chose one of the 2 men to trot up to and say "I'm sorry to bother you sir, but I can't remember my name, or your name, or which school I belong too, or where I am. I think if the other man is my teacher we better tell him."

It turned out he had approached his own teacher first, game immediately stopped, hospital, school nurse accompanying etc.It was a home match too, luckily.