I had time to reflect I was left with another set of mixed emotions after hearing about the police shootings in Minnesota and Louisiana. I went to Blink 182 concert at the Marcus amphitheater in Milwaukee this past weekend. The concert, even though missing Tom Delonge, was spectacular! Besides the concert I was faced with […]
My presentation at Bayshore Community Academy in Oconto
My final take away message is LOVE everyone! Love everything and cherish those small things. Give love and take love!
An amazing video on love and relationships
As much as we agree or disagree we must love each other. I saw this video on a former coach’s social networking site and was blown away. This friend helped shape my personality to what it is today, even after, a traumatic brain injury. This post examines, first, what it may look like from an athlete’s and […]
A situation that left me with mixed emotions
I was at the grocery store late one night. As I was walking, cane in hand, I came across two teenagers riding past me on electric shopping carts. My initial thought was that the two boys physically disabled. I wondered are those two boys disabled. I assumed they were not because both of them were […]
Introduction
Introduction The optimist sees the opportunities in every difficulty and the pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity. Winston Churchill It may be hard for some to imagine that there was a point in my life when I had no idea what a TBI meant. The diagnosis is Traumatic Brain Injury. This devastating diagnosis is […]
Chapter 1 – My Life Before
Chapter 1 My Life before the That Accident “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” – Atticus Finch, To Kill a Mockingbird I would never have understood my story had I not been walking in […]
Chapter 2 – Diagnoses
Footprints in the Sand One night I dreamed a dream. As I was walking along the beach with my Lord. Across the dark sky flashed scenes from my life. For each scene, I noticed two sets of footprints in the sand, One belonging to me and one to my Lord. After the last scene of […]
Chapter 3 – What My Brother Saw
“Trauma is personal. It does not disappear if it is not validated. When it is ignored or invalidated the silent screams continue internally heard only by one held captive. When someone enters the pain and hears the screams healing can begin.” -Danielle Bemnock “There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper […]
Chapter 5 – A New Normal, Disability?
Chapter 5 A New Normal, Disability? “Disabilities Can Teach Us How to Live” -Richard C. Senelick- “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” ― Mahatma Gandhi My focus this chapter is on disability. I will address three types of disabilities. I shift to one form of impairment […]
Chapter 4 – What My father’s Saw
To resonate is to show empathy in some faculty with the feelings of others. When we meet someone who is joyful, we smile. When we witness someone in pain, we suffer in resonance with his or her suffering -Matthieu Ricard Chapter 4 has been written from my father’s perspective. I want the reader to have […]
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