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Well technically it is the wee hours of Tuesday morning....yet seeing as I have not been to bed or asleep yet, it is still Monday night to me...that being said today (Monday) was a very eventful day. A day of liberation, answers, and a solid direction.[...]
Brain Injury does NOT equal Lack of Intelligence[...]
We have all heard it ......"the eyes are the windows to the soul". They are also the windows to the brain that are often overlooked in common medical assessments.[...]
So hello there soul searchers. There has been a lot going on with my body and my life over the last 3 years. I have gone from calling it "my wreck" to "the wreck". For the longest time it called it "my wreck" because it was something that had happened to ME. However, in my effort to step outside of myself and towards recovery away from a "patient" status and more of an "advocate" and "self-advocate" status - I want to try and keep myself somewhat separated from it as I do not own it as my own, but rather something I experienced.[...]
I really do not like the question “what do you do all day long?”
It differs so much from day to day and moment to moment that having a schedule is sometimes a curveball I miss catching; so there is no simple answer.[...]
Inquiring Minds want to know: What were your injuries?[...]
The stigma continues. Still in rehab. No, not drug or alcohol related rehab (though the same bravery to participate in this kind is no less daunting). Not physical therapy or occupational therapy of sorts, but rather Vocational Rehab.[...]
I have been thinking about what to write today for about a month now. Here I sit trying to think of how to form the words that swim in my mind and express them in a way that makes sense to anyone else but me.[...]
ADVOCACY:
I feel it is imperative that I voice my strong and unequivocal support for the NO FAULT system and voice that I speak about this system from personal experience....not just opinion from a desk somewhere trying to increase our financial "bottom line" (like insurance companies want to do) without knowing or understanding the ripple affect of taking this much needed program away or altering it for the patients whose lives literally depend on this system being in place.[...]
My life has been enormously eventful since my last post. There is a lot to catch you all up on. Many days have passed. I sat here staring at this screen trying to decide what to write, how to tell what I was going through, what I was feeling, thinking, experiencing. The words just weren't there. It felt redundant and repetitive.[...]
