her left eye, but these days, she no longer struggles to talk. here, at last, is brittani in her own words. >> you wake up from your coma. what's the -- the first thing that happens that you can tell us about? >> and i'm just, like, trying to communicate. but you can't at that age. i was at that, as you say, newborn stage per se 'cause i couldn't walk. talking was the hard thing, speech in general. i mean, after everything that happened, you're kinda like a toddler. you don't understand the language that you and i are speaking today. and, then, when i went to rehab, i was more of, like, a teenager, a young teenager. and as time went on, i started becoming more like -- a better -- like, a stronger teenager, like, knowing what to do. >> so you were rapidly going through all the -- the phases you'd already done once before. >> right. right. >> and by her side the entire time -- her mom. >> she's been there with me on every medical appointment, every surgery. like she's