E-Rehab. I’d never heard of it before this week, yet it makes so much sense. At last, I thought, two people in the health care community are acting on the fact that those with brain injuries need lifelong support around things like scheduling and organizing, long after they’ve left rehab and active treatment. Although I…
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Attention, Attention, We’re Talking Attention and Traumatic Brain Injury
OK folks, pay attention, it’s attention lesson time. I know, I know you go through life not having to worry about such a thing, unless you have ADD or a screaming baby. But when life smacks you across the head, ringing your brain, it becomes über important to you and those around you because it’s…
Ruminating on Script Frenzy Fundraising
Well, I’ll never do that again (though one should never say never, haha). I ain’t fundraising again. It rather reminded me of when I delivered the afternoon Toronto Star as a 13/14 year old. I wanted to earn enough money to buy new clothes for high school and to travel to England to visit relatives.…
I won Script Frenzy! The Lifeliner Screenplay is Done!
I won! Script Frenzy is over!! Well, at least for me. Officially, two more full days are left plus whatever is left of today. I find it hard to believe that I both finished my screenplay for Lifeliner and met the 100-page goal. When I began, I wondered if I’d be able to survive the…
Scriptwriting Adventures: Writing a Screenplay for Script Frenzy
I am 17 pages from reaching the Script Frenzy goal of 100 pages. I read in Lew Hunter’s Screenwriting 434 (a book I bought when writing Lifeliner) that the maximum a dramatic screenplay can be is 110 pages. So I have about 10 pages to swim with if I go overboard. I knew it was…
A Big Script Frenzy Thank You to my Sponsors
There’s nothing sweeter than an unexpected package in the mail other than an unexpected pledge after several dry days! As you may know, I’m writing an adaptation of Lifeliner during the month of April for Script Frenzy. It’s a challenge to write a 100-page screenplay in only 30 days, but to up the ante, I…
Walk-A-Thonners Do It, So can Script Frenzy Scriptwriters!
Only three days until April 1st, Script Frenzy start day! Oh. You thought I was going to say April Fools Day? Well, we Frenziers must be fools to sign up for this writing marathon! But I wasn’t content to just be a fool for writing. Oh no, I’m fundraising too. It all began when I…
The Continuing Medical Insanity of Brain Injury
You know, it’s a good thing I grew up in a medical family, learnt how to do research and search through libraries from a young age on, studied hormones from age 11 until, I think, 22 (through sex ed, biology, sciences), and took a one-year physiology course at the University of Toronto, else I may…
Anger Provides a New Opportunity
I got a call. Would you like to join an expert panel on creating a training manual for anger management of people with brain injury? Uhhhh…. Good question. Did I want to take this road, of becoming involved in the brain injury community? So far, I’ve joined a social group as one of those hang-around…