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I mean, the ambulance is still preferable due to the medical professionals and medical equipment it comes with, but I suppose that's also a possibility.
Ambulance is a smoother ride, too. Quite by design.
Unfortunately, my brother is being buoyed by some fucking literature that says you should only treat visibly catastrophic concussions as immediate cause to call an ambulance, and that standard procedure should be to just see your doctor.
Given that "concussion" is basically "your brain bounced around inside your skull and now it's bruising," I'd personally consider that some fucking cause for immediate alarm, but hey, what do I know.
I don't mean to be alarmist, and I get that I can't really know your situation since I'm way over here on the other side of the internet. You could wait until the morning, and see the doctor, and it could be totally fine.
It just makes me hella nervous to know that you'd be dealing with a fresh concussion all alone for hours.
I would stay up with you myself, but since I wouldn't be able to tell the difference between you falling unconscious and you getting up to grab a glass of water, I don't know how much help that would be.
"Keep an eye out for the following symptoms, which could merit an immediate trip to the emergency room:
Repeated vomiting
A headache that gets worse
Dizziness
Seizure
Abnormally severe drowsiness
Double vision
Slurred speech
Lack of coordination
Numbness or weakness in arms and legs"
...of course, there comes a certain time of night where your drowsiness would have to be pretty dang severe for it to be "abnormal," but most of those other symptoms are less ambiguous.
Most of those would keep me from moving over to the phone. Speaking into it is less of a problem, since they can pick up your location from the phone call itself.
If for whatever reason that turns out not to be in the cards, maybe you could grab the phone in advance and just keep it by you? Or, if all you've got is a corded phone, sit beside it.
My biggest reason to want the fuckin' medwagon coming now-wise is that, whether it's just a function of how this posture I'm maintaining is effecting my airway or not, my throat feels somewhat tight
That sounds to me, in my extremely unprofessional non-medically-trained opinion, like it's more likely to be due to your posture and/or general stress than a direct symptom of the concussion.
If only Speckled Burd were online, I could appeal to the fact that they're rather more educated on the topic than most to use them as an authority for the 'get the to a medicus' side.
On that note, if you've already gotten up and moved around since the injury, that suggests to me (as one of those NOT-a-doctor people) that you probably don't have to be as vigilant about maintaining immobility of the head as the instructions for a first-responder arriving on the scene of a head injury would indicate.
He's a bit dumb about such things, but ultimately he's acting on what he's been lead to believe is safe practice, and is at least doing the job of keeping tabs on me well enough.
Makes sense, since a good part of our idea of cute probably comes from evolutionary recognition of children, who can be rather silly when they aren't being hellions.
Well, you're still typing coherently at 8 AM (EST), which I take to mean still lucid, which is obviously good. I hope things continue to turn out well for you (given the circumstances) and that I prove to look extremely silly in hindsight.
Honestly, at this point I'm more concerned with my skeletal health than the possibility that there may be a legit concussion. I didn't experience any of the actual symptoms of a concussion more than an hour after the initial fall, aside from some amount of headache. Still, gonna call my doctor and see if I can go into them rather than urgent care.
If it were something terrible, that fact would've been visible enough that I'd be in a medical facility of some sort /now/ instead of tomorrow, when my normal doctor is available.
I mean, there's no way to really be one hundred percent sure, but severe concussions that demand immediate attention usually have severe symptoms that demand immediate attention.
*is not particularly thirsty right now, but accepts the milk*
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