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
Neuroplasticity and TBI: Like PB and J
Peanut butter and jelly seem to have been born together; they're inseparable. Like ham and cheese. Or oreo cookies and milk. Believe it or not, brain injury also has a partner in crime; that one thing that is synonymous with brain injury. This item goes hand-in-hand with brain injury, but unlike the others I just mentioned, it is not a thing; it is a concept. Let me ... 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
Becoming Someone New after TBI
Looking out of my hospital room, at the green, metal bridge which spanned the Kennebec River, surrounded by the descending crispness of fall, I knew my life was going to be different. Stuck in my new world, I watched as the traffic rumbled over the bridge; my eye drawn to a lone maple tree with the first red leaf of autumn fluttering in the breeze. I had some time 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
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