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Vinny Valenti
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| Posted: 06 June 2026 at 12:03am | IP Logged | 1
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Yep. 10-year-olds should not even have "a catheter story", but there it is. Scared me straight, and I wasn't even crooked!
Edited by Vinny Valenti on 06 June 2026 at 12:05am
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Mark McKay
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| Posted: 06 June 2026 at 1:11am | IP Logged | 2
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Robin Taylor:Congrats on being cancer free Mark Mckay!
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Thanks!
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 06 June 2026 at 8:55am | IP Logged | 3
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Zounds! Just passed three thumb sized blood clots. Now evacuating normally. Amazing what the human body can do to hurt itself!!
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Brian Miller
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| Posted: 06 June 2026 at 12:33pm | IP Logged | 4
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Maybe that’ll mean you can go home soon.
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John Byrne
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Any time I feel ready!
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Evan S. Kurtz
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| Posted: 06 June 2026 at 3:34pm | IP Logged | 6
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Vinny, in general that's a hell of a story! Education has really changed a lot since the days when we were kids. A kid gets a ball to the back of the head, we automatically put them in a concussion protocol these days. I feel like any adult who works in education and inherently takes the "kids are faking/liars/can't be trusted" stance needs to change occupations yesterday.
And to be fair it's even something I still see today, like when a kid with obvious mental illness deregulates to the point of disassociation and starts just lashing out and behaving erratically, there's always someone at work who speculates that it's "attention-seeking behaviour." Ugh.
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Vinny Valenti
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| Posted: 06 June 2026 at 4:46pm | IP Logged | 7
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For the sake of brevity, I did leave out the fact that a week or so before the incident, I fell in the school yard and bonked my head on the concrete, also. That time I felt a bit dizzy but I shrugged it off - so maybe I still had a bit of the brain scramblies going on when the second bonking occurred.
I remember an episode of THREE'S COMPANY where Jack hit his head and became a new personality with no memory of it. That really happened to me!
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Evan S. Kurtz
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A few years back I was teaching 7th and 8th grade, and had a kid who’s probably a textbook case of borderline personality disorder. Anyway, she hit another girl upside the head and gave her a concussion, maybe a couple of months after that girl had previously received a concussion. The offending student refused to take accountability for what she did, saying stuff like, “well she already had a concussion so it wasn’t my fault.” I finally got through to her by informing her that if the victim had still had a concussion when she’d been struck in the same part of the head, it could’ve straight up killed her. Concussions are no joke.
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 06 June 2026 at 11:58pm | IP Logged | 9
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True. My mother fell and cracked her skull on the ice while we were skating when I was about 10. She was bedridden for weeks, and after she was altered.
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James Woodcock
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My dad had already had a stroke.
Long time after, and when he was starting to get mobility back, he went in
his kitchen, fell and cracked his head.
Went to hospital where he made a recovery. Was due to be released after a
few days.
Something changed as he was being readied for release and he passed
away.
Never, ever, take a crack to the head for granted.
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Brian Miller
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| Posted: 07 June 2026 at 2:00pm | IP Logged | 11
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One of my dad’s longtime friends had cancer. Don’t remember what kind,
but it was expected that he only had 2 or so years left. He maintained that
cancer was not going to “get him.” He was doing well with his fight and after
about 8-10 years he slipped and fell in his kitchen and hit his head on the
countertop in his way down. He was right. Cancer didn’t get him.
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