So I woke up again after my wakeboarding face plant and have a little more to say. In all seriousness it's very important to be safe while wakeboarding or riding a bike. Your mind is a precious thing and I think the lesson of today, (although I don't think I got a concussion after checking the symptoms online even though lying down a certain way hurts) was to get a helmet for wakeboarding to help cushion falls.
I also wear a helmet while biking and would encourage others to do so. I know you can look like a dork, but on every ride I go at least 30MPH during some stretches and if something happens I could do a lot of damage to myself if I wasn't wearing a helmet.
Concussions and head injuries are not something to laugh about as they can end people's careers and alter their lives and my cousin is a perfect, and sad example of this. A year ago he got into a bad car accident and suffered a bad concussion. He was just about to finish up his doctorate at MIT but has not been able to finish because of his injury. He can't understand his own life's work and can't function for more than two hours straight.
Anything to protect your head is a good thing and I never realized how hard you can hit your head wakeboarding. I think it would be wise to get a helmet to protect my most valuable asset...even if I don't look cool in the process.
I guess I am not surprised I fell wakeboarding since I haven't done sports similar to it before, like snowboarding, surfing or skateboarding.
No comments:
Post a Comment