Head injurees- check in here!

[LaraMN]

LaraMN:
- concussion from sliding hill +innertube + tree (circa 1990)
- concussion from passing out and hitting *something* (1997)

And I'm JUST FINE!!!111

:bounce: :crazy: :rofl:

[KitchenWitch]

1. Concussion while downhill skiing

Ski came off and hit me in the head - 1978.

[LaraMN]

10. You were hit in the head with your own ski?!

That's why I love you.
:rofl:

[KitchenWitch]

37. Yes I was

This was in the days before "ski brakes". To prevent runaway skis, one had to wear "safety straps" that strapped the ski to the ankle, I fell, the binding unhooked, and the ski recoiled and hit me in the head.

:rofl:

[SPKrazy]

53. bonehead!

:rofl:

[KitchenWitch]

59. ...

[MonkeyFunk]

2. Never had a concussion...

I prefer a little buzz to go along with my brain damage.

[LaraMN]

11. Well, that much is generally assumed!

I'm sure I also aided the deterioration of a bit of my gray matter in said manner.
:P

[RetroLounge]

3. Killed brain cells, 1975-1990

But I'm fine now... really...

:crazy:

RL

[LaraMN]

12. It's 'cause you always be readin' all them books.

:D

[hippywife]

56. And I'll just bet

your eyelids were standing at half-mast every morning in honor of the fallen. :hi:

Glad things are looking up for you. Hope the store goes over like gangbusters. Does it have a snappy name yet?

[AllegroRondo]

4. Concussion from military training

Hit in the head with a GP Medium tent pole, circa 1996.

but I feel fine!

[LaraMN]

13. Poles seem to be dangerous that way!

Tent poles, ski poles...yikes! I'm staying away from poles!

[SPKrazy]

5. Concussion .....

:blush:

learning flip turns on swim team, pushed off hard hit bottom of pool :silly:

a little embarrassing, but it did a number on me fer sher

and gawdess only knows how many times i've had my noggan knocked around over time

:crazy:

and i'm fine too!!!!111111 FINE I TELL YOU 1111!!!!


oh and retro reminded me of lots of dead brain cells from 1974-1985 :rofl:

[LaraMN]

14. Couple that with getting water up your nose,

and it's almost reason enough for me to avoid swimming.

[KitchenWitch]

41. My deliberately killed braincells are from 1971 - 1984!

:rofl:

[ZombieNixon]

6. Not really a head injury,

but I was nearly decapitated by a snowboard, c. 2002. One inch to the right, and I probably wouldn't be here, today. :bounce: :P

[LaraMN]

15. Augh!

Did you get cut at all?

[ZombieNixon]

21. Yeah, I was bleeding from the neck. I still have the scar.

However, it was too damn cold to feel anything, so I staunched it with some snow and then went and ate lunch. :P

[LaraMN]

36. Ew!

Ew! Ew! Ew!

[LadyoftheRabbits]

42. OMG.

:wow: I know you told me about it before, but god... that really freaks me out. :scared:

:hug: :loveya:

[unpossibles]

7. far too many

luckily I don't keep anything valuable up there.

Bike ride into a utlity pole, 1990. scar on forehead. could have been much worse
drunken scooter race wreck last summer in a grass field. scar inside lip. got lucky.

being tall, I hit my head on things about 1-3 times a week. What were we talking about again?

[LaraMN]

16. So basically anything with wheels is your undoing.

:D

[JackBeck]

8. Ahh...memories...

Three car crashes - three times my head slammed into the windshield.

I also slipped on ice while moving a glass table top and crashed face first through it. I've got a pretty groovy scar between both eyebrows. Doc said if I hadn't blinked, I would have taken out my left eye. Good times.

[LaraMN]

17. Yikes! Glass+face= scary!

:scared:

[JackBeck]

22. The first words out my mom's mouth were:

"Call the plastic surgeon!" Luckily, I didn't get too cut up. And I've got a sexy scar to boot.

[LaraMN]

29. Lol!

My oldest kiddo has a small scar on his cheek from where he dove off a chair and landed on a juice glass (with his face,) when he was two. He loves that scar.
:D

[Reverend_Smitty]

9. Only one concussion I can remember

Concussion from dollar beer night + curb + bush in front of a Wawa at 2am(2005)

That incident caused possibly the world's worst hangover the next morning!

[LaraMN]

19. Dollar beer night!

I think it's sponsored by local hospitals.

[Debi]

18. When I was five attending one of my dad's softball games

some asshole thought it would be cool to through rocks at my head (2 stitches and major ringing for a few days)

then when I was 19 some other asshole (namely my EX-husband) headbutted me to 'shut me up' and put seventeen stitches in my forhead.

but yes, I'm FINE11!! SERIES1111!!

[LaraMN]

23. Jerks!

That's really messed up!
:(

[Debi]

27. I must've been a jerk-magnet when I was younger

:shrug:

Mr. Debi wouldn't harm me...NO WAY...unless you count hugging me too hard :blush:

[LaraMN]

30. ....

Good! I'm glad you found a nice one. Some women never seem to.

[Debi]

38. I just got me a can of this.....it helped!

[Maineiac]

20. Cerebral Aneurysm Rupture, 1999

Where the Posterior Internal Carotid and Right Communicating arteries branch. I was in a hotel room in Detroit at the time. Survival rate for that type of rupture is about 1 in 6. I awoke from the surgery left side hemiplegic but I do OK. Life is unpredictable. Eat dessert first!!

[LaraMN]

25. How scary!

THAT is nothing to laugh about! I'm glad you were one of the 1 in 6.

[Maineiac]

28. Some people said I was lucky

Lucky is winning the Powerball. I was just in the right place at the right time. I was in Mexico the week before.

[CharmCity]

58. Cerebral hemhorrage 1996

Complete recovery!!!!

[ceile]

24. Concussion 1993

String for closet light got stuck on high shelf, jumped as hard/high as I could to grab it. Forgot I was standing in doorway and hit door jam-HARD! The one and only time I ever saw spots/stars and blacked out.

[LaraMN]

26. I've never had the spots/stars thing.

Must've been weird!

[Shell Beau]

31. I did get run over on my bike when I was 6!

And I did almost OD on medicine when I was little! I climbed the to the top of the medicine cabinet and took all of my grandfathers meds because they looked like red hots! Then I had to get my stomach pumped. And the very next year I did the same thing with some grape cough syrup (what can I say? It tasted good)! Had to get my stomach pumped again! Maybe I had brain damage! Sure sounds like it!

[LaraMN]

33. Eek!

Med stuff is scary! SophieMN ate allergy pills once, and a dishwasher gel pack, another time.
It amazes me that kids live to adulthood.

[Maineiac]

34. Damn Stupid drivers

I got blown off the road in 2001. Never saw the dude and they just kept on going.

[dropkickpa]

32. My family is famous for the hardness

of our skulls.

My concussions -
sidewalk after big wheel wipeout - 1983
Baseball bat (ill-concieved game called duck and run) - 1985
Tree (sledding accident, broke my nose too) - 1993
two car wrecks (I was passenger) - 1995 and 1997
City steps drunk - winter 1999

You don't want to know the number of times I SHOULD have had a concussion.

My brother was t-boned about 12 years ago, he had a slightly sore neck and a bruise on his head where he smashed it into his buddies head (his friends was knocked clean out by the impact of a Dropkick family skull).

People in my family tend to lead with their heads everywhere, we seem to have no perception of our bodies above the neck. I've even slammed my own head in a car door while perfectly sober. More than once.

[LaraMN]

35. That's ALOT of head injuries!

Yikes!
:o

[dropkickpa]

39. Yep

But par for the course in my family. I'm surprised any of us survived childhood, to be perfectly honest. Games like duck and run (which consisted of one of us spinning in circles with our eyes closed while holding a baseball bat out at arms length, spinning all over the back yard while every one else had to duck and run) were quite common at our house. Duck and run, rock fight, and tree knock out (throw things at the person in the tree until they fall out) were the most memorable.

For some reason my mom always banned the games we made up, she was no fun.

[u4ic]

40. I've had a few

not any concussions that I know of, but many (horse) riding falls.

One in particular - more to do with my nose, but it's on my head - had me riding a pony (they can be ornery critters) in a fun Christmas class. I asked him to canter(from a walk), he bucked me off and I landed on my nose. CRUNCH! Yes, that's the first thing that hit the ground. Everyone in the arena heard it.

By the time I got to the tack room (maybe 30 ft away at most) my nose was as wide as my eyes.

I went into a bit of shock, which involved me laughing hysterically throughout the rest of the evening, including the emerg room visit and the xray. (the latter was fun for the technician, I could barely sit still for a moment's time)


I was also in a car accident when I was about 14 - I was a passenger in the front, and wasn't wearing a seat belt (it was only a short ride in rural Saskatchewan). The driver, my cousin, had just gotten her license. She misjudged a turn and stopped dead - my head smacked the windshield. It actually left a bit of a crack.

Other people ran out of their cars (4 others - a busy traffic day there!); they were convinced I was hurt more than I was.

[undeterred]

43. Headfirst off the top of a 18 foot slide when I was four

into a pile of garbage. I remember Good N Plenty boxes and the look on my mothers face.

Brain Damage? You be the judge.

[Wapsie B]

44. Yo!

Mine was pretty bad actually. Unconscious for a number of days. This was when 1 was ~1 yr. old. Bunch of other bad stuff too.

edit: It was from being in a car wreck.

[Throd]

45. Head injuries are something of a hobby with me

Pushed off wall onto bicycle sprocket - 1971

Split back of head open falling off bleachers - 1974

Hit in head with large rock thrown from 50 feet away - 1976

Hit in head with baseball bat - 1979

Massive concussion in vehicle rollover - 1987

Pummeled by five or six drunks - 1989

Tequila fueled tumble down staircase, broken eye socket - 1991

Gashed head open on rusty sheet metal - 1997

It is a good thing I'm not losing my hair. My head probably looks like a well used golf ball.

[dropkickpa]

46. Me and you have eerie similarities

Are you related to me?

[Throd]

61. Could be.

We should build something together using cinder block just to see what ensues.

[sg_]

47. My head and the corner of a concrete wall had a bit of a collision...

got a nice big scar from just behind the start of my hairline to around abouts my crown, there was some amount of blood that day !.

Ended up getting a fair few staples in my head.

[taterguy]

48. Bicycle + toga + beer

I woke up in the ER and have no memory of the accident. I just know where it took place because I remembered where I was trying to go and a big puddle of blood was found next to my bike. I assume I got a concussion. The funny thing is that before the accident my wife had asked me to grow a beard. I told her I didn't think it would be right for me. After the accident the cuts on my face made shaving physically impossible. I decided that I liked the look and haven't shaved since then.

[SKKY]

49. This is a long list for me. I'll try and put it in chronological order...

- Stitches and subsequent surgery on right eye from corner of Mom's Waterbed (circa 1976)
- Stitches over right eye from shovel injury (circa 1977)
- Stitches on under left eye and concussion from skateboarding accident (circa 1979)
- Absolutely flattened nose in car accident (The first of about 7 breaks) (1985)
- Concussion from collision with an 85 mph fastball (1986)
- Concussion from collision with a foul ball (1986)
- Stitches on side of head after collision with goal post (1987)
- Stitches under left eye (again!) after collision with airplane wing in Greece (1994)
- Stitches and staples on scalp after collision with door frame on a ship (Same deployment as above) (1994)


And if I'm just fine or not is still open for discussion.

[GOPisEvil]

50. 7 stitches in my forehead - slid into radiator when I was 2.

I tell small children that I had a 3rd eye removed. ;)

[querelle]

51. Concussion

Last summer while cleaning my bath/shower. It was very slippery because of the Tilex and I slipped and smashed my head into the faucet. Oweeeeeee

Q

[NightWatcher]

52. I played baseball in jr high and highschool

I played catcher and had a handful of concussions along with a cracked collarbone, dislocated thumb, broken ankle, strained acl, and I also got hit in the junk about a dozen times, twice so bad that I missed school the next day.

[guitar man]

54. motorcycle accident

in 1995, semi truck tractor(no trailer) pulled out in front of me, no time to stop, so I rode the bike into the side of the truck trying to get around it. One side of my scalp had 13 stitches from where it hit the truck and the other side had 37 stitched from where it hit the road. :wow:

unconscious for 36 hours.

I wear a helmet now (most of the time anyway)

[MichiganVote]

55. 2 concussions and 1 skull fracture. OUCH!

[Piltdown13]

57. Age 6 -- no concussion, but lots of blood

Went sprinting through the house, rounded a corner, hit a clear plastic Baggie someone (probably me) had left on the dining room floor, fell on my ass and skidded right into one of our dining room chairs, which had pretty hard edges. I had a big bruise on one shin, and cut my forehead open. It didn't really hurt that much, but I figured it was a good chance to get some attention, so I ran screaming into the living room with my hand over the spot I'd hit...whereupon my mom went white and started yelling, because blood was spurting through my fingers. Of course, then I started screaming for real...:-(

I really lucked out with the stitches, though; whoever was on duty that evening at the ER was truly master of the sutures, because the scar is so tiny that even *I* sometimes have to search for it!

[Pushed To The Left]

60. Basal skull fracture in 1989!!

I still have a somewhat visible scar in the back of my head. It was from getting hit by a vehicle while riding a bike! That was the worst headache ever, and it lasted a month!

[AwakeAtLast]

62. 3 yrs old, 1973, front seat of 1965 Chevelle

Yup, we rode in the front seat back then kiddies, no car seat, no seat belt, no nothin'!

We got T-boned by another car at an intersection, I got stitches in three different places around my eye. We still don't know how the glass missed my eye. The bones around the eye are useful I guess. I still have the scars, but they aren't bad. We also still have the car. It still runs!

My husband got clocked by a low lying outlet five years ago and needed a few STAPLES in his head. When I asked him how they did that, he said, "It looks like an oversize staple gun."

:wtf:

[Drum]

63. Multiple concussions.

-Snow-tuber hit me
-drunken climb, flagpole breaks
-coupla motorcycle spills (ie: where two deer bolted out of a cornfield and ran me over a hill)
-a simple barfight (I was staff at the bar)

But seriously, sharper than ever. :shrug: