Cant Believe Ive Gotta Bang My Head Against the Wall Again
March 19th, 2009
05:39 PM ET
Head trauma is nothing to exist taken lightly
By Val Willingham
CNN Medical Producer
The death of actress Natasha Richardson is tragic. A beautiful, vital 45-year-old goes for a ski lesson and falls. She gets up, declines medical care and goes dorsum to her hotel. From there, the story takes a terrible turn. She becomes ill, and is transported to one infirmary, and so another and then finally to a 3rd hospital near her habitation, where she dies two days later from encephalon injuries acquired by an epidural hematoma. Her family, friends and fans are shocked. How can something equally innocent as a ski fall impale you? Because, neurologists say, the brain, although complex, is a frail organ. It's very vulnerable and it needs to be taken seriously. And even a crash-land on the head can take its price. Unfortunately, I know this all too well.
Thirteen years ago, my husband, daughter and I were in a terrible car accident on the Florida Turnpike. On our manner to Orlando, our vehicle was hit by a driver who had fallen asleep at the bike. Although we all had our seat belts on, our automobile swerved and hit a bridge embankment. My hubby's caput went out the side window, hitting the windshield and the concrete. When EMS workers got to united states of america, information technology looked as if a battle had taken place: called-for cars, debris. And considering my husband had a major slice to his head, claret was everywhere. I was not hurt, and my girl had a minor cut from flight glass. They loaded the states into ambulances and took the states to two unlike hospitals, my husband headed for the local trauma unit. He stayed two days in the hospital. They stitched up his brow and sent him home, mentioning that he may want to run into his dr. once he got back to Washington, D.C. And although the whole thing was terribly traumatic, we left Florida three days later, with my husband behind the wheel of a rental automobile.
Considering he felt fine and there seemed to be no urgency to his injuries, my married man went back to piece of work and fabricated an appointment with his md to have a CT scan two months afterwards. When he got off the table, the radiologist asked him to sit down and immediately called a neurologist. Equally the medico viewed the images, his face turned pale and he asked my married man how long had information technology been since he was in the accident. My married man shrugged and said, "A couple of months." The md then told him not to move - he was going to schedule surgery immediately. It seemed my husband had developed a subdural hematoma that covered his unabridged brain. According to MayoClinic.com it's usually formed from caput trauma that causes the encephalon to be shaken severely. Many children who endure from shaken babe syndrome have these type of injuries. And unlike epidural hematomas, which bleed in the brain fairly apace, my husband'southward injury developed slowly, causing a massive bruise to form. I false move could have given him a stroke, or acquired permanent brain damage.
Although my husband fabricated information technology through brain surgery without incident, there is a lesson here. Never take a head injury for granted. When doctors looked at his scans in the ER in Florida, they evidently did not run across the bruising that later formed over his brain. Considering the brain is loaded with large and small blood vessels, head injuries can cause all sorts of serious problems. Studies have shown that athletes who suffer even small concussions tin develop neurological problems afterwards in life. The encephalon is nothing to exist messed with.
Ironically, March is Encephalon Injury Awareness Calendar month. And although brain injuries are non as common as, say, broken bones, they do happen and many have serious consequences. They need to be treated immediately. In this story, my married man got treated, earlier suffering brain harm. He was fortunate. God anoint her, but Ms. Richardson was not.
Have y'all ever faced head trauma? Know someone who has? What happened? We'd like to hear about information technology.
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