Hi Mark in Idaho,

Thanks for the quick post! It is nice to know that I'm doing well and that any restorative surgery is bound to be better that healing from a brain bleed. Thanks for the input.

Thankfully the bone flap is in a freezer at the hospital, I remember hearing about that other way of doing things when I woke up and thinking it was like something from the X-Files!

Just curious, is it most people's experience that once cognitive and emotional competencies return after an injury like this, they tend to stay that way? Or are there sometimes situations in which people can lose that sort of thing again without reinjuring themselves?