Originally Posted by qtipsq

I have been working on that! This is the new you! This hte New You! Its sort of like a mantra but it is so hard for it to settle in. Yes, this is great advice, following this advice, accepting, moving forward, controlling emotions, if someone can figure out how to do that in the first months of their injury they probably see a much better recovery.

Me on the other hand being a competitive rock climber, world traveler, just married scuba diver. The emotions destroyed me, they destroyed my soul. I told myself, that if all my passions are gone than who am I? Do I even want to have a passionless existence? Passions is what defined me! I wish I could have put that energy into trying to get better, instead I gave up, I used the computer till my head hurt, smoked cigarettes, cried like a little boy with no mommy, every day. Its when I realized that even through all the turmoil I was putting my body through it was still healing, that is what put my brakes on. No there is hope. Get serious about this! Is it too late to get serious? No..it isn't.

So here I am getting serious about this, leaving my house was the first step, being in a different environment puts me in a different mindset. Mark I will be drawing, slacklining for balance, walking, meditating, and doing yoga for my free time. Drawing will occupy most of it, while listening to Bach or Mozart. I rented a place super close to the hyperbaric place, so no driving, walking half a mile there half a mile back. The chiro place is 15 minutes by bus. Ear plugs, sun glasses, and whole lot of determination to accept who I am and move on to make him the best he can be!