Hello. I am the mom to an adolescent son who is recovering from a concussion.

His concussion symptoms were quite severe initially, and we are grateful that he has come a long way. He's rounding the bend of the first month now, however, and as he's still suffering quite a bit we're in the post concussion syndrome diagnosis now.

I'm going to be reading and reading and I'm very grateful to everyone who has posted before me and who has replied and I appreciate that you are all here for support.

I'm sure that I'm going to learn a lot from reading here, but right now, this morning, just knowing that there is a community of people who truly understand our reality right now is very important to me. I've grown very sad and feel very alone as most of my friends haven't demonstrated a genuine understanding of what we are going through. I find myself often thinking, since the accident, I think I need to work on finding better friends...

but that is for another time, after my son is recovered. Anyway, thank you for being here and providing this forum.