MindsOnLoan wrote:Apparently this saved some young girl's life... I didn't click on the article, but on Yahoo they said that thanks to this situation, when a girl started showing the same symptoms, they knew how to properly act against it.
What happened was the girl had been hit in the temple approx. two days before, and she had a bump on her head but her parents iced it and the swelling went down. They were then watching the story on Natasha, and thought "Uh oh, better check on her." They went upstairs and the girl had a headache, and shortly after that it turned into a really serious headache, and they took her to the hospital and she had the same thing Natasha did. They saved their daughter's life because they knew enough to take her to the hospital after seeing what happened to Natasha.
Most people think that if they hit their head but don't exhibit any symptoms then they're fine. I've done this before, but I'm a hypochondriac, so even if I have "symptoms" it's most likely just my brain playing tricks on me. But Natasha's tragic death (and yes, it is a tragedy - I still want to cry just thinking about it) has called attention to the fact that a bump on the head is not always just a bump on the head. And sometimes it is just a bump on the head. But if you hit it hard enough that there's a giant bump, you should probably go to the hospital.