TL;DR
I'd worked a shift and headed to a friends place for a welcoming party, as one of our mutual friends had returned home from abroad.
We'd decided not to go party in the city, as it had been a while since we were all together. T'was a great night, nostalgic even, but eventually it was time to go home.
Three of my buddies at the party live close by, so we decided to walk home together.
The most direct path took us through the center of the city.
Just as we get to the center, I hear a woman cry out, so by instinct I go to see what's up.
I calm her down, and things seem cool, so meanwhile my boys go buy some pizza for the road home.
Her boyfriend attacks me viciously from behind and I end up with: broken teeth, a brain hemorrhage and resulting neural damage - and as some of you pointed out, mental trauma.
One of my friends sees this, thank fuck, and intervenes.
If not for that I would have died, or been as good as dead.
I have to wear an eyepatch for approx 9 hours each day now. And my eyesight is reduced in that eye - especially in the dark.
I take painkillers for the headaches and the toot-pain, but there is nothing for my nausea and disorientation yet.
I have memory lapses and optical errors, basically hallucinations both visual and aural - thankfully the tactile ones have passed.
