How did life totally change when you came out of a coma?

I was in a coma for two and a half months in 2015 when I was 27, following a serious car accident.

When I woke up, I still had a tracheotomy and couldn't speak.

I don't remember a darn thing from the time I was in a coma, but what blew my mind is when I woke up,

my new boyfriend at the time, was standing there with my parents and they were chatting to each other like they knew each other.

I'm a very private person and had made every effort for them not to know of him, so I found this disturbing.

I also had no recollection of the accident for months, and for a week or two after waking up,

I had to be retold where I was and what had happened every time I dozed off and woke up.

I had no idea where I was and thought I was 23, not 27, for months.

I also had a really hard time recognizing faces.

Like I'd see people who I knew, but I couldn't remember why, or their

names or anything. They'd just look familiar. One time, about a month after I'd woken up, my parents

took me in the hospital bed for a walk, in the courtyard of the hospital. We passed a large

mirror in the lobby, and I freaked out. I saw my reflection reflection and I knew it was me because I recognized my

parents pushing me, but I didn't recognize my own face. There were no injuries to my face or

anything. I just didn't recognize myself. I was horrified because I had imagined myself much

better looking, because I had some pictures of me and my friends in my hospital room. In hindsight,

it was probably just that I looked sickly and had no makeup and my hair was crazy. I also had the

brain injury stare, which is hard to explain, but basically a blank look in the eyes. I'd lost about

50 pounds while in the coma, not a diet I would recommend, because I had extensive bowel and stomach

injuries. But oddly, my face looked really puffy and fat. I also felt that I looked way younger than I

was, and I found my forehead and cheeks were larger than I remembered. It also blew my mind that

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