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 | 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 | 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...
by Crash Support Network | Dec 11, 2022 | Crash Survivor Blog, Survivor Story |
Last month, I celebrated my Crashiversary. It was a big one. 10 years ago I was driving alone when my life decided to come to an unexpected halt by no fault of my own. I was doing everything right that morning but sadly, the other driver was not. Rear ended at a...
by Crash Support Network | Sep 10, 2022 | Crash Survivor Blog, Survivor Story
Am I a Writer? Who am I? Lately, I’ve been thinking about resiliency. What it means. What it means to me. What makes one person resilient and another less-so. As I thought about this, and other things found down the rabbit hole, I stumbled across my...
by Crash Support Network | Aug 7, 2022 | Crash Survivor Blog, Survivor Tips
As we recover from a motor vehicle crash, a vast majority of us will be given medications while we are in the hospital for various reasons and once discharged, many of us will be given a handful of scripts to fill at the pharmacy as we return home or to a...
by Crash Support Network | Aug 1, 2022 | Crash Survivor Blog
How many of us remember a “365”? Years ago in Canada, a 365 was similar to what they call a learners permit today and when I was 16, I got my 365. It consisted of a written test and if you passed, you were able to drive a car with a licensed driver beside you...
by Crash Support Network | Jun 22, 2022 | Crash Survivor Blog
The Fix They say it takes a village, and never was that truer than when I was preparing to come home. I had declared my intent to return home for Christmas, and I had no idea how much, and how many it would take to move heaven and earth to meet that date. We had a...
by Crash Support Network | May 3, 2022 | Crash Survivor Blog
According to the Association for Safe International Road Travel, approximately 1.35 million people die in road crashes each year across the globe; on average 3,700 people lose their lives every day on the roads and no one can explain the emotional turmoil a...