Och! Chris! Prayers for a rapid and full recovery. Since it is my unwitting area of expertise, here is the brain injury stuff that hopefully will not apply, but likely does to some extend due to the rapid deceleration you, and the brain in your skull, experienced.
Any idea how fast the car was moving? Brain issues (no direct impact required for coup countrecoup where the brain bounces around like mellow in a bowl dropped in the floor) can happen in the type of accident your just had (I had one dearly identical as one of my 8 concussions at 25 + 5 mph followed two weeks later by blacking out randomly for 3 months) and may well NOT show up for days, weeks, or even months (depending on lots of factors, including how soon you return to your normal routine and discover the world "just seems harder" without any obvious explanation. After my last concussion it took 6 weeks for full symptoms to happen. Presume you have at least a mild concussion and treat yourself accordingly. Rest as much as your body wants to. Eat lots of the darkest chocolate you can find, along with taking calcium/magnesium supplements, arnica, and chamomile, Vitamin B-12 Methylcobalamin sublingual (10,000 mcg/day), and eating ceylon cinnamon sticks a wee bite at a time, up to a stick or two a day. All this helps flush out the various chemical cascade that helps in the instant of the crash but causes problems over time. Also, remember there is a "snowball" effect to concussions. Once you've had one, you're more likely to have two, more likely to have a third, etc... And later, lighter concussions can seem to cause more damage due to previously caused "cracks" in the neural infrastructure. Give yourself time before getting back to doing anything more physical so your body awareness and motion and coordination returns to normal. I pray you need none of this and the initial diagnosis that you are fine is true. However, ER's are notorious for ignoring the realities of head injuries and not preparing folks to watch for signs of a brain injury occurring in the days, weeks, and months ahead. Frankly I'm stunned if the ER did not mention that possibility to you and give you things to watch for (which ought to be malpractice now, but isn't). Dude! Your helmet is a goner, which inherently means your brain went for a tumble in your skull. The simplest thing to watch for is noticing the the world just "seems harder" in ways you can't understand, doing things you used to do all the time with ease, or far more slowly that others now seem to do them. Feel free to write me here or off group if you have any questions. Rest and heal well! With abandon, Patrick -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
