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That made me laugh a lot. Thanks mate.
Unfortunately as I age my spinal injury side effects are increasing in severity. Earlier this year I had really bad leg spasms that flipped my chair over and slammed my head into the ground. That interrupted (and ultimately ended, for now at least) my streaming. I got some medication and things quieted down and I was actually talking to my steam partner about starting up streaming again (especially since the 90's finally took their internet back and I have 30mbps down and 6-7 mbps up now) and then... 4 weeks ago tomorrow I was up at about 1:30 am grading papers and suddenly had a massive spasm and once again went over and smacked my head on the office floor (carpeted thankfully).
I actually came out of that one fairly okay. No symptoms. Fast forward to about 5:45 pm that day and I was again at my desk working and the worst spasm ever threw me over and was still accelerating me when my head hit. THAT hit has left me concussed and still dealing with the effects a month later to a much greater degree than the one earlier this year. I now have a massive cushion that I put behind me when I'm working and installed some anti-tip bars on my chair. So far I've not had another spasm so strong as to test whether the anti-tippers will keep me from going over.
To give a little idea of how strong this was, how quick, and how violent. I would estimate the 2nd of the two hits took perhaps 1.5 seconds total from the moment it began until the moment my head slammed into the ground. Some math suggests my head may have been traveling in excess of 35 mph when it hit. My desk, which is quite heavy, was moved nearly an entire foot by the force of the follow through from the fall, punching a hole in the wall and knocking my two monitors (Which are very stable and not close to the edge) off the back of the desk (no breakage thankfully).
To sum all of this up: two thoughts.
1.) I have absolutely ZERO idea how on earth athletes have sustained concussions (worse than mine in most cases) and continued to play high velocity sports as if nothing had happened. For the first week, if I moved my head more than a few millimeters a second, the pain was surreal.
2.) There is definitely a cumulative effect with concussions. The first one earlier this year was pretty bad. The back to back whammy a month ago was exponentially more damaging to day to day life.
The lesson? Be really careful with your head folks.
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