Awomanwho thought she met theman of her dreamsassumed he was ghosting her when he stopped responding. It was only after seeing aGoFundMepage for him that she discovered he was involved in a serious accident that left him partially paralyzed.
Haley Woloshen was vacationing with her family in Hawaii in 2022 when she met Cody Bryant for the first time. The two quickly formed a connection and grew closer after realizing they only lived a mile away from each other back home in Los Angeles.
Over the next few weeks, their romance bloomed. “Then I ‘ghosted her,’” Cody joked on Instagram.
Cody Bryant and Haley Woloshen met during a holiday in Hawaii in 2022 and soon felt a spark with each other
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After not hearing from him for days, Haley assumed she was getting ghosted and thought he may have blocked her. But she eventually found out that he was in a coma after a terrible accident inSpain.
The young man sustained serious life-altering injuries after a car rammed into his moped while riding in Ibiza. Doctors were initially worried about whether he would make it through the night, and even if he did, they weren’t sure if he would ever walk again.
“Cody is in a stable condition but experienced a brain injury and a fractured femur that will require extensive surgery and an undetermined amount of time for recovery,” read aGoFundMepage that was created in September 2022 to offset his medical expenses.
Meanwhile, Haley came across the GoFundMe page and discovered that the man she was falling for was in a coma and not ghosting her after all.
A few weeks after they had hung out, the man had a serious accident that left him in a coma
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In addition to a fractured femur, Cody suffered a traumatic brain injury that led to him losing some of his memories from recent years. This meant the memories of him connecting with Haley and the spark he felt with her were all wiped from his brain.
Haley initially thought the man she was falling for was ghosting her, but she later found out about the accident after coming across the GoFundMe page
“Plot twist: because of my brain injury, I actually had no memory of our pre-accident connection. Neither of us expected it, but feelings started to build,” he continued. “I joke that she won me over a second time. Navigating boundaries between a relationship and caregiving was a challenge. But I couldn’t be happier with where we are. We’ve built a strong foundation in the most terrible of situations. In sickness and in health since day one. We’ve been together over a year now.”
As he began the long road to recovery, the man decided to document the ups and downs of his journey online
“But it seems trivial compared to the cognitive, psychological, and emotional sides of brain injury. The sentence ‘I wish I was missing limbs instead of having an injured brain’ has shown up in my journal more than once. Consciously losing your mind is terrible. Addressing these cognitive challenges is hard, but I’m hopeful for your patience and understanding as I figure out how to compensate for my deficits,” he wrote on the fundraising page.
Some of his next physical milestones include relearning how to write, run, and swim
“My brain doesn’t ‘auto save’ anymore so I use notes for everything,” he went on to say. “In order to accomplish a goal, I avoid multitasking and each step must be small. My attention is fleeting so I often lose track of what I’m doing. I strictly rely on the clock because my innate sense of time is quite poor. I struggle to organize my thoughts into a ‘big picture’ and prioritize tasks accordingly.”
Apart from the physical challenges, Cody also sustained a brain injury that wiped away some of his memories from recent years
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Although he appears positive in his posts, his revelations reflect how his brain injury completely changed his life.
“At times, I’ve even become sad about my persistent brain fog and then forgotten why I’m sad. Once neural fatigue sets in, stress builds, or I get overstimulated, my brain function declines and it can manifest in my motor function. My foot begins to drag, my toes curl, my hand shakes, or I lean to the side. I can get so ‘brain fried’ sometimes that I become illogical and struggle to connect cause with effect. Brain injury permeates all of my life,” he continued.
“I joke that she won me over a second time,” he said about falling in love with the woman of his dreams
Despite the hardships, Cody has beensharing his journeytoward normalcy online while Haley pushes him on with love and support.
The couple attended a wedding in Guatemala last March and were able to tick off Cody’s bucket list entry of reaching the top of Acetenangovolcano.
The lovebirds have been together for more than a year as Cody advocates for brain injury awareness online
“From being told I would never walk again 18 months ago, to completing a world-class two-day trek up a volcano inGuatemala,” he wrote on social media. “This hike was a dream of mine even beforemy accident, so doing it now is even more meaningful. An epic view and accomplishing something many thought I’d never do again combined for quite the emotional experience.”
Cody and Haley have been together for more than a year and are supporting each other as he advocates forbrain injuryawareness online.
Netizens agreed that their love story was fit to be turned into a movie script
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