12-12-2020, 01:11 PM
I really hate hearing about concussion stories. Head trauma is the worst. I know I had my "bell rung" (concussion) at least once in high school, and I know I dealt at least two (both inadvertent). Not proud of it, felt sick about it.
I asked my son not to catch in little league (I'd caught), but he wanted to catch. Game against rivals (same grammar school fed both teams, Willow Glen and Lincoln Glen), other player bearing down on catcher from third base, doesn't even try for home plate, just tries to knock the snot out of my son -- and does. My son'shead bounced off of home plate. Do I even need to say the umpires don't call the kid out, don't admonish the other team, etc.?
Took my son to urgent care, concussion diagnosed. Put him through all the tests. Doctor asked us to wake him up early in the morning and ask him a simple question "What's your brother's name?" His reply was "squirrel."
Yikes. Asked him again, he gave the correct answer. Suffice to say, that was the end of his catching career.
I asked my son not to catch in little league (I'd caught), but he wanted to catch. Game against rivals (same grammar school fed both teams, Willow Glen and Lincoln Glen), other player bearing down on catcher from third base, doesn't even try for home plate, just tries to knock the snot out of my son -- and does. My son'shead bounced off of home plate. Do I even need to say the umpires don't call the kid out, don't admonish the other team, etc.?
Took my son to urgent care, concussion diagnosed. Put him through all the tests. Doctor asked us to wake him up early in the morning and ask him a simple question "What's your brother's name?" His reply was "squirrel."
Yikes. Asked him again, he gave the correct answer. Suffice to say, that was the end of his catching career.
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