To My Caregivers

March Is Traumatic Brain Injury Awareness Month. I am endeavoring to post something every day for the rest of the month on here.  This will be a dauntig task, but it is important that awareness is given to this invisible injury on a global scale, more than it is now.  So expect to see more from here.

Now, to get what the topic is Titled....

To My Caregivers

To be given your time is priceless indeed - something I have not enough thanks for;

To be given your hands in my time of need - paves the way for my new life, to explore.

To be given your strength when you are so tired - is not without cost and most certainly not free

Your sacrifices of time, effort, sanity, and freedom I do sincerely appreciate, and see.

To be given your patience whenever I'm wired, confused, or in tears - is not taken for granted even though...

 I am sometimes seemingly thankless, frustrated and mean - in my attempts to go on and plow onward and grow.

To be heard even when I do not make any sense - despite all the steps backwards I feel that I have gone

To be given belief, support, and your defense - to be encouraged even when I forget or am wrong.

To be given the chance to prove that I'm here in my own way -  working hard to get back what was ripped from my soul;

To be vividly aware of the changes that in my body and brain they do stand - as battle of self wages on for control...

To discover that what was once is no more - but just DIFFERENT it dances around instead

and to feel the warmth of your love and yet, retreat from my world - is overwhelming, at best,  to my head.

To you I give all that I have and I am - to you I want to give a much needed rest

To you, and you know who you are - have stood beside me through thick and thin - and you are truly the best.

To you I give my humility and admire your tenacity, and ability to seemlessly cope

To you, who have believed in my best, at my worst - thank you my beloved ones - for giving me HOPE!

Written By: Caren Robinson

HAPPY SAINT PATRICK's DAY