With Half Your Brain Tied Behind Your Back

Post-coma thinking!

With Half My Brain

Tied Behind My Back

By Mike Stevens

 

     Things are easier now, but let me tell you, those first few months and years after the car wreck and coma, coming back to the world?  Oh man, were they ever difficult.  It seemed like I was trying to run in quicksand, my thoughts were a mess.  Some of them; woo, were they ever out there!  When I was still in the hospital, I thought there was a river running under my bed, and it seemed perfectly rational to me.  Looking back on it, the voices I heard were just people talking and walking down the hall outside my room, but for some reason, I got it in whatever was left of my brain that it was a river below the floor.  Turns out they were giving me Valium to help me sleep, and I was having some weird-a*s dreams, but I didn't know this small fact.  Imagine trying to function normally with half your brain tied behind your back!

Reviews

[A. H. Pinley]

I can only imagine what you must felt like and what was going through half of your brain. Thank you for sharing!

[Michael Stevens]

It was very interesting, in a nightmare sort of way; thanks for the comment!

[Marie]

Sometimes this happens to me even without Valium...

[Michael Stevens]

Ha, yes indee-dee!