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After two months of therapy and medication in the rehab, Rory was allowed to go home. However, this didn’t mean he was completely well now. Waking up from a coma is a long process and it happens slowly. The doctors warned Rory’s mother that he may suffer from short term memory loss for some time. And he may not have a recollection of some of his memories from the time before his accident.
No Football
The doctors reminded Rory that he is not allowed to get involved in any kind of heavy physical activity, which meant no more sports and in particular, no more football. Even though Rory understood the reason, he was devastated. Football was his future, his career. But what he didn’t know was, God had a lot in store for him.
The News
Rory’s incredible story caught the attention of the media channels. In an interview with the Daily News he talked about the incident, “I can’t explain how it happened. It’s incredible really. I don’t remember coming round but my family said one of the nurses was from Africa and spoke French and I was having conversations with her. I was just casually chatting away about how I was feeling in this perfect French accent.”
This Morning
Rory’s story didn’t end there, as he was also called on a British talk show called “This Morning”, to speak about his experience and share his story with everyone. His parents accompanied him as well and together they talked about the whole incident, the time after the rehab, the struggle of losing football, all of it.
Memory Loss
The doctors were right to warn Rory’s mother about him forgetting events from before his accident. As Rory told on the show, “I’d ask mum if she’d fed our dog but he’d died three or four years before. As soon as she said that I cried, too. Then my memory clicked in and I thought, ‘Oh yeah, what was that all about?”
Mundane Activities
Rory even needed help for mundane things like going to the restroom and dressing up in the morning. He struggled with finding himself for quite a while. As he mentioned on the show, “I remember mum helping me to the toilet and I couldn’t believe who I was looking at when I saw myself in a mirror. I had a scar on my right temple and that side of my hair had been shaved off”