Thank you for your kind comments! It is difficult to recovery and look just fine but struggling to cope! You will, with time start to see subtle changes that will give you a lot of hope!

About six months after my injury, we took our regular family vacation. I had been medicated so heavy, out of necessaity, that the side effects of the meds were overwhelming. During that week at the beach, I continued to rest but decided not to take the meds. I am happy to report, by the end of the vacation, I felt so much better and my recovery really got on course. I am not avocating for everyone stop their meds but just know it worked for me!

May you have good results with however you make it to the other side of your recovery!

Thanks for being so frank. You don’t come across as boasting at all. I think your message is important for all of us. The modern world makes us feel like nothing waits for no one, so we try to keep up. But in the case of your health you have to give yourself time.

The struggle to recover was just that…….a struggle! I was a legal assistant in a new position that I had only been employed at for around a month. Needless to say, I could not work for several weeks and returned to work way to soon. Trying to manage my symptoms and they were many, work full time, take care of my children and all their activities, and try to just cope with everything, was more than I could handle! Thank goodness I had a wonderful husband who really helped me to survive.

I literally thought I was going stark raving mad! Constant severe headaches, speech problems the first several months, severe depression, constant crying, always a nervous wreck and I could not cope with hardly anything! I was even sent back to the hospital when my doctor thought I had a blood clot forming. I finally threw in the towel and quit my job., I just could not manage anymore!

I stayed home for a full year and it was the best thing I ever could have done! It gave me time to simply heal….mind, body and soul! I really slowed my life down and gave me time to heal!

I never remembered the accident. I remember details that other people told me but to recollect it, never have and glad I do not remember. It was so traumatic that remembering the details would have been way to much. I do miss some of the memory loss I have had before that time but have learned to cope with that loss!

I finally went back to work after the year was over and worked another ten years. There is life after a brain injury. I am living proof to that statistic. I am not boasting or bragging. I know there are people who will never fully recover and my heart hurts for them. Honestly, I still have some residual problems but have trained myself, I guess, to function at a fairly normal level.

To anyone who has had a traumatic head injury, rest assured “ this to shall eventually pass”. Just remember, it will pass in it’s own time frame. Not your time frame! Blessings and God’s speed to each and everyone of you who are suffering.