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. 2015 Jun 19;27(1):133–148. doi: 10.1080/09602011.2015.1053948
8 ABI 4: It was really weird because in the hospital, everyone else was really bad. Like they couldn't walk or talk, totally mute …  But I was fine, I was walking and talking, and I thought everything was fine. And when I went home, I was like gone. I couldn't walk, couldn't walk upstairs. I was stuck in bed, and I couldn't talk, you know …  It's nuts, isn't it? But when I was walking and talking I was fine. Every single day in the hospital I was asking if I could go home. “I want to go home, I want to go home. I'm fine, look at me. You can see I'm fine.” So eventually they gave in and said, “Go on then, go home”. And once I was home it was just different, you know. Before that I'd felt like I was better, I was fine … 
Interviewer: So when you were in hospital you felt it was all ok, you were walking around, you could speak, think, express yourself … ?
ABI 4: I was feeling fine, … but once I got out of hospital I realised how bad I was.
Interviewer: Outside of hospital it didn't work out?
ABI 4: No, that's when I realised how bad I was.