Wipe Out

Wipe out! A few seconds after the above image was captured, the surfer disappeared in a cloud of angry foam. Shortly after I completed work on the image, one of my piles of tottering paper let go. There was a minor earthquake as it collapsed and a landslide of papers spilled out across the base of the stairs. I have been trying to clean up and organize. Hence the greater mess.
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Brick Wall

I have been forcing myself to devote time to preparation of a summary document. The intent of this document is to tie together all of the other exhibits that have already been submitted, provide some form of logical coherence to my case.

This sounds a reasonable idea, but it has not worked. I have hit a brick wall.
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Random Discovery

In response to the injury, I maintain a constant lookout for research which may have a bearing on my experience. As I expressed to Dr H at our recent meeting, the fact that medical science is up in the air with respect to the diagnosis and treatment of mTBI means that there exist no true “experts.” This implies I am operating in a field of knowledge in which I am as much an “expert” as any other interested party, perhaps more so as I have actual experience of the injury as opposed to the “experience at a remove” associated with scientific inquiry.
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