re: contact sports Canonically, he's been a martial artist since he was around 6, and he gets into tussles with school bullies regularly, so he's at least used to getting into fights and sometimes roughed up.
I'll definitely be going back and editing to add some fractured memories of him getting moved around between the accident and getting home, then! No more X hours of full unconsciousness for my boy.
He probably should wear a helmet. :p Though in this case he was on foot and got hit by a car that veered off the road, so he didn't exactly expect to be in a dangerous situation at the time. And he had his fic-magic to keep him from going home in a body bag.
What I know about concussions has been, y'know, what I could scrap together from the internet that wasn't too contradictory. Plus the time when I was young that I only partly remember, when my mother had a very severe concussion that left her emotionally regressed to childhood for... months. And even after recovering she had some permanent cognitive-behavioral effects. Just being a little bit more volatile, a little less emotionally regulated... And that was just from falling out of her chair at work! ...admittedly, onto a concrete floor. But I know my personal concussion experience is not super typical and not a great measuring stick for how to handle more minor or moderate cases...
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Date: 2023-08-19 02:37 pm (UTC)re: contact sports
Canonically, he's been a martial artist since he was around 6, and he gets into tussles with school bullies regularly, so he's at least used to getting into fights and sometimes roughed up.
I'll definitely be going back and editing to add some fractured memories of him getting moved around between the accident and getting home, then! No more X hours of full unconsciousness for my boy.
He probably should wear a helmet. :p
Though in this case he was on foot and got hit by a car that veered off the road, so he didn't exactly expect to be in a dangerous situation at the time. And he had his fic-magic to keep him from going home in a body bag.
What I know about concussions has been, y'know, what I could scrap together from the internet that wasn't too contradictory. Plus the time when I was young that I only partly remember, when my mother had a very severe concussion that left her emotionally regressed to childhood for... months. And even after recovering she had some permanent cognitive-behavioral effects. Just being a little bit more volatile, a little less emotionally regulated...
And that was just from falling out of her chair at work! ...admittedly, onto a concrete floor.
But I know my personal concussion experience is not super typical and not a great measuring stick for how to handle more minor or moderate cases...
So thanks again for all this information!