Since my grandfather was active like I stated before, it was uncommon for him to be so sleepy and eight in the evening. My grandmother then decided to call the ambulance and have him go taken to the emergency room for testing. When he got up, he was dizzy and had trouble walking and discerning where objects were. On the way there, we had a seizure and that's when she and the paramedics knew, something was wrong. He had suffered a severe head injury and a break in his right arm. When he got to the emergency room, he was waiting to be seen and then had another seizure, this one was worse than the last one he had. When the doctors examined him, they told my grandmother that there was severe bleeding, and a contusion on the right side of his brain, hence his trouble with spatial resoning. He had to be flown to shock trauma in order to stop the bleeding so he wouldn't hemorrhage and die. He was in a coma and lay in bed for a couple of weeks before ever opening his eyes. During this time his lungs filled with infection and he developed pneumonia so a tracheotomy had to be put in his neck. A nutritious formula was pumped through a tube in his stomach to keep him fed; however, the inability to eat real food resulted in massive weight loss. .
Not long after waking from the coma, we were all visiting with him in the hospital and he and his brother, were watching a basketball game. He told us that he was the point guard for the Chicago Bulls but was cut because Michael Jordan was jealous of him. At the time he believed this was true, and is scared the living daylights out of my grandmother, but now we all have a good laugh about it. This is where the horrible becomes real because when he woke from the coma, his brain had to learn how to function. As he got better, it was time to see how much he could grow. Now, it was time to learn physical therapy. This is where he learned to use a wheelchair, a 4 prong cane, a wooden cane and finally walking on his own.