October 23, 2004
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Topic: just need to write
So…the last 24 hours have been quite scary. Thur. night, I went out with some people from the hostal, had a good time, came back, went to sleep. Apparently, around 3-4am, I fell out of the top bunk. I struck my head (i have a little mark just next to my left eye), and was completely dazed. The guys in the hostel tell me I was reading through my journal (i try to right everything in my life down, just in case i fall out of bed, i guess), anyways…i couldn’t figure out where i was, and what was going on.
So…they called an ambulance, and brought me to Boulder Community Hospital. I was quite shaken up. My memory isn’t 100% clear right now. They ran a CAT scan on me last night and again this morning. Luckily, negative. The diagnosis is I gave myself a concussion. Yeah, pretty scary stuff. I’m still trying to recall the last 24 hours in Boulder, it was such an intense day of visiting schools, that the fall made it seem like a dream. I actually lay in the hospital and thought I was there because I had a breakdown. Between meeting all these new people, sleeping in a car wash, finding these amazing and different schools…it all seemed a bit surreal. I thought maybe I had wandered too far from “reality.” But, it turned out, i just fell out of bed.
I’m lucky that the 3 guys I was out w/ at the hostel came to visit me, and they just picked me up and brought me back to the hostel. I’m sort of getting to know them again for the first time, since any conversations from Thur. night are kind of lost right now…but I am able to remember some things, so I think walking around the city today will help bring my memory back.
I def. had some time to reflect in the hospital. Even scared as shit as I was, and realizing just how serious it was, I still have time to be “dan,” and write in my journal, and think about education, along with thinking about all my family and friends that I was desperately missing. Anyways…i’ll share some of those thoughts at another time, i have a slight headache now, and as much as i just want to think, and right, and do, I also need to take a vacation from what most others would call a vacation, traveling about the country promoting my book. Anyways…that’s the post for today, not that i needed a reality check, but things like that, ending up in a hospital for just about any reason, serve as further reminders that we’re all fragile, and we need to take good care of ourselves, and we need to take good care of our lives. OK…let me go, will have more traditional/interesting posts next time.
Go Cards (although i’ll be happy if the bosox win too, being a mets fan/yankees hater, the bosox are my #2 team, cards also get honorable mention because i went to school in st. louis, so my ties are stronger there).
Getting well,
-Dan
Comments (4)
stop knocking yourself out…
Maybe now the Rangers will give you a contract. (noticed you were a fan, thinking of the Big E).
What a crazy thing… be careful with yourself. Post-concussion weeks are sort of strange. I’m glad you were with good people.
As a Mets fan/Yankee hater this season has already had one excellent result. I’ll take whatever from the series.
Sorry to hear about your bump in the night. Reading your heading on your blog, I sometimes wonder if *higher learning* isn’t an oxymoron. (At least some of the so-called educators I’ve run across sure seemed lie morons to me!) LOL.