The law of Natural Selection apparently fails my friends as well.

[ladymirth]

My best friend has been going around town for a week  WITH A CONCUSSION!

At least, I'm pretty sure it's a concussion based on the following evidence:
a) She has a painful lump on her head.
b) She gets headaches and says "she doesn't feel too good".
c) Her left eye has gone blurry.
d) She sounds disorientated.
e) She had a curtain pole dropped on her head.

Of course, we don't know for sure, because she hasn't been to see the doctor yet!  And her parents know all her symptoms and they aren't bothered in the slightest. She told me last night when she came to see my play that she was "considering" going to the doctor because the swelling still hurt. Seeing as last time she felt ill she didn't go to the hospital till she was coughing up blood with bronchitis, this might be an improvement. 

I don't know who I want to whack harder - her or her parents. Her parents are the most astonishing pair of people who ever avoided being slapped with a reckless child endangerment suit that I ever heard of. I wish I could drop a curtain pole on their heads. 

*fumes* 

Some people need to have their babies taken away, because they don't deserve them. 

Comments

[ajroald.livejournal.com]

I don't know about where you live, but here we have to have a license to do everything BUT have children. There should be some sort of test before people procreate - no lie.

[judosas.livejournal.com]

Definitely sounds like a concussion. A coworker had a iron bar dropped on his head, passed out, and kept on working with pretty much the same conditions. After a week, we finally convinced him to go to the doctor... It takes longer to recover from a concussion if it's taken care of after a period of time. So I hope your friends goes to the doctor to make sure.