I’ve just finished watching the extremely moving drama on BBC1 – “Recovery” starring David Tennant and Sarah Parish. The subject matter it touched upon is one that I feel that the general public as a whole is under-informed about at that is any sort of brain damage.

It would obvious have a significant effect on the immediate family and those who know the person well – as I think was demonstrated poignantly in the program but one important factor which was highlighted is the fact that most often the person who has suffered the injury will have no recollection of the event or possibly the early stages of recovery and thus will not be aware that anything has happened.
For most of us, I think that is quite hard to understand, but I think that the emotional power that the writers and actors put into the drama was, certainly for me, sufficient to make me pause and think and the overwhelming question it posed was: “Without our minds, what have we got?”

Anyway – it clashed with Lewis so I’ve recorded that and will hopefully watch it after School on Saturday (yes, some of us do work 9 hours a day, 6 days a week with no pay) and I’m ever hopefull that that will live up to the expections that the pilot and last week’s episode have instilled in me.

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