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
Finding Happiness after TBI
Each of us is searching for our own brand of happiness; for those things that make us feel good. Happiness keeps us all going, it keeps us juiced. We need it. Sometimes, though, events complicate our search for happiness, and, for many people, happiness can be difficult if not impossible to find. For those of us who have experienced a brain injury, especially those who are ... 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
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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