I was learning more about trauma to the brain and at the same time, enjoying a beautiful love story. At the time, it was profound and comforting as well to read a story (albeit fiction) of how it might be for our boy should he recover - to get an idea of how things would seem through his eyes/reasoning should he ‘wake up’. Researching brain injury, I discovered many of the things you touched on in Christian’s story - such as not recognizing the side of the body affected by the injury - dressing only one side of the body (they really don’t ‘recognize’ the opposite side). On the weekends, when time was not as limited, I sat with him - reading a book while he ‘listened’ to books on tape or music through headphones.
Each day when I sat by his bedside at the hospital we watched for signs that he ‘was in there’. The first time I read Flowers From the Storm (in ‘98), our son was in a coma.
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