It's Snowing!!!

I am happy it is snowing, and we will have anywhere from 4-8 inches tomorrow. Yay!!!

I also think I gave myself a slight concussion tonight. How you ask? Well I was doing the backstroke in the pool and completely misjudged where the wall was. Yes I am an idiot no need to point that out. I hit pretty hard. It is only a slight one, and I am kind of an expert on them. I have actually lost count what number of concussion this would be, but somewhere between 5-8.

I have had concussion while:
plyaing basketball
playing football
hot air ballooning
swimming
whiffle ball
the list goes on

No you are not seeing things I have received a concussion while playing whiffle ball. Then 4 months later I had another one while attending Wabash College and was a pledge for Kappa Sigma Fraternity. I was running to get the pledge phone (a phone the pledges had to answer quickly) and hit a puddle of water, slipped, went horizontal, and landed on my head. I was unconscious for a few moments, but I kept chewing the piece of roll in my mouth. Later that night my brother called me and asked how I was. I said my head hurt but didn't know why and he asked what happened. I didn't remember, but my roommate was still in the room then and said I had a concussion. So we went to the ER. I began singing the school fight and hitting on the nurses because by then I was just plain loopy. The ER let me go after getting a CAT Scan.

That night the brothers observed me while I slept, like the ER orders you to and everything was fine. The next day everything was fine until I watched Fight Club with some other guys. I got really tired during it and went to my room. I fell asleep in a chair and then starting convulsing. Everything was very clear to me but I couldn't move, speak, or really do anything at all. All of the fraternity brothers were busy watching the VMA awards (2000 the year Brittney wore next to nothing and was still hot) but finally one saw me convulsing. Thankfully there were 3 EMTs in the fraternity that tried waking me, doing sternal taps, running cold water over me, etc. Nothing worked. I was still unable to respond even though I was completely aware of everything going on. Finally they called the hospital for an ambulance. When the EMTs with the ambulance came they tried some other things that didn't work and finally gave me a nasal pharangy to open up my airway in case I swallowed my tongue. It was a very very large tube shoved up your nostril and that did it. I finally came to. They took me to the hospital and ran a battery of tests and found out that the last concussion I had plus this one had compounded into a sever concussion and caused the "post-concussion syndrome" that I was suffering. I was released after a day of examinations.

The kicker, after I was released I went to class on Friday and asked my chem prof for an extension for the test we were having on Monday. He said, "nope." I took the test, called my parents, dropped out that night and left for home. Started up at Olaf the next semester.