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If You’ve Seen One Brain Injury
Yeah, I’ll bet I know what most of you were thinking the next words would be. When a fellow survivor said that and paused I must have given away what I was thinking based on the twinkle in her eye. That sarcastic saying … Continue reading
Posted in Serious Posts on Brain Injury
Tagged Aphasia, articulate, Cognitive Damage, Community, Isolation, misunderstood, strangers
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You’re just
Those words are at the start to so many different sentences. I don’t want to get into a rant here. I only wanted to get this on the record. Wanna play ‘finish the sentence’, TBI style?
TV Shows Just Aren’t Helping Us
This isn’t something I hear of course but if I see one more dang television drama that involves a severe injury without any consequences… For example, the show, Scorpion. Two weeks in a row now they have completely glossed over the … Continue reading
A Mild Dramatic Brain Injury
In my very first post here I mocked myself for being a bit dramatic. But maybe it’s a testament to my slow progress that it took me more than a month to come up with the larger joke in the title of this post. This … Continue reading
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Tagged articulate, Cognitive Damage, misunderstood, random, TBI
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Talking Myself to Death
<<This used to be a post about mistakes vs. plain stupid stuff but it was just too long so I split it after the discussion of the recent social mistake.>> I made a big mistake last week. Well, at least … Continue reading
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Tagged Accepting, breakdowns, Cognitive Damage, forgive, Isolation, memory, misunderstood, random, Recovery
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People Will Disappear
I’m not going to sugar coat discussions like this one or the previous one about how a brain injury often leaves you a different person. I’ve gotten some comments off-line about how much of a downer this project is so far. … Continue reading
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Tagged adjusting, forgive, Isolation, misunderstood, TBI
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You’re probably going to be different.
You might even be that way forever. It depends on the way you sustained your brain injury and how severe it is. Regarding my situation, I sustained a mild traumatic brain injury going on 6 months ago as I write … Continue reading
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Tagged Cognitive Damage, Isolation, misunderstood, TBI
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The draw of anger
Sometimes I just have to get the hell away from the computer. I suppose this would happen to me even before the crash though. I’ve been working on some posts that require some research and it’s getting to me. Too … Continue reading
Nine of All Trades 