by Crash Support Network | Jun 14, 2023 | Survivor Story
The way I move through my days now is so incredibly different and yes there is the sacredness and how I love the sacredness of my life now post-accident. My innate ability to appreciate life’s little moments is the epitome of what I would call sacred. But it...
by Crash Support Network | Jun 13, 2023 | Crash Survivor Blog, Survivor Tips
When we are seriously injured in a motor vehicle crash, first responders that arrive at the crash scene immediately assess and address any physical injuries then we could be whisked away to a hospital for weeks and quite possibly months as we face our recovery...
by Crash Support Network | Jun 6, 2023 | Crash Survivor Blog, Survivor Story
I survived a Zombie apocalypse. I used to be such a good little zombie. My car accident happened in 2014 right when my career as a nurse was going full tilt and my husband and I were launching our kids. All of a sudden, I found myself waking up in a seeming...
by Crash Support Network | Jun 4, 2023 | Crash Survivor Blog, Survivor Tips |
Last summer, I met another crash survivor for coffee. She has been a member of the Crash Support Network Group for quite some time and I got lucky. She only lived a few kilometres from me. I cannot begin to tell you what it felt like to sit with someone who...
by Crash Support Network | Mar 14, 2023 | Organizations, Survivor Story
On February 22, 2016, a routine afternoon my beloved husband, father and high school math and science teacher, Tim O’Donnell as well as our 5-year-old daughter Bridget, lost their lives in a horrific car crash caused by a habitual drugged driver. My now...
by Crash Support Network | Feb 21, 2023 | Crash Survivor Blog, Survivor Story
Catastrophic Crash Survivor – Who Are You? I was wrong. Most of you do not know me personally. If you did, that first sentence would be jarring. Wrong is not something I admit often – or at least often enough. It was early in my catastrophic recovery; I...
by Crash Support Network | Dec 13, 2022 | Brain Injury, Organizations, Survivor Story
On August 15, 2011, Greg and I, along with our friend Jimmy, were riding our Harley Davidsons along the scenic section of highway 95, about 60 miles south of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Greg was feeling sick, probably from food poisoning contracted at a diner the...
by Crash Support Network | Dec 13, 2022 | Legal
Traumas and Healing. I’ve known that I wanted to be a lawyer ever since I was a little kid when my friend’s dad told me that he was a lawyer and it meant that he made money by arguing with people. Sign me up, sir. As I grew up that decision was solidified with...
by Crash Support Network | Dec 13, 2022 | Crash Survivor Blog, Survivor Story |
Brain Injury is a Catastrophic Journey And the Piper advanced and the children followed, And when all were in to the very last, The door in the mountainside shut fast. Did I say all? No! One was lame and could not dance the whole of the way; And in after years, if you...