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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

Guest Blog

July 12, 2017 / michellegunnin / 25 Comments

Today I have an important guest blogger, my husband Bill.  He has a story to tell that is important.  In fact, it is one of the things that has been swept under the rug at our house for years, as we have been in survival mode. It is where so much of our lives together … Continue reading Guest Blog

The New Normal

July 10, 2017July 10, 2017 / michellegunnin / 7 Comments

“You will find a new normal.”  I have heard the phrase many times, and in fact, I have said it to others in trying circumstances. The new normal seems like a goal, a hidden place where all things line up once again.  However, what no one talks about is the strong longing for the old … Continue reading The New Normal

Explanation

June 23, 2017June 24, 2017 / michellegunnin / 5 Comments

I probably never should have pushed the publish button at 3:00 a.m. I do not usually share these kinds of deep places…until after the fact.  My usual pattern is to pull away and sit in silence, waiting for the sun to come up and the lesson to make itself known.   But this time, I know … Continue reading Explanation

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

TBI

February 3, 2016February 3, 2016 / michellegunnin / 2 Comments

Feb. 2, 2016 Dearest TBI Loved Ones, I sit here tonight and think back to 28 years ago. I was crying myself to sleep after sitting all day in the ER and ICU with my husband Bill following a car accident. I had no idea how my life had just changed. I had no idea … Continue reading TBI

Memorial Stones

February 2, 2015February 2, 2015 / michellegunnin / 3 Comments

It is cold. It is raining. It is Feb. 2nd. I think most years Bill’s Alive Day comes and I do more celebrating than remembering. But the weather was a factor in his accident 27 years ago. The rain was coming down in sheets like it is now, at least as I write this around … Continue reading Memorial Stones

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