Helpful Snowman Gives Back

Readers,

It’s been a tough couple weeks around here.  But when things get bad, the best thing you can do is give back and wait for things to turn around.

If you have a problem, contact me.  I can help.  I will help.  And I will protect your identity.

Yours in Christ,
H.S.

Dear Helpful Snowman,

Can you die from a concussion?

Thanks,
Babe

Dearest Babe,

(that’s how I start my love letters as well)

What a question.  But maybe we can start by asking a simpler question, What is a concussion?

A concussion is a real bad head injury.  Real bad.  However, they are mostly fake and used to raise tension in football movies when a lineman has to decide whether or not to play in the big game and risk getting another concussion, a precise number of which seems to be bad news in these movies.

I myself have had three, none of which are related to football in any way other than there was probably someone playing football somwhere as I ay on the sidewalk, completely dead to the world.

So the quick answer is No, I can’t die from a concussion.

Perhaps you meant to ask “Can ONE die from a concussion?”  Perhaps your atrocious use of language is a result of a concussion you’ve already sustained!

While I am apparently invincible, you are not, my friend.  You have a weak, fleshy, human brain.  I would suggest that you wear a helmet at all times, and in order to head off jokesters at the pass, get a giant bumper sticker with the word “Ree-tahd” printed in glittery green letters over an oval of gilttery silver letters.