Road to Recovery

First off, I would start with talking to my doctor. He will probably be the first person I see when I wake up from a coma brought on my this brain injury, and will be able to inform me of who I am and contact my parents. I would talk to my family since they know me the best, but especially talk in depth with my sister. It would probably be smart to check my laptop first to get a sense of who I am. The desktop pictures I have, my Internet history, and my thought processes (in form of homework and documents) would give me a good sense of who I was before this injury. Then, I would find out who my close friends are and talk to them. They know a side of me that isn’t apparent when I’m with family.

I would definitely be frustrated. There are so many things around me that would be a reflection of who I was as a person, but I wouldn’t be able to remember any of that. I’m sure there would be people around to help me through this process, but that would make me even angrier because they know more about me than I would about myself at that time. I would be bound to run into something that was happy in my past and that would lift my spirits. But with happy times come bad times too. This whole process would be such an emotional roller coaster.

Emotion is an important part of daily life and it wouldn’t feel right if I took out all the “negative” memories I had. A person can’t be happy their whole life; we need to feel pain and sadness once in a while. Happy memories would definitely be more plentiful if I were to choose which memories to keep but if I had to choose some negative memories, I would choose the ones that hurt the most. It’s best to experience these emotions at their highest and know the full extent of its power instead of experiencing these feelings in tiny doses. High school memories for sure will be picked because I learned so much about life in those years. It’s taught me to be hardworking, it’s taught me how to handle relationships (and the good and the bad that comes along), and it’s taught me how to be independent.