Support Group Meeting

Just returned from a brain injury support group meeting.

The meeting was very helpful and productive. I had attended this same event over a year ago and was unable to handle the meeting and left early. Very early.

At my departure, one of the office staff had asked the time since the date of my injury. I gave her my answer and her cryptic response had been “it’s still too early.” I did not understand her remark and have puzzled over it ever since. Today I think I finally understand what she meant.
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Shared Experience

This post forms part of a series of posts which seek to identify the potential benefits of developing a social network targeted toward the needs of ABI victims. The other posts in this series may be located via the urls to be added to the bottom of each page.

 

Shared Experience

In the course of writing these past few posts, I have stumbled upon a sudden trove of research literature. I do not wish to count the past hours I have spent searching for organizations committed to cognitive research, and the needs of persons with cognitive deficits. I do know my accumulated search time has been extensive and largely fruitless, apart from finding some US studies.
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Lost in the Woods

Panic on entry to SuperCappuccino. I have a comfortable double double routine. Unable to fathom the order desk. Bored male turns out to be order taker. Have no idea what is on order so ask for a decaf double double. Told the fixings are on table behind me.
He disappears – hard to do in an open plan layout – and I am left staring at an uncooperative debit card terminal.
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