MOUNT VERNON — Pamela Gromus testified Friday that a man in a gray, hooded sweatshirt — not her husband — attacked her with a baseball bat last September.

She also said she figured that out after piecing together “snippets of memory” from the attack.

Pamela Gromus recounted for jurors Friday what she remembered of Sept. 30 and said pain medications prevented her from accurately remembering all that happened.

Her husband, Alan Gromus, faces two counts of first-degree assault. He’s accused of attacking his wife and a neighbor who tried to intervene. His trial in Skagit Superior Court is expected to take two to three weeks.

Pam Gromus, 54, said she has little memory of telling a 911 operator, friends and investigators that her husband attacked her, as evidenced from investigation interviews and the recording of the 911 call.

She testified Friday that she believes the man who attacked her is somehow related to a tenant she evicted earlier the day of the attack. She said after she weaned herself off of pain medication, the memories came back in pieces and she recalled an unidentified assailant.

She said the blows from what she believed was a baseball bat and the pain medication she received at the hospital affected her memory and continued to do so for a couple weeks after the attack. She said she wanted to be off the medication because of what it was doing to her.

“I couldn’t think,” she said. “Eventually I realized I can’t do this. I know I was getting very addicted to the medication.”

She said her 57-year-old husband did not attack her and never raised a hand to her in their 30 years of marriage. She described the couple as very affectionate and “lovey-dovey.” After she changed her mind about the attack, she bailed Alan Gromus out of jail and attempted to lift a no-contact order, which is still in place.

Defense attorney Corbin Volluz asked Pam Gromus to recall details of Sept. 30, from the eviction of a tenant from a Mount Vernon apartment to her treatment at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle after the attack.

Gromus said before the assault she helped an evicted tenant remove his belongings with a truck and deposit them at Value Village. Her husband changed the locks and applied caulk to bathroom fixtures at the empty apartment.

Pam said she drank a beer, and Alan drank a Mike’s Hard Lemonade. At his request, she said she went to the store to buy him some rum.

When she returned, she stepped outside to smoke, and Alan joined her. While they discussed a broken bug guard on her truck, she leaned down to fit it to its original spot, at which point she said she was struck on the right side of her face.

She and her daughter called 911 on separate phones and said Alan Gromus hit her with something like a baseball bat. When officers arrived at the scene, Pam Gromus and her daughter Traci Gromus said they did not see who attacked her.

“I remember him specifically asking me, ‘Did you see your husband do this?’ and I said, ‘No I didn’t,’” she said. “And he looked at Traci and asked ‘Did you see your dad do this?’ and she said, ‘No I didn’t.’”

She said the officer was forceful with his questioning.

“He said, ‘You guys, it’s time to stop protecting this guy.’”

After Pam Gromus’ testimony, Prosecutor Rich Weyrich capped the session by playing the 911 tape from the day of the attack.

In it, Pam Gromus names her husband and said he hit her with something like a bat.

“My husband is beating me with a baseball bat. He’s never done this before,” she said to the operator.

The operator asked why her husband attacked her.

“I have no idea,” Pam Gromus said. “We were just down there talking, all of the sudden he just started hitting me with a something, like a bat or something. He hit me in the head.”

She told the operator that Alan Gromus was intoxicated and that she was sitting in the bathroom adjacent to the master bedroom, and that the door was locked. She also said Gromus was outside fighting with someone who tried to help her.

The neighbor whose ankle was broken during a struggle with Gromus is expected to testify next week.