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 😔

@GloriaMaximus
Just for information, if you decide to head back home and you need help on the way, there is a Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil, Prince Charles Hospital CF47 9DT it has a specialist stroke unit. I know your husband hasn't had a stroke, this place has all the equipment for dealing with brain injuries.
Hope all is well with you and your husband

There’s always one.

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@Jeeperscreepers69 you are many hours behind love.

If you need a way to stop him overdoing it, ‘sprain’ your own ankle...?

Have a read off this OP. Current guidance from the RFU. Make sure YOU tell his coach too, do not let him be a tough bloke about it.

www.englandrugby.comdxdam/86/86c7a5b7-e65a-4f58-ae9c-3c3c1449b519/HEADCASE%20Adult%20Concussion%20Management%20Guidelines.pdf

I had a concussion last September (rugby) and was out for 9 weeks. So I fully sympathies with him, but his health comes first.

Good luck to him
I’m his recovery and good luck to you being the grown up in the room. (Yes I also love with an adult and 2 kid rugby players.)

Ha! I missed the deleted comment! What did it say?

Op I have sent you a pm.

Sounds like symptoms of concussion.
Best get checked out as soon as poss. Good luck x

My eldest DS (4 at the time) last year sustained a concussion. One of the most singularity terrifying experiences ever. I took him out of nursery for almost two weeks afterwards and watched him like a hawk. Challenging trying to get a busy little boy to relax quietly. The unequivocal advice from the amazing medical team was major rest for a number of days afterwards. Please heed this advice, especially if he has had head trauma before.

I’d also be looking at having him seen in Birmingham. If the results were inconclusive then it’s important to get a second opinion.

I’m not saying this to scare you but if he’s fannying about with talks of hikes and pub lunches then he really doesn’t grasp how seriously one needs to treat any kind of knock to the head.

Please let us know how you get on and wishing you both well xx

Bloody moths! Dh slipped in our bathroom trying to catch one, fell and broke his wrist last summer. Good luck OP.

I am assuming that your OH went home from hospital with the standard instruction sheet for HI. Wave it under his nose.

I hope OP and her OH are ok and that she will update when she can .

Hope all ok op

Just a quick update..

DH is doing ok. We came home early as advised although I did have to tell a white lie to get him to agree. We still had a beautiful dinner in New Quay before we left (I fully recommend the Pepper Pot!!).

He is having a scan st the QE tomorrow. He seems somewhat normal, been to work, at an event this evening and will be home super late. My biggest concern is that he cycles his commute. He isn't coping too well with that and so the last couple of days he had caught the train, much to his defeated disappointment.

Thank you everyone for your well wishes, advice and of course the much needed handholding. I'll update again when I know more.

Glad you came home early

Did you manage to dissuade him from doing the hike?

Glad things are going well OP.

The QE is a phenomenal hospital, @GloriaMaximus. Fingers crossed the scan is okay

Wow what an ordeal , hope he continues to get better x

That all sounds really good.

The not cycling isn't defeatist, it's taking responsibility for his long term health and his family and making sure he does nothing to risk a second concussion! Has he looked into the horrors second impact syndrome at all?

Read this post this morning
Hope your husband remains ok op
Tonight a chair collapsed under my husband.
He fell back and hit his head in a coffee table
Scared me sick
He seems ok..but am very worried
We put ice on his head, he’s had arnica and rescue remedy.
He had a blood clot a few years ago that resulted in loss of vision.

Thanks for update OP. Hope he makes a speedy recovery xx

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