Of course there have been many things - all kinds of things - I have forgotten at some point since my TBI, but I'm not talking here about everyday things. I don't mean it the same way that we TBI survivors have become used to: those memory problems that plague us daily and won't go away. Forgetting in our daily lives is something we are all familiar with. We forget things ... Read On
TBI Humor: Serious Funny Business
My life after my TBI has been shaped by humor, to the point that my cognitive therapist thought I was making too many jokes and she tried to teach me how not to be funny. I felt as though she was trying to take away an essential part of me... TBI Humor Is... We are all familiar with Brain Injury humor. BI humor is that self-deprecating humor we use to make light of ... Read On
Honoring the Courage of the TBI Survivor
Some acts are obviously courageous: a person runs into a burning building and saves a life, or a bystander dives into a lake to save a drowning person. These are dramatic examples of courage and bravery, when people make spur of the moment decisions and put their own lives at risk in order to save others. There is, however, another, harder to see type of courage, and to ... Read On
Ooops! I forgot…again!!
"Let's see...where did I put my keys?" "Damn! Will someone call my phone?" The ol' memory don't work the way it used to. Are we getting old? Yes, we are getting older, but we've also had a TBI. The information we need is buried somewhere in our noggin, we just can't dig it out because of that "damn brain injury." It's as if our brain is a big filing cabinet, and the ... Read On
TBI & Friends: Beyond the B.S.
Sometimes we get so emotionally invested in something that we are not able to get the beyond the B.S. to see the truth. Such is the case with the relationships with our friends after we have experienced a brain injury. Friends, the anger monster and the truth Although the specifics of what happens to each of us as a result of brain injury can be wildly different, having ... Read On
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