“The brain tends to hide certain memories when we undergo something traumatic.”
True, when I had my haematoma I can remember being at home feeling like something was wrong, trying to decide if I should just go to sleep & see how I felt in the morning, like we all do, then I decided no, I called my Mum & I can remember telling her something was wrong, I needed her to come take me to hospital, & that’s it…
While my Mum remembers me being semi lucid when she got there, but acting strange, her words, she said we went to ED at the hospital & we were in the waiting room & she said I was getting worse, not capable of talking right & having all these jerks & spasms, then the staff came back with my initial tests & it was a massive rush to get me to a neurosurgeon at the biggest hospital here in Auckland as the local one didn’t do neurosurgery.
But I only remember the first part, the rests a total blank, I woke up after surgery & once I’d regained conscious awareness enough I still only remembered calling my Mum.
So yeah, our brains protect us, even when they’re the organ under attack.
It’s the same with my trauma surgery, except I have missing weeks there, not just hours
