Wilderness Walk for 12-22-2010

by BReynolds on Dec 22, 2010 8:43 AM CST in Wilderness Walks

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Hey all. I know this space is generally reserved for some early AM snark, or a dig at Vancouver. Today, I would like to personally ask you to help out the people at Defending the Blue Line. They, like most charitable groups in this economy, have more people who need their services than they have money to help those very deserving people. So, I ask that you make a donation to their Christmas Goal Campaign.

Any amount is accepted, and would be greatly appreciated. Remember, DTBL helps military families keep their kids playing hockey. Ask yourself if you watched your mom or dad leave for Afghanistan, would you want to then give up hockey without a choice as well?

The people at DTBL are good, honorable people, and you have my word that this money goes to a great cause. So please, consider making a donation today. Of any size. Thank you, Wilderness.

Now, back to the fun. Head over to Facebook for the Question of the Day (yes, there actually is one today), and don't forget to submit your intelligence reports for the HWRG2000. We already have a few that have come in for the next run, but the more, the merrier. Finally, if you have a Twitter account, and want to win a Guardians reveal poster, check out the Twitter ReTweet contest.

Wild News

NHLPA.com | News | Headlines | Burnzie’s Battle Honours - Want some proof of the good works DTBL is doing? How about the fact the the NHLPA donated 100 sets of gear to them after Brent Burns and George Parros worked hard (Sorry Tom) to secure it?

Wild, post-practice | StarTribune.com - Kent Youngblood gives you the scoop after practice.

Brodziak helps line connect for Wild | StarTribune.com - That's right. (GLUE) is doing exactly what he is supposed to. Am I right, SpaethCo?

Nick Schultz's head injury lingers; he'll miss Thursday's Wild game - TwinCities.com - I have been thinking about this for the last few hours. What kind of "head injury" keeps someone out of games and practice, but isn't a concussion. I'm really asking here. Anyone have some ideas?

KiPA's Korner

Hitting The Post: Caps grind down Devils; Quick blanks Avs - Great, so the Avs were shutout? That bodes well for the Wild.

Off the Trail

Mary Rogan Examines NHL Legend Brian Burke and His Advocacy for Gay Athletes: Profiles: GQ - Have you cried today? If you need to get some emotions running, read this. Very powerful piece about Brian Burke and how he is dealing with the loss of his son, and fulfilling the promises he made to him. When I read it, I literally had to go wake up my kids and give them hugs.

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How about a migraine?

by Chris Winner on Dec 22, 2010 9:40 AM CST reply actions

Headaches or migraines

Your body reflexivly tries to keep your head from snapping in any direction so his neck muscles might have tightened up when he got knocked in the head which could cause headaches or migraines. It can take a while for those to loosen up again.

After the Wild told us that Burns had a concussion for several months and now we find out it was a sinus infection – who knows what to think or believe about what they tell us about injuries.

"Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. Glory lasts forever." Shane Falco

by minnesotagirl71 on Dec 22, 2010 12:41 PM CST reply actions

Not a "head injury" but...

I once had an ear infection so bad that it caused vertigo. A lot of sensativities and lost balance. I think if that’s what Schultz had, they would classify it as an “illness”, but I thought I would throw that out there.

by gunslinger1 on Dec 22, 2010 3:40 PM CST reply actions

On that head injury thing

I’m dealing with one right now. I whacked my head good back in October and after increasingly worsening symptoms over the last month and a half (you know once I got to the point where I couldn’t drive), I kept persisting on something’s really wrong here (after being seen also for a blocked eustachian tube a few weeks prior which probably didn’t help things).

I didn’t concuss myself (yay), but apparently when I hit my head, I did some damage to my inner ear and knocked my otoconia (the “rocks” in your ears that are responsible for balance and such) out of whack resulting in benign paroxymsal positional vertigo. And the only treatment for that is vestibular rehab to move everything back in place and time. And there are some drugs that help with the dizziness, but the nystagmus is freakin’ annoying.

So it’s possible that there was inner ear damage with the the hit to the head instead of an actual head injury.

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by brigid22 on Dec 22, 2010 5:58 PM CST reply actions