Have to have a reason to live!
 

Dear George,
I don't know about the drugs, but as far as dealing with the other stuff just day to day here is my advice.
Have a reason to continue with life, to get out of bed, to go to work, to live.

For me that is the only reason that I don't stay in bed watching TV and eating constantly. I know that I want an education (much as I have trouble seeing this on a day to day basis). I know I don't want to let my family and friends down and I especially don't want to worry them. I know that someday I might feel better and then I will have to live life and what kind of life that will be is determined by what I do now.

I get out of bed because if I don't do it one time then I don't know if I will ever be able to do it again.

I got 7 concussions within one year. During that year I tried not to do very much. I walked, but that was my only exercise. I studied but that was my only reading. I watched movies, but that was almost my only form of entertainment. But I did do these things so that now, when it has been 1 year since my last concussion, as I am still dealing with the pain and other symptoms of my concussions, I can live.

Every part of my life has changed. I have to do only low impact activities where there is a very low likelihood of me hitting my head. I have to get lots more sleep. I have to find ways to make myself focus more in class and when studying. I have had to learn how to function while being tired and with an intense headache and in florescent lit rooms and while being dizzy/nauseated.

This is a hard life, but if you have a reason to live for, a reason to get out of bed, that is how we can all make it and become better people because of PCS.

Good luck!
Margarite