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Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: England, GB
Posts: 194
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Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: England, GB
Posts: 194
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Dear Delaine,
What a change for you, and how traumatic!
It is so hard to accept change. As you said you were "a successful insurance lady". I am hearing a lot of emotion behind the fact that you were something, and that you are now something different. I believe this to be the hardest part of recovery - acceptance.
I suppose without a time scale it is very hard to accept who you have become and easy to resign yourself to being hopeless.
Well, your accident sounds awful, horrendous and the pain! I cannot imagine what you have been through and what you are now coping with.
The hope comes from you deciding what you will realistically be able to eventually achieve. Not necessarily what you want to achieve, because that may not be possible.
Do what you are doing, ie researching the best doctors for your situation. Once you find the right ones, you will I am sure be given some clues as to how to improve. It may be exercises, diet, nutrients, drugs. These will all help.
For now you may find it beneficial to write down what you have done each day, because it will help you see how far you have come since the accident and your stint in hospital. Also as you read it back in a week or a month you will see in black and white improvements you are and would like to make.
Take care, keep in touch, do not become complacent but try and accept your new set of circumstances.
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I am a 36 yr old female who has played football, as a hobby, for 13 yrs. In July 2012, during a game I was slammed to the floor by two angry guys who hit into me so hard that one of them broke their ribs.
This knocked me back onto hard ground leaving me unconscious. I awoke to chronic head and neck pain, sickness and the inability to see or balance.
The paramedics made me walk to the ambulance, instead of placing me on a spinal board, where I was taken to the ER. I was hospitalised with suspected brain hemorrhage for 1 week, then on complete bed rest for 1 month, in a wheelchair for 2 months.
I have been left with PCS, moderate constant head pain, little short term memory, no memory of the accident, balance and sight problems, depression and exhaustion.
The worst problem is collapsing regularly. This has finally been diagnosed as Hemiplegic Migraines , these cause my brain to regularly shut down when I am tired and I then feel the full effects of a stroke (without the bleed on the brain!!) of which the symptoms last 2-4 days.
I have had 6 CT's, 2 MRI's and am under 3 specialists.
I believe everyday is one more towards improvement. Mainly I believe in the power of acceptance not the weakness of complacency or resignation.
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