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I want to be ME


by: DA on Wed, May 21 2008

I was just diagnosed with right side damage in November 2007. I went to Vocational Rehab abecause I have had difficulty keeping jobs due to being too slow reacting.and saying inappropriate things usually like tell a boss to fo or fu.
I have better sense than that. I don’t deal with frustration well. They always thought I can do the job i was assigned but they always waited until it was too late and I would be fired.
VR had a Neurophsychologist run a test on me. and that how I found out.
July 7 1993 I was on my way home at 330pm. I fell asleep because my wife and i had just married and we had been up until 3 am moving and I’d get up at 4 or 5 and go to work.
I fell asleep and hit a house in my pick up truck.. broke all my ribs and puntured a lung.. they didn’t think i was gonna live.
I never had tests on head although I remember the day i went to the place that had my truck and I saw the indentation of my head on the windshield.
I am always irratable, act childish, get very frustrated. stutter and repeat the same phrase a lot.I also have
Anxiety and depression. which i am on medicine for.
I fit alot of the TBI check list symptoms.
So I am now planning to see a psychologist to beat this.
I feel like i’m always being made fun of because people just don’t get it.
I want to be me again!
I was easy going, friendly wiling to help anybody any time. Now All I do is sit in the house and I feel miserable about the person Ive become.
I am embarrassed and ashamed.

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May 2008

  • I want to be ME - by DA - (Wed, May 21 2008)
    I was just diagnosed with right side damage in November 2007. I went to Vocational Rehab abecause I have had difficulty keeping jobs due to being too slow reacting. [more..]
  • PLEASE HELP - by ADAM R. - (Mon, May 19 2008)
    TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, MY NAME IS ADAM ROGERS. AND APPROXIMATELY FIVE YEARS AGO I WAS IN A NEAR FATAL MOTORCYCLE ACCIDENT. AND IT WAS NOT BECAUSE OF SPEEDING, DRUNKEN, OR WRECKLESS DRIVING. BUT BECAUSE I RAN INTO A SIX HUNDRED POUND, WILD BOAR. I WAS RETURNING HOME ON HIGHWAY 1, JUST OUTSIDE OF CARMEL, CALIFORNIA. WHEN I RAN INTO A 600 LB. WILD BOAR. I DON’T REMEMBER IT OR ANY OF THE TWO YEARS PRIOR TO IT, BECAUSE I SUFFERED A T.B.I. I AM LUCKY, HOWEVER, TO BE ALIVE. MY PROBLEM NOW IS THAT I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO BALANCE. I HAVE PLENTY OF STRENGTH. AND CAN STAND EASILY. BUT THAT IS IT. AND I CANNOT USE A WALKER. BECAUSE WHEN I HIT THE ROAD I LANDED ON MY LEFT SHOULDER AND BROKE MY LEFT CLAVICLE. SO THE USE OF MY LEFT HAND AND ARM IS GREATLY IMPARED. I HAVE GOTTEN SOME THERAPY AT THE COMUNITY HOSPITAL OF THE MONTEREY PENINSULA AND THEY SAY THAT I HAVE NO TRUNK BALANCE. STRENGTH IS NOT THE ISSUE AS I CAN STAND EASILY. ANY HELP OR SUGGESTIONS YOU COULD SHARE FOR HELP WITH REGAINING MY BALANCE WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED. [more..]
  • On the Mend - by SG - (Fri, May 02 2008)
    My boyfriend has suffered a traumatic brain injury due to hitting a tree on his snowmobile eventhough he was wearing all of the right gear it was the force of the impact that caused the damage. [more..]
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