I had an accident last year, much less scary but required a trip to a level 1 trauma ward and brain surgery with over a month in the hospital. I remember well

I had an accident last year, much less scary but required a trip to a level 1 trauma ward and brain surgery with over a month in the hospital. I remember well the daily list of questions - what day is it? Where are you? Who's the president? It took me a while to realize that these questions were a quick way to evaluate your mental health. I shudder to think how many times I got them wrong. I was so proud when I realized that my room had a whiteboard where they wrote the date every day, and all I had to do to was look to know what day it was. I told the nurse, feeling like I was cheating, but they didn't care - I guess if I had the mental capacity to figure that out it was good enough for them.