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One More Stone

February 2, 2023 / michellegunnin / 6 Comments

Louise used to think it was morose to celebrate the date of Bill’s accident. She said she wanted to forget it ever happened. Bury all the trauma in the past. “He’s fine now, like it never happened…so why go back and re-live it?” My response was, “He’s not fine. He will never be the same … Continue reading One More Stone

Grateful for 34 Years

February 3, 2022 / michellegunnin / 6 Comments

On this date every year, my husband humors me. I have a practice of building memorials on important days. February 2nd is the time-splitting day for before Bill’s brain injury and after. For 34 February 2nds I have been placing a stone on the memorial altar; both remembering this day and trying to forget it. … Continue reading Grateful for 34 Years

Brain Injury Awareness Month

March 21, 2021 / michellegunnin / 2 Comments

I’ve been mulling this piece in my mind for a bit.  I usually reserve my TBI posts for the February 2nd anniversary of Bill’s car accident. However, March is brain injury awareness month so I am breaking my pattern in order to shed some light for those of you who might not walk in the … Continue reading Brain Injury Awareness Month

33 Years Ago Today

February 2, 2021 / michellegunnin / 4 Comments

I had been called to the hospital because Bill was in an accident on a rainy February morning. I had been waiting in the waiting room to see him, when finally the nurse called me back to see him. I stood outside the bay in the ER, just outside the curtain, gathering myself and trying … Continue reading 33 Years Ago Today

Super Bowl Sunday

February 2, 2020February 2, 2020 / michellegunnin / 1 Comment

It seems that the stars have aligned this year. Super Bowl Sunday is on February 2nd, which happens to be Groundhog Day. However, in our house is also Bill’s Alive Day. In honor of this momentous day, I want to tell you a story. In 1988, I was just a young thing who woke to … Continue reading Super Bowl Sunday

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)

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)

Leap Year Memory

February 29, 2016February 29, 2016 / michellegunnin / Leave a comment

It’s a leap year and for some reason I hadn’t realized that until this week. When I did I had a flashback moment to leap year 1988. Not sure why that happened, but my memory jumped back in time to when Bill was in the hospital during a leap year. It was also an Olympic … Continue reading Leap Year Memory

Ta-da! The End

November 28, 2014December 9, 2014 / michellegunnin / 3 Comments

This blog is the FINAL INSTALLMENT in a series I am writing about my husband’s brain injury.  I have made it to the end…for now at least! Thank you for your interest and constant encouragement as I wrote my story. If you wish to read the whole story in order, go back in my archives … Continue reading Ta-da! The End

Encephalomalacia

November 23, 2014November 23, 2014 / michellegunnin / 4 Comments

This blog is a continuation in a series I am writing about my husband’s brain injury.  If you wish to read the story in order, go back in my archives and find Begin at the Beginning…all the ones in the category brain injury tell my story. Some are longer than others…they come in chunks of … Continue reading Encephalomalacia

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