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Cleansing Tears

February 14, 2019 / michellegunnin / 3 Comments

I was in Africa when Bill’s Alive Day came around this year.  It seemed a bit odd to be so far away of marking such a significant event in our lives.  We celebrate the day each year on Feb. 2nd, when 31 years ago the accident that should have killed my husband, didn’t.  It was … Continue reading Cleansing Tears

Losing Things (Guest Blog)

September 4, 2018 / michellegunnin / 3 Comments

Memory issues- a multitude of obstacles having to do with different types of memory.  Depending on which part of the memory is affected, the difficulties can be wide in range and scope.  The resulting behaviors cause frustration and can affect day to day life in jobs as well as family relationships. As told to me … Continue reading Losing Things (Guest Blog)

February 2nd, 30 Years Ago (Guest Blog)

February 2, 2018February 3, 2018 / michellegunnin / 5 Comments

As told to me by Bill Gunnin This thirty year mark is a significant day. It is a monument that marks a day of before and after in your life.  A day of reckoning so to speak. For you, it is a day of monumental shift where everything changed. For me, it is not that … Continue reading February 2nd, 30 Years Ago (Guest Blog)

Logorrhea (guest blog)

January 6, 2018 / michellegunnin / 2 Comments

As told told to me by Bill Gunnin Logorrhea - excessive talking or wordiness. This is a very common frontal lobe deficit that many traumatic brain injury survivors suffer from. I try to be aware of talking too much. I know I do it, but it is difficult to control sometimes. I know there is value in … Continue reading Logorrhea (guest blog)

A Frightening Moment

November 5, 2017November 5, 2017 / michellegunnin / 8 Comments

A beautiful fall day calls for…housework, right?  Maybe.  Just a little.  Then a drive through the brilliant glowing mountains, as a reward.  Bill was changing lightbulbs on the outside of the house in preparation for the darker evenings.  I was inside working to ready the guestroom for any visitors coming our way.  Bill was on … Continue reading A Frightening Moment

Decision Making (Guest blog)

October 21, 2017September 13, 2018 / michellegunnin / 3 Comments

As told to me by Bill Gunnin Impaired Decision Making- the inability to regard the cognitive processes which result in the selection of a belief or a course of action among several alternative possibilities; the inability to take into account all possible choices and come to a conclusion on a course of action. The slowing … Continue reading Decision Making (Guest blog)

Flooding (Guest blog)

September 21, 2017 / michellegunnin / 12 Comments

As told by Bill Gunnin Flooding- the inability of the brain to filter, leading all stimuli coming into the brain at one time with equal intensity which causes the inability to process each piece of information individually.  The brain overloads, and either shuts down or gets agitated in its frustration. I feel bad about flooding … Continue reading Flooding (Guest blog)

Guest Blog: Hope is a Four-letter Word

August 8, 2017 / michellegunnin / 4 Comments

As told by Bill Gunnin Hope is a four-letter word.  Most people think of it as a positive word, a word that looks forward.  For me, with my head injury, it is a word that makes me sick.  A tormenting word, which never works out for me.  Most of the time the feeling I have … Continue reading Guest Blog: Hope is a Four-letter Word

The Brick Wall

July 24, 2017July 24, 2017 / michellegunnin / 11 Comments

This is another in a series of guest blogs from my husband about what it is like to live with a Traumatic Brain Injury. (TBI)  I saw the sentence in bold written on a notepad.  I asked him to tell me more about it and this is what he said to me.   The Brick … Continue reading The Brick Wall

A Word About Vulnerability

July 17, 2017July 17, 2017 / michellegunnin / 5 Comments

A word about vulnerability.  This word has been popping up in my comment threads recently as I have written about the hard place we are currently walking. (Thanks for the comments, btw.  It is nice to know people are reading and my words are not floating into a black hole somewhere. 🙂  )  Because of … Continue reading A Word About Vulnerability

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