re: #193 Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)

Hey there. Sorry to hear about your TBI. If you want to TBI-commiserate, hit me up.

Thanks! I think your recovery has been more difficult so far. I haven’t had so much as a headache (although I’m not sure what drugs they treated me with the first few weeks) and the few who knew how to Google me may have read of broken ribs, but there were none. I have amnesia around the event itself (and the days before and a couple of weeks after) for which I am grateful.

When I started to become more aware of my surroundings (I had already been ‘conscious’ for a couple of weeks) they had me folding laundry as occupational therapy in a rehab hospital. I thought I had been put to work as a victim of human trafficking. When they took me back to my room, I took the cards off the wall and packed them. I waited for Mr. w, sure that he would get me free. When he arrived, he worked to convince me that all the people there had my best interests at heart and were helping me. He also convinced me not to try to run away, fibbing that there was a sign out on the nearby highway that said, ‘Do Not Pick Up Hitchhikers” like they have near prisons. We now laugh about folding laundry, and I only fold my own.

My remaining symptom is my non-binocular vision, which is predicted to cure itself in one month to 5 years from now, according to the experts. I’ve been going to my bikeshop this week, but don’t plan to open it for a couple more weeks. Mr. w has been a great nurse.