Saturday, January 4, 2014

The Long Recovery of a Concussion

About two weeks ago, I got a concussion. I could pretend that I was doing something awesome and then go on to explain my crazy, eye-widening story, but then I would be lying.

I over-rotated on a single back tuck.

I know. I'm special. Photo courtesy of: knowyourmeme

It was about two minutes after gym had started, and I went a little too hard for a warm up pass and bounced off my feet to my head. I sat up, startled. I still knew my name, and I didn't feel very weird after my fall. Then, we started stretching. I remember thinking that I was at a different gym, then a skating rink. I was having some sort of weird dreams. I sort of woke up and freaked out. I went through weird emotional phases. Scared, weirdly sad, then angry. I took a nap, and woke up feeling a lot better.

I went to school the next day and then went to the doctor to make sure everything was fine, expecting to hear that I was fine to do everything, and maybe that I should be a little cautious. Instead, the first thing out of the doctors mouth was that my left eye was more dilated than my right. I had hit my vision center and my eyes were slightly messed up. She told me that I should skip gym for the rest of the week and come back on Tuesday.

I was feeling fine on Tuesday, and expected to be cleared. But I wasn't. And to top that, I had to go to physical therapy. For my brain. Sounds weird right? It turns out that I have to pass a series of levels so that I can go back to my sport. It took another week to schedule and complete physical therapy. But I finished yesterday! I should be good to go for gymnastics, but because holiday break is here, and season is here also, I thinking I'll be doing some extra work in the gym.

Well that was depressing. CHRISTMAS IS COMING! A few of my relatives will be coming the day after Christmas. Yay! Happy holidays, everyone!

~Rose

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