“Hey! Wanna go for a bike ride tonight?” Karli texted me this one-night last summer. This one night where my whole summer ended. The last night I remained able to hang out with my friends for the entire summer came before I knew it. No one had ever guessed bad things might happen. This will give you insight into how I received my concussion. One summer night my friends and I wanted to do something. Karli thought we should go for a bike ride and then texted me. The only people who had the chance to bike around were, Karli, Olivia, and me. Earlier in the evening, I received the text so I still had to eat supper and then meet them uptown. So, we decided to meet at 7:30. I remember what we ended up having for supper, pork chops. This is the last
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They told me I started running up some stairs because the game involved running and moving around to different places. On the stairs there’s a little roof and apparently I didn’t see this or I just didn’t duck down far enough because they said I smacked my head on the roof and then fell backwards and hit my head on the ground and I hit my neck on the stairs. After this my friends said we just kept messing around. A little later we decided to take a selfie apparently. After this we started looking at the picture and they said I didn’t remember taking the picture and I seemed really confused. They just shook it off and thought I had been kidding. We started walking they said, and then they told me I kept asking if I had hit my head and what had happened because I said my head hurt. After this they said they felt really concerned and we walked back to the cars. They decided I shouldn’t drive home so they took my phone and called my parents to see if they could come pick me up. So they loaded my bike up for me and then my parents came. I hopped in my mom’s car and my dad took his pickup, my mom told me. She said on the way home I kept asking the same …show more content…
My dad told me I asked these questions for the next hour and a half. Also at one point I must have said,
“We have a dog.”
My mom responded with “Yep, do you remember her name?”
She then said, “Jersey, remember?”
After the hour and a half, my parents decided this seemed unordinary. So, my parents call Mr. Koedam because we are good family friends and they figured he probably knew what to do. He said if I still acted like this in a half hour, then they should probably take me to the doctor just in case, they told me. I seemed to be still acting weird, so my mom took me in the ER. They gave me a CT scan to check for bleeding because I made them concerned, but it all turned out good. So they just determined I had a severe concussion and I needed to rest a
They told me I started running up some stairs because the game involved running and moving around to different places. On the stairs there’s a little roof and apparently I didn’t see this or I just didn’t duck down far enough because they said I smacked my head on the roof and then fell backwards and hit my head on the ground and I hit my neck on the stairs. After this my friends said we just kept messing around. A little later we decided to take a selfie apparently. After this we started looking at the picture and they said I didn’t remember taking the picture and I seemed really confused. They just shook it off and thought I had been kidding. We started walking they said, and then they told me I kept asking if I had hit my head and what had happened because I said my head hurt. After this they said they felt really concerned and we walked back to the cars. They decided I shouldn’t drive home so they took my phone and called my parents to see if they could come pick me up. So they loaded my bike up for me and then my parents came. I hopped in my mom’s car and my dad took his pickup, my mom told me. She said on the way home I kept asking the same …show more content…
My dad told me I asked these questions for the next hour and a half. Also at one point I must have said,
“We have a dog.”
My mom responded with “Yep, do you remember her name?”
She then said, “Jersey, remember?”
After the hour and a half, my parents decided this seemed unordinary. So, my parents call Mr. Koedam because we are good family friends and they figured he probably knew what to do. He said if I still acted like this in a half hour, then they should probably take me to the doctor just in case, they told me. I seemed to be still acting weird, so my mom took me in the ER. They gave me a CT scan to check for bleeding because I made them concerned, but it all turned out good. So they just determined I had a severe concussion and I needed to rest a