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by trey
Last night I was watching something on TV and needed to get up to pee. I was sitting in my La-Z-Boy chair and my wife was asleep in our bedroom. The living room was dark except for the TV screen. I took a few steps and, at the last possible moment, I saw that one of our cats was laying on the rug that is behind my chair, which he never does. I was in mid step when I saw my cat and I was about to step directly on his back. Somehow I shifted my momentum to avoid crushing him, but in the process I lost my balance and dropped like a stone. I felt my forehead bounce off the floor, and then I was out cold. I don't know if it was for a few seconds or a little longer, but I woke up and tried to stand. It was like when a boxer gets dropped in the ring and tries to get up but cannot. Everything was in slow motion and I could not summon the strength to push myself up, so I just laid there for a few moments until the room stopped spinning. Must have scared the shit out of my cat because he was nowhere to be seen. I finally got to my feet and hobbled to the bathroom and pissed. Luckily my head hit the rug and not the hardwood floor. I came back and sat down, for how long I can't remember. Then I thought I better wake my wife and tell her, just to be safe. She immediately thought I have a concussion, which I probably do. She said I told her the story 3 times in a row. It was and still is very painful.It was the hardest part of my head that I hit, so there is not so much a bruise as there is a stinging carpet burn. This morning I realized my knees were stinging with pain and I realized I also carpet burned the skin off of them. My wife applied Neosporin to them and bandaged them for me. I'm okay but still in a good deal of pain.
It's the second time in my life I've been knocked out. The first time was when I was a kid and my asshole cousin hit me with a one in a million shot with a croquet ball in the middle of my forehead. I was out for longer that time because by the time I woke he had already gone inside the house and brought our mothers out to me. They were furious with him. I don't talk to him anymore.
Today is ouch.