Hi Mark In Idaho,

I understand that you believe no one can fully recover from a concussion because they are more susceptible to getting another concussion after having one.

But, just because you had trouble recovering from a long fever does not mean that everyone who has had a concussion will have trouble in the same way or even have trouble from anything.

As you often inform people here, "Once you've seen one brain injury, you've seen one brain injury."

I agree that changes need to be made after a person has been diagnosed with one concussion to try to ensure that they do not sustain another one. But sometimes you make it sound like a much more drastic change needs to happen, or that there will be very severe and permanent impairments to everyone that has had just one concussion. The fact is, that not everyone does have to drastically change their lives or deal with permanent symptoms after having one concussion.

I think when many people refer to making a "full" recovery, that they are really talking about their cognitive functioning levels and energy levels returning to what they were before the injury that they are trying to recovery from.

Most people know that if you break a bone or tear a muscle, that it could be more susceptible to feeling weather changes and they might not be able to do quite as much as they could before, but the fact that it's not a constant disability like they are in a full body cast anymore feels almost like it's as good as new! And speaking for myself, I can tell you that the impairments that I am currently dealing with make me feel disabled and I don't want to live with them. My Dr. has told me that I'll be "normal" again and I take that to mean that I won't have to deal with the speech impediments or cognitive deficits that I'm dealing with now forever; that they will continue to improve, as they have, until they're all gone. And I'm looking forward to that. Does that mean I'm going to play soccer? Hell no! But I will at least feel better because thinking and speaking won't be as much of a challenge as they are to me now, they will be like they were before.

I think you sometimes get caught up in small details and tend to tell everyone who comes here for help and advice that they need to make huge and drastic changes to their lives, and conduct oodles of tests and learn to cope with permanent deficits after they have been diagnosed with one concussion. I tend to think you especially believe it to be true because that has been your personal experience with the concussions you have sustained.

I think it must be very scary for anyone to read that - I personally know that some people recovering from a concussion are a lot more suggestible than normal and reading your posts sound like the only possible outcome and that's just not the case.

I respect you very much. I think you are a very knowledgeable and intelligent member who contributes a great deal to a community that desperately needs it. But, I also think that because of the multiple head injuries that you have acquired, you suffer from rigid thinking (which you have told us about yourself on a few occasions), and I think this is just another example of that.

I hope I have not offended you in any way by my posting this; that was certainly not my intention in any way shape or form.