#1 August 2005

Everyone keeps telling me that I was kicked in the head and was in a coma but I don't believe it. I am in a hospital but I don't know, my head doesn't hurt. I love horses and I've been riding them since I was 9 so I don't think they could do this to me.
My Dad said I can't talk, but I was just thinking "well, thats what he thinks because I won't talk to him." I think he's doing this to me. I think he's giving me pills or something. This whole thing does not make sense. I really feel fine. I don't get it.

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I was kicked in the head by a horse on July 7th of 2005. I went into a coma and I didn't wake up for a month. While I was in the coma, I had part of my cerebellum removed. To make it even better, I got kicked when I was 5 weeks from getting married. So, needless to say, I didn't get married on my original date. I had to put it off for a year so I could re-learn to walk, talk, read, write, eat, and everything else one does.
So here I am. I'm going to start recording my thoughts starting with when I woke up. I'll remember this even less in another year or 20 so I'm going to write it down now. I'm going to let people know what its like to have a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and let other survivors know that they are not alone with their struggles. And it is a struggle.