Brain Injury Survival

I'm not an expert on this subject, however I have had a closer than most seat at the table. Firstly let's be clear what I'm talking about, over the 50 or so years I've been alive I had the following

Hyperthermia twice and fell of the roof at age 6, had exhaustion once, heat stroke once, sunburnt to hell three times, been shot at twice. Once by people who probably mean it. Got run over on 3 separate ocassions. In three incidents spread over 2 years but all with in 300m of each other. Knocked unconsious playing rugby at school, had my knee bent sideways at Basketball at school, sat next to bloke trying to set off a mortar bomb on the school bus....(don't go to that school) Got slappped by a girl in the face so hard I thought my head was going to burst out of it's skin. I've fallen asleep behind the wheel a few times, because some of my ex bosses didn't really value us as people.... which I've never really been happy about. I've seen folks fall off stuff rip themselves all manner of new holes, some of which I've patched up. I've had amoebic dysentery once while at work, while on a jolly/ holiday I had to learn to use an emergency parachute, when I didn't have one... and had to get creative very quickly... because of that. I rand towwards an possible explosion not because I and Patrick are born hero's but because I worked out we couldn't out run it. SO turning round to shut off the gas valve seemed a good idea at the time. I've nearly drowned on a few occassions the worst by far was paragliding (parachuted) into the sea, not because it was horrific as an incident, but because Giles Palmer swam out to rescue me and we both got tangled up in my lines and could have easily have drowned together. Which meant that would have been my fault.... I've also been in a high speed crash on the M25 involving about 8 cars I lost count at 6 and my passenger and I got nearly everyone out in good order, but it was messy.

I've made a few bad decisions along the way but when it came right down to the wire, I've always called it absolutley spot on.

So for a moment let's just look at the brain injury aspect, actually let's just look at the nature of accidents first. Accident happen because someone went off plan, moved away from what would be considered as sensible behaviour or took the decision of that'll do....!

When clearly that won't do.....!

The victim won't really know what hit them, if your standing near someone that was hit. It's really simple call them ambulance, if your in the civilised world... An Ambulance is the best option. You as an individual are not equipped to assess the potential damage, if the person is still breathing, their head is in one piece and they claims they're fine call one anyway....

In the military it's slightly different I'm told, if your running towards the sound of gunfire, the person next to you can fall... it's simply not your job to stop, the objective is everything. It's the difference between motion/ movement and progress.... the objective is bigger than individual... so try and be lucky.... I've been more than lucky until it finally ran out.