5322,

You have plenty of things you can do before spending $6000 becomes a worthwhile expense. Drinking, carousing, visual stressors and such all need to be ended or reduced to next to nothing. Working in a restaurant is a high stress activity.

Unfortunately, your skateboarding accident may have all but ended a lot of your fun, at least for the time being.

I doubt you will ever return to normal until you are willing to spend an extended period living a very abnormal, quiet and protected existence. There just is no quick fix to brain injuries.