Cheer Dad
Cheer Parent
- Dec 15, 2009
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It is great he took himself out but with a history like that why is he still playing a sport that has even the remotest chance of head injury like that?Not cheer related but kids related :)
My middle son has a history of concussions most of them when he was younger and 3 of them were caused by cp when she was 2 and he was 3. Due to this the neurologist told us no contact sports but that soccer was ok :confused: but we allowed him to play. He got a couple more from soccer over the years and on of them landed him in the er getting a CT scan because a headache caused him to wake up in extreme pain. The last one in TX came as he got speared by an opposing player (he was a keeper) and he was knocked unconscious- which we were not informed of at the time and went to cp's cheer comp right after...... Since moving he has done really well and has had no concussions....until this past October. He was in the middle of a game and his feet got tangled up with a striker and his head slammed in to the ground. He was immediately taken out of the game with dizziness and the need to throw up. We allowed him to finish watching his team, and he tried as hard as he could to play again but neither his coach nor the ref allowed it to happen. We took him in to the er- saw a PA and they said it was a "closed head injury" and he was cleared to train as long as there was no contact. Sent him to school that week and had to pick him up every day due to headache, ringing in the ears, etc.... took him back to the er where they diagnosed him as a grade 2 concussion......
The next week he had a follow up with his dr where she said he needs to be out of school until he could go a full day without a headache, no video games, no phones, nothing to stimulate his brain- to include school work. The entire time he kept going to practice and not participating- but as team captain he felt he needed to be there. The head coach (not his from his game) kept asking if he would be returning before the end of the season which was the end of November...... ummmmmmmmm nope, not until he is cleared medically. His dr was very reluctant to give him the green light but finally did 8 weeks later with the understanding that we had to get him some sort of safety gear. We got a skullcrate and he was able to start back in the state tournament a few weeks ago. This past weekend though he showed some great maturity. He had 2 headers and then he took himself out of the scrimmage. I was really concerned with his history but talked to him and he told me that they were already winning 3-0 so since he decided he didn't want to be taken out of the tournament because he made a poor choice in a scrimmage so he pulled himself.
As a parent I would be concerned with long term brain damage.
And had they been losing 3-2 would he have still pulled himself? Maybe but who knows for sure.
**Aaaaaaand what little troll told you that rumor?**