>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.

Luckily, the part where he was convinced his wife was French (no, really) passed.

(That was my favorite part of the story he told Graham Norton in his appearance on Norton's show after returning to public life: that he thought for a while that he was married to a French woman, and that the woman who is his actual wife was a particularly dishy nurse he wouldn't mind getting to know better if only he wasn't married.)

Also, I am reminded of the exchange he had with Clarkson on the show when the news that F1 driver Felipe Massa had suffered a serious head injury in an accident came along:

CLARKSON
Because the injuries he's got, as far as I can work out, are very similar to the ones you got.

HAMMOND
Possibly, yes. It's frontal lobe damage, so that's kind of where you live—that's personality, emotional control, spatial awareness, all of that.

CLARKSON
So does that mean that if he gets better, and we're all praying he does, he's going to become an irritating little arse?

HAMMOND
It could, you never know with brain damage. Or it could happen that he'd come back to work and suddenly discover that the people he works with are—well, they've become incredibly irritating. And quite fat.

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