A Time of Innocence

We arrived back very early. Some of his friends and his fiance spent the night in his room. His fiance was very upset that he had woke up on and off in the night and did not recognize her. I tried to comfort her, but what do you say? As he started to awaken that morning, I sat beside him on the bed and asked him what was the last thing he remembered. He said graduation and then going bowling. I was taken aback. It was his senior year, homecoming week and lots of band festivities. He had been so excited that his picture in band uniform would be shown on the Jumbo Tron during halftime- all the band seniors were saluted this way.

I asked him, "So who'd you go with?" He answered with names that at first I didn't recognize. Then it hit me, these were all of his high school friends. "And by the way, he said, "you've gotten fat and and you look older." At 165, I was not fat. LOL. He was a little guarded as he answered my questions. He knew his grand parents, and one of the girls there had been in band with him in high school and he recognized her. He did not remember any thing after graduating high school, and I later came to realize some of the things from even before then. He did not remember his fiance at all.

The docs came in and checked him and removed all the stuff they had him in to keep his neck and back from moving. They told me they would be ordering more MRI's and X-rays. He had a head ache and he slept until they came to get him for the MRI.