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Should I Be Worried About The Brain Injuries?
My daughter suffered a massive bleed due to a ruptured AVM in 2009. An emergency craniotomy saved her life. She required additional surgeries in 2010 and 2011 to resect residual pieces of the AVM.
In the past couple days, she was hit in the head with a hard snowball. The ER doc never contacted her neurologist, though he did decide she had a concussion from the snowball.
So she now has two brain injuries. This worries me since she's already missing most of her right temporal lobe from the AVM.
Do I need to talk to her neurologist about this, even on a holiday weekend?
In the past couple days, she was hit in the head with a hard snowball. The ER doc never contacted her neurologist, though he did decide she had a concussion from the snowball.
So she now has two brain injuries. This worries me since she's already missing most of her right temporal lobe from the AVM.
Do I need to talk to her neurologist about this, even on a holiday weekend?
Fri, 10 Oct 2014
If his diagnosis is correct and it's only a concussion then I don't think it is necessary to contact the neurologist, there's is no specific therapy he would indicate apart from rest. You should be worried only if there are persisting signs which could indicate a more serious injury like confusion and vomiting (but then that applies in general to any person who has suffered a traumatic injury)
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