Do you think the people you love come to visit you after they die? This is not about brain injury this week, but it is something on my mind. Almost two years ago, my dad was living in a nursing home. He had pneumonia, was given antibiotics, healed from it, and got it again… Continue reading He Visits Me
Author: dawncorbelli
Take the confusion out of taking medications
So many of us take medications, and they can be hard to keep track of. Let us start by having a pill organizer with compartments needed to store the medications. Because filling them is a difficult task for me to keep track of for Veronica and me, and I have mastered it, I am going… Continue reading Take the confusion out of taking medications
The Doctor’s Office
There are so many things that can be done to make this brain injury life easier. I will start today with Doctor Visits. If you suffer memory loss: Take someone you trust to the doctor appointment with you. If you must go alone, take paper or a notebook, and something to write with, to the… Continue reading The Doctor’s Office
There’s Nothing Mild About It
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
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
Dawn Corbelli 