Screen Time Is Me Time

But is it? Isn’t screen time more like social time? How do you manage screen time for yourself? I don’t have timers or use apps that block surfing or social media. I have a routine instead. Way way back, I used to take one day off from all things digital and computer because my “addiction”…

Lazy or Resting?

“Lazy days” connotes slow summertime, feet propped up, a book in hand. But is it really resting? Do lazy days make you feel rested or unproductive? In the time before brain injury, lazy days felt like a reward for a week filled with study, reports, phone calls, meetings, and meeting expectations and deadlines. They usually…

Dental Health Recovery After Brain Injury

Traumatic brain injury can impair both saliva composition and production, leading to tooth decay. Better cooperation between medicine and dentistry could prevent increased damage.

Universe Hates Me Chronicles

Twitter is Xed. My hot water tank that gushed water was replaced by a Giant-manufacturer-dented tank that the customer service supervisor doesn’t want to replace with an undamaged one since transport companies have a habit of bunging up a tank en route from factory to Toronto and so they can’t get me the energy efficient…

Desired Change?

The Reader completes the Book, Leaves a review. The next Reader picks up the Book, Completes it, too...

Big desire. Impossible ambition. Through blogs, books, and websites. What change, big or small, would you like your blog to make in the world? Change the system of diagnosis and treatment of brain injury from symptom based to objective tests and effective, permanent non-drug, non-surgical treatments. Change standard medical education to recognize concussion, long COVID,…

Health First

My guiding principle in brain injury recovery, heck life, is health above everything else. Without health, especially without treating the neurons, it’s virtually impossible to work, socialize, enjoy things. What strategies do you use to maintain your health and well-being? Following my principle of health first and setting myself up for success, I didn’t try…