Awakening to the Impossible: Waking Up After a Traumatic Brain Injury
I was still trapped in it.
As awareness slowly returned, I realized waking up was only the beginning.
I was in a coma for 15 days, and due to post-traumatic amnesia, I have no memory of the first weeks after the accident.
There were moments of confusion where I believed I was still dreaming.
I tried to wake myself up by force.
I tried to move when I couldn’t.
I didn’t understand what was real and what wasn’t.
Therapy began slowly, but even the simplest tasks felt impossible. Small movements felt like mountains. Every attempt revealed how much had been taken from me.
I felt anger I didn’t know how to contain—toward God, toward my situation, toward everything I couldn’t control.
I didn’t understand why this had happened.
But even in that place, something was beginning to form beneath the surface.
Something I couldn’t see yet.
