I fell down the stairs on Wednesday and bumped the back of my head on the wall. Ever since then I’ve had a dull headache and occasional, but rather intense, flashes of pain behind my right eye. I’ve called NHS direct and they suggest I get it checked out, so I’m off down to A&E now.
I hope I didn’t break anything important. I like my brain. It knows what food I like.
UPDATE: The cute doctor says I have concussion and need to take it easy for a week. No staring at screens or reading. I guess I’ll need to go for a long walk. A really long walk. She asked if I’d had trouble concentrating or anything and I realised that reading has been rather difficult since Wednesday. I’d assumed that this particular book I’ve been reading had just got really complicated and/or was written badly. Turns out it’s more likely due to the bump. I’ll have to go back a couple of chapters to catch up when I’m feeling better.
John Leach is a human being living in Leeds, UK.
December 12th, 2005 at 20:08
Some comment about sense and the banging of heads and the knocking it back into yo… gah whatever. Its abuse, thats all you need to know and should have come to expect by now.
July 31st, 2006 at 20:46
[...] It reminds me of the time I banged my head in that I didn’t realise I was suffering from concussion because the detection equipment was suffering from concussion. [...]