Jeez Marc, that sounds pretty serious. Take it easy and get well soon, ya' hear? Prayers sent for a speedy recovery.
While we're sharing our concussion experiences, I'll share mine: In '84, on a friday/payday, my wife and I were heading to "the big city" (Grand Rapids, MI) on a date. We were travelling on a country road, no doubt going at least 60 mph, when a lady driving an old station wagon full of kids and bad brakes ran a stop sign into our path. From what my wife tells me, and judging from the damage to our vehicle, I tried to swerve out of the way and the right/front of our Chevette hit the side of that station wagon, then our car swung around and the right/rear hit the station wagon. I slammed into my wife sitting in the front/passenger seat hard enough to break and displace both her collar bones. My head went through her window and my leg bent the floor shifter flat to the right. The passenger door bulged outward about 6 inches. I wound up laying on my wife, unconscious. She tried to push me off but the excrutiating pain in her shoulders prevented her from doing so. This happened around 6:00 p.m. They say I began talking and asking what happened about 15 minutes later, but I have no memory until midnight when I woke up and became aware we were in the emergency room. Talk about a headache! I had a severe concussion and whiplash. We went home from the hospital a couple days later, but my wife's problems were just beginning. Her collar bones were still displaced as evidenced by the jagged ends of the fractured bones trying to poke through her skin. I drove her back to the hospital where they tried unsuccessfully to put her bones back in place manually while she sat awake on the examining table. She said she has never before experienced pain to the degree she did when that jackass was reefing on her shoulders, trying to set her collar bones back together. Finally, they took her to surgery where they pieced her back together. She wore a brace for several weeks. My recovery included physical therapy for a couple weeks where they used ultrasonic massage and intermittent traction on my neck. I missed a month of college classes but still managed to graduate at the top of my class.
