Has anyone heard from MiniMandaRuth tonight?

[KitchenWitch]

I hope she is feeling okay.

[Whoa_Nelly]

1. Blue-Jay shared this with me when i posted earlier asking about her

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x4549794

She says she's OK

[KitchenWitch]

2. Thanks for the update!

I was pretty upset about it last night.

[Redstone]

3. What happened? Was she in an accident or something?

I hope she's OK; she's a nice kid and I'd not be happy if she was having problems.

Redstone

[Starbucks Anarchist]

4. I think she fell and hurt her neck the other day.

She posted about it here when it happened.

[Whoa_Nelly]

6. This is what happened to her yesterday

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x4543955

[Redstone]

7. I missed that one. Thanks for the update.

She's a peach, and I suspect that she's going to become a very well-known DUer...it's so good to see people her age getting involved (and taking up the slack for us old farts who are getting a bit tired...)

Redstone

[KitchenWitch]

5. She fell down and hit her neck and head on a hard floor in the band room

actually her neck landed on a riser.

[Redstone]

8. OUCH! That hurts. I do hope that doctors are involved; that's not the

sort of thing that you should just shake off and ignore.

Redstone

[Whoa_Nelly]

9. No doc...Here's the followup

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x4544805

[Redstone]

11. Somebody PLEASE tell her that if she vomits, she HAS to go

to the hospital.

That's even more of an indicator of a concussion than a headache is.

Redstone

[Whoa_Nelly]

13. From the recounting she gave of the event

sounds like her neck may have been injured as well ;(

[Redstone]

14. And, speaking as someone who has a displaced vertebra in his neck,

(Yes, I'm kind of a walking, or actually limping, car wreck), that's not something to fool around with either.

I don't mean to sound alarmist, but it's better to be sure.

Redstone

[Redstone]

10. And an important message to Miss MMR: Do NOT take the possibility

of a concussion lightly. They're not something to screw around with; I've had four of them, and if I had known what that would do to my memory, I might have reconsidered having at least two of them.

You may see me joke about my lack of memory in the Lounge, but concussions are not funny, and you shouldn't just try to shake it off and go about your business if you indeed have one of whatever those things are that I was just talking about, because I'm pretty sure, I think, that they're not something you'd like, or I would be if I could remember what they in fact are.

Redstone
(I think. Or at least I thought I did.)

[Whoa_Nelly]

12. Totally agree

Had three of them from a headbanger student. Third one put me in the hospital...had problems with memory, emotions, and fine motor. Not something to take lightly at all.

Am still concerned for our young DemGal Mini...head injuries can cause probs for some time afterward.