If you're reading through my musings here and haven't yet picked it up, there is one fundamental thing I hope you take away from this blog. It is this: as a recoverer, it's your decision to recover or not to recover from your brain injury!
A brain injury can give you a hell of a kicking! And it will be a kicking the an effect of which others can only guess at. My TBI certainly did. This is me, almost seven years ago.
I stayed in roughly that condition for a long time, too. This photo is taken approximately one month on from my accident.
Yet, do we have it within ourselves to choose to recover? I cannot talk with confidence about what pulls us through when life hangs in the balance. Once we're through that stage, though, I hope all of us recoverers believe absolutely, it is our choice to recover. I've dedicated these last seven years of my life to proving this is so.
Five years on from my accident, I finished an Ironman triathlon, a goal I'd had from well before it.
Last month, I graduated with a Master of Arts from Victoria University of Wellington after writing, having written an 80,000+ word thesis to complete it.
I believe it is up to us to choose to recover. I hope you will join me in making that choice and that the posts on this blog will help you for it.
Cheers,
Mike
