May 13, 2018 - My 26th Birthday: The Concussion

As fate would have it, I was performing in a musical. It was my death scene… and I hit my left temple on the ground hard enough that the whole audience heard it. I didn’t lose consciousness, but when I got back to the dressing room I remember feeling like the room was spinning and having a weird lightheaded feeling. For my birthday, friends surprised me with champagne afterwards. The next day, I figured I just had a hangover and I didn’t think it was a huge deal, but the pressure in my head and vision was particularly weird… After attending a concert that night and noticing weird vision abnormalities driving home, I went to get my head checked out the following day. I was told I had sustained a concussion but should rest and go back to work in 2 days. Things got worse from there. 

I was always the type to push through illness to continue working - always a busy body! I did everything I could to continue to work (at the university, and the church, playing piano and singing) and rehearse/perform (in the musical) for two months, but things kept getting worse and worse for my head. 

Here are the issues I was dealing with:
Headaches, pressure, fogginess in my head all the time
Slow thinking
Huge problems looking at laptops
Wavy vision when looking at stationary objects
Major light and noise sensitivity 
Balance issues
Trouble reading
Trouble recalling things I used to be able to recall quickly
Feeling mentally and physically fatigued all the time and sleeping A LOT 
Singing and playing piano (separately and together) exacerbated my symptoms
The next part of my life is a bit blurry. 

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