Horrible Headaches

Well, I'm pretty much over my minor concussion. I'm still not up to going for 3 mile runs, but I hope to be able to do that by the end of this week.

Unfortunately, I don't have an awesome story to go with the concussion. It's not like my sister's story of her rock climbing accident that ended in the emergency room and two staples in her head holding it together. I had just finished mowing half of my backyard and was pulling the lawn mower up hill. I was walking up hill facing forward with both hand behind me pulling the lawn mower. I slipped, and since my hands were behind me on the mower, I had nothing to brace myself with. I smacked my head on the ground really really hard. I didn't pass out, but it was so painful, and my head immediately started aching with a horrible headache. I had an instant knot on the top left side of my forehead along with a scrape, a bloody cut under my eye, and a swollen jaw. I felt unusually tired, so I just went back inside and worked on homework. A few hours after the headache subsided, a horrible throbbing set in. I went to sleep, thinking I would feel better in the morning. The next day I was still extremely tired (which for anyone who knows me well knows I am rarely, if ever, out of energy). I was also extremely emotional, bursting into tears for no reason and crying for half an hour or so at a time. At school, I felt very disoriented, and it was hard for me to have a normal conversation because I felt like I was in a fog. When I got home, I went to bed to sleep since I was to tired to do anything else. My mom, noticing how I was acting different, called a friend of our who is a doctor and explained everything that had happened and how I was acting weird. He said I definitely had a concussion, and I should go to the ER. I hate emergency rooms, so I waited another day and just went to my regular doctor. It ended up that I did have a minor concussion. I had to have a CT scan to make sure there was no bleeding on my brain. Thank God everything came back ok. I was told to get lots of rest, which I did! I would take a 2 hour nap during the day and then sleep for over 9 hours at night. That is totally abnormal for me since I'm normally a bundle of energy with just 6 to 7 hours of sleep.

A few days after the accident, my dad informed me that he bought accident insurance for me since I'm so accident-pron... This wasn't the first time I've racked up thousands as dollars worth of medical bills. Maybe I should just live in a bubble, but even then I'm sure I would find someway to hurt myself.