An Update on M'Head

[MrsMozart]

Thought I'd do a post as peeps have been asking

Things are getting better, but not quite there yet. I get very tired - mentally tired, find it hard to stay awake but in a weird way. Still forget things at times as well. My brain feels slow. I'm used to it firing at a great rate of knots, so this 'one thing at a time' version is different.

The weird thing is I seem to need to eat more! If I don't have enough (and I mean things like Mars Bars, which I don't usually like, and fry-ups), my head goes all whooshy and things aren't so good: one day I got as far as the central reservation on a dual carriageway and couldn't figure out how to get to the other side, I couldn't judge the traffic

. If I overdo it, the next day is horrible. Headache. Sickness. Yuck. Good job hubby has been playing chauffer, companion and been around to keep me fed

As for the personality changes. One morning I threw everyone out of the house (I was vicious!), then two hours later I was lying on my bed cying my heart out.

I've kept working, other than the first week, when I felt fine the Wednesday after it happened; the next two days I was totally useless. Good job my client was and has been incredibly understanding, especially considering that I'm a contractor and as such I'm meant to solve their problems, not be one! They have got their own back with some bad jokes at my expense

.

I can drive again in two weeks (and a day's) time

, but can't ride until near the end of November

. I'm getting a bit nervous about riding

. It's not the fall or the pain, but the effect if I hit my head again. Had it been a broken leg or arm then yes, it would hurt (a lot!), but having the thing that makes me Me so affected. The daft thing is I would have got back on, if I could have lol, straight away, but leaving it for so long, it seems to be making it harder.

Sorry, just realised how much I've gone on! First time I've really put it all into words, and I'm tired (so what's new!), which makes it harder.

Hot choccies with all the trimmings

 

[gails]

Go on all you like.

Glad you are on the mend, just take it nice and easy.

 

[3Beasties]

It takes time but it sounds like you are making great progress.

Know your limits and don't over do it!

 

[Slinkyunicorn]

What a bugger having to eat fry ups and Mars bars..........

Sounds like you are on the mend! Try not to think about riding just yet - you still have a way to go and in the meantime the Dizzy is being ridden. Maybe go and have a lesson on a big safe schoolmaster before you sit on Dizzy - may just do the trick.

 

[Chellebean]

Glad your on the mend hun!! Onwards and upwards from here

 

[MrsMozart]

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What a bugger having to eat fry ups and Mars bars..........

Sounds like you are on the mend! Try not to think about riding just yet - you still have a way to go and in the meantime the Dizzy is being ridden. Maybe go and have a lesson on a big safe schoolmaster before you sit on Dizzy - may just do the trick.

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It is! My ar$e is the size of a house now!

 

[f_s_]

Glad to hear that you are mending Mrs M

Mars Bars and fry ups sound lovely...

Not together though!!

Take it gently, and when you're better, you will be riding Dizzy again

 

[Chico Mio]

(((hugs)))) You just don't over do it, Mrs!

 

[JosieSmith]

Glad to hear you seem on be on the mend. It might seem like 2 steps forward and 1 step back occassionally but sonn enough the good days wil start to increase dnt eh bad days decrease.

Chin up xx

 

[Moggy in Manolos]

Just take things slow, it was quite a trauma you suffered, you have had a rather tough time of it lately, have a nice hot choccy yourself

 

[Donkeymad]

Just glad you are improving, albeit slowly. It will take time, but you will get there. Have a fried mars bar on me

 

[MrsMozart]

Ta folks. Always done 'dangerous' sports, never really got hurt before, is a shock to the system.

Off to find a Mars Bar and a deep fat fryer....

 

[Annagain]

I remember reading somewhere that Richard Hammond suddenly liked celery afterhis accident, so Mars bars are much better than that. I had a bump to my bonce a few years ago so I know where you're coming from with the tiredness. I used to go to the first aid room at work for a snooze at lunchtime, and my friend would come to wake me after an hour! It gets better though, it probably took about 6 weeks for me to get back to normal but mine wasn't as bad as yours.

 

[MrsMozart]

Thank you AA

. They said six to eight weeks, so I'm probably on track, just so damn bored of it now

It's on just gone nine and I'm ready for m'bed already.

Sweet dreams.

 

[JigsawRawkPoneh]

You're getting there, MotherM. You're definately better than you were.

Love you

xoxox

 

[spookypony]

Up here, they I gather eat deep fried Mars bars (thankfully not something I've encountered yet)! So maybe you need to book a Scottish holiday?

 

[Chestnutmare]

Just remember not to over do anything take time...blimey you had a nasty accident, your head is very important!

I am glad though that you are starting to feel better and I hope it continues too.

Dizzy is fine and she wants her mummy to be fine too...so take it nice and easy

xxx

 

[scampi_]

You poor thing. Glad to hear you're on the mend after your trauma.

It must feel like one step forward, two back. I had a nasty concussion last year and it took a couple of months for the vertigo to go (kept getting weird dizzy spells), but it wasn't until months later that i'd realised I'd actually become quite depressed after the accident and concussion. It's important to take it very slowly and not push yourself.

As for getting back on after such a close call, the first time i apparently went totally white, and i felt physically sick, but after an hour's lesson on a steady horse with a good patient teacher, it felt totally different.

Hang on in there, and meanwhile - enjoy the mars bars!!

x

 

[MrsMozart]

Thank you folks

I shall look out the holidays in Scotland

.

The whooshy feeling is, I suppose, my version of vertigo. Glad to know it goes reasonably soon - if only I did patience!

I've had some lovely messages from folks. I think now that getting back on will be okay, just won't be for weeks yet!

It's been a funny old year.

 

[HumBugsey]

Glad starting to feel better MrsM. Don't know what I (for rest of HHO) would do without you!

x

 

[MochaDun]

The brain is an incredibly sensitive organ. It's also incredibly clever if yours has seized the opportunity through your knock to the head to learn how to order out for Mars Bars and fry ups at will!

Friend of mine had quite a serious brain bleed few years ago - and like you, told it would be 6-8 weeks before much improvement seen. He briefly whilst recovering developed a hideous temper which he'd never had before but it went again when he was sorted. I'm sure it's highly frustrating not to feel like yourself totally yet but wishing you a continuing slow return to normality. Take your time, your lovely horse will be waiting for you when you're good and ready.

 

[Sprout]

So glad to hear you are slowly getting better - it takes time with a head injury, and it is essential to insist on loads of TLC, and to be as difficult as possible so that people realise how wonderful you are when back to "normal"!

I sympathise with some of the memory problems - I find myself outside Tesco's instead of at my daughter's school sometimes, or just plain forget where I am going - hubbie thought it was either old age or just plain going loopy - I was quite relieved to find out it was carbon monoxide poisoning.

Hope you will be feeling fully better soon and back enjoying Dizzy.