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Originally Posted by LGA
I think the scariest moment for me was when I "came to my senses" after my career ending concussion. I don't actually recall what happened but I've been told that after I finished my check on someone in our zone, as the play was moving up the ice the guy decided to treat my head like a baseball and he was swinging for a homerun.
My memories of that year are pretty fuzzy and I don't feel like I'm the same person I was before. I can't handle being in busy/loud places, or even being around a lot of people that are talking as it feels like my brain just shuts down. Every now and again I get all "concussiony" all over again.
I think the scariest thing about the whole thing is that I developed a really bad case of insomnia not too long after the incident, and there was one stretch where I hadn't slept for a week. I was at work one day going up the stairs when the stairs just disappeared on me. By disappeared I mean just from my visual senses, I could still feel the railing and the fact that I clearly wasn't floating in the air, but I couldn't see the stairs. Sketched me out pretty bad.
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Holy crap, was this a huge news story at the time? Was the guy charged with anything?