If you’ve been diagnosed with Hydrocephalus and had brain surgery to treat it, does any of this resonate with you? If so, have you ever considered and looked into the effects of brain injury? More specifically, the cognitive effects. If you already have, this post might not be for...
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Brain Injury: The invisible disability.
Hydrocephalus and brain injury won’t define my outcome, I reserve that right!
From IT professional to brain injury survivor
I have worked in IT for more than 20 years of my life. After starting my career as a secretary, I soon moved into IT and learnt as much as I could, on the job. It was a field I felt drawn to. Over the years, I have successfully...
The hard reality of living with a brain injury…
***TRIGGER WARNING: This post touches on suicidal thoughts and death*** When you sustain a brain injury, in the prime of your life, things change in an instant. It hits harder still if you’re a high functioning person, independent and always doing everything for everyone else. Nothing can prepare you...
Brain injury requires reducing your cognitive load
My brain can literally feel like a hornets nest (most of the time). A muddled space where thoughts, memories and information, go to die (a slow death). One coping strategy, that works (for me), is to reduce my cognitive load. I’ve had to learn a few and continue to...
Hydrocephalus: When your family relies on you for…(just about) everything
I have no doubt there are many of us, who are relied upon by our families, to be the one who holds it all together. I especially know this is highly likely if you weren’t born with Hydrocephalus (though not limited to) but, diagnosed later in life, like me. ...
So how does it happen? A shunt breaking inside your brain, that is…
I honestly don’t have the answer to this question…all I know is, that it has and can happen. If I thought this condition was scary before, I’m definitely on a different page today. Travis Shumate was a fellow Hydro warrior who unfortunately had this happen to his shunt. It...
Gaining insight from colleagues
Work…the place we spend the majority of our precious time. Colleagues…the people we spend more time with than our own family. Just how important do you regard them to be? In my opinion, we need at least someone who knows that we have this condition at work. A person/s...