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My Mental Balancing Act-Post Brain Injury
For the last forty three years, since my car crash and month long coma, I have essentially been performing one big balancing act. Over this time I have learned what it takes to maintain my balance...
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Lost My Car & Nearly Fell Into the “Brain Injury Trap”
I get a laugh when I mention to somebody that I lost my car in the parking lot and they respond with, “Oh yeah, I do that all the time.” I know they are just trying to be cute and funny or to find a...
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TBI & Me: If I Die Today
The story of our life starts the moment we are born into this world. Our story is full of what makes us human: joy, failure, triumph, heartbreak, perseverance, love, facing obstacles and learning...
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Finding the Will to Keep Fighting after Brain Injury
We love those uplifting, feel good stories about survivors who have battled adversity to create a life following brain injury; who have proven doctors and doubters wrong by raising themselves from the...
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Let’s Honor 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...
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This TBI Survivor Doesn’t Care How You Talk to Me
At some point during this 43 year “trip” I’ve spent living with a brain injury, I got fed up: too much of my mental energy was being spent getting frustrated and angry because of things other people...
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Brain Injury Now: Interpreting My Past, Living My Present, Finding My Future
Here I am, at age sixty-four, about to enter a new phase of my life: forty-five years after my month-long coma, I’ve reached that age when I can retire. That idea sounds great, so I tell people I am...
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Calming Those “Chattering Monkeys” In Our Head
. You know what I’m talking about: the crazy, never-ending noise in our heads; questioning, debating, not believing, not trusting. The bedlam in our brains. That infernal, mind blowing racket that...
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Coronavirus Anxiety and Brain Injury
Many of us brain injury survivors live with some degree of anxiety following our brain injuries. This anxiety primarily centers around how we feel about ourselves and our place in the world, and of...
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I’m 65 and Officially Retired from Being Disabled
I’m doing what people do when they turn 65. I’m retiring. So, for all of you who know me as well as those of you who don’t, I am officially announcing my retirement from being disabled. “How can you do...
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