Hi I'm not crazy, I sent you a personal message and now realize that you could not reply as you are so new.

I am not crazy either - though at times and in the early days I did wonder. I am now 9 years post injury - thats why I haven't been posting lately - I seem to take a month at this time to have a good "wallow".

I am in Auckland. The best testing/report/info I have had was a QEEG - with a neuropsych at Parramatta - Rosemary Boon - the only evidence on paper! I was referred to her by somebody I came across via the internet - who has now moved to Aus.

I have had 2 hour psych tests that have come out with above average and exceptional which of course leads to the result that there is nothing wrong and have been told that anybody would be happy to have your results - too bad that I had to sleep for the remainder of the day and for days afterwards. I have been constantly told that my symptons far out weigh the MINOR nature of my injury.

I firmly believe that some of the specialists I have been referred to have increased my stress levels and effectively made my condition worse. It appears that if you can walk and talk by stringing a few words and sentences together you have very minor TBI.

I have had to remind many that I have cumulative head injuries, beginning with a fall from a horse at 14 yrs, ko playing hockey at 16, ko car accident at 21 and on and on it goes. The head injury that has had the worst effect was when I was 45, hit my head on a hanging basket and about 20 days later hit my head on the door frame of a taxi when I was going into the city with an armful of files.

I struggled to keep working - part time for approx 7 years - barely hanging on - I was lucky I had such a good employer.

I firmly believe that if my injury had been acknkowledged immediately I had not constantly had to "prove" it AND if I had been 10 years younger I would like to think that I would have had a full recovery - as I considered I had from the previous injuries.

Anyway I have waffled on long enough - I am tired. Mark is a wonderful source of information and his timing is much like mine - Mark I remembered recently that my mother had told me I had rolled off her bed when I was a baby and vomitted badly - makes you wonder if that set the scene way back in 1956!

Anyway Mr I'mnotcrazy, should you wish to contact me you will find my phone no under BM Stone, Arthur Street in the Auckland city listings. I must admit that I now talk better than I write!

Lynlee