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Thanks all. So the ER told her it was a concussion. They told her to keep taking ibuprofen and that, in time, it would get better. Hypo called me feeling really angry that there was no resolution and feeling like they didn't listen to her and treated her like she was "dumb."
The doctor at Barnard had given Hypo her cell number and told her to call when she was done at St. Luke's. When Hypo was walking back to her dorm, that doc was sitting on a bench outside the Quad (dorms). Hypo talked to her and the doc called her in a prescription for the med she's been on and asked her to come in at 9 am Monday again. She wants her to see an eye specialist and had told the ER that she wanted an eye specialist to see her but apparently one was not available. The ibuprofen and other medication she is on will take care of the pain but they don't resolve her blurred vision.
The Barnard doc told her "No reading, no homework this weekend." She said she would email Hypo's professors. Hypo is feeling a lot better that this doctor validates her. She also said she was thinking "Well, if anybody asks in a job interview why I withdrew from a class freshman year, I can tell them I had a concussion because St. Luke's said I did."
She was having headaches which seemed stress related before the accident. It was several days after the accident when this headache started. I don't really know whether it is a migraine, a concussion or something else entirely. I know the CT scan was clear and the night I took her to ER here, the neuro screen they do was fine.
I just want my baby girl to feel better. And yes, even though she's 19, she is my baby girl. I really want my son to go to school close to home, but he's talking places far, far away.
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