When you are communicating on the survivor network you are completely safe and your identity protected. No on has access you your personal information. We hold as the highest priority keeping the identity and emails of our member totally confidential. Some member may want to communicate out side of our network which is great but be safe and smart about it. Here are some tips and things to be aware of.



1. When communicating outside of… Continue

I was 15 at the time of the accident. I had run away from home trying to escape the alcoholism and confusion. It is difficult for me to recall the days before, and the year or so after. I was in the back of a small truck when it rolled on a highway in central Utah. Some how I managed to get my hands between the cab and bed of the truck, and I actually rode it out. In the report they determent we rolled over 6 times before coming to a stop. I did not know the people I was riding… Continue

The other night we had a chat night and there was a lady who was trying to promote another site which most of us have already been part of, not that it is a bad site but she made our site feel like less of a site, this is the best site in the world, a member complained about the lady trying to have our members go to that site and the administration removed her, we need rules for our chat night so people don't take over the chat room like she did,



thank you survivor network for… Continue

I take medication to wake-up, to stay awake and to go asleep. If I miss one, ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE! and it then takes me a couple of days to get things back into the balance.

This a.m. I forgot my meds and now I feel my day is shot. How can such a small thing ruin my day? How can I sleep for over 16 hours? How am I going to sleep tonight?

I have a good system for tracking my meds, I just forgot. Is that allowed anymore? Now I sit here beating myself up for…

Continue

Live before you die. We can relate to death but we are all alive to be voices to save little minds that do not know yet.

This coming September will be the 25th year since my intial tbi. I know a lot of you are reading this and thinking man this guy is "old". Well, you're right! I was 20 years old when a drunk driver, my "friend", drove through a stop sign and underneath a Semi-Truck trailer. I was the only injury.

It took me three years of rehab to learn to speak w/o slurring my speech, to learn how to walk again as the left side of my body was paralized. I still am unable to use my left hand…

Continue

I watched my seven year old Sons' baseball practice last evening. I am so proud of him yet also a bit saddened as I know just playing catch with him is a struggle for me. This is NOT a "pity party post". I still can and do play catch with him, just not in the same manner as I once could have.

On the other side of the coin, I have been able to teach him empathy, respect and have taught him not only to accept everyone but also to look out for those not as fortunate as us. I've…

Continue

The Title is a question I ask myself from time to time. I'm sure anyone reading this has asked the same.

I can answer the how portion but it really is the why portion I have more interest in.

I know there HAS to be a reason. I think finding the answer, is part of my healing process.

I also know that I'm the only one who can find that answer.

Where do I start?

How do I begin to find an answer larger than…

Continue

My Bathroom looks like I remeber my Grandmothers looked like as a child...pill bottles everywhere. Two anti-convulsants for siezures. Ritilin to keep me focused and to help with my concentration. An anti-depressent and Meletonin to help me sleep.

How have I gone from zero (0) pills a day to eight (8) a day?

At this point I'm trusting my Doctors but I'm going to have to speak with them at some point because I'm pretty sure this medical cocktail…

Continue

I'm sitting here thinking, "Why can't I sleep!!!" I'm tired yet here I am with a million thoughts running through my head making it impossible to sleep.

The ringing in my ears drives me crazy at night.

All of my thoughts of the things I have to do tomorrow stress me out.

I don't even know why. How hard is it to mow the lawn? Clean the house? Toss in a load of laundry?

How have I let small mundane tasks consume my…

Continue

Staying Positive is one of the toughest things I struggle with but I have attempted to make it my daily priorty.

Sure I have days when I would much rather crawl up into a fetal position and bury myself under the covers...but what is that going to accomplish? On those days, I just get up, write in my journal, shut my notebook and shut those feelings away. Then I go about my day just happy to be alive.

I've read so many posts here about how the poster wished they…

Continue

Hi Friends,

I hope you are all doing well and that you are having a nice weekend. I am doing well. Doing the footwork and trusting the process -- one day at a time.



Last week, during the online chat I was asked if I have posted a link to my web log on my page on the TBI Survivors Network. I told the person who asked me, that I did not have a specific link to Second Chance to Live on my page at the TBI Survivors Network.



Because I… Continue

I have put new information on both Catmeow Traumatic Brain Injury Blogs http://www.catmeowbraininjury.blogspot.com http://www.braininjury2.blogspot.com











There are no two Brain Injury the same, we all have different… Continue