The first years after my brain injury were a time filled with an incredible amount of confusion and despair. I had suddenly lost my skills and abilities; the stuff that defined me, and had no where to turn. Forty one years ago, when I had my injury, nobody knew anything about brain injury and I felt like a rowboat drifting on the open sea. I realized that I needed some ... Read On
Once Upon A Head Injury…
Once upon a time, many years ago, before there were MRI machines and little was known about head trauma...a young man was out with some friends on a summer vacation. He had just finished his best academic year and was looking forward to the fall semester when he was scheduled to study abroad. On this particular calm summer night he was out listening to some friends playing ... Read On
Finding Those Good Vibrations After Brain Injury
Many times after we have experienced a brain injury we get down and feel as though we have been dealt a bad hand. Sometimes we, understandably, develop an attitude, lamenting our continued bad luck when we can no longer find anything positive in our lives. We desperately want to feel those good vibrations like we used to, but we've been thrown a curveball: brain injury ... Read On
TBI Survivors Have Earned the Right
TBI survivors work hard. We have to. TBI survivors toil away, not to get some great monetary reward or a medal, but simply to recapture what we have lost so we can live a fulfilled life. There are no shortcuts and nothing is given to us. Everything we get is earned. Whether it's the endless days you spend in physical rehab learning how to walk, the time in cognitive rehab ... Read On
Finding Your Inner Strength after TBI
Several months after my TBI, when the shock of waking up after a month in a coma had started to dissolve into the realization that things were going to be really different, I began the slow task of sorting my life out. There were so many issues; I was unable to process conversations quickly, I felt stiff and unemotional, and I was too accepting of the things happening ... Read On