It’s brain injury awareness month again. A few years ago, I think I didn’t even realize it until the end of March, so I’m ahead of the game, this year. Of course, the only reason I found out, was that I saw a sign posted on the door of an adult daycare center that’s located in the same building I had a meeting in, earlier this week.
For this month, I’ll continue my focus on recovery and rehab. Yes, it’s absolutely important to understand concussion and TBI and brain injury in general. What’s often missing, is the focus on recovery and the possibilities for getting back to a really great life.
Because even if things have changed dramatically for you because of brain injury, it’s still possible to have a rich and fulfilling life. Just because your brain changes, doesn’t mean your life is over. And too often, rehab folks or the medical establishment just give up on us. That’s partly because of insurance, but it’s also because they just don’t know about or see people who are actively recovering from brain injury.
We’re pretty much invisible, that’s for sure.
Broken Brain - Brilliant Mind 
Boy howdy! Trying to get practitioners or insurance companies to think outside their boxes is pretty much impossible! And trying to convince them of what you’ve got wrong with you is exhausting. Hard to explain something to people who really don’t want to hear you! If we were able to putt the fight into getting better instead of fighting with the powers that be, we’d not need be so tired all the time.
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How true that is. Many of us are just treated like we’re looking for attention. Or that we’re exaggerating. They just don’t seem to understand, sometimes… And it’s a shame. Because a lot of lives are really harmed by this. Mine certainly was.
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It comes around so quickly. Yet people are still ignorant at provention is better than a cure. Cheers, H
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