Veronica has fallen and hit her head several times in her life, as many children do. She fell off the monkey bars at school and landed on her head. Veronica had gone to the nurse’s office because she felt like throwing up, and they sent her back to class. We never even got a call… Continue reading There’s Nothing Mild About It
Author: dawncorbelli
Keeping Hope
Many of my blogs share the hardships and difficulties of living with a brain injury. In this post, I would like to focus on the positive, since concentrating on Veronica’s losses is something I did not do even back then. There was so much positive to me not long after Veronica came out of a… Continue reading Keeping Hope
Do Not “Should” on Me
Someone in a brain injury support group had questions about guardianship, so I shared a bit of our experience, since we have guardianship of Veronica. I added Veronica’s age to my comment. She is 32 years old. Do you ever find other people’s suggestions unwanted or unhelpful? The most recent suggestion I received was, “I… Continue reading Do Not “Should” on Me
Is This Real?
For years Veronica thought she was going to die. “Why plan for the future?” Veronica would say. Even when she got out of the hospital, and she and her boyfriend were together, she didn’t want to take her birth control pills because she wanted to have a baby so she could leave something of herself… Continue reading Is This Real?
Still So Childlike
We were headed to the Grand Canyon in AZ from our home in Colorado Springs, CO. We love driving trips as a family. When driving through farmland and we see cows, we claim the cows. BLBLBLBL 100. We always exaggerate the number we see. Whoever spots the cemetery first, gets all the cows. We talk… Continue reading Still So Childlike
Dawn Corbelli 