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Knocked unconcious on a pirate ship
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!
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!
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I had a motorbike accident when I was 17 and must have hit my head badly when some car (not going fast) drove into my right side (probably) while I was not going fast (quite sure). I was wearing a helmet.
That was around half past five in the evening, in December, so it was dark.
I remember an endless night chopped into pieces, a strange place I could make no sense of, people around me I did not recognize, me always asking "what happened", "where am I", yet never receiving an answer.
Later I learned that one of the people had been my mother, and that my questions must have been answered dozens of times. Another was my best friend who I did recognize and who could calm me down a bit. I remember nothing of that.
I awoke around nine in the morning and recognized that I was in the local hospital which I knew well enough, and that it was winter outside. Someone had said something about an accident, and after I had checked that I was physically OK, I mostly worried about my motorbike. When I tried to remember anything, I found that in my last easily accessed memories it was summer. I had some skin scraped off my knuckles, a bruise on my chin, and was otherwise OK enough. I took me about three days to piece my memory back together, but I happened on forgotten details for weeks, and I never remembered the accident.
So:
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Also, everyone always asks about their bike! It's a classic.