There was a piece shown during the Health Watch segment of my local news, and no idea where they got it from, the other night and was about a History Professor at McGill IIRC who is starting a new paper about Henry VIII and the possiblity of the King being a sufferer of Post Concussion Syndrome. He's a huge hockey fan, and if you're a huge fan like the both of us are, then you're more than a bit concerned about the impact of this Syndome on the players it's been diagnoised in.
For example, the best player in the game today, Sidney Crosby and hero of the Gold Medal Game for Canada at the Vancouver Olympics last year, hasn't played since January when he was blind sided during the Annual New Year's Outdoor Game in Pittsburgh. It was looking good in his Recovery and he'd been back on the ice doing full workouts, but announced last week he's had a setback.
And that's only one example from the Hockey World. I also know this Syndome is running rampant in the American Football World too. The worst case scenario are vicious changes of mood/personality, headaches, the inablity to handle bright light, nausea, vertigo and that's only a few of the symptoms. A complete change of personality, instead of just switches that take place for short periods of time, have also happened to those sufferering from this.
Sound familiar?
Now, we know Henry took a pretty hard knock w/that jousting accident. He was unconcious for a pretty long period of time, not to mention the famous leg injury. Now that accident and the leg injury has always been used as the "starting point" where Henry's mood and/or personality began to change. We also know he suffered from pretty vicious headaches after that point. So what if the leg injury was only
one of the factors that accident created? What if he also sufferered from Post Concussion Syndome?
It does fit when you think of it.
Just throwing that out there for discussion.
Oh and a friend of ours from New York State and his wife are up for the Summer this year. We look after their camp/cabin when they're gone the rest of the year and in return, they bring us presents, which the number of stuff they bring us (and the fact they're now bringing me
Lord of the Rings stuff when I never asked them to) is just a bit much. I mean...It would be one thing if they brought me one or two Royalty books, but the usual number is anywhere from Seventy to Ninety a year.
He's an Antique Dealer, so...Anyway, it's just a bit too much if that makes any sense. Not that I'm not grateful, but it is just a bit much. That's not even touching on the stuff he brings my Parents. Anyway...
In this year's "Delivery" was Alison Weir's
Henry VIII and His Six Wives. Mom usually gathers up the books and takes them out to the storage area above our Garage, so I've got to grab what looks interesting before that happens.
D I can't
wait to get started on it. I've heard so much of this book and I have another one of Weir's other Tudor books thanks to Phil and that was excellent. I'm reading Lt General Romeo Dallaire's
Shake Hands With The Devil at the moment, but when that's done w/, I'll be "visiting" Tudor England again.
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Will have to keep an eye out for that Mary Boleyn book of hers. I have a Birthday coming up in October, so.... ;o)