A Tale of Brenda's Brain Injury...
Well hello there my fellow readers, and welcome to our March installment of this blog. I'm Trevor aka T Man, your host and golden boy. BOL I just loved saying that. It's Brain Injury Awareness Month in the United States and that is what we will be focusing on in this tale. As you know Brenda underwent a right frontal lobe craniotomy on September 8, 2008. As a result she now lives with an acquired brain injury. Frontal lobe syndrome is real and can be scary, because it was foreign to Brenda in the beginning of her journey. It was about a month after her procedure that things started to materialize. She was getting her stitches removed and was getting ready to have another CT scan. While the technician was trying to get her IV started to inject dye, so they could perform the CT, Brenda started crying, actually sobbing. The technician thought she was hurting Brenda, but no this was different. It was an overwhelming sense that Brenda had never experienced before. She assured the t...