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The day I came home to visit family, My boyfriend was hit by a cab diver. I have lyme and am on here all the time, so I thought perhaps I would ask all you helpful folks for some advice.
He suffered a concussion. He stumbled home, confused, and was obviously not functioning properly. His roommate finally at 4 in the morning got my boyfriend to go to the hospital. There, they found out he did not even know his own name and he had also broken his wrist (luckily its his left wrist as his job has him designing 3D models on the computer). they kept him today and will be keeping him over night and into tomorrow. When I called him tonight, he still did not sound all there.
Do any of you know someone who has suffered from a concussion? I hear there are lasting effects. I want to be prepared to take care of anything that comes up.
I know this is not Lyme related, but I just did not know where to go for information. I was hoping someone here might have some experience that would help me.
Thanks! and thanks to all of you for helping me with my lyme over the years!
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I got knocked out by a sled and was apparently walking and talking nonsense. I "woke up" from it when my mom was checking me out of the hospital. To them, I looked no different from one second to the next, but to me it was like I woke up from sleep. I had no lasting effects from it.
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Right now I am working on trying to find out who hit him, if there was a police report filed. Andrew seems to think there was.
Right now, he has no insurance. His company was just bought out by a larger one, and there is about 3 months he has to go without it, before the next plan kicks in. Of course this happens.
sixgoodykids, I am so glad to hear you had no lasting effects. That is quite a weird experience for you.
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i would contact the brain injury association
for me concussion is realated to lyme as i have had two head injuries and the lyme likes to go where we are damaged
there is a lot to know about this-like lyme the sx of post concussive syndrome are not well known - lots of ppl are walking around compromised-functioning lower than they should be cuz docs didn't recognize how hurt they were
the brain injury association has a alot of info
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