Some of them I do, others I am aware of as people around me brought them to my awareness.

These were very early after my injury. Plus I was under a huge amount of personal stress, as single mom of two daughters ages 6 and 8 months, and zero help at home, as my mother only stayed two weeks after my discharge. She had told social worker at the hospital she would be at home to help.

I was so exhausted once home, having no understanding of why my brain wasn't working right, and no idea of who to reach out for help to, let alone how to reach out and no clue how to verbalize what help I needed.

After my mom left, my six year old ended up having to take care of her sister, like bathing her as I couldn't bend at the knees. She was still helping me dress myself. I slept so deep I never heard my baby cry in the middle of the night and my oldest couldn't wake me up to tend to her.

Clearly the stress level contributed to my "storms". It was very confusing to my oldest daughter as well. She remembered "mommy" before, and this person who looked like her "mommy" had changed.

The rest of my family went on with their lives, assuming that my mother was staying and helping as long as it took. My having no understanding at all beyond deep cerebral concussion diagnosis back then that was less than helpful.

I was discharged way too early from hospital. My lead surgeon made my said to be "miracle recovery" a teaching case at that hospital. But to be blunt, being a "miracle recovery" is not at all as "wonderful" as it appears.