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Thanksgiving Can Be Overwhelming
Thanksgiving can be an overwhelming time for crash survivors as they are distracted by an unexpected life change and the constant worry about their health and finances often hide in the background while they try their best to enjoy family time. It can be a real...
NextSteps Is A Free Online Program
NextSteps is a free online program that many members of our Crash Support Network Group have benefited from. As written on their website, NextSteps is based on the principles of self-management. The self-management approach to health recognizes that YOU play the most...
Supportive and Inspirational Conversations From Crash Survivors
Many supportive and inspirational conversations take place in our online support group on a daily basis. What started out as a place to find solace has turned into quite a forum with 1200 + members. Recently a courageous member of our online support group posted her...
The Secret to Recover From a Crash
The secret to recover from a crash is surviving it in any way you can. Now I know what you may be thinking, “Really? Is this the advice you’re giving me?” My answer is yes! Here’s the thing, just like your motor vehicle crash itself, it’s unpredictable. It’s never...
It’s Important to Seek Rehabilitation Therapy After a Crash
It's important to seek rehabilitation therapy after a crash because being involved in a motor vehicle collision can be a devastating and sometimes life altering event. There are many concerns and questions that a motor vehicle collision survivor will typically have...
So Grateful For Our Online Support Group
Members of our online support group may have some busy days ahead of them as we enter the fall season. September has a back-to-school vibe that’s hard to shake. This tends to be true even if it’s been many years since you were a student and even if you...
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...
