Michael Ellick

Time just doesn't stop.

It continues.

So my father's the high school principal, Bainbridge Island High School.

At some point, he brought home

like stuff for me to, you know, I don't remember how many days I was out, but he brought home stuff for me eventually, like, you know, paperwork and notes.

And like I said, sympathy cards, but there was homework.

He basically was okay because of my mom, like with me not doing, you know, I improved quickly.

I seemed to them to improve faster than maybe I should have because I'm filled with all this energy of like being in 1990.

But my body was pretty messed up, and I wanted to go back and be involved before they wanted me to be back and involved.

So there was a little bit of a reversal in negotiation.

I remember that.

When do you go back?

I was ready to go downstairs that first morning.

And they were like, no way, you know?

So every step of the way, there was like, are you sure you should be out doing this?

And, you know, that kind of stuff.

And like, I wanted to go see my friends really bad.

And they would not let me do that.

They would start eventually to let friends come visit me, but it was sort of supervised by them.

So I wouldn't overdo it.