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Create Your Own Digital Crash Memory
Digital Crash Memories are a wonderful way for us to remember as I will never forget the day my entire life changed in a matter of seconds from being involved in a motor vehicle crash. I like to refer to the day that I survived a crash as my “crashiversary” and when...
Facing Another Hospital Stay As A Crash Survivor
Facing another hospital stay as a crash survivor is difficult to put into words but so important to share. While I was out walking one evening in June, I felt something bite me on my calf but I immediately brushed it off. In Ontario during the summer months, we are...
Needing a Caregiver To Becoming a Caregiver
The last few months have been extra challenging to say the least and even though I tried numerous times to sit down and write this blog, I found myself constantly walking away from my computer after typing a few lines. Nothing prepares you for the moment that your...
Crash Survivor Hopes to Inspire Other Survivors
Lisa Mary is a Crash Survivor, a Singer and a Songwriter who hopes to inspire other survivors. July 7th 2017 was one of the best days of my life, I opened a show for one of my idols Toby Keith. In that same day I released my first album that I poured two years of my...
A Simple Drive Home
A simple drive home changed my life forever. I was newly married; we had brought our first home and we both shared the excitement of our own children in the future. After being involved in an horrific car accident my life was changed forever after a simple drive home...
Travelling Outside of Ontario and What You Should Know
Ontario residents may be ready for some well-deserved vacation time that may take them around the United States and the rest of Canada. One thought many citizens travelling outside of Ontario may not like to think about is getting into an accident while away from...
A Lawyer’s Perspective on Examinations for Discovery
Examinations for Discovery are a necessary and critical step in your injury claim. A good injury lawyer will take the time to explain to you what discoveries are about and why you must go to a discovery. No injured plaintiff should ever walk into a discovery without...
10 Ways To Support a Survivor of a Crash
As a survivor of a crash, our life is unexpectedly turned upside down in a matter of seconds. We will be struggling physically, financially and emotionally. Many survivors of a crash will be trying to find their new normal and it is extremely difficult when we...
Massage Cupping Therapy For My Crash Injuries
As a survivor of a crash, I am excited to share with you how I discovered massage cupping therapy and how much I have benefited from it. From time to time, if I move my right ankle a certain way, or I accidentally bump my achilles tendon which I recently did,...
Is Your Mother Recovering From A Crash On Her Special Day?
It's about that time to start thinking about that special woman in our lives. Whether she is your mother, mother-in-law, step-mother, grandmother or the mother of your children, a mother recovering from a crash can face especially difficult challenges when it...
In The Blink of an Eye My Life was Forever Changed
In a blink of an eye, my life was forever changed due to a crash on April 18, 2018. Today makes exactly a year. I don’t even know exactly what to say. I’m still recovering to this day. I still have permanent nerve damage in my jaw not allowing me to feel my left side...
Determined to Walk Again after Surviving a Crash
We are pleased to introduce you to a man that is determined to walk again after surviving a horrific motor vehicle crash. As an administrator and founder of an online support group, I happily monitor and approve posts on a daily basis. When I say “approve...
Introducing The Crash Support Network
This year, we are excited to celebrate our 3rd year anniversary by launching our very own “new and improved” website, The Crash Support Network. I can’t believe that this month, it will be three years since I first created an Online Support Group for survivors of a...
Attending a Neuropsychological Assessment
Survivors that are struggling cognitively from their motor vehicle crash may be asked to attend a Neuropsychological Assessment. When that day came for me, I received a document outlining the time, date and the length of time I would be attending a...
Second Chance At Life
Second Chance at Life - On Saturday January 4, 2014, I was on my way with my youngest of 6 children (then 5 years old] to pick up two of our daughters from a sleepover. The last sleepover for our oldest who was due to leave for college that next Monday. We...
Survivor Adjusting to Her “New Normal”
Survivor adjusting to her new normal courageously shares here story with us as she was hit head on by another driver who was able to walk away with no injuries. I was airlifted to the nearest trauma center where my husband was told that if I lived, I would no longer...
Faced with Zero Visibility As a Motorist
Yesterday, several motorists faced zero visibility as winter weather wreaked havoc on a major highway stranding numerous drivers caused by a multi-vehicle collision. As any crash survivor, I instantly thought of each motorist who had been faced with “zero...
My Experience Attending Examinations for Discovery
My experience attending Examinations for Discovery is worth a share. "What on earth are Examinations for Discovery" I find myself asking my lawyer. You see, the law firm was calling to set up a convenient time for these examinations to take place. I was the...
Crash Survivor Shares Tips on Attending an Independent Medical Exam
At one point or another throughout your recovery, you will be asked to attend an Independent Medical Exam which is better known as an (IME) or as some of us call it… “an insurance medical exam.” You will find yourself asking the same question I did when I was first...
Feeling Alone as I Struggle
Feeling alone as I struggle was a terrible feeling. So here I am. Fast forward several months after surviving a horrific motor vehicle crash where you can find me attending treatments with my psychologist, attending an outpatient rehabilitation clinic, experiencing...
Visiting Your Crash Site
As I am attending an outpatient rehabilitation clinic twice a week for my physical injuries, I still find myself experiencing re-occurring nightmares and constant flashbacks. I am aware that they were not getting any better, and if anything they were getting worse. ...
Small Steps in my Recovery
Small steps in my recovery was all I could manage. As I became more mobile, I now find myself on a waiting list to attend an outpatient rehabilitation clinic. I am told by numerous medical professionals that I will need more treatment for the multiple injuries I...
The Driver That Caused My Crash Plead Guilty
The driver plead guilty that caused the horrific motor vehicle crash that I was involved in which changed my life forever. Sometime in January, I received a call from the police officer that came to the site of my motor vehicle crash. I would soon learn that this...
Remembering Humboldt
On April 6, 2018, many lives were shattered, so much heartbreak and devastation in the small town of Humboldt, Saskatchewan. The Humboldt Broncos were on their way to a playoff game when their bus was struck by a tractor trailer in Saskatchewan, Canada. The trailer...
