Yes, neglect can happen from time to time. Mostly from unexpected circumstances. You get hit and go down with the punch. You feel the cold floor pressing against your back – you want to get up but you can’t, not just yet. You need to heal. You fight it. You need to heal. Time stops for a moment and you find yourself in a quasi existential weightlessness of some sort. This is not a strange reverie. You lift your head, begin to rise. You can’t run yet, you’re learning to walk once again. One step at time you come to grips with the fact that it wont be the same; it cannot, must not be the same.
Back on your feet sort of speak. The world is a new. A new path lies ahead. Get walking.