It is a weird thing. What you forget and what you remember. I would say that I got the majority of my memory back. Sometimes it would happen like deja vu and then it was like it never went away. One of the strangest parts of recovery was I forgot a lot of English words but didn't seem to lose any Spanish words. This was all a matter of months though. I don't want to make it out to be like I had to relearn my entire vocabulary or anything. It was basically a matter of reading a lot. Then it clicked like, I have been here before.
The biggest loss was my job at the time. I worked as an intern for free for 18 months just to get my foot in the door as an investigator for the D.A. and it was a job that had a pretty high ceiling with opportunities to make good money. The biggest gain was the settlement helped out with my wife's medical bills (the blessing in disguise). A couple of years before that, she had a cyst that was originally diagnosed as cancerous. After having a full ovary and 2/3 of another removed along with the cyst, it was determined not to be cancerous. So yeah, 2006 through 2009 was not good times. But without the settlement from my accident, I don't know where we'd be today. Count your blessings, I guess.
