Waiting to hear from Peter Jess and his expert knowledge of this condition!
Get Well Soon Higgo
Exactly.
In this day, a guy would never be allowed out of the sight of a medico let alone go home if he had suffered a head knock without a complete check.
Peter Jess totally out of line with his comment. He did more damage than good and should be called out on this. Implying that the RFC (and the AFL for that matter) was negligent in their care of Higgins was absolute rubbish.
Unexplained bleeding is within my line of work...The moment we heard the circumstances, it was almost certainly going to be some sort of cerebral aneurysm (weakness in brain blood vessel wall) that he would have had all his life. Impossible to predict or pick up on any scan until it ruptures. Seems like it was not 'deep' and is in a spot that can be therapeutically managed and/or resolved by the body's own mechanisms to cope with this issue.
The fact that he is home means the clinicians are happy that the bleed is resolved and there is no immediate risk. Snags will be jumping out of his skin to play but better to step back and go through all the other tests that will assess for any other areas of weakness.