I keep an “accident log.” This is an informal record of daily events related to the injury. In recent months I have been documenting fewer events. My logic has been that a continued focus on my errors and mistakes would only serve to highlight my various problems. I thought it might be better to avoid this regular documentation and simply live my day as best I could without listing my errors. After all, we all make errors. A painstaking analysis of each one did not seem to deliver much in the way of benefit.
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Category Archives: Rehab
Brain Injury Support Group
Yesterday, I went to my Brain Injury Support Group. These are difficult events. I must interact with 10 other people and I have trouble keeping up with the flow of conversation. While I try to take notes, my notes are often next to useless. They end up as single word snapshots of an entire conversational thread. Without the context, I have no understanding of the meaning of my one captured code word.
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Hooks and Self Destruction
In the prior post Flummoxed, I documented a series of obstacles arising from my attempt to implement the TBI Proposal. When such obstacles are encountered, I become overwhelmed. The obstacles appear insurmountable, my goals out of reach and impossible of achievement.
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