[Loki]

Apt, on 12 December 2016 - 06:31 PM, said:

How are you alive?!

You sound just like my husband. He says that all the time! He still won't move past the fact that I used to ride my bmx in storm drains. He thinks the reason I got sick a lot is because I was supposed to die as a kid and it's the Universe's way of trying to remedy that mistake. He says the nicest things.

[Aptorian]

I second his opinion. You should be wrapped in bubble wrap and have bells and blinking lights all over you.

[Loki]

Apt, on 12 December 2016 - 06:37 PM, said:

I second his opinion. You should be wrapped in bubble wrap and have bells and blinking lights all over you.

I will have you know that I am frequently wrapped in bubblewrap! It's the best way to play human pinata. Which just reminded me of the time my friend smacked me in the head with a metal pole at a friend's 18th during the pinata. Ot wasn't that bad but it made eating the candy less fun as my head hurt when I chewed. Speaking of heads hurting. I think mine is getting worse the more I use my phone.

Dammit, I forgot the time I dislocated my jaw. That's 15 not 14. I shouldn't say that with such pride, should I?

This post has been edited by Loki: 12 December 2016 - 06:42 PM

[Abyss]

13. should be a point of pride regardless.

[Mentalist]

Loki, on 12 December 2016 - 06:40 PM, said:

Apt, on 12 December 2016 - 06:37 PM, said:

I second his opinion. You should be wrapped in bubble wrap and have bells and blinking lights all over you.

I will have you know that I am frequently wrapped in bubblewrap! It's the best way to play human pinata. Which just reminded me of the time my friend smacked me in the head with a metal pole at a friend's 18th during the pinata. Ot wasn't that bad but it made eating the candy less fun as my head hurt when I chewed. Speaking of heads hurting. I think mine is getting worse the more I use my phone.

Dammit, I forgot the time I dislocated my jaw. That's 15 not 14. I shouldn't say that with such pride, should I?

I'm tempted to print this post, frame it, and point it out to my mother every time she says i'm unusually injury-prone.

[amphibian]

Apt, on 12 December 2016 - 06:31 PM, said:

How are you alive?!

Usually ten concussions is a serious benchmark for depression, anger swings, and all manner of brain damage.

I really think you should put a ton of grippy stuff on the bathtub floor to prevent the most likely cause of new concussions.

And yell at your mother for two car door bashes.

I've had about four or five. The migraines and nausea are horrible. I'll do anything to avoid getting more.

[Tiste Simeon]

Guys... I think I'm coming down with man flu... If I don't make it, it's been an honour knowing you all...

[Hairshirt]

Watch Frontline's documentary "League of Denial" on concussions in the NFL. Scary stuff. I played football through college and had 4 diagnosed concussions and it definitely took a toll. The scary part is what they call micro concussions which happen every time your head is hit, which is basically every single play for a lineman like myself. In the 9 years of high school and college (yes college took 5 years, I was concussed) it's probably in the tens of thousands I had a micro concussion. It scares the hell out of me thinking about it, I will never allow my kids to play football.

[worry]

Abyss, on 12 December 2016 - 07:55 PM, said:

13. should be a point of pride regardless.

As long as it's not the one her brother reminded her about.

[Mezla PigDog]

At what point does your head hurting from being bashed become a concussion? I've never had one.

[amphibian]

Mezla PigDog, on 12 December 2016 - 09:31 PM, said:

At what point does your head hurting from being bashed become a concussion? I've never had one.

It's really hard to say "this is when" regarding a concussion - especially when it's a kid who received the head blow. Lasting effects are usually the benchmarks.

http://www.mayoclini...ms/con-20019272

A stronger neck can help us sustain more force/trauma without being concussed (it's what gives fighters their "chin"). So I'm getting on this neck strengthening regimen for 2017.

10+ concussions is seriously bad territory. People die from the aftereffects and damage. It changes them and the lives of those around them.

[worry]

What the science tells us is that region of the head matters as much as # of concussions. If you imagine a hairless human head with a checkerboard patter on it, you can safely "concuss" almost every square once with no serious lasting effects. You can even concuss a square twice w/o worry, unless you do so to two adjacent squares (ie 2 adjacent squares 2x each). Diagonals are safe though. The worst problems arise when you concuss one specific region -- that which in babies is the 'soft spot' and in adults is called the King Square. Concussing that once is a major no-no, and twice is "Checkmate". Likewise concussing any other square 3 or more times may have a severe neurological impact, and that's called a "Bobby Fischer". It's all pretty worrisome and I do advise consulting a physician regardless.

[Loki]

Worry is right. Amp, your info seems to be sports related and that's not the best information to go by. Also, lasting effects is not accurate. Concussions are minor brain injuries that usually resolve themselves within a couple of week. When they don't resolve, you are dealing with brain damage, which is something different. So concerns of things like depression (I've never had it), etc they are ongoing symptoms of brain damage.

As for the frequency, all but this last one occured prior to being 21.

Ew, my brother remembered the surfboard one you sick, sick people.

I can't tell my mum anything, she's dead.

Ment, mate, you should do that and add a disclaimer that the list doesn't include how I dislocated my entire vertebrae or any of the bike and/or motorbike crashes.

Abyss, hell yeah it's a point of pride. Also, taught to value good knotwork.

I think that's everything.

Cheers for the concern but it's not as bad as it all sounds and despite my distaste of hopistals etc I *am* married to a doctor who is very good at his job and of he had any real concern he would have had me in CT by now. I just need to let my brain rest - physically and mentally - for a few days and I'll be fine.

This post has been edited by Loki: 12 December 2016 - 11:53 PM

[EmperorMagus]

Dadding, on 12 December 2016 - 04:16 PM, said:

EmperorMagus, on 12 December 2016 - 04:10 PM, said:

Dadding, on 12 December 2016 - 01:42 PM, said:

Loki, on 12 December 2016 - 04:49 AM, said:

I am still spinning out and feeling nauseated.

I'm just happy you said nauseated instead of nauseous. Concussion and still better than 90% of English speakers!

If 90% of native speakers say nauseous instead of nauseated, then nauseous is the correct way to say it. That's just how languages work.

Just like literally means figuratively in modern English.

Interesting point, but how do you distinguish between something like "literally" and a common homophone error (than vs. then, should of vs. should have). If enough people make the mistake it becomes the correct way?

So I'm taking a minor in linguistics, so I feel moderately qualified to explain something here.

This issue has at east two different levels, namely, competence and performance. In the case of "literally" vs. "figuratively", the speaker intends to say "literally" and also intends their "literally" to mean "figuratively". Here, the speaker has the linguistic knowledge (competence) and has also expressed what they want accurately (performance).

Homophones, such as "then" versus "than" are cases of linguistic performance not matching competence. Most of the time, if you give the speaker a choice between "then" and "than" they will choose correctly, but they will not make the correct choices while touch typing. This not because they don't know better, but because the constraints of the situation has made it so that the extra effort is not worth it. This is when performance doesn't match the aforementioned competence. I clearly know the difference between "me" and "my", but I constantly misuse the words when touch typing. (btw if you find any egregious typing errors in my posts it's probably because I've recently learned touch typing and I'm not really fluent yet.)

There is a third option here as well. Sometimes, the correct form of the words/sentences changes in various dialects of a language. A good example of this is when African-Americans use sentences such as "I don't know nothing." A double negative is wrong in standard American English, but there is nothing wrong with it in that specific dialect. "Should of" may be a case of competence not matching performance OR a case of a dialectical difference.

A caveat here is that just because there are linguistic differences it doesn't mean you shouldn't expect the use of formal(or traditional) standard American/Canadian/British/etc. English in appropriate situations. That is the case for any language regardless of the number of dialects it has. But on a casual forum it's irrational to expect people to stick to proper English (regardless of how much Venge's grammar aggravates me, I have promised myself I would never again complain about it... oops)

[Abyss]

Briar King, on 13 December 2016 - 04:02 AM, said:

How does blood sugar work? Like the number how do tell if it's high? What's the scale weight or age etc?

5'7 148 lbs 36 y the strip said 129

Are you asking us in our medical professional roles?

[worry]

Wow, that's almost Einstein's reported blood sugar level. I'm impressed!

[Aptorian]

Briar King, on 13 December 2016 - 04:02 AM, said:

How does blood sugar work? Like the number how do tell if it's high? What's the scale weight or age etc?

5'7 148 lbs 36 y the strip said 129

I believe one reliable test is to cut yourself. If what comes out looks and tastes like syrup, your blood sugar is too high? Also you can use a dipstick by inserting it into a vein, to measure how much sugar is in your blood... I think.

[Loki]

Briar King, on 13 December 2016 - 04:02 AM, said:

How does blood sugar work? Like the number how do tell if it's high? What's the scale weight or age etc?

5'7 148 lbs 36 y the strip said 129

It depends on whether you have eaten and other things as well. 125 is the higher end of the scale that you want to be below. So 129 is above that but things like whether you have eaten, how recently, what you ate etc will affect your levels so it's not concerning unless you keep testing at higher levels. Of course, if you have diabetes then it's different.

But I'm not a doctor and I am paraphrasing from memory what mine told me so it could be completely wrong. :/

This post has been edited by Loki: 13 December 2016 - 04:57 AM

[Una]

Ugh!

I'm a doctor, but I don't work in your weird American units. Seriously! Why do you do this to yourselves? Fahrenheit! Fluid ounces! Foot-pounds! Nobody else knows that the heck you are talking about.
Anyways, I presume that 129 must be in mg/dL, because that number by itself makes no sense to me as a blood sugar. I found a table online that says that 129mg/dL works out to about 7.3 mmol/L, which makes much more sense, so I will go with that.

If that's what you get when you have been fasting, (e.g. first thing in the morning before you'd had anything to eat or drink) that's considered to be into the diabetes range of things. If that's what you are getting at some random time during the day, that is perfectly normal. There are no adjustments made for age or weight as far as diagnosis is concerned. In terms of treatment, we may be less aggressive with older, frailer individuals if we feel that flogging them with medications to try to force their sugars down to a specific target could do more harm than good.

Without further context, I can't really comment any further except to caution that a single reading does not diagnose anything. It would have to be confirmed with a real blood sample under lab conditions, mostly likely with some fasting +/- feeding you a predetermined dose of sugar to see what happens.

[Una]

7.3 is perfectly normal for 2hrs after eating.

A very common cause of tingling and numbness in the toes and feet is nerve damage from diabetes. You live in Louisiana, which I understand is located in the region known as the Deep South, land of deep fried food, widespread obesity, and rampant diabetes. It's a pretty sensible thing to ask about and check for considering all the weird, nervy stuff you get.