Are you willing to reveal approximately how long your daughter is still having issues after her incident, and how long your situation lasted? Fully understand if you don't want to comment given privacy, etc.
My daughter was injured in late September 2016. She was chasing a pass/clearing attempt that was too far ahead of her. It led to a race for the puck with my daughter a stride ahead of the pursuing defenders through the neutral zone. Their goalie decided to rush out of the crease to try to beat her to the puck as it entered their zone. You can guess what came next. My daughter collided with the goalie roughly in line with the tops of the faceoff circles and in line with the net. She tumbled over the goalie and got her arms tangled up. It led to her, at a pretty good rate of speed, smashing face/cage first into the ice since she couldn't bring up her arms to protect herself. She also had one of the pursuing defenders tumble over the goalie as well and they landed on my daughter's head/neck.
She struggled going to school from that point on through November of 2016. We let her miss days at a time here and there. On the days she did go, my wife or I had to either take her in late or pick her up early. Eventually, we had to pull her out of school in early December 2016. She was getting progressively worse and there was no way she could handle school. That started the bleakest time frame from December 2016 through early Feb 2017. She was pretty much in her room in bed with the lights off, blinds closed and covers over her head with blinding headaches. They only time she wasn't like that was going to doctor/therapist appointments.
There wasn't much progress in her condition for roughly 5-6 weeks. My wife and I were getting a little scared. She finally had a breakthrough in mid Feb 2017 when she was sent to a chiropractor who was able to make progress with her C1 and C2 which were injured as well. Between working with UB's concussion clinic, a vestibular therapist, the chiropractor, a psychologist for counseling and a neurologist my daughter was able to start getting better very slowly. Its was a very stressful journey with so many appointments my wife and I didn't know if we were coming or going half the time. But all of the medical professionals involved were amazing with us and each other. All of those professionals thought highly of each other and worked great as a team.
She never went back to school last year and was home schooled. Frontier was amazing working with her. They sent a teacher to our house every day after school. She was able to catch up and made high honors and got into national honors society. During this time frame she also had high level of anxiety and was trying to avoiding people she knows when she was out anywhere with us. It was irrational. As an example, I took her with me to Best Buy to get her out of the house. It was near the end of school year. she wouldn't come in with me for fear of seeing someone she knew. No matter how much I tried to convince her she would be fine, she refused to go in and sat in the car while I picked up what I came there for. It really came to head when a few of her final exams couldn't be taken at home and had to be taken at school. We finally got her to go by having one of her sisters walk her to the exam room then assure her that they would walk her out after.
My daughter finally went back to school this past fall (Sept 2017) after being pulled out in December 2016. Initially she was exhausted every day after school. Needing to sleep for 2-3 hours. On weekends, if she does something with her friends, that usually wipes her out. The exhaustion is getting better but she still is getting tired a lot and naps almost daily for a decent amount of time. But at least the anxiety is better and she has a social life with her friends again. She will still get awkward about certain situations but its much better than it was. She still has headaches but they are manageable for the most part.
