Considering the facts listed below it is inconceivable that Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is not a household name like Susan G. Komen’s Race for the Cure. Rep. Gabrielle Gifford’s horrific tragedy shines light on the devastating facts that TBI is the number one world-wide cause for death and disability. Every 23 seconds a brain injury occurs. Was the Gifford family ready for their loved one to become a TBI statistic? Are you? I know I wasn’t when my son’s motorcycle collided into an on-coming pickup truck, instantly changing his life… my life in an instant.
Rep. Gifford is now responding to simple commands. I remember those days all too well. Yet the days that followed moved from despair to hope and back again.
Looking back into the pain and uncertainty of that unforeseeable event, I wish there was a book written by someone who walked in these same shoes… someone who could give me a day to day account of the roller-coaster-ride ahead. I needed hope. I needed something to hold onto.
In lieu of that, I began journaling. If I couldn’t read, I could write. And I did… I wrote it all down, the good, the bad, and yes, sometimes the ugly. Now I’m on a journey to publish the story of our own family’s tragedy and subsequent miracle. I look forward to sharing more with you in the days and weeks to come.
