Unconsciously Screaming: The true story of recovery from a brain injury
By Elliot Lord
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Unconsciously Screaming is an autobiographical account of a brain injury that the author received when he was a university student. It chronicles the suffering of both the patient and his loved ones, along with the path to recovery. The patient was faced with the psychological difficulties of not knowing if he would fully recover. He also discovered more long-term effects that revealed themselves over the months. The story also takes the reader through the prosecution of the defendant in the case.
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Unconsciously Screaming - Elliot Lord
Preface
This is a true story about myself. What happened in 1999 was the biggest thing that had happened to me at that stage of my life. However, for the main part I am not the person who was able to tell the story and had to get the a lot of the details from other people. Therefore, I have written the story in the third person as I was unable to tell the part when I was not aware of myself. The title of the book and the names of the first three chapters are names of, or lyrics from, songs by The Flaming Lips, the relevance of which you will find out when you read the story.
1. Suddenly, Everything Has Changed
It was a typical frosty morning on Tuesday the 14th of December 1999. Elliot was a student at Leicester University and there were just a few days left of the term before the Christmas holidays. As the world was heading towards the year 2000, there were going to be many major celebrations around the world. For Elliot, this was going to be a big event as he was going to spend it in Barcelona with some friends he had made the previous summer, when they had been working at a summer school in Catalunia. It had been a pretty special summer as the mostly random group of teachers that they were, by luck, mostly got on well with each other and even though they had to teach English to children who didn't really want to be there for this kind of learning, they also took as many opportunities as they could to make sure that they were enjoying their time near the sea. As they lived, worked and socialised together, it didn't take long for them to get to know each other well.
Elliot had begun teaching two years earlier, after he finished his psychology degree. He had discovered his interest in teaching during that course and after graduating, taught English as a foreign language in Slovakia. He had a great year there and was straight away hooked on living abroad. Earlier in 1999, he'd also done a spell in Italy as an English assistant before going straight onto Spain, but he knew that he'd go back to England so that he could become properly qualified to teach. Primary school was what he wanted to do. He had done a project for his degree where they did a study in a primary school to explore understanding of gender differences in young children. Elliot and his friend, Yasmin, did the project together, working with nursery and year one children and at the time, he looked around at the children and thought I could see myself doing this. They're so lovely!
So, from that day forward, he knew that he wanted to go into education. The original plan was to eventually become an educational psychologist, but after starting to teach he decided that that was enough for him. He enjoyed it and was clear with what he wanted his career to be.
On this particular Tuesday, Elliot got up late as he'd been out with some friends the night before. They were studying their Primary PGCE (teacher training) and as it was an intensive one-year course, they had lectures and seminars pretty much every morning and afternoon. It was now after lunchtime so he'd missed the morning lecture but was on his way to the university for the afternoon session. He just got ready as usual and put on his big black padded jacket that he liked especially because it had a NASA logo on it that underneath said Nice And Safe Attitude. He put his Walkman on and set off to walk to university.
There was nothing special going on along the way; cars, people, dogs so he didn't take any notice of anything other than the tape he was listening to. The Flaming Lips had released their critically acclaimed album The Soft Bulletin that year and even though he'd been a fan of theirs for some years, this was an epic recording that he listened to frequently. About halfway through the journey to the campus, there is a pelican crossing on Aylestone Road. This is a main street and at this point there is a junction. Elliot pressed the button and waited. There was a steady flow of traffic and where he was waiting there were three lanes. He looked up at the lights and saw they had changed. The cars slowed down so he proceeded to cross.
The nearest lane to Elliot was the bus lane. Even though the other traffic has come to a stop, one particular bus driver decided to carry on going. The bus was travelling at about 30 miles per hour and hit him full on and the window smashed from the impact of his head. He was thrown through the air and landed on the road near to the kerbside. The bus driver carried on before coming to a stop 30 metres ahead, at an angle in the road.
As it was around the middle of the day and in a busy area, there were people around who witnessed this incident. One of the drivers who had stopped at the lights in her car was a nurse, who