stars are the light when its dark
It’s now coming up three years since I sustained my brain injury. Times kind of flown by but also felt like it has taken forever to get to where I am. I have learnt to manage some aspect of my brain injury, naps are my best friends, but some things are a little bit more… Continue reading Sudden Noises and Brain Injury
: ( : It’s been a little while since I have written on here, sorry for the silence but my degree and various other things took over a bit. I’ve got a couple of things I wanted to write about so if you like reading about parts of my life since the plane crash here… Continue reading ‘Sometimes life just twats you in the shins with a cricket bat’ – JB 16.05.2019
I go through stages of feeling completely in control or feeling irrationally fearful that something will go wrong. ‘The train I’m travelling on will derail’, ‘the driver will not notice the oncoming car and we will crash’. These are the more extreme fears I have, but my anxiety can be over something relatively small. I’ll… Continue reading PTSD and Anxiety
When growing up everyone celebrates the same milestones: first steps, first words, first day at school/ College/ University etc. Usually it is the parents of a child who celebrate their child’s firsts. I never would have expected to re-live these ‘firsts’ at the age of 21/22 and be the one to celebrate. Generally speaking, you… Continue reading 2017 – a year of firsts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozNjyxeFMMk&t=2s Today marks 10 months since I went through the biggest trauma imaginable and since I lost a beautiful, kind and loving friend. It is also nearly a year since I met this friend, we went from being strangers to very close friends almost instantaneously and I will always be sad that I wasn't lucky enough to have known… Continue reading One day, I will say “I did it”
One of the interesting things that has happened since my accident, is how much I have started to re-evaluate my friendships. When I started posting on facebook again I realised that many people would have absolutely no idea what my life has involved since the start of this year. Minus social media (which is my… Continue reading Friendship is not about who you’ve known longest. It’s about people who walk into your life, said ‘I’m here for you’ and proved it
Any trauma (an illness or accident) is always going to be difficult. It is going to be difficult both for the person who has had the trauma occur to them and for their family and friends. When speaking with someone who has been through a trauma it is understandably difficult to know what to… Continue reading It’ll be fine
Wear your scars like wings 