Chris Cohlmeyer
Sep 4, 2018 · 1 min read

Concussions are not fun when they result in cognitive impairment. While mine was from soccer (head between foot and ball as person attempted a field length kick) and resulted in almost ten years of reduced learning capacity. Think of your head instead of the football during a kickoff! We didn’t understand them back then so started playing and heading the ball within a week and wondered why I was getting so many headaches -> lots of aspirin which likely slowed healing as well.

As a doctor friend put it, you have seen one concussion you have seen one concussion. Every single one is different. The worst seem to be the repeated small ones that happen again and again never really healing.

Father played football for University of Illinois before the Second World War, knee cartilage damage kept him from enlisting. He did not encourage any of his four boys to play football except touch football. He died in his late sixties of Alzheimer’s / maybe it was a degree of CTE as well.

Maybe time to drop football and start up with Rugby – rough and tough but no charging head impacts.

    Chris Cohlmeyer

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    Janitor, leather craftsman, saddler, Forester, retired almost. Abuse survivor, former alcoholic addict, dad of three, skiing, nature, camping. life is good