I never did mention about how much my head hurt one night after judo practice, how it got to the point where I was lying on the mat, and that I thought I was going to throw up driving home from judo practice. But I did mention it to my doctor. He, as a specialist, thought the worst due to pre-existing conditions and sent me in for an MRI. What I got from the MRI was good news and bad news.<\/p>\n
The good news: IT\u2019S NOT A TUMOR. (This should be a familiar quote to those old enough to have seen Kindergarten Cop<\/em> with Arnold Schwarzenegger.)<\/p>\n The bad news: my doctor told me that I may have had a subdural hematoma at some point and that I should avoid judo until they knew more.<\/p>\n I was sent to a neurosurgeon, who told me everything was fine, nothing abnormal in my brain, and I was getting better so there was nothing I should do about any of it EXCEPT I was supposed to QUIT JUDO<\/strong>. Think of all the football players having problems, he said.<\/p>\n This wasn\u2019t exactly the best news, as I\u2019m having a lot of fun practicing judo. I\u2019m not especially good, but it\u2019s still fun and I\u2019m hooked. Besides, I don\u2019t think I got this from any actual \u201chard judo\u201d but when I knocked my head into another guy\u2019s head while we were learning how to do a certain ground maneuver where we pulled a guy onto his back. During \u201cnormal judo\u201d I would\u2019ve taken a fall and my head wouldn\u2019t have the chance to strike anything hard. I also had headaches before that, but those went away when I got a massage. I\u2019m pretty sure it\u2019s due to a stiff neck and besides, my dad had a history of headaches too. And, it\u2019s not like I\u2019m an NFL football player who has to go hard every time, every game, every practice, for years and years.<\/p>\n I called my sister who said people get told to quit running, too and nobody seems to listen to that nonsense. (She\u2019s a big runner for the one or two people who might possibly read this who don\u2019t know her.) Since I also had a disagreement at work the same day, her suggestion was that I should shut the hell up and be nicer at work because after I get all drooly and feeble at the end of my life doing judo, she was going to put me in a home and she wasn\u2019t going to pay for that shit so I better have some money saved up.<\/p>\n MY DECISION IS TO QUIT JUDO.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong>For one month. Plus, I decided to start\u00a0counting the month at the day I think I got my possible head injury so that means I\u2019m starting back up next Monday. Or maybe Sunday, since we have kata class on Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n I hope all of you (the half-dozen readers of this blog) support me in my decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I never did mention about how much my head hurt one night after judo practice, how it got to the point where I was lying on the mat, and that I thought I was going to throw up driving home from judo practice. But I did mention it to my doctor. He, as a specialist, thought the worst due to pre-existing conditions and sent me in for an MRI. What I got from the MRI was good news and bad news. The good news: IT\u2019S NOT A TUMOR. (This should be a familiar quote to those old enough to have seen Kindergarten Cop with Arnold Schwarzenegger.) The bad news: my … Continue reading I’m supposed to quit judo.<\/span>