Scattered Thoughts . . .

I continue to have cognitive difficulties and overwhelming fatigue due to my mild-TBI.  I whacked my head on a low 2x4 brace while building our new trash shed back in early June of this year.  I briefly grayed-out...  knees buckled as I fell toward the ground...  then came to seeing stars in my vision.  Then, I whacked my head about half a dozen more times in the summer months while working around the house... same area of my head too! This fatigue I am experiencing is both cognitive and physical.  I often forget about this injury but I've been wracking my brain trying to figure out why I've been so completely exhausted lately...  why I can't even write...  why I have no energy to even talk. I struggle with overwhelming fatigue with my primary illness too but I usually have other symptoms accompany the fatigue.  These other symptoms are clearly related to my primary illness so I don't question the overwhelming fatigue at those times.  Lately, I am struggling with on

This evening, I mentioned to Sheila that I had another headache and touched the top of my head where the pain was radiating from...  the moment I touched my head where it hurt, I remembered that I, once again, whacked my head on something earlier in the day.  I hit it in the same place as my original mild TBI.   So, I was wondering about why I keep miscalculating the distance between the top of my head and stationary objects around me...  I think it is because I am still a bit dizzy from that first injury back in June.  Of course, now I am a little more dizzy after hitting my head again and I have another annoying headache too.  Headache is an ache with very mild throbbing...  maybe a 4 on the 10 point pain scale.  This pain is competing with my spinal pain for the most painful thing today.   For what it is worth...  perhaps to only document what happened exactly...  I whacked my head on a shelf in our bedroom.  I don't really know how I got so close to this shelf but, regardle

I am now two weeks into this mild TBI...   two weeks ago I slammed the top of my head into a temporary cross-beam on a trash shed I am building, saw stars, passed out very briefly...  and I am now feeling a bit better than early after the injury.  I really haven't done much of anything over the past two weeks though.   Whenever I attempt to do anything, my headaches grow increasingly worse, sometimes throbbing, and behind my right ear begins to hurt.  I've been good about stopping whatever I'm attempting to do whenever the pain comes back or worsens.  Yesterday, I was feeling pretty good and the weather was dry.  It was hot and humid, but dry.  I knew the lawn needed some attention so I figured I would do that slowly.  Well, one thing led to another and before I knew it, I had my woodworking shop set up in the yard and I was finally doing some work on the trash shed again.  The heat and humidity was really affecting my mast cell disease which is my primary illness and m