State Championship, JV Volleyball. Funny the things a person
wishes they could remember. Did I get the ball? I remember my dive for the ball ended when the top of my head
struck the pole, but did I get the ball?
Dead Men and Miracles
1980 - I'm one of the lucky survivors of an MVA on deadmans curve. Walked
away with only depth perception and other visual hooey to add to my waking, thinking, memory, emotion, and language problems
from 1978.
1982 - 33rd Streets are known for miracles, but I remember an MVA. In addition to a bad
whiplash, more upheavel of my emotional personality and some losses in social skill.
the cop believed I should've known what the golfers
really go for
In one afternoon a life is turned upside down. 9/17/89 - add
PTSD and the horrible terrible symptoms of diffuse brain injury from losing consciousness/oxygen to my challenge.
She couldn't find the Safe Way
1995 - bad comes in 3's. The first time some young boys were
speeding on dead man's curve and struck us on the driver's side fender area. The second time a woman was trying to get
in front of the bus on 33rd St and struck me on the driver's side bending the frame a bit. The third time the young
girl said her Aunt changed her mind when she realized after she'd begun to turn onto it that the street wasn't the entrance
to the Safeway. Took a driver's side hit again, totalling my car. Lost my color vision for 9mos after the abi,
but losing total vision was worse, even with returning in the same hour. The effects of brain injury are most definately
cumulative, and it becomes impossible to list the added and worsened symptoms. You just live it, day by day. And
when you get this far and no one yet has explained to you that you have a brain injury, the living is not easy.
I dont know where I am in space
It's fun to remember that I could squat in 2007. Seriously
my knee injury from long ago had healed nicely while studying ballet, just as Dr Reischer had predicted. And my posture
was doing great thanks to the PT staff at Bryn Mawr. The only trouble with having my back, neck and head fully aligned
and upright while I squatted, was that when I hastily intended to stand my full height, there was a thick tree branch right
above my head. I recognized the delayed concussion the moment it began. What I didn't recognize was the need to
get medical attention promptly. And sadly, the person I called for advice hadn't either.
on the matter of diagnosis
April 2008 - It's finally explained to me that I have brain injury.
Talk about mixed emotions! Was/is wonderful to finally make sense of so much of the struggle I've been through.
Hurts like hell that this was missed by so many health care professionals. Helps like heaven to visit the TBIChat.
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