Call it Abaddon. Or call it Apollyon. Or call it Mephistopheles of Faust. I call it the short stick of probability. Either way we came face to face. Drenched, but pulled out from the river of Acheron. Now, For all of my sins and for all of his sins.
Tag: Brain Injury
Anniversary, After, All.
10th of May, 2015. Our First wedding anniversary. We were going to move into our first apartment together. A home we both would make our own. We had packed up half of our belongings the weekend before. Ready to move on the 7th of May. New lease signed. Uhaul truck booked. Amazon order for patio…
Frozen in Time.
when everyone around you seems to move on and you see life go by.
What happens after? Understanding Brain Functionality
I have had a very rude awakening to TBI. I knew little to nothing of traumatic brain injury prior to the accident. Oblivious and ignorant. Until I was told that my husband suffered a Severe Traumatic Brain Injury. I didn’t quite understand the gravity of the aftermath and its long term consequences, until the Doctors and Nurses slowly…
TBI Recovery – Ranchos Los Amigos Scale
The Ranchos Los Amigos Scale of Cognitive Recovery is a medical scale used to assess the cognitive progress of individuals after a closed head injury, including traumatic brain injury, based on cognitive and behavioural presentations as they emerge from coma[1]. It is named after the Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center, located in Downey, California. The RLAS…
First day, away.
This is hard. Being away from him. It has been five months, on the 3rd of October. I drove on Sunday night to get back to the apartment. It was time I got back to something normal in the hope of getting our life squared once again. It has been five months, and I had…
Careless or carefree? Be proactive with your finances!
Understanding the financial and legal ramifications of a TBI; especially for a non-resident Alien in a foreign country. Trying to tie loose ends without a Power of Attorney.
Two steps forward, One step back
We completed one year of our (secret) married life in May; living together, enjoying the snow, finding new hobbies, falling in sync and completely depending on each other. Four years after being in the US, we returned home for a vacation in December of 2014 and got married (again), the Indian way. Also, After a…
Drawing his first breath
“Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking.” William E. Simon After the accident, at the hospital, everything was too unreal. Every spike in cranial pressure or irregularity in blood pressure had to be solved immediately. Doctors would rush in. They…
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