Thanks Leonard, I appreciate your support

Thanks Helen. As usual, you are right.

I hope that doesn’t offend you? I didn’t design it like that, it’s just how the WordPress “theme” comes.

But only if I include my blog in the URL. Very tricksy and sneaky.

Jo I think you put it perfectly, l too can’t understand why someone would want to troll Michelle. I think it must be a nature of our injury that makes us more sensitive to what is said or done to us. My lowest point was when someone accused me of being a retard because of my brain injury. I no longer have contact with him. One of the high points was when I went to a walk in clinic to have one of my prescription’s renewed. The older female doctor attending to me made two small comments that made me feel better than any medication could. She looked me in the eye and said “you look remarkably good for all that you must have been through” after finding out I was working she said “I’m glad to hear that because I know of too many sufferers who could never go back to work, stick with it your doing a good job”

It’s so hard when you find you can’t turn to that person anymore. I like your idea of starting off clarifying your intention, before going into the details. Thanks I think I’ll use that.

But it’s not always about the words. Like Jo said, there are people who have no empathy. They become enraged when we change and are no longer able to provide them with the same type of friendship they demanded in the past. This happened to me, with a longtime friend. It was ugly and unexpected.

I used to write a blog (now dormant) to help me remember the early part of my recovery. The only people who read it were a few family and friends. Although it’s public, I didn’t have the courage to promote it like you do, and open myself up to criticism. And I applied for Social Security Disability, and I didn’t want them to discover it and read it. But that’s in the past now, so I’ll include the url here.