monkey nonsense

i bang my head a lot. my head is oddly shaped because of too many bangs to the head. i used to visit the school nurse in elementary school at least once a week because of getting hit in the head during recess and/or gym. i just had another big head bang this weekend. i’ve had to eat advil the past 2 days because of pain (and i never eat medicine!!) so i thought i’d start a top 5 list of head bangs. granted, i can’t remember all the details to them all. that might be bad…

1. Summer 1998 or 1999, Lake Havasu, Arizona: We went on one of those Chinese tours of the Grand Canyon and stopped at Lake Havasu on the way to see the London Bridge. A summer thunderstorm suddenly struck so most people weren’t prepared with umbrellas. After waiting out the storm under an overpass for quite some time, my family decided to make a run for another building for shelter. I slipped on the wet concrete and fell on my butt. Worst yet, I didn’t have a chance to brace myself. So after my butt made impact, my head hit the ground. Reports from bystanders claim that they actually saw my head hit the ground, bounce up from impact, and slam down on the ground again. Ouch. It definitely hurt. I felt nauseated for quite some time. I actually might’ve blacked out for a bit too, but hahah, I don’t recall. I do remember though, that one of the first things my mom said to me when I was starting to feel better was “oh no! what about the SATs?!”
2. Winter 2007, Tysons II mall: This weekend, I went shopping with Tina, Cheryl, and May. While waiting for May, I decided to go sit on the couches they have near the mall entrances. It was a two-seater. I thought it was long enough for me to lay out on. It was not. I ended up banging my head on the side table. I don’t know what that table was made of, but it was quite industrial! Definitely not some cheap wooden table that someone could easily lift up and steal. I think I have a new bump on the back of my head from it. I had to stop by CVS to buy Advil just because of the pain… and even now, 24 hours later, I just took another Advil!
3. 2000-2004?, Pittsburgh: I don’t remember this…. and maybe it never happened, I’ll need Psycho and/or Changer Banger to confirm. But I think I banged my head pretty bad somehow in college. What I do remember was Psycho webMd-ing or googling information about concussions and telling me that I had to stay awake X amount of time after I had banged my head to make sure that my head was ok. I remember being really tired because it was late at night and being pretty sure that it wasn’t a concussion (because c’mon, it’s not even tops on this list!), but getting all paranoid after Psycho read all that information on concussions. Psycho - did this happen? Or maybe I dreamt it all…?
4. Approximately 1983, Virginia: Obviously too young to remember this one, but I think I’ve felt the repercussions of this bang ;). I was just learning to walk and was in one of those wheelie walker things. My older sister (I blame you!!) liked to tease me by running up to me, teasing me, and running away quicker than I could. One day, she did this to me and I gave chase. And somehow, fell down the flight of stairs (we lived in a split level house so it was “only” half a flight of stairs) WITH the walker! I’ve had a bump on my head since I can remember (it’s on the side and seems unnatural unless I was born with a deformed head…) so I’m guessing it’s from this fall (though my mom claims I also liked to jump out of my crib when I was a baby… maybe I’ll clump both of those as one “bang” on this list of bangs). My mom says she and my grandma found me at the bottom of the stairs and that I was unconscious for a bit. They were freaking out and were just about to take me to the hospital when I woke up. So I blame YOU, Leslie, for my idiotcy… I would’ve be a Nobel-winning doctor or something!!
5. 1996-1997?, High school Gym class: The unit was basketball. I was walking out of bounds behind the hoop. Someone sucked at basketball and threw a wild airball. The ball hit my head directly. My friends told me that after it hit my head and bounced off, I didn’t fall down immediately, but walked a few more steps before I abruptly crumbled to the ground. They said it was like a cartoon.

Honorable Mentions: 1996-2000? Chinese school volleyball when someone spiked directly onto my head, Harleyford townhouse 2006 when I banged my head right at the point of the corner of the dining room table, 3rd grade recess soccer game when someone kicked the ball right at my head, 9th grade Gym class again during the Badminton unit when a birdie hit me in the forehead… that didn’t hurt as much as it stung from the speed of the birdie, 1991-1995? swimming class when we were learning flip turns… I miscalculated the distance to the wall and started to flip too close to the wall, banged my head on the wall.

ok, enough blogging… going to try to go to sleep on my sore head