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Post by Zee on Feb 20, 2022 1:00:28 GMT
This is a pretty big fear of mine. DH is on blood thinners so any real hit and we are off to the ER, which is typically several times a year. They almost always comment how it’s good that we came in. How is he getting hit in the head several times a year hard enough to need the ER?
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Post by dewryce on Feb 20, 2022 14:16:14 GMT
This is a pretty big fear of mine. DH is on blood thinners so any real hit and we are off to the ER, which is typically several times a year. They almost always comment how it’s good that we came in. How is he getting hit in the head several times a year hard enough to need the ER? Valid question. He’s not too clumsy, but he is really tall @ 6’5” and doesn’t pay enough attention to his surroundings. Overhangs, cabinets, lighting, trunk lift doors, getting into unknown vehicles, etc. then add in slipping on ice and stairs…Any hit hard enough to cause more than very immediate minor pain only his hematologist wants him to go in. Now that I think about it, he hasn’t had to go in since 2020. Not sure if it’s because he finally figured it out and started being more cautious, or if because we’re not doing nearly as much in unfamiliar places. Probably a combo.
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Post by maryland on Feb 20, 2022 14:58:56 GMT
Yesterday, my daughter called me from college (5 hrs. away). She was very sick with the same virus she had two weeks ago. Fever, bad sore throat, weak, tired. She went to health center at school and was negative for covid, flu and strep. She called me as she was walking back to her dorm. Twenty min. later, my other daughter called and said my college daughter passed out in front of her dorm, got a huge bump on the side of head because she hit the concrete hard. A woman was nearby and called 911. A fire truck, ambulance and police car came and she was rushed to hospital with sirens on. She ended up being fine, we were so thankful! My parents live near campus so they brought her home to their house. After hearing what happened to Bob Saget, I was so grateful to the woman that called 911. Glad to hear she's okay! Thanks! The doctor thinks she was dehydrated and because she was sick, she hadn't eaten all day either, just slept. She passes out when she gets vaccines if she doesn't eat and drink a lot before. I sent her granola bars, energy bars, gatorade and apple juice to keep in her backpack at all times. It could have been a lot worse if she fell down a flight of stairs, she was so lucky to have just a bad bump on the head (no concussion).
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Post by smasonnc on Feb 20, 2022 15:39:45 GMT
I see that the family is working to have the information kept private. What is odd to me were the bruises and injuries to the front of his face. ..well, not my business. Speaking with The New York Times about the findings, Dr. Gavin Britz, the chair in neurosurgery at Houston Methodist Hospital, said: "This is significant trauma. This is something I find with someone with a baseball bat to the head, or who has fallen from 20 or 30 feet."This sure seems strange. I can't believe we're not talking about it. We talking about every time someone they knew hit their head, but not such unusual circumstances in this case.
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Post by iowgirl on Feb 20, 2022 15:56:02 GMT
Speaking with The New York Times about the findings, Dr. Gavin Britz, the chair in neurosurgery at Houston Methodist Hospital, said: "This is significant trauma. This is something I find with someone with a baseball bat to the head, or who has fallen from 20 or 30 feet." I think some of these doc's like to be 'in the news' and will make comments that might not be valid. He didn't examine Bob Saget and is just going off what reports were released. Then the tinfoil hat people get a hold of it and run with it. Plus it brings revenue in to these sources that report it. I feel for the family, and I don't blame them for wanting to shut down the release of photos and videos from his death scene. It is not necessary for the world to see it.
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Post by smasonnc on Feb 21, 2022 0:38:31 GMT
Speaking with The New York Times about the findings, Dr. Gavin Britz, the chair in neurosurgery at Houston Methodist Hospital, said: "This is significant trauma. This is something I find with someone with a baseball bat to the head, or who has fallen from 20 or 30 feet." I think some of these doc's like to be 'in the news' and will make comments that might not be valid. He didn't examine Bob Saget and is just going off what reports were released. Then the tinfoil hat people get a hold of it and run with it. Plus it brings revenue in to these sources that report it. If it were America's Foremost Doctors on Buzzfeed, I would have discounted it, but it's the neuro chair of Houston Methodist on NYT, who usually vets sources pretty well.
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Post by iamkristinl16 on Feb 21, 2022 1:37:58 GMT
My step-uncle apparently fell down their basement stairs the other night and his wife found him the next day. He had significant brain trauma and is on life support right now waiting for organ donation surgery. So sad and scary. I don't know much more than that, but assume he must have fallen down several stairs not just missed one or two. But I am having a hard time understanding how Bob Saget could have done that in a hotel room, unless he fell before getting in the room?
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Post by *sprout* on Feb 21, 2022 1:41:47 GMT
My step-uncle apparently fell down their basement stairs the other night and his wife found him the next day. He had significant brain trauma and is on life support right now waiting for organ donation surgery. So sad and scary. I don't know much more than that, but assume he must have fallen down several stairs not just missed one or two. But I am having a hard time understanding how Bob Saget could have done that in a hotel room, unless he fell before getting in the room? I'm so sorry.
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