Handhold please - DH head injury

[GloriaMaximus]

We are currently away for DH birthday visiting places where he holidayed growing up. We are staying in the middle of nowhere!

Around 10pm, DH hit his head on a door frame trying to catch a moth. He complained of a horrendous headache but by midnight (the turn of his birthday) he seemed ok. He had his presents etc (as per his own decided tradition) but as we were going to bed he just started screeching in pain. This lasted about 20 minutes when he fell asleep. 2 hours later he woke up to go to the toilet and it then came back with a vengeance. He's also then started violently vomiting so I convinced him to get in the car to drive an hour to the smallest a and e that exists.

I'm so scared. Apart from the pain he is confused (swears blind he doesn't know where a light switch is in the bathroom because he didn't turn it on. Forgot why we were in the car. And he's is soooo angry. With a strong accent different (DH is from this area of the uk but I'm not even from this country) the receptionist struggled to take details from me but he was u willing to give them himself. He got irate instantaneously.

I'm worried it's serious but hoping he's just tired and pissed off.

Please can someone either reassure me or just sit with me as we wait. The wait time is as long if not longer than our local, major city hospital 😔

Is it wrong that I now fancy bread and butter with a large tea?

It's all very well demanding things NOW! but having a Neurology specialist available 24/7 in a small hospital is not really likely.

Hope he's improving, OP!

When DS had concussion from rugby, it affected him for months. He couldn't do anything strenuous without getting headaches (doctors were not worried, we did check!). Thankfully his was at the end of the rugby season so there were no battles about stopping him playing. I hope your DH is sensible enough not to play!

Have you heard anything yet OP? I hope he is okay, will be thinking of you both

sounds frightening

Just down the road from me 👍
Hope you’re ok , he’s going to be ok , and that you get an answer, and some advice soon
( in some ways it’s lucky you arrived in the middle of the night , middle of the day in the week , and you’d still be trying to park )

Hope you have some answers soon. The fact that he has improved a lot is hopefully very reassuring. Am shocked they didn't see him straight away though.

OP, hope all is well.
However, please keep an eye on him as if there was a bleed, the initial early scan may not show full extent.
My oh had an accident abroad, was discharged the same day and sent home.

Over the next SIX weeks he complained of headaches and I noticed he was wobbly and he wasn't even aware of it.

Eventually headaches made him go to a+e and they discovered TWO bleeds. He was instantly whisked to a London hospital, they opened his skull to remove one, the other one was smaller so they left it for body to absorb.

He recovered and can drive again (6 months post op).

How are you getting on OP. Am still here for you and will keep checking back periodically.

Hope you've had some better news and are both sleeping now, OP. Being in A&E is bad enough but a strange one in a strange place must be scary.

Handhold op

How are you getting on OP?

Slightaggrandising

I'll be honest, I thought exactly the same!

OP, hope you have had some.positive news.

Hi, op. I am a TBI patient, just offering a hand to hold💐

Hope your husband will be ok.

Well we are back and I had my toast (throughdough) with thick butter (marigold) with a huge mug of tea and it was everything I had wanted and more.

More importantly, scan was inconclusive. They have said we can go but I have a list of things to look out for. The doctor was slightly secretive towards DH like he would pretend he was fine. I really don't think that he would. It says he can't do any strenuous activity for 3 weeks so that's the start of the season out but he's ok with that at the moment.

We are going to explore a few of his childhood beaches this afternoon and find a nice pub for dinner. If anyone can recommend anywhere in or near mwnt?

He's determined to do today's planned hike tomorrow which worries me because a) we will potentially be miles from our car if there's an issue and b) he insist on carrying his huge army bag full of any and all cooking/wearing/drinking/etc equipment 🙈

Thank you to everyone for helping me through that. I felt so alone and worried.

He is still acting his normal yet strange self but does complain when he bends down. Working on getting him to stop..

I'd try and dissuade him from the walk tomorrow if you can.

If the scan was inconclusive (heaven knows what that is meant to mean!) then he should not go on the hike.

Definitely cancel that hike!! Much too dangerous to be so far from help.

No to the hike . Personally I'd be trying to persuade him to rest today .

I'm trying not to say "Is he mad ? "

definitely no hike.
as per a pp he needs to follow the concussion programme.

Cancel the hike for sure, hugs for you both, hope you get to try and enjoy the rest of your time away, it must have been very frightening for you xx

I completely agree regarding cancelling. I'm just trying to work out how to approach it. I guess I'll need to keep dropping concerns but make a firm no tomorrow.

OP a hike carrying a large rucksack full of equipment is definitely a strenuous activity. If I were you I would refuse to go.