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Category Archives: Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)

humbled by the number of people

I am humbled by the number of people who are reading my blog.  I didn’t think that our life was interesting. I dropped some stuff off for David today.  He saw us while he was walking and even pointed at the van as if to say “hey, that looks like our van”.  But by the time I got to where he was, he had disappeared.  Not sure what that was about. Back to yesterday when we admitted him to the facility. I think that the hardest part of the whole thing was the complete lack of affect.  He was interested in two things.  Food and bed. That said, he did have a good first night there. In honesty, I wonder how long it will take for me to sleep at night instead of during the daytime? Ah well, thank you everyone for the positive comments, the prayers and even the

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I feel like I am missing a piece of myself

We admitted David today.  No emotion from him.  No sad tears, no “please don’t make me stay.” He wanted two things, a bed, and food. We had to sign a bunch of papers.  I mean a bunch of papers.  Went over all the rules, explained that even though he is a resident there, he is still a part of our family. On the one hand, I am happy for the rest of the family to get some peace.  On the other hand, I feel torn that we had to admit him there in the first place. All in all, it looks to be a nice place, but face it, it is an institution. We limited his contact to less than 20 people outside of the facility.  Every last one of them is family. He has less than 10 people he can call.  The rest have to call him. Please, say

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Placement begins tomorrow

Just learned today that David will be entering placement tomorrow afternoon. Please keep him in your thoughts and prayers as we move forward with this next level of care in his life. I pray that we are doing the right thing, and believe in my heart that it is.  At this point, I can’t ask for more.   Tweet #fighting4answrs

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