StCicatriz
Brownlow Medallist
- Aug 3, 2016
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Statement was on Robbo not paddy.Can't comment on Robbo, but with Paddy if concussion is an issue then that statement is not right. With concussion and TBI's symptoms can be up and down and be slower or faster. Sometimes people are initially ok, but then get worse. Yes if Paddy had a brain bleed or something immediately serious they would know by now and if that was suspected it is why hospitalisation is recommended just in case major intervention is required. (Wife survived her TBI, nephew died after being king hit and going to bed rather than hospital). However the micro damage that can be done to the brain by concussion can be such that scans do not show it and so real long-term harm may have been done that only time will reveal.
Paddy may be ok, or he may not be. But with concussion no one will this quickly know if he is ok or not. They will keep re-testing him throughout the week and let us all hope that he recovers ok and that this incident was nothing much. But it is only Monday, and if he was concussed during the game he will go through the tests this week till his results keep showing he is ok.