Mad as a bag of snakes

This is a nice advert for Richard Hammond's book On the Edge, written about his crash and his recovery when he was "mad as a bag of snakes." Writing about traumatic brain injury is difficult. Understanding it may be even more difficult for those fabled people who have, as the saying goes, never been sick a day in their lives. That's one of the values of a book like this, making it easier to understand something that has been sensationalized.

Side note - it's interesting to me that he mentions Stephen King in the Mirror article as Stephen later went on write Duma Key, which features a man who has a traumatic brain injury after some construction equipment backs into his truck, nearly killing him. Stephen did an excellent job, as I mentioned when I talked about the book for my Quality Time column.