by Crash Support Network | Aug 29, 2018 | Crash Survivor Blog
Starting my recovery at home has begun and I am not even sure what day it is anymore but all I know is that I need to wash my hair. Although my hair is quite long, it is draped away from my face and the majority of my hair is now pinned on top of my head and the scent...
by Crash Support Network | Aug 24, 2018 | Survivor Story
Devastating & Invisible. I was like you once — living a full life, enjoying dinners with friends, laughing at my pets’ antics, helping out and being helped by family, beavering away at my goals, dreaming of more. And then two drivers behind the car I...
by Crash Support Network | Aug 17, 2018 | Medical Treatments
Following a car accident, with or without loss of consciousness, it is not uncommon for victims to suffer from either a short term or long term headache. Headaches can be classified into two main categories: Primary and Secondary. A primary headache are headaches...
by Crash Support Network | Jul 16, 2018 | Crash Survivor Blog
My journey home to recover from my crash was very challenging. After spending my first night in the hospital, I am now being told that I was rear-ended and pushed into a transport truck. Why can’t I remember anything? How did this happen to me? I am such a good...
by Crash Support Network | Jun 24, 2018 | Crash Survivor Blog
The day of impact was life-changing. About a year after my motor vehicle collision someone asked me “why don’t you blog about your crash?” I thought this was such an odd thing to say to me. I was recovering trying to put my life back together so why on earth would I...
by Crash Support Network | Jun 4, 2018 | Driving, Legal
Are you ready for summer with gorgeous, sunny days behind the wheel? Who can blame you. After months of frigid white knuckle commutes, everyone is ready for the sun. But are you really ready for those sunshine roads? Most Canadians would be shocked to discover that...
by Crash Support Network | Jun 4, 2018 | Brain Injury, Support Groups, Survivor Tips
As if facing a life time with a brain injury isn’t enough, you become more likely to have other accidents. Everyone will have accidents, that’s just being human. But brain injury survivors are at higher risk of injuring themselves. Yesterday I did another one, that...
by Crash Support Network | Jun 4, 2018 | Survivor Story
The way it was and the way it is now. I am a car accident survivor and my life changed on October 24, 2008. I was on my way to work when I was T-boned by a dump truck. That was the day my life changed and my path would never be the same. Before the car accident I...
by Crash Support Network | Jun 4, 2018 | Medical Treatments, Survivor Tips
Since pain is subjective- each person ‘owns their own pain’ and has learned to use that word through their OWN experiences (injury, disease, condition). An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage or described in...