Your comment regarding pre-morbid is interesting. Most people think it means before death but in medical terms, it means before disease.

I have read enough medical records and journal articles over the years to get to where using medical terms are easiest. If I wanted to use a different word than the one that came to mind first, I would have to Stop and think.

I guess I could have said pre-injury or pre-concussion. Premorbid was just the word that popped first.

I have learned so much just trying to understand medical journal articles and my own medical records. The necessity of understanding them so I could file a Work Comp and SSDI claim forced me to find ways to make my brain work around the blockages.

I get a great sense of accomplishment when I find a new work-around past a road block that has stymied me for months.

Have you guys seen my comment about "Is the glass half full or half empty?"

For those of us needing to reinvent ourselves, this is when we need to decide to glass is too big and we should choose a smaller glass that we can easily fill to the brim and carry throughout life.

A similar concept is how I learned to let go of my perfectionism. I learned that it is all about perspective. I used to do specialty kitchen and bath remodeling. I would see all of my errors but almost everybody else would see my work as near perfect. It took a long time to be able to accept their view as the most valid one. I'd get a bunch of referral business with glowing reports of the work I did. I had to learn to accept the customers' praise.

We need to learn to accept our own praise when we get something done that we could not do at an earlier attempt.

My best to you all.

Oops posted twice hard to.do on.these little phones. Lol

I'm a year post-concussion this Sunday and still improving, in fact faster than ever.

I recently read about a study on long term stroke patients, one of whom saw improvements from an intervention 50 years after their stroke. Stroke patients are often told similar things to us in terms of "after X months you won't get better anymore", but the brain goes on being plastic and can learn new things throughout life even after an injury.

So ignore these people who are trying to sound like they know more than they do and keep on going. There's more useful advice on this forum than they could give you anyway.

OK Crystal, I was just reading more about PCS et al. and I came across this quote from a decent medical text and immediately thought of you!

"Patients may recover suddenly after a long time without much improvement."

Woot! ;)

You can see that it came from this text: Komaroff A, Harvard University Harvard Business School (1999). The Harvard Medical School Family Health Guide. New York: Simon & Schuster, 359. ISBN 0-684-84703-5.

Here: http://www.wikidoc.org/index.php/Pos...-Komaroff99-47

I have more hope myself for a spontaneous full recovery!

Remember: I wasn't even able to work at all for a year after the accident I was in, I started at 12 hours a week and now I'm up to 20 hours a week! :D

Slow and steady wins this race.