new beginnings II - Shock Trauma

....   First thing I remember after being medevac'd to Shock Trauma was being pushed down the hall in a hospital bed.  I saw my mom standing in the hall. She came by the bed to see me and I told her.. "  mama don't let me die!"  She told me I would be fine through her tears.  Next I remember being real cold as a guy was shaving the hair from a large spot on the right side of my skull.   Being worried how my "great" hair would look afterwards, I begged him to just go ahead and shave it all off rather than look "goofy".  He told me he was only allowed to shave the area designated by the nuero-surgeon.   The next thing I remember is waking upwith a TREMENDOUS headache and thick bandages wrapped around my head.  I next remember a doctor explaining that  I had suffered a massive Hemmoragic stroke on the right side of my brain.  He cut out a large piece of my skull in order to relieve the pressure on my brain from the bleeding and subsequent swelling.   He explained that as soon as the swelling went down enough, I would return to surgery in order for them to put the cut out piece from my skull  back in place.  Through all of this I was paralyzed completely on my left side.  ( R side of brain controls L side of body).  After a  couple days they explained I would never walk again and likely  would be bedridden for the rest of my life. I immediately shook my head NO and my mom told the doctor " you don't know my son! He WILL walk again and take his daughter for a walk at the park"  The doctor said he'd buy us a steak if I was ever able to walk again.after being in the bed a week, I was ready to get the devil out of there!  I kept trying to get out of bed because I planned to sneak out and take the train home.  Finally, in order to teach me that I was unable to walk, they stood me up next to my bed and I screamed in agony as my atrophied muscles and damaged nerve endings tried to work.  At that point I realized this would be a long-term obstacle, but I was determined I would  WIN!..............more on my next blog..........