Survivors

Imagine that you are having a normal day, perhaps walking down the street from the store, skateboarding on your way to the park or just taking a drive in your car on your way home from work and you suddenly find yourself lying in a hospital bed days later and are told by the nurse or doctor that you were there because you suffered a brain injury because of some sort of accident. Suddenly you are without words—in a way you have never been before in your life. Your mind can form the words but they won’t come out of your mouth the right way. As the news is difficult enough to swallow, you suddenly have a small cadre of doctors, nurses and therapists questioning you and poking you with needles.  Through the months of seemingly-endless therapies your mind races with questions like: What happened? How did this happen to me? Will I ever be the same again? Can I live like a normal person again? Those questions are just worries—ones that are important to you that none of the people caring for you seem to let you concentrate on, in order to get you to focus on healing. You should know that this phase of a traumatic brain injury isn’t a life sentence—the disorientation, cloudiness and confusion. Though it will not come quickly, your recovery will be a lifelong process. If you allow yourself to move past your worries—past the preconceived notions of your disabilities, you can move toward becoming whole again. This portion of BIOS. is for you, the Survivor, the central link in the chain of recovery, who may feel as if they have been lost in the chaos of their traumatic brain injury—lost in the opinions and negative expectations   of others, lost in the physical trauma of your situation. This is a platform to enable you to live with one of the most difficult of circumstances and for you the traumatic brain injury survivor to allow yourself to disown the position of being the traumatic brain injury victim and be provoked to allow  become a survivor and allow healing to take place.  Once healing takes place in the mind and soul, before it takes place in the body, you won’t seem so lost anymore. Below is a link on   list of tips that  will help you in coping  with a Traumatic rain injury in and out of the hospital.