Grace filled Tragedy

The last 20 years have brought me many things.

Perspective.

Maturity.

Growth.

Adoration.

Humility.

Belief.

Wisdom.

Thankfulness.

These 20 years have been very difficult for me.

Learning how to walk.

Training myself to write.

Reteaching my brain how to coerce with others.

Keeping my emotions intact during my ups and downs.

But throughout these 20 years I have earned 

Grace.

Patience.

Gratefulness.

Friendship.

So I guess troubling times can turn into a blessing.

I never asked for this long, difficult walk.

I don't think that anyone ever really does.

I'm appreciative of my supportive family.

My wonderful Friends

Anyone that has helped me throughout these last 20 years.

I know it's been a long time

but I feel like August 8, 1991

was just like yesterday.

Thankful.

Blessed.

Wanting more.

 

Tougher than anyone can interpret

After the injury, thoughts like fireflies in the night flashed my conscience, but mostly alluded capture. At times, I felt surrounded by a void in which thoughts would birth and die so fast I could not hold on to them. The trace they left unsettled me and sent my brain into a flurry to try to recapture them, resulting in neurological distress and an enormous amount of frustration, which often led to outbursts of tears and sobbing. It took many sessions of cognitive remediation and the learning and practicing of compensatory techniques to be able to retain thoughts long enough to process, organize, and articulate them. I feel original again. Like I'm myself.

 Markhbein 1991