Hi guys,

This is my first post. Seems strange reading some of your posts as it feels, oh shall we say, déjà vu
I lost time during a car accident in 1997 but didn’t seem to suffer any obvious concussion. It was only some time after the accident that I really started paying attention to the fact that things were far from what they used to be. The fatigue, blurry vision, lack of concentration (previously would be completely engrossed in my work while studying – then it changed to reading the same sentence over and over, completely unable to comprehend.) I even had to try and figure out if people were actually speaking english to me and my delays in responding seemed to utterly irritate! The shortened temper of course, which being a teen at the time, didn’t really alarm my parents to anything excessively unusual. I’d even mentioned to my mother that I really did not feel well. She decided that I had a UTI, perhaps the fever was causing me to feel unwell. Eventually I took myself off to a doctor who organised a MRI for me, although it came back with no real evidence of a TBI. So according to those around me it was “all in my head” (no pun intended). Let’s just say it’s been an incredibly hard road, but still kicking and I'm really glad to have found this site!