[AmyMarie]

My husband was in a MVA on 1/19/12 by going into a ditch and taking out many trees when a deer darted out in front of him. Car was totaled with no air-bag deployment. He had his seat-belt on and it was more whiplash than anything else (did not hit head in accident). All mri & ct scans were normal as well as his neck-flex test. He was an inpatient for 3 days.

About 12 days after the accident, he was seen at a special concussion unit of a Neurosurgical practice outside the trauma center where he was an inpatient . My DH wanted to go back to work and they ok'd him to go back to work on a limited schedule of only 8 hrs a day with no overtime and rest as needed. They diagnosed him with PCS. On 2/6/12 he returned to work and he said he did ok. Fatigue was expected along with short-term headaches, dizziness and forgetfulness as well as sleep issues. Today he is going on his 2nd week of work and his headaches are getting less and less along with the dizziness. He is concerned, however, with his forgetfulness.

I have read on this board, as well as investigating other online resources about PCS, (concentrating on forgetfulness and short-term memory loss) that severe forgetfulness and memory loss can include forgetting how to use a phone, remote control or being in your car and forgetting where you were going. Luckily, my DH has not experienced any of these or anything this serious.

What he has experienced is forgetting what I told him after only a couple minutes go by or, like last night, he said he would leave me the debit card and put it on the table in the morning and he totally forgot. He seemed concerned so he called the concussion clinic and they told him that this is normal and that if he wanted to, he could go for cognitive therapy and they would send a script in the mail.

With that said, it has only been a little over 3 weeks since his accident and I told him it could take up to 3-6 months for symptoms to decrease and get better. He is going to wait another 2 weeks to see how he feels before making a decision about cognitive therapy (plus we cannot afford it now).

Any/all advice would be greatly appreciated from your own personal experience(s).