February 21st 2012. Head Injury

I was working on my kitchen extension - not really doing anything important, just sweeping up.  I had no protection on because I wasn't doing much... but of course, that's when it gets you!

A concrete block fell from a height of 7 feet high, bounced off the wall, and the corner hit me on the head, a glancing blow.  I was squatting, and it threw me off my feet back onto my behind.  I immediately held my hand to my head, and it was covered in blood.

My girlfriend rushed me to A&E, and she was talking to me the whole time to check I remained conscious and not concussed.  I was still losing blood, it was running down my face, but it was clotting up and matting my hair.

I waited for the doctors to see me - not long at all - because of the Warfarin i was high on the list and went past many others.  It had stopped bleeding by the time they saw me, so they super-glued it back together - i had a half inch gash on top right of my head.

Here are my INR results... I think I was lucky it was low!  Not sure that a 3.5 would have been so kind to me.

Anyway, I recovered fully, obviously, with no futher negative effects.  However, I was carefully monitoring myself for the week after.

Not written for a while

I realised I haven't posted on here for quite a while - thanks to Jeff for reminding me.  I think I generally feel that i've posted everything there is to say, and the topic doesn't change much.  From here I expect to only learn small new things, not much changes day-to-day.  However, I'll make a couple of postings now with reference to my Diary... there are always a few mini-surprises in there!