My New Obsession
When I was little (11 yrs) I was riding my bicycle home from community swim team practice. The entire ride would normally take maybe 5 minutes if I was going really slow and doubling back for some unknown reason. This particular day it took me over a week to get home b/c I was hit by a car going in the opposite direction. Sucks, right?Anyway, car won and so on.
Once I had been out of the hospital for a while and had just had my cast removed "they" (you know they, right?) decided that I needed to have my brain tested to be sure there wouldn't be any permanent "issues". So I was sent to a shrink. The first one (notice the implication that there was more than one?) did all sort of motor skill tests. As soon as he started w/ that I thought the guy was a joke. He wanted me to do stupid drunk tests like standing on one foot and touching my nose and had me waddle down the hall like a duck. It was ridiculous. I had been hopping myself all over the house, up and down the stairs, for months (I had a broken leg and crutches are annoying and do nothing but slow you down; 4 casts, 4 weeks each).
We left. My Mom decided to call "them" and let them know how stupid it all was.
Then I was sent to another, different, doctor. This one did a full blown personality and IQ test on me. It tested my memory, logic, imagination, and so on. It took hours. It was fun tough, from what I remember (it was a long time ago - I'm more than twice 11 by now). What were the results? Well, I was diagnosed as having lost my short term memory. The doctor talked to me and my parents about it. Apparently the mind, given the correct "re-training" can adapt itself to compensate for that which has been lost, but you have to work with it and practice. That's my brain damage resulting from my accident. If you ask me, I'd say my brain has taken care of itself very well and I don't have any noticeable lingering problems.
The other thing that came out of all the testing is that I have obsessive/compulsive tendencies.
Meet my new obsession...
posted by Ali @ 9:29 PM
1 Comments:
That's sad... but funny all at the same time. Mostly sad the first 90% of the time.. and funny the last sentence.
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