This week's session with my client (Mick - not his real name) who has brain injuries and his mother comes along - she wants to fill in the facts of her son's recovery after the accident. It's difficult hearing how, in those first days and weeks following the crash, health professionals thought he would remain 'a cabbage' (the consultant's words, apparently - not mine). Yet here he is, sitting with me each week and telling his story. Some miracles are possible, then.
The talk moves to Mick's father. I already know that Mick felt unable to be with his father as he died, at home, from asbestosis and cancer, approximately 2 years ago. His mother begins the telling of her husband's death; Mick is transfixed, and I realise that this is a story he doesn't know; he hasn't heard this before.
Mick can remember nothing of those early weeks after the accident and he has struggled with feelings of guilt following his father's death. Working with the material later, I make the decision to put these sections into second person - both stories told in this week's session are gifts to Mick from his mother.
They help fill in at least a few of the blanks that Mick's injured brain has written into his life.
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