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“Finding the right job for me was like looking for a needle in a haystack.”
“I’ve already been to hell!”
Tests revealed something was wrong. Scary words filled a report with my name on it: Memory, low average. Executive functioning, low average. Verbal fluency, reduced ability. Impairment. Below expectation. Below average.
They were all ways of saying I was brain damaged.
At work, I got taken off the air. The thing I was great at was gone.
“Kim’s work is characterised by misuse of vocabulary, unclear grammar, difficulties with logic and structure, lack of sentence cohesion,” is something mentioned in a later report.
report and picture (below) from https://www.facebook.com/livingwithheadinjury/
https://www.facebook.com/journowriter/
and
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/…/most-read-story-dear-israel-folau-…
I spent my late 20s and early 30s learning how to talk and write again. It spanned years.
I had tests using what looked like children’s picture books, and failed.
One of the puzzles Kim Baker Wilson was given while re-learning to speak and write.
I had to learn to say 10 vegetables, or 10 things starting with…
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Undiagnosed brain/head injury
Help for Undiagnosed Brain Injury | BrainLine
and
Traumatic Brain Injury Signs and Symptoms | BrainLine
from Google searches (thanks for rescuing me from “sheer utter chaos”, Big G!
* (and by that I’m referring to both God and Google, but probably far more the first)
see
https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=%22undiagnosed+brain+injury%22&rlz=1C1PRFI_enNZ782NZ782&oq=%22undiagnosed+brain+injury%22&aqs=chrome..69i57.75529j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
and
https://www.google.co.nz/search?rlz=1C1PRFI_enNZ782NZ782&ei=AtzWWtqRHMT10gSHrKOgAg&q=undiagnosed+head+injury+craig+lock&oq=undiagnosed+head+injury+craig+lock&gs_l=psy-ab.3..33i160k1l2.8308.8308.0.8620.1.1.0.0.0.0.275.275.2-1.1.0….0…1c.1.64.psy-ab..0.1.274….0.ijg1mJDKH-c
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http://tbihopeandinspiration.com/April2018.pdf
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http://www.headbraininjury.wordpress.com
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“Head injuries are all different, often markedly so. If you have a head injury you will live with that head injury all the time and the only person who knows and understands your head injury is you…”
“Head injuries are all different, often markedly so. If you have a head injury you will live with that head injury all the time and the only person who knows and understands your head injury is you. So called head injury experts will never understand a head injury unless they have head one. Yes they can help, but when it comes to living with your head injury you are the expert and can feel superior to any doctor..”
– Philip Watling
Well-expressed, Philip
from
https://traumaticbraininjurytbi.wordpress.com/…/comment-p…/…
and
https://headbraininjury.wordpress.com/…/we-know…/
see Philip’s inspiring book Flight of a Lifetime
“Sharing, supporting, informing, enlightening, “entertaining”(??), encouraging, empowering, enriching, challenging, igniting, uplifting (and perhaps even) inspiring”
enough there for now, c!
“We share what we know, so that we all may grow.”
“Knowledge is the gateway to understanding…and understanding is the gateway to a better life.”
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“We know ourselves best, living with the cognitive effects (daily). Health professionals may guide, but you are best placed to develop strategies that help us cope most effectively (to combat deficits).”
“We know ourselves best, living with the cognitive effects (daily). Health professionals may guide, but you are best placed to develop strategies that help us cope most effectively (to combat deficits).”
Thanks, m #
from http://www.headbraininjury.wordpress.com
http://www.craigsquotes.wordpress.com
and
www.facebook.com/livingwithheadinjury/
#
https://thenurseanewbook.wordpress.com
and
https://anoneextraordinarylife.wordpress.com/
and my friend’s blog at http://www.brainheadinjury.wordpresss.com
“Sharing, supporting, informing, enlightening, “entertaining”(??), encouraging, empowering, enriching, challenging, igniting, uplifting (and perhaps even) inspiring”
enough there for now, c!
