I woke up one morning and was shocked by what I saw in the mirror.
I had 2 shiny black eyes, one swollen and hard to see out of, the outer whites of my eyes were blood red and when I bent over the sink, a thin stream of reddish fluid poured out of my nose.
I could not make sense of what I saw in the mirror. Like, “Wth happened to me?” I just woke up like that after a normal night at home.
I was kinda concerned about it, so I called the local hospital’s help line to ask what they thought I should do.
She didn’t say it like this, but basically said, “Dumbass, hang up the phone and call 911 for an ambulance.”
So, after taking a shower and feeding the dogs, that’s what I did. Instead of just driving there, I called 911 and then just hung out in the driveway until they got there.
The looks on everyone’s face, from the ambulance crew to everyone, and I mean everyone, when we got to ER was almost worth what the ambulance ride cost me. Hahaha
They kept me there for 3 days, ran every test they had on me, too, to figure me out. And, boy howdy, you should see the bill for that education! No insurance, either. They asked me for my insurance card and I handed them my Visa card.
As a souvenir and parting gift, they gave me some spectacularly cool x-rays of my head showing multiple, bilateral temporal skull fractures, including one passing through the area around one ear, taking out some hearing along the way.
Everyone thought I had been in a wreck or lost a fight, but there was not a mark on me. And with me having no memory of what happened, we all figured it was probably an alien abduction gone bad. Lol
I still don’t know what really happened, but I must have tripped over the dog coming back from the bathroom and somehow hit the back of my head on the corner of the bedside table, fracturing my skull like cracking an egg.
Took forever to stop hurting when chewing food or doing anything else, and I had weird visuals of the world with one eye bouncing to my heartbeat and the other eye normal and steady, and I’m still dealing with the home repair decisions I made during that time.
Oh well, no worries. I’m just happy to be here now, but no more head traumas for me, thanks. Trying to quit.
That is probably exactly what happened to Saget. You are a lucky guy.
Wow- that is some mystery- you are a fortunate guy. It gives some perspective though, on how something like this can happen and have a benign cause- even though we don’t know exactly what happened with you or Saget.
Reading different places online there are many people who have had similar experiences- with differing outcomes, from complete recovery to loss of life.
It seems unlikely Saget was hit intentionally- but it’s a bizarre death.