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Old 05-20-2011, 03:04 AM
Mark in Idaho Mark in Idaho is offline
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You have suffered a serious concussion. The length of and repeating of LOC (Loss of Consciousness) suggests that your brain is very unstable.

Keep in mind that if you were clear to return to play, the only value of being cleared is that you have regained enough function to not cause an added risk to yourself due to coordination and reaction times. It has no bearing on the ability of your brain to endure another impact.

You are now living with Multiple Impact Syndrome.

Your ImPACT scores are meaningless in my opinion. They do not tell you that you have healed. They just say what your cognitive functions and reaction times are compared to previous ImPACT tests. You may have injured a different part of your brain that was injured less severely in March. ImPACT is better than nothing but severely lacking IMO.

You need to seriously consider making some drastic changes to your risky activities.

A problem with highway driving is the speed at which the road is passing by and the double speed of the vehicles in the opposing lanes. If you focus on the road farther away from your car, you may do better. My concern is whether you can be a safe driver.

I have done very little highway driving in the past 10 years. My non-highway driving is usually limited to 40 mph or less. Driving at night is much less of a problem due to the darkness limiting my visual stimulation to the area lit by my head lights.

I have had to learn to focus away from the car when I am riding and my wife is driving. If I try to focus too close to the car, I get overwhelmed and fatigued.

Xoe22, If you plan on returning to play, I suggest you fill out an Advanced Medical Directive sometimes called a Living Will. You need to decide what you want done for medical care if you become unable to respond to the doctors. I would not leave the decision making up to health care professionals.
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