Hi Hockey
Bless your heart. Brain injury is traumatic. It is life-altering. Soooo sooorrrrry you have to go through this. I have a cousin who had serious brain injury. He's not the same as he was before either. We love him dearly, but he's the one that has the struggles of TBI daily. After six years, I can say he's more like his old self again. He's happy and content now. He had a lot of stuff to work through, as I would imagine so do you. He still can't remember lots of things but he got his sense of humor back. It takes time, lots of time to heal from TBI. So it's good to know you have family that is there for you.
Here is the traumatic Brain Injury forum link:
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/forum92.html
see ya around