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| dholbach | good morning! | 08:28 |
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| === dholbach_ is now known as dholbach | ||
| hexmode | good morning... I'm back from the hospital | 14:20 |
| MooDoo | hexmode: patient or visiting? | 14:53 |
| hexmode | MooDoo: patient: http://hexmode.com/540584.html | 14:54 |
| MooDoo | blimey, but you're recovering well [as much as you can] now? | 14:55 |
| hexmode | MooDoo: yes, doctors & nurses in the brain injury unit were impressed | 15:01 |
| hexmode | I attribute it to the car accident that knocked me into a coma when I was three | 15:02 |
| MooDoo | hexmode: well that's good news :) | 15:02 |
| hexmode | taught my body how to deal with trauma ;) | 15:02 |
| MooDoo | well i'm glad you're ok :) | 15:02 |
| hexmode | but I don't know how true that is | 15:02 |
| hexmode | Thank you. | 15:03 |
| dholbach | hexmode: wow - all the best! | 15:23 |
| * dholbach hugs hexmode | 15:23 | |
| hexmode | dholbach: thanks, the worst (that is, the actual wreck) is over now. | 15:23 |
| dholbach | holy cow, really | 15:24 |
| hexmode | mostly just wanted to let ppl know why I haven't been active ;) | 15:24 |
| MooDoo | hexmode: you damn slacker you ;() | 15:24 |
| MooDoo | ;) | 15:24 |
| hexmode | :P | 15:25 |
| Pendulum | hexmode: glad you're doing so well with your recovery | 16:09 |
| hexmode | Pendulum: tyvm | 16:09 |
| Pendulum | (I know enough about head injury and have known enough people with TBIs that I'm quite impressed with how well you're doing) | 16:10 |
| hexmode | Pendulum: the brain injury unit was quit a showcase of "how bad it could be" | 16:11 |
| hexmode | :P | 16:11 |
| Pendulum | heh | 16:11 |
| hexmode | s/quit/quite/ | 16:11 |
| Pendulum | well, I assumed you were aware, but I suspect most other people in this channel aren't :P | 16:11 |
| Pendulum | they kept you in Reading? (I wasn't aware that they had a brain injury unit as most people I've known in that area with TBI ended up getting sent to Philly) | 16:12 |
| Pendulum | or to whatever the one is in Paoli area that's affiliated with I think UPenn's system | 16:13 |
| hexmode | I was in a post-trauma Rehab center there | 16:13 |
| Pendulum | *nods* | 16:13 |
| hexmode | and actually I live in Akron, they flew me to Reading | 16:13 |
| Pendulum | ah, okay | 16:13 |
| hexmode | so the hospital seemed up to it | 16:13 |
| Pendulum | :) | 16:14 |
| hexmode | the rehab building is new (1yr old) but I don't think the program is | 16:14 |
| Pendulum | (I went to school outside Philly and was semi-active with the disability community in the area) | 16:14 |
| Pendulum | :) | 16:14 |
| hexmode | there was one girl in there who had to have her head extracted from a windshield :P | 16:15 |
| Pendulum | ouch | 16:15 |
| Pendulum | why to wear a seatbelt 101 (generally if your head goes through the windshield, you weren't wearing a seatbelt) | 16:15 |
| * hexmode nods | 16:15 | |
| Pendulum | most people I've known with TBI actually have been similar to you: either runners or bicyclists | 16:16 |
| hexmode | tbi = traumatic brain injury ?? | 16:17 |
| hexmode | I will hid your statement from my wife. otherwise she may never let me ride again ;( | 16:18 |
| Pendulum | yeah | 16:18 |
| Pendulum | tbi = traumatic brain injury | 16:19 |
| hexmode | Pendulum: where are you located now? | 16:19 |
| Pendulum | technically it covers anything from a mild concussion to coma-due-to-brain-injury, but generally people use it to describe something more serious than a minor concussion and with longer-lasting effects | 16:19 |
| Pendulum | I'm currently up in CT | 16:20 |
| hexmode | though they did have posters up there talking 'bout concussion & football. | 16:21 |
| Pendulum | yeah | 16:21 |
| Pendulum | well they're discovering over time that the more concussions you have the easier it becomes to get concussed and the more long-term effects | 16:21 |
| Pendulum | (I know it's been talked about as a possible reason for the recent suicides by young professional and college football players) | 16:22 |
| hexmode | suicide? I think I saw a patient up there whose attitude had been affected negatively by their TBI, but I'm surprised that concussion would do that? | 16:31 |
| hexmode | btw, patient was mostly angry not suicidal | 16:32 |
| Pendulum | there's a specific thing that can occur due to multiple/repeated concussions healing "wrong" | 16:34 |
| Pendulum | which can cause depression | 16:34 |
| Pendulum | the problem being it's not possible to diagnose without a brain biopsy | 16:35 |
| hexmode | ugh biopsy | 16:35 |
| Pendulum | well, and brain biopsies can't be done on someone who is alive | 16:35 |
| hexmode | so, an autopsy | 16:36 |
| * hexmode is mr. pedantic | 16:36 | |
| Pendulum | hexmode: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_traumatic_encephalopathy | 16:36 |
| Pendulum | well, the biopsy is done as part of an autopsy, yes | 16:37 |
| hexmode | So, it seems unlikely that even football players who commit suicide would have brain biopsies done... | 16:38 |
| Pendulum | I only heard about it when reading about Chris Henry | 16:39 |
| Pendulum | because his family did have one done | 16:39 |
| Pendulum | and Owen Thomas | 16:39 |
| Pendulum | although they're not positive about Owen Thomas because he had no recorded concussions | 16:40 |
| Pendulum | (but even as a softball player I had injuries that were probably concussions and I was told not to bother getting checked out so...) | 16:40 |
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