Well After TBI 9/6/20230 Comments I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again… TBI does not mean your life is over! It can be difficult, but it IS manageable with the right help! While healing takes time, it is a realistic and achievable goal. I find that my TBI has resulted in an increased…
A Poem for Maui
The world can be so cruel. When nature takes its toll, The pain and suffering, No one can control. The wind and rain, The shaking ground, The destruction and despair, No one can be found. The lives that are lost, The homes that are gone, The memories that are taken, The sorrow that lingers on….
A Long & Complicated Journey
The story of my health journey is a long and frustrating one. Frustrating may be an understatement. At the age of fiftysomething, while working for a large engineering firm as a Project Manager, I began having headaches. The headaches were so severe that one day I passed out during a meeting with HR. At the…
The Power of Music
I have always loved music. Rock n’ Roll, Blues, Classical, Country… you name it. When I was younger, I was always going to concerts and dancing my heart out. And after my Traumatic Brain Injury, music was one of the few things in my life that didn’t change. But due to my Hemiplegic Migraines, I…
From Engineer to Artist
The hardest part of changing my brain from Engineer to Artist was accepting the reality that something had gone wrong with my brain. Here I sat in a hospital waiting room with a family member, surrounded by stroke patients, young kids with sports injuries, and paralyzed individuals, and wondered, “Why am I here?” My name…