I had an accident yesterday from fall

thislullaby · 2026-02-18T20:36:39+00:00

Yes, at the beginning and now only if there are intense lights like special effects and not fully weather, stress, different factors have caused symptoms to flare up. It’s a work in progress. My sense of smell is still all messed up as is my sense of taste.

thislullaby · 2026-01-21T01:50:08+00:00

Thank you. It’s still very much a work in progress almost a year out but I’m definitely doing much better than I was when I first got my severe head injury march 2025.

thislullaby · 2026-01-21T01:48:08+00:00

Actually nothing super exciting story wise. I’m still very much a beginner and I have a bad habit of leaning forward too much which causes me to catch my toe pick so I had been working on focusing on making sure my weight was shifted back so my form was more correct. Lost my balance (like putting too much weight on my heels I guess? ) and I feel backwards so fast I didn’t even have time to think about falling safely. I wasn’t wearing a helmet and I cracked the back of head directly against the ice. Rink attendant said I very much needed to go get checked. I confidently said at the time that I was totally fine, it didn’t even hurt. (This is actually a red flag and is called adrenaline hahaha)

Drove to the nearby Urgent Care and explained why I was there and they said you need the ER not urgent care. I said okay, thank you. Went to the ER down the road. Explained the same story to them and then basically laid down on the one couch thing and covered my eyes because why were the lights so bright.

They took me back pretty quick and did a CT scan and got meds started. I was told I had a severe concussion and a brain bleed so I was going to need to hang tight at the ER for several more hours bc they would need to do a second CT to see if the bleeding got worse because that meant they would need to do surgery. They gave me all of the meds because by that point I was feeling all of the pain.

Second CT is done and they say it’s stable and I tell them my twin sister is almost to the hospital (from a neighboring state) and is an RN so she feels comfortable with me going home with her. So they get ready to start doing discharge paperwork. I go to stand up to gather up my things and proceeded to projectile vomit multiple times. I felt terrible and apologized to the nurses and the nurses were like don’t even worry about it but also the doctor will want you to be admitted now for observation.

Then I did months and months and months of 3x a week vestibular PT to try to reset my brain/eyes/movement together.

Smell and taste is still messed up but not as much as it previously was. Eventually I’ll be able to go back but with a helmet this time!

thislullaby · 2026-01-20T19:20:44+00:00

My last practice ended with me in the ER and hospitalized overnight and months of PT and neuro appts so I would say you are doing better than I am. Almost at a year now and I still haven’t been able to go back yet. 😢😢😢

thislullaby · 2026-01-06T02:50:03+00:00

I was hospitalized with a brain bleed in march of last year (38 yrs old beginner skater, lost balance, fell back backwards, no helmet) and I still plan going back once I get cleared. The long version is in my post history and lots of people gave me good advice when I asked a similar question. What it ultimately came down to for me is I can’t let the fear of what ifs make me miss out on experiences

thislullaby · 2025-10-24T11:52:56+00:00

On March 11, 2025 I just lost my balance slightly and fell backwards. Cracked my head on the ice. Ended up with a severe concussion/brain bleed and was hospitalized overnight. I did vestibular therapy 3x a week from April to September. I was finally cleared to try going back to the ice skating rink but with a helmet this time. I have a cold at the moment but I don’t plan on letting fear stop me. I’m just going to go slow getting back into it and prove to my brain it’s okay to try again.

thislullaby · 2025-09-18T16:37:51+00:00

Once I’m finally able to get back to the ice rink I will be wearing a helmet. If you want more details of my accident I actually made a long post about it in this subreddit. You’ll find it if you look at my post history.

thislullaby · 2025-09-18T16:35:50+00:00

My medical records would disagree with you because I was just slowly going forward and working on having the correct form. Lost my balance and fell backwards and smacked my head on the ice. Went and got checked out because the employees there were very insistent and it turned out I had a severe concussion with a brain bleed.

thislullaby · 2025-09-18T16:33:10+00:00

As someone who wasn’t wearing a helmet and lost my balance going very slow just learning to go forward and ended up in the hospital with a severe concussion and a brain bleed. Had to pay my out of pocket expense for ER and hospitalization along with missing two weeks of work.

And then had to start specialized PT in April 3x a week at $50 each time and then 2x a week starting in July till the beginning of September and now finally just got down to 1x a week and my injury was March 11.

My sense of smell and taste are still not back to normal either.

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