If humans had taglines, what would yours be? Getting to know me, would be my tagline, I think. For myself to get to know myself, and others who knew me before brain injury and those only after to know the real me. Brain injury changed me drastically. For the non-ostriches, the changes rocked them. As…
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Remembering, Believing Compassion In Tough Times
What quality do you value most in a friend? The title is the quality I value most. Until my brain injury, I believed I had friends who’d be there in sickness not just health. Until the Y2K car crash, I didn’t think about how important it is to remember the person that was before sickness…
Life Before the Internet
Do you remember life before the internet? I do remember life before the internet, but I was an early adopter, so that was a loooong time ago. I used my father’s University of Toronto email account to email an American friend until torfree.net came on the scene. Then someone, I forget who, got in touch…
Broken A Bone, Broken A Brain
Have you ever broken a bone? Perhaps my broken bone foresighted my broken brain. Not the break itself but the response to it. A child. Springtime. Judo after school. Went up the belts rapidly. Orange belt. After school play with friends. Energetic. In dresses and tights. No thought of breaking anything in myself. But then,…
CO2 Monitors and Air Quality Sensors: The Alarming Truth They Reveal
The sky is blue; the trees lime green in their early leafing. The sun’s light punches the clear air. Knowledge from reading tells you the city air is cleaner than it’s ever been, that Ohio is the biggest source of pollution, that neighbouring states and Ontario have been fighting them to improve, and that they…
Climate Action in Toronto: Misdirecting Directions
What gives you direction in life? I follow opportunities. When they come, I assess but also go with my gut. For decades, I’ve been rowing towards full healing of my brain. I’ve given up, let my hands rest on the oars, then get going again. I’ve been sidelined or focused on things important to me…
A Quote For Life
Do you have a quote you live your life by or think of often? The internet heaves with quotes, quotes to inspire, to guide one’s life by, to feel better and cheer up with. Characters in books, depending on the book, quote great writers or snippets from the Bible that have become common lexicon. But…
AVE For Energy: Lifting Brain Injury’s Suffocating Fatigue
I’ve been using SMR/Beta audiovisual entrainment (AVE) session most mornings for a very long time. Clinical experience and research showed this session has a paradoxical relaxation effect on people with brain injury, not just boosting my brain function. And years ago, with my original DAVID Delight device, I discovered beta 18Hz sparked my thinking back…
Learning Is Forever
Describe a decision you made in the past that helped you learn or grow. As I read this prompt, I immediately thought of the day I decided to call the ADD Centre and said “yes” to attending there for their expensive assessment and treatment program. Their program was outside any kind of medicine that I…