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Direction Received
I am really grateful I chose to email my vet instead of trying to communicating over the phone…especially since she’s out of the office the rest of this week! She asked a few questions I’d not thought of and I … Continue reading
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Tagged companion animals, disability, friends with fur, home-bound, kidney disease, mTBI, TBI, veterinarian care
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A Little Black and Blue Heart
I’ve not written for a while because I’ve been a little under the weather since December, and Richard can attest, I’ve not had a lot of words often to even speak. Just what I needed to feel just a little … Continue reading
TED Talks: Listening to Shame / Vulnerability is Courage by Brené Brown
““Vulnerability is our most accurate measurement of courage.”” — Brené Brown I have watched this video and have to say it’s one of those with a great ‘takeaway message.’ Having grown up as I did, never really feeling good about … Continue reading
Posted in Brené Brown, courage, Gratitude, Healing, Hope, Shame, TED Talks, Vulnerability, Wholeness
Tagged Brené Brown, courage, disability, healing, living with traumatic brain injury, mTBI, seeking wholeness, strength, TBI, TED Talks, vulnerability
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Neuropsych Test Results
Although I saw my Neurologist two days ago, I spent yesterday in bed with a headache and most of this morning with a headache hangover. I still feel a little bit out of it. I’m not sure what to think … Continue reading
Posted in Disability, mTBI, TBI, Traumatic Brain Injury
Tagged choices, disability, fear, mTBI, Neuro Psych test, neurologist, peace, psychologist, TBI, testing, tests, traumatic brain injury, vulnerability
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Back to the Beginning: Limbo Land and Thoughts on Humankind (posted Feb. 9, 2010)
A difficult place to be, in between systems, no longer able to be fully independent, yet not approved for assistance. If it were not for humor, I think I would have died long ago. For now, I wait on the … Continue reading
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Tagged asking for assistance, attorneys, disability, hell, lawsuit, not getting help, survival, TBI
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Back to the Beginning: Back to Fight or Flight (posted Dec. 3, 2009)
While taking time to grieve Rudy’s passing, I got a call from the City saying the initial estimate connecting to the sewer was off, way off. Instead of maybe $10,000 we’re looking at $16,500. Shocked I said they really should … Continue reading
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Tagged debt, disability, have to move, loans, septic tank, sewer lne, TBI
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Back to the Beginning: Another Busy Week (posted Aug. 20, 2009)
I’ve been wanting to update my blog but have needed some time for things to settle a bit first. I must say having a love interest is adding a lot of good energy to my life, even with him in … Continue reading
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Tagged coping, disability, occupational therapy, rehab, Speech Therapy, TBI
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Back to the Beginning: Safe at Home for Now (posted Aug. 14, 2009
Life has been passing by at breakneck speed and I’m peddling fast to catch up. Last weekend I had a friend of mine from Montana pick up my Mom’s big old Hobart mixer, I gave it to him because he … Continue reading
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Tagged concussion, disability, distress, finances, head injury, hope, housing, mTBI, poverty, rest from the storm, solution, TBI
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Back to the Beginning: One Step Closer to the Edge (posted July 14, 2009)
Today I took a deep breath and called my oldest brother to see if he wanted anything from the house before I start selling the family heirlooms. He asked why I was needing to sell them and I said I … Continue reading
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Tagged craigslist, disability, disabled, foreclosure, Grand Canyon, homelessness, Hopelessness, mTBI, PTSD, selling everything, selling heirlooms, TBI, traumatic brain injury
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Back to the Beginning: Asleep in the Light (posted July 2, 2009)
[This is happening to me and I have a voice. How many hundreds of thousands (millions?) of people do I speak for who had/have no voice? I am literally haunted by this song, at times, I wish I weren’t. The … Continue reading
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Tagged apathy, Asleep in the Light, disability, disabled, ignorance, indifference, Keith Green, mTBI, TBI
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The Fight of My Life 