Sometimes my injured brain acts totally different than before my Traumatic Brain Injury and other times I feel like those default settings appear. Here’s an essay about such a phenomenon.
Default Settings After TBI
The Two Moviegoers (An Essay)
For this essay I discuss what it was like being a movie fan before brain injury and after.
Essay: Holidays of Good Cheer after Tragedy
An essay where I frankly discuss being in good cheer during the holidays after you’ve survived tragedy.
Essay: The Sounds are Coming From INSIDE My Head
An essay where I talk about how my severe Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) has left me with severely diminished hearing and distorted hearing that makes it seem like I have a horror movie INSIDE my head. Creepy!
Quite the imagination: A personal account of TBI and hearing loss
I switch around my posting schedule to write an essay. This essay is on the importance of imagination and how I used my imagination to make it through hearing distortions and brain trauma.
Essay: Hashtag what’s so funny?
A monthly essay where I discuss humor after injury. I especially explore how I use humor on social media.
Essay: #AmCreating
I discuss how I maintain my creativity when I don’t feel like writing: #amcreating.
How I harness my limited energy (or try to).
A monthly essay where I discuss how I harness my depleted energy post-TBI.
Essay: What do birthdays mean after tragedy?
In this monthly essay I discuss how after surviving a traumatic event, birthdays take on a different meaning (it’s almost my birthday and nearly 3 years after my Traumatic Brain Injury).
