One thing in his favor, it was a padded chair that gave way some, so not like he hit something solid like a table or hard floor.
Well... yes and no. Because he didn't hit a hard object there will be less focal damage. But he hit something soft with a rather severe rebound 'snap'. Because of that, it means a few things. It means that he actually suffered
twice as many impacts overall (his brain slamming into his skull when he hit the chair, and then again when he stopped falling when his shoulder hits the floor). That snapping back and forth then stopping at the floor means that the grinding of the brain on the inside of the skull, and the increased rotational forces (from the twisting of his head to the side on impact with the chair) would result in a much greater degree of scraping of the superficial layers of neurons in the brain [those responsible for the final correlation of information from deeper neuronal layers] and likely a greater degree of axonal tearing than if he just was hit one solid blow with its rebound.
The double impact from hitting the chair then stopping at the floor, plus the increased scraping and tearing would result in more difficulty doing, well, pretty much everything. So if he'd hit something hard it would've been massive damage to a more focal area (with somewhat less damage to the area directly opposite of that area [contracoup], and less scraping of the brain in the skull). Instead he's left with 'lesser' global damage. Honestly, having had accidents that did each, I'd rather have the single focal area than the global damage [depending where the 'single focal area' was, some areas are virtually impossible to work around]. With focal damage, when most other capacities are still relatively functional, it is more likely to be easier to work on the area that is 'singularly' affected, because there are some brain functions left relatively intact to compensate
with. The global difficulty (from a rebound and a 'soft' landing) basically leaves no functioning unaffected, so there are much more limited resources available intact anywhere in the brain to try to regain any functioning (extreme analogy: the difference between chronically forgetting where you put your keys and being fall-down drunk all the time; you can use other brain areas to train yourself to set up a way to store your keys in a place you can find them, if falling-down drunk there's nothing that you can focus on enough to do them well). [Keep in mind, with my clarity here on the boards, this is after 14 1/2
years of working my ass off to get my writing to be usually coherent, losing many friends in the process from things not coming out right.]
I think Lucas cares quite a bit.
Yeah, it's a subject that means quite a bit to him.
Yes, QV, I do care quite a bit. And yes, JU, it does mean a lot to me. Thank you for recognizing that. And it was enough of both of those for me to have devoted years of my life to gain the education to work with people who had similar injuries and spend years doing so. Then it started to mean a great deal to me in a different way because it happened to me. The combination of the two result in me being rather vocal about such things, both so people can potentially protect themselves better from the possibility of themselves having such an injury (or getting help if they do), and so they can understand what those with such injuries actually go through.
I found a GIF that made me laugh, so I shared in attempt to make others laugh. If you presume I had any other intention than that your wrong. If your offended I'm more than happy to not post another GIF of a dude falling.
I didn't presume you to have any other intention than to make others laugh. [I don't think there is anyone on the boards who would deliberately do something malicious just for the hell of it.] And others have given 'Like's to similar types of 'injury-based' JPGs and GIFs in the past, so there are other people on the boards that also feel such things are funny. [Quite a lot the world over, actually, or such things would not get into GIFs and be circulated on the internet in the first place.]
And I'm not offended. Yes, it triggered my PTSD, and I had to take extra anxiety meds to counter that, but that is
my problem,
not yours. I have NO expectation
or desire for people to censor their public behavior just to keep me (and other, less vocal, traumatic injury survivors) from being triggered. I believe firmly in free speech. I don't like everyone's 'speech', any more than I expect others to like any or all of mine.
But
because it affected me so strongly, and because of what I know about the subject, and because I see what appears to be a lack of empathy in the world at large (to make 'injury humor' something that a great many people the world over appear to enjoy [Three Stooges anyone?]), I took the opportunity to try to educate people about what was actually going on in that particular GIF. To share information with people that 'pratfalls' where there is the likelihood of others getting injured in ways that are likely to diminish their quality of life from that point on might not actually be funny. If people choose not to take in the information or accept that, that is their choice. I'm not here, writing all this, to
change people's beliefs. [
Providing information is different from expecting other people to
act on that information.] I am here presenting people with some less commonly known information about events they may see. How they react, and what they do with it - both with what I say, and to seeing similar events in the future - is their choice.
I think that's enough for me on this. I've been having quite a rough time (I've been well past my capacity) since the power went out a couple weeks back and I had a suspected broken toe. For my functioning alone I likely shouldn't have written anything in the first place. Too bad the frontal lobes (self-monitoring of behavior) are the first thing to go when I'm past capacity.
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