I had a severe concussion 18 weeks before finals my 3rd year of college. Crashed hard mountain biking, broke my arm, and smashed my face. For 8 hours I was a broken record so the first hospital I visited sent me off to a trauma center in the next city over. I came out of that concussed state after they were asking me questions I should know the answer to, but couldn’t remember them for the life of me. I remember it feeling like my neurons couldn’t grab ahold of any connection. Funny enough, the two things I could remember was the speed of light and the Bohr’s magneton. After I said those two constants out loud, everything came back. To this day it was the most surreal feeling I’ve experienced.

That accident happened on a Saturday, and I didn’t sleep at all the next day for fear of going into a coma. I went to school and work on Monday, and managed to finish the semester without any issues.

I know I’m extremely lucky, but I think the fact that I went back to life as if nothing happened was what helped me recover so quickly. I still can recite 299,456,352 m/s as the speed of light and 5.788e-5 eV/T as if it’s the most hard wired connection in my brain.