SSTraining_DugganAction Despite how normal I am feeling right now, my head injury is actually a little more serious. In my crash I suffered a subarachnoid hemorrhage, resulting now in a subdural hematoma, which is basically a big bruise on the right frontal lobe of my brain. The subdural hematoma on my brain is still a good enough size to warrant a lot of extra caution for a while.

It could be really bad if I were to hit my head again too soon because my body currently doesn’t have the ability to absorb any extra blood from a new injury, or even anything that increases my blood pressure, and therefore increases the bleeding in my brain.
Extra bleeding here causes the brain to swell, and that is really not good.

So here is the bummer part. As of now, I’m pretty much out for the season. It is too much of a risk to hit my head again if I were to race and train normally in the next 2 or 3 months. So I’m hanging onto some hope that everything will heal perfect and quick and maybe I can race some in September and October, but only if I am at 100%.

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