[Wildrose55]

Morning all,

I'm the mom of a 17 y/o girl who was hit full force with a shoulder to the head when she was coming out of the net to save a shot (she's the goalie). She did black out for a few seconds (didn't realize that at the time until she mentioned she didn't remember the hit, falling or what happened right after).

Being the kid she is, she ignored the headache and ran a 1/2 marathon three days later. She went to the doctor on the Monday and he told her it was a concussion...just take it easy for a week or until the headaches were gone.

Long story short, she lied about the headaches and played in three more soccer games the week after taking it easy.

She finally admitted that the headaches were horrendous and was there all the time. This 90 percent student - graduation year - failed three tests in the weeks after the hit. One of the tests, she failed because she did all the calculations backwards.

Took her last week to a sports medicine clinic and it was confirmed that she has PCS and she was to take off a few weeks from school/work. She was put on an anti-inflammatory and tylenol 1's with codeine at bedtime to help her sleep. She is actually sleeping now at night for up to 12 hours which is a good thing.

She isn't reading, no computer but is watching TV. She's on house arrest basically and its driving her batty!

She's freaking out because this is her graduation year and she is terrified that she won't graduate with her class plus with no exercise for this fanatic she's going to blow up and not fit into her grad dress.....she is off school again this week and we'll have to see next week. She is in pre-cal, bio & chem...definitely not the classes you want to miss three weeks in.

Anyone have any suggestions on what the school can do/what I can do to help her with the tests that she has missed, assignments she has missed. She has short term memory issues and obviously putting a five page test in front of her and have her complete it will be basically impossible.

Sorry for the long essay but I'm really sick over this and wish there was something I could do to help her. The meds she's on don't touch the heachaches....suggestions on that also would be appreciated.

Thanks