[08:28] <dholbach> good morning!
[14:20] <hexmode> good morning...  I'm back from the hospital
[14:53] <MooDoo> hexmode: patient or visiting?
[14:54] <hexmode> MooDoo: patient: http://hexmode.com/540584.html
[14:55] <MooDoo> blimey, but you're recovering well [as much as you can] now?
[15:01] <hexmode> MooDoo: yes, doctors & nurses in the brain injury unit were impressed
[15:02] <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
[15:03] <hexmode> Thank you.
[15:23] <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.
[15:24] <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> ;)
[15:25] <hexmode> :P
[16:09] <Pendulum> hexmode: glad you're doing so well with your recovery
[16:09] <hexmode> Pendulum: tyvm
[16:10] <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)
[16:11] <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
[16:12] <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)
[16:13] <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
[16:14] <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> :)
[16:15] <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
[16:16] <Pendulum> most people I've known with TBI actually have been similar to you: either runners or bicyclists
[16:17] <hexmode> tbi = traumatic brain injury ??
[16:18] <hexmode> I will hid your statement from my wife.  otherwise she may never let me ride again ;(
[16:18] <Pendulum> yeah
[16:19] <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
[16:20] <Pendulum> I'm currently up in CT
[16:21] <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
[16:22] <Pendulum> (I know it's been talked about as a possible reason for the recent suicides by young professional and college football players)
[16:31] <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?
[16:32] <hexmode> btw, patient was mostly angry not suicidal
[16:34] <Pendulum> there's a specific thing that can occur due to multiple/repeated concussions healing "wrong"
[16:34] <Pendulum> which can cause depression
[16:35] <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
[16:36] <hexmode> so, an autopsy
[16:36]  * hexmode is mr. pedantic
[16:36] <Pendulum> hexmode: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_traumatic_encephalopathy
[16:37] <Pendulum> well, the biopsy is done as part of an autopsy, yes
[16:38] <hexmode> So, it seems unlikely that even football players who commit suicide would have brain biopsies done...
[16:39] <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
[16:40] <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...)