>It did quite a bit more than just that...it's just that the other
>things that happened faded or grew back, as it were.

Ultimately, no apparent lingering effects, was basically what I was implying there. What he went through was significant, and the odds were against him having gotten off that lightly in the department of the brain itself. Food preference shifts are, after all, a symptom of actual brain damage having occurred, just one of the few that are, "well, we'll be monitoring you for a while in case something deeper comes up, but the actual permanent impact is effectively livable." Maybe a bit freakish to experience, sure, but definitely livable.

Even with that, fractured knee? Pretty damned utterly minor in comparison.