The second day after the accident was spent in a haze at the hospital.
I recall throwing up at night while being transferred from emergency to neurosurgery.
The stretcher wheels, walls, lights, everything around me was spinning.
I recall an old man opposite my bed, probably recovering from stroke –
he was loudly, mouthing obscenities through the night.
Being rude and inappropriate can be a side effect of brain injuries I would later learn.
There was a young man next to me wearing a helmet.
He got bottled on the head, in the street, and needed a surgery.
I heard him tell the doctors "Please don't tell my mum. She will just google up everything"
There was another gentle man in the intensive care ward. Quiet and courteous.
He looked at me as if to tell me he understood.
I was aware I am in a hospital, am under intensive medication but not that
I had had a head and brain injury.
The world around me was still spinning.

Excerpts from Nursing Notes:
Patient sat up in bed on approach, engaged in discussion appropriately
Well oriented to person, place, full date and situation, but was not aware of brain injury or seizures
He remembers having a collision with a car door while riding a bike and then blacked out and remembers being in hospital
Sat of edge of bed and reported dizziness and spinning
Loss of balance on several occasions when walking or turning
GCS 15/15
Patient is eating and drinking well
Consider discharge tomorrow if stable