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I believe it is common of all humans to take things for granted, as well as to think things cannot happen to us. For instance, my accident i was 24 and invincible and wouldn’t ever die i thought. However, September 12th 2015 i was proven wrong, things took a drastic turn for the worse late 2015. That was when i learned to not to take walking for granted, or even talking or writing for granted as well as any relationships for granted as well. Y’all, at the time of my accident

There is no way you're going to cut this one that things are black and white, there are lots of gray areas here, mostly gray area here. Therefore, it's always best to remain steady and true in course through life after a traumatic brain injury. that means course of travel through life, stay navigating through life on true and steady course, don't get caught off guard and find and see false horizons or spatial disorientation along the way. Don't get to disoriented along the wa

Alrighty y'all, I've been going on some of the injury groups I am in on Facebook, getting some answers off of there to answer here on my website as well other places. Here are some facts about Traumatic Brain Injuries that comes right from Clevland Clinic. org -Mild TBI 1)Physical symptoms: vomiting, nausea, dizziness, balance problems, headaches, light sensitivity, fatigue, blurred vision. 2) Thinking or Memory Problems: confusion, trouble concentrating, difficulty thinking

TBI’s, making relationships with family members hard at times, as well as throws things off for awhile because some of them think the way you were at unproud phases are the you you like to be when it is not. See after my TBI, i went through some changes back and shifting around to find my natural normal self as an adult. To me didn’t seem fair, I shouldn’t be able to contiue growing only because had a TBI, my accident already was going to take enough from me. I knew i should

This happens to be some thing i have really battled and battled often, especially after two traumatic brain injuries. First traumatic brain injury was a mild TBi late 2013, i hit my head on the arena dirt at our house and hid from my parents. At the time and really even for yeas after my traumatic brain injury number two had a problem saying had a brain injury or being seen as having brain injury. Sometimes, my brain injury’s have made me feel uncomfortable and weird with nor

Alrighty, i deal with full on anxiety and anxiety to full tilt at times. One common worry I always have is waking up the following morning, I always worry about something happening to me when I am sleeping. The is a severe worry, I daily God wakes me and my mom the following morning and thank him for waking us both that day. Also anxious worry’s, will i live up to what my parent provided the opportunities for me to of, and will they be proud at the end of my life. Also will G

Y'all, in my book when I say that guy wanted me to ride horses was mis print, it meant to be saying he wanted me to have a practice horse of my own to turn him steers for him to break young horses in on. Clearing that up, as well as two of the guys mentioned used to like heel for was because overheard one of them talking about how on fire lights out, I had been telling a guy I was about to rope with. I roped with them on occasion yes, but not as frequently as some others rope

Now anyone who has seen my Facebook, may see my sobriety was over a month after ibogaine treatment. Well, yes some of that was decompressing coming back, which was not drinking was only decompressing times. Later, begin to drink a couple of times but not a mass amount hose times and quit for September 15th, 2024, and haven't touched since. November 13th, 2025, I quit nicotine vape; I did that for my eyes, and to not piss my life down the drain. My life was going nowhere good

Yall, I will say when pain radiates happens to be one of the most painful feelings, and I don’t always talk about this because this happens to a really uncomfortable thing to talk about. Especially pelvis pain, I am really struggling with this a lot; Hurts so much, makes thinking hard at times today even. However I was able to have a completely there conversation and be completely there for the breakfast with Mike Q my former physical therapist turned friend. I am completely

Fighting to live up to the life, God allowed for me to live by all the blessing he gave to me as well as second chances he gave me. I for certain do not want to be a let down to God, or make him feel like I’m not dragging my own weight. This has been a hard battle, as well as having a life Christ is proud of; which for certain at times I have not lived life as Christ being proud of me even being on my mind. I will admit, for years back I used to think when I was a child and o

I often times ask myself this one and here it goes. goes for one, being 34 unmarried with no kids and focusing mostly on getting my career started, as well as getting relationships back but having serious relationships. Not one-night stands or two nights stands or not serious relationships. About a serious quality relationship, not like doing before, but that was doe to mental place was in as well as accident. Also hard to think, how does he love me when I made all the mistak

Well, to anyone who has set out on the Spinal Cord Injury recovery journey and/or the Traumatic Brain Injury recovery journey knows how brutal this journey gets at times. Sometimes its all one can do to keep composed and press on into the next day. To much distractions, oftentimes from what one of the injury’s took away and had me missing out on, it was hard pressing on some days. The hardest part of recovery one of them if greif over what is lost, what can no longer do, what

Daily TBI battles are many, one of them happens to be feeling people are thinking the worse and doing worse to my life. As well feeling certain people set out to destroy my life; y'all those were all delusional crazy thoughts I was having there for a while. I feel like I have been pushed to brink of sanity box before but broke at times. I came back though, came back in a big way. See y'all 2024 I was straight out of my mind, I am extremely glad to be here and now and away fro

Y’all, this happens to be much in due to my drinking in the past. Until reaching sobriety, many times shot my own foot off; sank my own boat as well. It was not pleasant at all. To many times, i did this all to repeat the same mistake over and over. Or i would circle back to same crowd over and over. Whatever it may be, i was doing things that were not productive and benefitting my future many times. Now, looking in the mirror and saying i need to quit this toxic behavior and

This happens to be a hundred percent true for me, with sobriety; also at a lighter size as well, as well as not making bad choices, I am also not going around having to apologize for the night before behavior. Sobriety, really has brought lots of security, because it lets me know one people like me sober; clear minded and with the program more than drunk me in out of my mind states. What i mean by out of my mind states; were i used to get pretty wild and out of control. Somet

Now, yall many times throughout i have fallen complacent in what doing, or driving forward, or fall stagnet. Those are the times; in which its vital to find something to drag me out. Whether it be, change of pace, of it be adding something else to motivational/inspirational stuff. I am going to begin doing with other people as well; getting stories from their experience as well as what helped them cope. This will be put into my writings as well in future books. This will open

The world through opaque lenses can get quite hard and complex at times. It feels as if and felt as if at times I was working with things I couldn't necessarily see. Mind you, obviously I became accustomed with this after all my injuries and recovering from things could not see with eyes. But y'all, this really all started late 2013 and the beginning of 2014 after Traumatic Brain Injury number one, I then thought that people from my past were trying to prevent me from living

Oftentimes, throughout my life some of the darkest corners found myself trapped in, were often self inflicted. Oftentimes they were, really either traveling backwards to the other direction where I did not want to go. Or, it many of the times was because I was then falling back on old vices to help cope. These were before healthy coping mechanisms. Where this begins the worst happens to be with snowballing thinking thoughts, a snowball type of thinking and letting my thoughts

Alrighty y'all, I really care about living and building a great quality life down here on the footstool of the Lord. But I also care about building a good life for eternity with God, my family and friends as well as other lovely Heavenly dwellers in Heaven where streets are Gold and that's where the true riches are. The home I am building in Heaven I want to be a really nice, I care about building a good life here on earth as well as up in Heaven. Within these next couple yea

Now, y'all here is something I have become all to accustomed to doing over the years. Many times, happens to be because I do in fact do have a big heart, a soft side and can be a bit sensitive. Obviously, throughout the years this has caused some problems and additional pain to me. Pain, in which I was hurt bad enough by to learn ways around not getting hurt like that again. Now, mind you I cannot prevent those types of things from happening again, but I can control my emotio