I think I was definitely leaning towards what you said—thinking I must be fine because everyone said I was fine. For the first week, I completely ignored it. I had a headache, but I just thought it was a headache. I just moved forward, tried to ignore it and did what I could to distract myself by doing school work, running, or whatever it was at the time.
I think a lot of that came from my coach saying I was fine. Then, even when I initially went to my family doctor, she said, “Oh, it might just be growing pains. It's just a migraine. You'll be fine. Just take Tylenol, and it will be fine,” so that kind of got into my head. My family doctor initially didn't even think it was a concussion.
At one point, my mom said she thought I had a concussion. That's when we went forward, and we went to the hospital. At the hospital, in the ER, the doctor said, “You didn't lose consciousness, so you don't have a concussion.” Then you get in your head and think, “If I don't have a concussion, then what's wrong with me? Why am I experiencing all of this?”