Coma presents a monolith. Below I consider the maze of recovery…

Physical
After 10 years, I believe further recovery is only possible by relearning. The brain has been rebooted. My body was not damaged in the accident, just my head causing coma. I lost the ability to control the right side of my body. Now my right hand spreads is better, but I’m no longer confidently right handed. I’m not able to write. I still use a walking stick, unable to properly control my right leg, often just carry it trying to provoke my gait. My problem walking is primarily balance, a difficult thing to relearn. I don’t think my brain can understand its complexities again, we learn balance very young with a virgin brain. I’m sure the original pathway was a detailed route. Doctors did say I would never walk normally again, occasionally I try to without a stick.

Mental
I think my mind has mostly recovered, in fact I recently remembered surprising things. I wonder if I would have remembered them without coma, memory has become an active pursuit. I think I always tried to gather my thoughts, and do so again. There are still pockets of memory that are difficult to penetrate, but everyone complains of such. I have often worked on my identity as discussed in several posts, and now claim to be myself again. We are often confronted by ourselves, this is not a legacy of coma.