I have established a new process for reading Ghost in My Brain. I keep the book by my bed and in the morning, when I wake, and am fresh, I open the book at random and read as much as I can. I am attempting to balance learning about the author’s injury with my own abilities. This process will be modified to capture the page number of the associated text. This process improvement will be incorporated at next reading.
My Frankenstein
Trying to read Ghost in My Brain.
I can force myself to read pages but then I develop headache and have a hard time keeping focus on the page. I end up reading a short section then stopping with fatigue, coming back to it later, reading another short section, having problems, and stopping. It is a cyclic form of progression.
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Unbearable
The book Ghost In My Brain arrived yesterday. The following quote is from the forward:
By the time high functioning individuals with post-traumatic head injury notice that their memories are not what they used to be, or that they have difficulty thinking through a problem they could once have easily solved, massive brain damage has occurred on a microscopic level. Because their symptoms are medically unverifiable and therefore untreatable, they are usually dismissed as the walking wounded, destined to suffer the pain, frustration, and humiliation of not knowing how much longer their condition will last or how much worse it will become.