A Nurse's Experiences with a Traumatic Brain Injury

This post is all about the eyes.  The windows to our souls.  More importantly, I want to discuss an often overlooked issue with recovering traumatic brain injury victims-visual impairments.  I can best highlight the issues based on what I have been dealing with the past 11 months since starting vision therapy.  When I was evaluated by my physical therapist a year ago, I had no idea that my impairments that caused horrible headaches, sensitivity to light/sound, and ability to read in a straight line had to do with my visual system.  I couldn't track very well either and didn't know that.  Why?  I had been in the hospital following my accident and yet, no one saw these issues with my eyes and visual processing system.  My thoughts were that maybe the impairments hadn't set in a week after my accident.  Who knows?  I NEVER thought it would take this much work to get back on track visually.  What makes matters even worse is th...

Well, it’s my 10 th month update and boy have I been busier than normal.   I guess it’s good but it can also be really bad too.   Having injuries to multiple sections of my brain impedes my judgment a lot of the time.   For instance, I know I need to budget my time and energy wisely, so I am detailed in planning my activities.   Last weekend I was a part of a wedding; well I was one of the wedding singers.   The wedding was to start at 6 pm but the party was asked to be at the church by 5pm.   This was not really an unreasonable request being that I like being early to events to get a good seat, figure out what I’m supposed to be doing, and take the edge of anxiety off.   I arrived on time at 5pm as requested.   Next I went inside and greeted the other singers of the group, and waited and waited for the ceremony to start.   Heaven only knows what was going on behind the scenes with the bride and groom because the wedding didn’t start un...