Hey Phil!

Thank you for asking; I am doing well. How you been doing? What's been going on? I haven't been around for a minute,but I'll be back!There's nothing else happening for sure.Hope to hear from you again!

Phil,

I think the little card explaining that you have speech and communications problems is OK.  If people don't know - they don't know.  Women in our culture have learned to be wary of men who seem "different" it's not personal, it's about fear.

Hello Phil!

Thanks for the offer to help , I realized after weeks of frustrating discussions with attorneys that because I missed my deadline, and even though my TBI disability was a factor, there is just no protection legally for our disability.I am just out of luck. It occurred to me that I wanted to do something so it doesn't happen to someone else. I have been following petitions on line and supporting others' causes for years so I decided, instead of just saying, "Oh well..." and "walking" away that I would try to get the statute of limitations changed for others and hopefully educate others about our strength and courage, as TBI survivors.

Thanks Phil...you have been a help.  I am grateful that this blog exists.  Its hard to be on a computer though.  It gets to my head...I am slowly awakening to the realites and extent of changes and loses...I do not know how to get past all the greif that needs to take place.  Life does not stop around me and I cannot keep up.  I do not have help.  I didn't know how bad things were, I knew I had memory problems and fatigue.  My Doctor said he sees my largest poblem at present being PTSD, when he said it I had a gut feeling he was right.  It is what has risen to the top, my last visit it was "dementia due to another general medical condition"  he is not a very nice man, no compassion.  My thearipist went with me this last time (2nd visti).  She saw his arrogance, ect...and the was 10 times nicer with her there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I find when someone goes with me to an appointment, doctors are much nicer....Why is that?  I need a lot of help, due to memory and lack of orginizaiton. I do not know what hunger is anymore or my internal "clock" time get away from me...I'm late all the time.... It occured to me that in part due to things taking me 10-20 times longer than before, I am unable to multitaske, the fatigue of simple task overwhelm me.  I am not able to do 1/10 of what I use to and then oh yeh....I forget....miss appts, ect... There are times when my head is good and I am as rested as I am going to get, I think of all the things I wnat to do and will do and find myself reallizing it is not realistic...as I have done this over and over thinking I can...My relationships seem to be none, some...but friends don't realize...some never knew me before and just think I'm not with it.  My intellect is in tack, yet I can miss simple things.  Although I sometimes cannot comprehend.   It is strange....My family one brohter in particular does not believe I have a problem!!!!!!!!!!!!!!he tells my mom who is almost 91 I do not treat her weill.  I don't.  I am having a lot of family of origan issues coming up.  However, he dosn't treet her well eaither.  I want to be well and help my mom and have good times (shes in another state) but my rage comes out.  I'm a bit better, but I realize I am reacting to a lot of thisngs.  One being she is going to leave me and has been my biggest emotional support all my life and now finacial.  I'm scared and know I cannot do this alone.  I just found out that I belive that asking for health and someone to share my life with feels selfish of me to ask God for.  This is family issues....Good grief...on top of my own inability to work in a career I worke hard for and paid well.  Now no money and my medical needs are more than I can pay for, for vital help I need.  I'm run down, it is Thurs the week wears on me, I have noticed....Thaks for your words....

Hi Phil.

I just found this site and am feeling blessed!  I have been through so much and have pushed myself beyond my limits for almost five years of doctors scratching there heads, refering me to specialist after specialist.  Although I knew from records I had a closed head injury, yet no one told me it was a TBI!  The worst part is that once I found that out it gave me a place to start looking.  I am still in shock, as the fatigue is BEYOND and no one understands.  Only from piecing strang looks, a couple of people saying I looked "crazy", being told I was slurring and I don't drink!  I cannot hear when I am doing it, nor can I see the "crazy" look when I look in the mirror, however one day after being told by my boyfriend I took a picture of mysle with my iPhone and just about died.  I was downloading pictures 100's of them one day and as they quickly flashed by I could see different looks about me.  Sometimes I am glowing with sparkling eyes and then Wham! Pictures of funky eyes, like I'm on something.  I awaken feeling like I cannot go on and no matter how many days I awaken like this, I never feel it will pass. 

Hey Phil! how you doing? To answer your question..I am a retired boxer,due to brain injury and age. Rock climbing seems like a sport to keep up with,what a way to climb higher in life!

Hi Phil, Thanks for being a friend! Sorry your letter go me was lost. Great to see you serve our country! My dad is a vet from Korean war times. I sure hope your recovery is going well. I began writing, playing, and recording music after my TBI. If you'd like to hear some go to my facebook band page .

Hey Phil! Thank you for adding me as friend, have a bless weekend!