Hi EJ,

Just saw your post when I noticed I hadn't seen you around for awhile.....dang possum....I know how much the dogs love to go after critters.....they go brain dead & no notice to what they do to anyone around them...ouch. I am sure your head is better by now.....I can relate....I can remember having 4 concussions that stand out in my mind...

Started as a child when I was running around the play ground & someone ran into me & we crashed to the pavement.

All the rest have been as an adult:
....playing racquettball, I was always running into the wall with my head when I was going for a shot...remember one I could feel my brain hitting the other side of my skull.....saw stars with that one. I don't remember much about the after effects on any of them.....went right back to work without even a headache???? how that was possible....have no idea.

2 horse incidents really hurt.....
.....when my horse stumbled during a trail ride. He was going blind & didn't see the little mound of dirt & I was chatting not paying attention. He went down, gashing his front leg with the shoe of hit other front foot & I went off over his neck onto my head....lucky I had my helmet on, but I must have been knocked out for a few seconds at least....that is what they told me. All I remember is jumping up & wondering what happened & my helmet was all smashed. Don't let anyone tell you desert sand is soft.....baked in the sun....it's harder than rock. We wrapped my horses leg & my trainer ran her horse back to the ranch to get her truck & trailer to take us both back to the ranch where the vet was waiting to sew up his leg. It wasn't until late that day when I got away from the ranch because I had to make sure my horse was ok before I took care of me. I remember everything being blurry & couldn't focus at all....could just do the things I needed to help the vet but was really dizzy for several days.

.......other concussion was also horse related when I was caring for Izzy's strangles sore on her throat. I was standing between her & the pipe railing. I hit something that hurt & she pulled back & then slammed me into the pipe rail.....somehow, I remember my head being slammed back & forth between the rails about 4-5 times before she suddenly stopped & just stood there. I got the lead rope unhooked from her halter & she came over to me & nuzzled my head to see if I was ok. I had lumps in several places on my head & again, I couldn't focus & my head felt like it had been pressed in a vice......That also took days to get over the blurry stuff & the brusing took forever to go away. Leanred never tie up a horse when I'm working on something like that.....they will just pull back & not come slamming foward if they aren't tied.....hard way to learn something so simple.

These things have nothing to do with the migraine pain I am on medication for.....they say that is from the neck injury I had from being thrown off a horse in college.....even the fusion didn't help the migraine pain.

Hope your dogs have stopped with the problems.....I know for me, with 6 dogs there is always 1 that is getting into something.

Debbie