American cross-country skier Stephen O’Mara has always been passionate about endurance sports. But when he sustained a traumatic brain injury during a 2019 triathlon, doctors feared the elite athlete may have to relearn everything— even walking.
After being treated for his injuries, O'Mara was sent home to rest, not realizing that he was suffering from a traumatic brain injury.
"But subsequently, I started having some bad head symptoms. Was getting a little stumbly, a real extreme sensitivity to light. And yeah, like throbbing headaches that would come on quite suddenly and basically just knock me down.""My last memory that week is going through the metal detectors and really not looking good and an intake nurse in the check-in handing me a vomit bag," O'Mara said.
"And fortunately, we caught it about 30 minutes before I might not be here sitting and talking to you today," O'Mara said."So very grateful for my wife for getting me back to the hospital and the nurse for spotting me stumbling to the bathroom." "I was the guy skiing around the meadow slowly with bike helmets on. Helmets are not a thing in cross-country skiing," he said."But nevertheless out of caution, I had one on and was just slowly skiing around meadows, getting my bearings back and it came and it felt good."
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