Sea paused a moment, treading water. How much to say? Molly had to have opened up a little with Chelsea and Lisa. It wasn't technically his story to tell.
"Yeah, it's brain injury. Damage from blunt trauma as well as penetration. I thank God every day she's as recovered as she is. It was close." There, not too much, but honest. A month on tenterhooks while she was comatose, able to go either way. He never wanted to spend time in another hospital room.
"Her speech gets worse in fugue. Sometimes it's just babble, no structure at all, just words strung together. I told Lisa last night, I'll tell you as well. Molly has a cell phone with her all the time. My number is first on speed dial. Call it if she ever has a really bad episode. Please. She wants as much independance as is possible, and it about kills me to step back."
Especially when he learned she had episodes she didn't tell him about.
"So..." change of tactic and topic, "you're traveling with your girlfriend?"