Just when you think you have have it made, a brain injury tells you different. Wow! I sure wish there was a TBI manual to help you see where you are on the road to full recovery.
Allie totalled out her car on Saturday - she is OK. She was driving on the same road as her first accident only about twelve mile in the other direction when she hydroplaned around a curve, spun out and hit a vehicle parked on the other side of the road. She was shook up - I was pissed. At first your emotions are how the hell could you be so careless, then you realize how this cahnges things again, then you are angry for a few days and then you look in her eyes and try to understand her emotionless responses and you see the injury still buried deep inside of her and you think about how bad you suck to have gotten angry.
Although she is up and functioning, the injury is so real and so fresh and you understand so little and then you wonder, what else can I do or what should I have been doing all along? Allie is among the walking wounded. She is a high functioning brain injury and that places her as one of the lost children. To high functioning for a rehab facility or school but not functioning well enough to have her own place or a job or the ability to take care of herself.
The worst part is the continual breaking of our hearts. We need help for her but it is not available - yet. We will find it and she will continue to grow and we will continue to love her and get stronger.
An exasperated - damn.
Allie's Dad - Full Recovery - Never a Doubt; This too shall pass; God's delay is not God's denial
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Steve- it's weird, something told me to check the site. And Mark said he checked it over the weekend. You must be out of your mind over the accident.
There's got to be some help for Allie. Around here they have The Statewide Head Injury Program through Mass Rehab. Most states have something like that. I know of a college that has a program for brain injured students. It's only part time though.
Allie sounds like she's alot like Hannah Amundson is. High functioning but still needs alot of supports. Her accident happened not long before she graduated high school and now she goes to college and lives there.
She has a caringbridge site under Hannah Amundson. Check it out.
The link is: www.caringbridge.com/visit/hannahpedersonamundson
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