Today, a helmet saved my 8 year old's life according to the doctor. He's just back home from the hospital, still disoriented and suffering from memory loss 6 hours after he crashed. He kept asking the same thing every 5 seconds, could not remember why he was there, and had pretty much forgotten everything from the past week. Some things are slowly coming back now, nothing from today yet.
He wasn't even going that fast. We were almost home, already in our street and he accelerated to about 20 maybe 25kph when he must have looked behind him to see where I was with the buggy and his brother. His front wheel somehow went accross and he smacked with his head onto the street, ended up folded double with his shoe stuck between the handle bars and frame. His helmet has a large crack in it and lots of dents, arm, elbow, shoulder, face, leg all busted up. Yet the scary part was the confusion and total short term memory loss.
They kept him at the hospital for observation for almost 3 hours until he started to become coherent again. Now he must have total rest, no activity, no video games, just some light tv watching. He has a severe concussion and that only from a simple fall on a flat road at moderate speed. Always wear a helmet.
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