NeuroTalk Support Groups - Message of hope

Hey Everyone:

I just wanted to send out a message of hope to everyone--a few of you might know my story. In March of last year I received a brutal concussion training for the upcoming cycling season in a weird mishap with a cycling pedal. I was knocked unconscious for a number of minutes and have about 15 to 30 minutes of post-traumatic amnesia from the event, perhaps longer. The rest of that day is also difficult to remember. I tried to push through way too hard after about a weeks rest and delayed my recovery significantly.

Fast forward 15 months and I would have to say I'm 99% recovered--kicking *** in my job, my life, my cycling training; living the full life that I didn't even dream was possible this time last year when I would struggle just to make it through the work day and crash hard at home.

Listen--it is so rare that people don't recover from this or at least make tremendous strides! For me--esp. in my second year--it has meant pushing the envelope and doing everything I wanted to do again with some symptoms here and there. Starting interval training on the bike, camping with my family at 10500 ft. in Colorado, applying for a promotion at work. Proving to myself that none of this stuff was going to kill me and indeed most of it was making me better. Esp. the psychological boost of living a full life again. The symptoms really started to disappear.

As Mark said last year "you will start having Eureka moments" when you realize that you haven't had x/y symptoms for a month. And then you start thinking about the condition less and less and confidence grows. Guys, it can and will happen!!