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Order and Disorder – Guest Post Andrew Lawlor
Order and Disorder. I’m not really a science guy… I have several high school teachers who would attest to that fact. Lately though, I’ve been reading about quantum physics, and have been intrigued by the concepts of randomness and entropy. Entropy is a...
How Are You Doing With Your Brain Injury?
“How Are You Doing With Your Brain Injury?” In my head “Well, I’m better than I was 9 years ago but way worse than 10 years ago. I had a headache yesterday because I did too much, but also had a headache the day before and did almost nothing. The seasonal...
I Don’t Remember Anything About You
An open letter to the person who hit my car. Dear Matthew, My name is @braininjurywise and I was the one whose car you hit 9 years ago today. I don’t remember anything about you only that you were driving a Honda Civic, and you offered that you could call your wife so...
Preparing For Discharge From a Trauma Hospital
You may have mixed emotions when you are told that you are being discharged from a trauma hospital. You may feel ill-prepared and anxious to start the next phase of your rehabilitation and recovery. You will be unsure about your future and it's important that you...
11 Years Recovering – Things I Wish I Knew
11 Years. Where has that time gone? On Monday, it will be 11 years for me. My 11th Crashiversary. The day I was in a horrific life-changing motor vehicle crash caused by a distracted driver. Rear-ended by an SUV travelling at a high rate of speed and pushed into...
What Do You Say to a Crash Survivor Recovering?
Hundreds of thousands of motor vehicle crashes happen every day across the world and when your loved one, colleague or friend has been in a motor vehicle crash, it may be difficult to know what know what to say to them. Motor vehicle crashes can be...
Crash Survivor Does Not Consider Herself a Write-Off
A tax write-off as I understand it is a tax deduction, or any legitimate expense that can be subtracted from your taxable income. I have heard of rich people “writing it off” when referring to dinners on company time or real estate used to conduct business. I never...
Crash Survivor Creates Sandal Blue Foundation
We’d finally made it. After 16 years of marriage, 5 kids in 6 years (including 2 sets of twins), health challenges galore, financial hardship… life. For the first time we finally felt like things were at that ‘point’ that we’d always wanted to get to. During COVID...
Time to Celebrate the Special Men in Our Lives
June is not only when we observe Father’s Day, but also Men’s Health Month. Family is important to recovery and spending some quality time together at home can be healthy, especially when a crash survivor is concerned about their future. Whether he is your...
Finding Sacredness of Life After Surviving a Catastrophic Crash
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...
12 Important Items to Bring to the Hospital
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...
Crash Survivor Compares Dealing with Insurance to Surviving a Zombie Apocalypse
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...
Don’t Creep Facebook
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...
How Grief Led A Victim to Become The Unintended Activist
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...
Catastrophic Crash Survivor – Can I Ask You a Question?
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 was...
Woman Creates Caregiver Support Group to Help Herself and Others
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...
Traumas and Healing Inspires Woman to Open Her Own Law Firm
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...
Moving on From Traumatic Brain Injury – A Catastrophic Journey
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...
A Decade of Healing From a Life Changing Crash
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...
Management of an Acute Injury After a Crash
Why is this different than any other type of injury? At some point in our lives, many of us will be injured – an unexpected accident. An injury. We stepped off a curb or lunged for a tennis ball and sprained our ankle; We fell - and broke a bone; We were...
Catastrophic Motorcycle Crash Survivor Will Always Be a Writer
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...
What Happens if Your Uber Gets Into a Crash?
A vast majority of crash survivors will find themselves suddenly looking for other means of transportation as they recover. Countless survivors may no longer feel comfortable behind the wheel and many are not physically able to drive anymore. How Does Uber Work?...
Woman Creates Podcast After Near Fatal Crash
With this type of injury, you're looking at nine to twelve months of recovery.” I heard the words coming from the mouth of the attending surgeon at Roanoke Memorial Hospital but it didn't register completely. “Sure, Doc I'm ready, but can you save the...
Always Check Your Medications!
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...