SonnyDeSoma In reply to jazzylemonade [2009-08-01 04:59:06 +0000 UTC]

This was the most heatwarming comment I ever recieved.
I'm living with a parent in Dunedin, New Zealand, was only in hospital for six weeks following my injury and hopefully my head is better, I'd say it works better than it did ten and a half months ago, probably because I was in a coma then but you know what I mean.
I was doing a psychological assessment and I just had to remember something like 15 words which I did after hearing them listed the third time and then I remembered them again a while later and then again a while later so the guy testing me said "nobody's done that for 18 years" and I wasn't surprised at the time.

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jazzylemonade In reply to SonnyDeSoma [2009-08-01 08:37:13 +0000 UTC]

tried to make me go to rehab baby i said no no no...

ONLY in hospital for 6 weeks!!! that sounds horrible!! you really did do youself in. a coma? wow, i'm glad you're doing better!

and better at the memory test than anyone else has done in 18 years!! how's new zealand? have you been able to get out and about? x

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SonnyDeSoma In reply to jazzylemonade [2009-08-02 01:45:29 +0000 UTC]

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.

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jazzylemonade In reply to SonnyDeSoma [2009-08-02 20:49:18 +0000 UTC]

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

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SonnyDeSoma In reply to jazzylemonade [2009-08-04 12:05:11 +0000 UTC]

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.

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