re: Have you ever been in a coma?

My son had something similar when he was 12. Head injury and they kept him in the coma for 3 days d/t brain swelling as you spoke of. To answer you other questions, he woke up with weakness to one side of his body. He walked like someone who had a stroke. He was hospitalized 2 weeks in total then started physical and/or occupational therapy. That worked pretty well and he got a lot of his motor skills back and eventually all or almost all of it back. His school grades never came all the way back. He struggled initially then eventually got to making mostly Bs and Cs, whereas he was a very strong student prior to the accident. His grades may have been partly due to him hitting puberty around the same time and his focus may have shifted some but the head injury definitely affected them initially. He’s 31 now and doing well. He told me several years ago he still gets dizzy doing certain things. I think sit ups were one of them. And no, I don’t think he has any memory of the time in the coma but I’m not positive about that.