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From: Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com>
Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech
Subject: Re: Bike tech idea for Jeff
Date: 31 Jan 2025 13:25:39 GMT
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cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Thu Jan 30 11:06:58 2025 Roger Merriman  wrote:
>> cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> On Sat Jan 25 23:15:09 2025 Roger Merriman  wrote:
>>>> Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com> wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, 24 Jan 2025 16:11:54 -0000 (UTC), Tom Kunich
>>>>> <cyclintom@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> You seem to be completely unaware of Jeff's serious health problems.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Not as serious as your problems.  
>>>>> 01/06/2023
>>>>> <https://groups.google.com/g/rec.bicycles.tech/c/K-cG5lehtd0/m/X3FtbYbXAAAJ>
>>>>> "I am permanently disabled and so is the cop who managed to get me
>>>>> back from the last step from death."
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> Lord knows what the truth of Tom?s disability is, Epilepsy seems likely,
>>>> potentially from the concussion maybe some vestibular something as ever his
>>>> claims don?t correlate so difficult to know.
>>>> 
>>>> I absolutely am disabled and probably by quite bit more, my ability to work
>>>> and earn and well function is quite reduced from what it was.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> The neurologist finally came clean and told me that I contracted epilepsy
>>> from the brain damage. 
>>> 
>> Almost certainly though as ever unless there is a nice bit of scar tissue
>> that can be picked up by scans it?s down to probability, of which it seemed
>> rather likely that you had Epilepsy for ages just from what you reported.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Epilepsy can e one resule of a cobcussion Anotherbcan be av shurt term
> ubconciousness with no limgering after effects. Now tell me again that
> there is no mild or no severe. Why they are all the same according to you.
> 

Concussion is the mildest of the brain injuries it’s really lay speak older
medical definition which doesn’t really fit into what we know now.

Epilepsy can be caused by lots of things some major some minor, similar to
diabetes for example which has more complicated causes than the “just
eating too much” one of my relatives died from it post 1st world war
probably triggered by trauma.

The correlation between someone’s injuries and The level of disability
isn’t linear, hence things like the Glasgow Coma score life
expectancy/disability is good at the severe end (neither of us are) with
folks who had low signal digit scores, and who may well have been in a coma
for months/years.

But folks in the moderate it’s much less so, and at mild it’s fairly
useless, especially as we have learnt more, mainly how little we know as is
the way of things.

One of the newer relative speaking, is Post Concussion Syndrome as the
realisation that even such “mild” conditions as Concussion can have long
term consequences and the more research is done the more is found. 

Yes absolutely this stuff sucks and having a major impact called minor can
rankle but that’s medical speak for you, plus the ever human urge to
categories ie simplify what is complicated.

If you wanted to avail yourself of facts there are number of US based brain
injury associations and organisations.

Roger Merriman