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
Author: dawncorbelli
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
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?
Dawn Corbelli 