For me personally, most of the problem was that when I fell to the ground, my coach was like, “Get up. Keep going.” It was like, “You're fine. Keep playing. We have a game going on.” I think a lot of the issues stemmed from the fact that I got a hit to the head, fell to the ground, and got up and continued to play that night as if it was nothing.
Then, moving forward, I was back at soccer the next day, even though I'm sure that if anybody had looked at my eyes they would have been able to see that something was wrong. It's not to say that my coach was a horrible person, because he wasn't, but I feel like more should have been done in my coach's eyes to say, “She's not okay and she needs to rest so that this isn't going to be an ongoing problem.”
If I had done the concussion protocol right away or gone to the hospital that night, I'm not sure that I'd have the same symptoms moving forward. Because I kept pushing myself, kept going, and didn't take the rest I needed initially, that could have had an effect.