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Living With A Brain Injury

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  • Suicide is real.

    After hearing what happened to me I’d be lying if I said I understood it all. All I knew was that I’d be fine in a few days. However, those days turned to weeks and those weeks turned to months. I had no idea and as fragmented as my mind was while in the ICU; Continue reading

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  • Stroke 101

    So I’m sure the word “Stroke” has been thrown around a lot and all I remember saying was “I thought that only happened to older people ” I found out the hard way…it doesn’t! and little did I know it would change so much of my daily life. So let’s start out with “what is Continue reading

  • AVM awareness 

    So when I went to the doctor and was told I had an AVM I had no clue what it was but I was about to find out.   AVM stands for- arteriovenous malformation. It is an abnormal tangle of blood vessels that causes problems with the connections between your arteries and veins.  An AVM Continue reading

  • My 2 year strokeiversary

    Here I am 2 years later as a stroke survivor. At the time I didn’t realize how a split second changed my life until the moment it happened. How a second has made me work for years to get back the life I had and the work hasn’t stopped yet.  While it has had an Continue reading

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  • Day by day 

    So 3 days a week I began therapy sessions and I slowly built my sessions to starting at 8am. Each day was different to keep my body (and brain) guessing. My sessions all focused on three of the following: speech, occupational, and physical.  Speech sounded like a walk in the park but it was a Continue reading

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  • Slowly but surely

    As time went on I understood what the power of a positive mindset could do. I stopped looking at all of therapies as tasks and approached them with goals. My main goal was to walk without assistance again. I went from walking with my own two feet to a wheelchair literally over night & that Continue reading

  • That long road 

    I definitely was tired but more so mentally not physically. I mean It felt like my body was on autopilot and I just thought what was the purpose because I saw no progress. I literally did therapy and just went home because I didn’t want to do anything else. I was tired of putting in Continue reading

  • Back to our regularly scheduled program

    So here we are at like the beginning of February and the days I was in the hospital were running together. But my time in ICU was finally coming to an end and I couldn’t wait to get home (or at least I thought). After my time in ICU they transferred me to the stroke Continue reading

About Me

I am from the south side of Chicago near the englewood area. Many things were instilled in me and one thing I remember being told was to take care of myself. As I got older I strayed away from that but the past year has taught me so much in taking care of yourself mind, body,and spirit.

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