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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: USA
Posts: 162
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: USA
Posts: 162
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Sorry to hear about your troubles, we are the same age and kind of in the same boat. For me the thing that has gotten me through it and helped me to force myself to go to work and go to classes when I feel awful is that I do not want to worry my parents. They are both so stressed and worried as it is... So, I go to classes and just make sure that I talk about the class with someone afterwards to make sure that I heard everything. When I have gotten jobs, I make sure that they are sedentary jobs where I can write everything down so I don't forget...like secretarial work. As far as helping around the house, I find that if I work and rest in shifts that helps a lot. I work really hard for an hour or half and hour and then I rest for two hours. Also, I offer to help my mom with the part of her work that needs to be done on the computer, because working on the computer is relaxing to me and it is a way to feel useful. Another thing that I have done is gotten books on tape or books on my computer, because it is easier for me to read on the computer. I don't know if other people can do this, but if I keep myself high-strung or stressed enough for a few hours, it keeps me from giving into the pain and other stuff so that I can get things done, and then I just collapse and give in after those necessary things are done.
Over the summers I have worked all day and then I just come home and sleep and barely move. My parents understand, and they are just happy that I am getting the money I need, even if it means that I don't do much at home. If you can live at home and work, then you can help your mom to pay for food and stuff, but then you do not need to worry about paying the full rent, food, etc...then on weekends help out by cooking or something else like that.
This is my experience. I got my first concussion when 19 and my last of 10 this past summer. It is a long hard road with few understanding why I am so boring, but I am going to graduate with my bachelors in May and although my GPA has suffered, I have done it!
Good luck!
I hope that you have at least my luck if not more.
In Christ,
Margarite
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Fell off a horse in late winter of 2009 blacked out for a couple seconds, had amnesia for 10 hours (still don't remember this time), had 2 CT scans, 2 MRI's, 1 MRA all negative. Since the first concussion I have continually knocked my head into different things purely by accident or from being stupid. These many concussions over a short period of time have caused
constant migraines, nausea, and dizziness/lack of balance.
Migraine triggers are:
light sensitivity (especially to florescent or bright lights)
sound sensitivity (especially to high pitched or loud sounds)
temperature sensitivity (especially to cold or extreme heat)
activity (especially if breathing increases or head is jostled)
pressure on head (sinuses, hats, headbands, sunglasses, pony-tails)
lacks or quality (food, sleep, water)
tension (stress, tight muscles, tired eyes, sickness)
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