As someone who has suffered through a number of TBIs after a freak accident, I can assure you that the most important part of your body is your brain. When it can’t function properly, you can’t function properly....
A TBI is so much more than headaches and migraines. It’s feeling imprisoned in your own body. It’s not being able to do simple and normal tasks that you used to. It’s anxiety and depression, driven by the fear that you’ll never be normal again. It’s chronic pain and confusion.
It’s loneliness because it’s an invisible injury and people look at you and think it can’t be that bad because from the outside, they can’t see how broken you are.
Because our brains & the neural connections within them are so complex, every TBI is different, depending on where you hit your head and how hard it was hit.
It’s frightening when you show up to the doc, and there’s no way to know when your TBI will be resolved. They just tell you to rest and wait.
We still know so little about TBIs, but I’m here to share with you that they are serious and should be treated as such.
