#skullfractureproblems

By the title of this blog, I’m sure you can all assume what this is about. Actually, now that the entire school has heard what happened, this shouldn’t be a surprise. However, I think I should tell you guys exactly what happened from my point of view, just to clear things up…because based on all the rumors and twisted stories I heard about, some people just don’t get it.

On Wednesday, February 22 after our softball tryout, the baseball team had their tryouts and started throwing to warm up. The softball team was trying to put away the softball equipment when Abby Rogers (my savior) and I realized that there was no way to go around the guys who were throwing.

I said, “Abby, let’s run so we don’t get hit!” Well, let’s just say I remember running two steps and then blacking out.

Abby was literally two feet behind me when I got hit…and just after the ball hit me I crashed into the wall and then fell face first on the floor. Crazy, I know. I blacked out for a few seconds and when I opened my eyes I had a disgusting bloody nose from falling, but didn’t remember getting hit. I said, “Why does my head hurt so bad…?” 

Abby said, “YOU GOT HIT!!” 

Random people ran over and then I went to the training room. The trainer told me to go to the emergency room, so I did…a few hours later. 

After a cat scan and other tests, the doctors told me I had fractured my skull and needed to be life-flighted to a hospital in Cleveland. But I actually wasn't life-flighted due to bad weather so I went in an ambulance instead. Yay.


    *The next day*

I ended up spending the night in the hospital and that was pretty boring and it was just bad in general. I had a concussion too…so I had to take all these cognitive tests and stuff to make sure I didn’t lose my memory and things like that. One question I was asked was: “Spell the word ‘world’ backwards”. Um, yeah I couldn’t do that. Another question was: “Count backwards from 100 by 7’s”. Yeah I messed that up too…

Anyway, I hope that story cleared things up so people don’t come up to me asking dumb questions like “Wait, why were you playing baseball? Don't you play softball?”, “Wait, so you have to sit in a dark room for two weeks?”, and “Wait, so your eyes turned black?” Yeah, okay, let’s be real here.

Let me give you a current update. Basically, skull fractures and concussions suck. I think I have a permanent headache and I can’t concentrate for more than like an hour at a time. Also, I can’t drive or play sports for 2-3 weeks.

So here’s my advice: Just live in a bubble and life is good.

Because I love Spongebob.