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Rehab wasn't that bad once I was gone 
It was a particularly long six weeks, the Sundays in rehab were especially long, but that six weeks does include a 12ish day coma, which is funny when you wake up, man in a medical coat tells you that you just came out of your coma and btw we took out most of one of your frontal lobes, your first question is always going to be "what year is it?".
But yeah I recovered stupidly fast/well for the first couple of months and slowed down a bit after that, but I did a semester of university (for which I don't have my marks back but certainly failed at least one of the only two papers I did) and have been getting out a lot with my main group of friends quite a lot lately and walking a hell of a lot so really it's better than can be expected, considering all neuro professional people should by training automatically assume I was dead given my brain scans, so that's always nice.
It was a particularly long six weeks, the Sundays in rehab were especially long, but that six weeks does include a 12ish day coma, which is funny when you wake up, man in a medical coat tells you that you just came out of your coma and btw we took out most of one of your frontal lobes, your first question is always going to be "what year is it?".
But yeah I recovered stupidly fast/well for the first couple of months and slowed down a bit after that, but I did a semester of university (for which I don't have my marks back but certainly failed at least one of the only two papers I did) and have been getting out a lot with my main group of friends quite a lot lately and walking a hell of a lot so really it's better than can be expected, considering all neuro professional people should by training automatically assume I was dead given my brain scans, so that's always nice.
a 12 day coma, wow, i can't imagine what that must have been like, i suppose you would feel like a time traveller. i'm really happy to hear you're doing so much better. oh isn't life beautiful?? i'm also happy you're here with all your gorgeous pictures x
It was kinda funny because although it took three or so days for me to come out of the coma properly, once I was out I felt great, just really well rested, plus everybody around me including the ones I didn't recognise were just genuinely happy to see me awake after some issues with taking the coma off, so they were smiling which made me smile.
Then they took the eyepatch and bandages off the eye where they operated a little to replace the 12 bones that broke (that's where the impact was) I couldn't see further than 3 feet through that eye and everything was red and green through it, it was very festive.
So really all the bad stuff (like the whole severe brain damage thing) has been quite nicely spread out over the last eleven months, with a slight crescendo around where I tried to get some things done at the end of the semester of university I tried to do, so now just mostly sitting around home trying to get my life organised, trying to get back on the sickness benefit and pondering the ins and outs of the New Zealand healthcare system.
Then they took the eyepatch and bandages off the eye where they operated a little to replace the 12 bones that broke (that's where the impact was) I couldn't see further than 3 feet through that eye and everything was red and green through it, it was very festive.
So really all the bad stuff (like the whole severe brain damage thing) has been quite nicely spread out over the last eleven months, with a slight crescendo around where I tried to get some things done at the end of the semester of university I tried to do, so now just mostly sitting around home trying to get my life organised, trying to get back on the sickness benefit and pondering the ins and outs of the New Zealand healthcare system.