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I've been Concussed!I don't know if you, the reader, have ever been concussed but I can assure you it's not a pleasant feeling. It's worse when you play sports, especially when your team is in the playoffs, fighting to get to the final and you're forced to sit there and watch. Really this just brought to light how a concussion can change a lot more than your ability to play sports, it changes your mood, your perception and it can even change your fears. Before this I'd have never thought once about playing sports or tackling a friend who stole my french fries, but now it's a scary reality when the next bump on your head to keep you out of something that one, you love more than anything and two you've done since you could stand.
That thought now keeps me up at night, it rattles my head and shakes my soul. The fact that if I get hit on the head again, or I get another concussion playing my favorite game, I may never play it again, this coming from the guy who's sister hit him in the head with a baseball bat, who as a kid use to crack drywall with it. A little bump on the head is what I thought it was and now that bump can change my life. I now have a decision to make, one which my friends, family and teammates are all anxiously awaiting. Do I go back to my team? Risking another concussion and perhaps giving my team's playoff chances a nice kick to the shins, or do I stay out, and sit there in the stands perfectly safe but knowing next year I can come back healthy but maybe without that Gold Medal my team so rightly deserves...
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