Thanks again for the efforts by three more people to post.

Ben, you have posted bits and pieces before about your experience, and it still remains remarkable to me that you did recover so well. Maybe you are one of the patients that back then shows brain injury is not something necessarily permanent, and instead of taking just six months to fix, maybe takes between two and three years or longer.

Juan Foote, I didn't know about your case. Yes, that memory thing really can be a bug. I can be talking to someone, and instead of long delays that I have ended with an admission I can't say anything else -- even what I am supposed to remember -- I can stop and think of a way around it with an alternative description, or a plain simple admission that I can't think of it right now. If the latter two cases, often the person I am talking to will come up with the right thing.

There are things I won't remember, including the circumstances of the incident that injured me and the first 5-1/2 weeks in hospital getting the vital treatment. But talking to Machka has been about what she saw, and discussed with hospital staff, and it all can be quite entertaining and daunting at the same time.

I didn't cry that often before, but I do now. I spent last weekend watching a helicopter flying several times over my home, but later found out it was a Westpac Rescue similar to or the same as the one that moved me from the workplace to the hospital. Looking up at it does tend to make eyes fill with water, and more so last weekend when it was revealed it was part of a search for a small plane that crashed in the Tasmanian wilderness and killed the lovely young female pilot on the way to pick up four bush walkers on the coast.

I felt hugely sorry for her and her family up in Queensland. Some of us make it through, some don't.