Just kidding. Most of the time, we coaches never wore helmets....I was skating with the kids in warm-ups going backwards while facing the kids coming at me. A kid who was late, came off the bench behind me and lost his balance, took my legs out from under me and the rest was history. Blood was flowing from the cut on my head, I was out cold......after that, we all decided to wear helmets. Stuff happens. One guy lost a finger when he took off his glove to try to patch together a gouge in the ice and somebody skated over his hand. Stuff happens. Sorry to hear you are still struggling, hang in there.
Oh wow. That was no fun.
Mine was doing power pulls - skating forward on one foot pulling back and forth to go forward (I think you do that kind of thing in hockey). Anyway, one nanosecond lapse, and my feet went out from under me, whacked the back of my head, glasses flew off, broke the wrist. The goose egg just about covered the whole back of my head. The dizziness took about 6 months to go away. That bothered me more than wearing a cast.
I’m an EMT - you know it’s bad when I told them to call 911. I think that freaked out my coach more than anything else. I really thought seriously about not skating again. But I do love it so I’m living on the edge (so to speak).