Knocked unconcious on a pirate ship

[sunsalute]

Can I pick a medical brain about how you'd care for someone that was knocked unconcious with a blow to the head? If there's experience with how it feels and how to describe waking up, that would also be super amazing. I know it's super dangerous and requires a hospital visit but this is fic-land and historical and they're on a pirate ship so we're ignoring that small tidbit.

Setting: I'm not going to lie, this is pretty vague. Whatever Pirates of the Carribbean is, ish? On a ship belonging to a relatively well-respected naval officer who's just picked up someone with an 'or alive' bounty. As little crew as they can get away with.

The Knockening: poor Character is headbutted into unconciousness. They stay unconcious long enough to be moved to another ship.

The questions:
-how long can they stay unconcious before breaking suspension of disbelief
-how would someone used to dragging unconcious bodies around check up on Character as they wake up
-how does it feel to wake up after such a blow
-assuming no lasting damage, what temporary damage can Character expect?

Thank you so much!

Comments

[acelightning73]

When I was a kid, I'd see all these movie and TV adventures where someone got punched in the head and fell down, and by the next commercial break he was on his feet and chasing after whoever punched him. I knew from my own experiences that being hit in the head isn't like that.Every time it happened to me, it left me dazed and disoriented, with a lot of pain where I was hit and, I'd eventually throw up. Not like Heroic Private Detective who just got whammed in the medulla oblongata with a large revolver.

[cnoocy]

I'm sorry you had that much experience with it at a young age.

[acelightning73]

I was bullied for being a weirdo. At one point an adult said, "Why are you hitting her? You're bigger than she is?" "She's a weirdo, so we have to beat the weirdness out of her." "What do you mean she's a weirdo?" "She does weird things, like read books for FUN. We only read books when we have to for school." Childhood in the suburbs.

[full_metal_ox]

And somehow I just bet you read ahead of your grade level! And even committed that most grievous of offenses, reading ahead of the assigned chapter!

[acelightning73]

I was actually skipped ahead a grade - instead of going from 5th grade to 6th, I went directly into 7th grade. And I read and did book reports outside of class assignments, for extra credit. "You did schoolwork you didn't HAVE to do? Why?" (It increased my average, and I was on the Honor Roll. My parent bought me an expensive toy as a reward for making the Honor Roll. And I usually read the entire textbook once I received it. Once I had the bright idea of answering all the chapter questions in advance, but the teacher considered that cheating.

And because I got put into junior high ahead of time, I wasn't old enough to take driver education (you had to be 16) when I was in 12th grade. And I looke awfully silly in my prom dress.

[full_metal_ox]

Wow—that’s one hell of a way to accrue research, isn’t it! I hope that by now you’re safe from whomever did that to you.

[acelightning73]

Well, I'm 75 years old, not 11. And I've had a lot more practice being weird.