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. It is important to look at my deficits because I … Continue reading Bill Chapter 7
Bill Chapter 6
I am skipping around again. There is a long list of effects which Bill still deals with to this day even though it has been 35 years since his accident. The rest of his section of the book discusses how those deficits still impact his daily life. As he ages some of them are on … Continue reading Bill Chapter 6
Bill Chapter 2
"Often there are days I wake up and feel like I am standing in front of a very tall brick wall that extends across the horizon, and there is no way to scale it." – Bill Once we decided not to write my section in chronological order, we were a bit at a loss as … Continue reading Bill Chapter 2
Bill Chapter 1
The writing of Bill's section of our story has been a painstaking process. He dictated hours of random thoughts about a particular topic. I typed, trying to keep up with his racing free flow of thought. Then I tried to find the thread to follow in the midst of rabbit trails; the core of his … Continue reading Bill Chapter 1
Chapter 37
What does TBI with encephalomalacia look like? Like a normal person. That is one of the main difficulties of brain injuries and their effects, you can’t see them. Unless there is some kind of facial scar, and many times there is not, you would not know someone’s brain is damaged. Whereas if someone is in … Continue reading Chapter 37
Chapter 36
I want to skip ahead a bit because I want to get to the present moment. For my readers who do not know, my husband survived his injury. He fully recovered physically, but mentally he had (and still does) some significant, though invisible, issues with his brain. For awareness, I think it is important to … Continue reading Chapter 36
Chapter 3
March is Brain Injury Awareness Month. On this blog I have written about our experience with TBI, but so far the story remains locked in my computer in draft form. I claim it is finding time that is preventing it from being finished, but when I read it again, I am not so sure that … Continue reading Chapter 3
Chapter 2
March is Brain Injury Awareness Month. On this blog I have written about our experience with TBI, but so far the story remains locked in my computer in draft form. I claim it is finding time that is preventing it from being finished, but when I read it again, I am not so sure that … Continue reading Chapter 2
Chapter 1
March is Brain Injury Awareness Month. On this blog I have written about our experience with TBI, but so far the story remains locked in my computer in draft form. I claim it is finding time that is preventing it from being finished, but when I read it again, I am not so sure that … Continue reading Chapter 1
As I Age
As I age, I am watching the generation before me in their last days. Mentors becoming frail. The invincible, seem fragile. All those I looked up to are more human, somehow. Weaker as their bodies fail them. They always were human of course, but in my youth, I rarely saw that. My eyes were full … Continue reading As I Age
