Well guess what - my grandfather came from Ireland too - Coy Kildare, his wife came from Scotland, my other great grandparents came from England and Wales. The Welsh are known here for being pigheaded and stubborn - and short I am 5'2". The Irish are known for being cute, funny and feisty.

The trip was great, except on the Friday night I stayed at my son's house and hit my head again - leaned over from my bed to open the curtains to see what kind of day it was, lay back down and wham on the head board. I have a nasty head ache but I am thinking it is from being tired - my memory hasn't become worse or anything so I think I have survived this one wow!!!!!

Wedding was in a beautiul place, in a native bush reserve by a lake - just amazing - was surrounded by people from your part of the world - well over your border -Canadians.

Sissy - I didn't go to my work Christmas party 2 weeks ago as I knew it would be noisey and I weighed it up -decided what was better for me - keeping up appearances or being nice to myself - and guess what - I didn't go and it was the first one I have missed in my life!!! And it didn't matter that I didn't go, I was told it was boring without me which was nice. There will be other parties to go to later.

Lori - the mean spirited person at work - you're right just ignore him - he is obvioulsy a waste of space and has his own problems!


Lynlee

I couldn't have written that better myself. You've captured everything that I'm feeling.

Very good job of finding all good quotes.

Donna

Hi Lori Thank you for taking the time to post the Quotes.There is a great deal of positive energy here and I love it when people speak the truth.

Acceptance is one of the keys in the healing process, might make a good thread.

I would also like to thank Doc John and all the staff that keep this forum up and running.

Thank you Jeffn

Good Morning Pono: I wanted to say thank you for your post and and links you put up. This information was very useful for me in writing up my assessment plan.

I to fly off the handle and lose my temper in a heart beat and it's usually over little things, like not being able to put a screw in the wall to hang a pitcher and it greaves me deeply when I hurt someone I love and care about.

I don't intentially go out of my way to harm people with my foul langauge, bad temper and being irritable that's not me, it's one of the personality changes caused by the TBI/PCS disorder.

Learning to manage these out burst of anger in a positive constructive way.
Taking a 15 minute time out is helping, keeping the stress out of my life is helpful, side stepping an issue is helpful until I can deal with it, being conscious of the fact that this is a behavior issue is helpful and letting people I know that this is part of the TBI dis order is helpful. Acceptance in this matter is a two way street.

Another tool I use to manage the TBI/PCS is to get out of the house every day and try to inter react with people and keep my brain engaging in communicating with other people.

Sometime I freeze up, no words or thoughts will come out, sometime my brain just flat lines and sometime I repeat myself 3-4 times or my words or slurred or I lose my train of thought in the middle of a sentence. No fun, so when this happens I back up and correct myself. I simplely have to re train my brain to communicate.

I have a mental dis order right now so I have to learn or re learn how to think and communicate.

Pono you have a lot tougher road to hoe then I do, Thank you for taking the time to share. It's been very helpful to me.

Take Care Jeffn

PS and yes I say stupid stuff sometimes O well

Lynlee, I do agree with you that we have to accept our current circumstances and try to make the best of every day. I don't think I have accepted the possibility yet that the PCS symtoms might not go away soon. I was the victim of a crime (hit & run accident) and I don't like that word "victim". If I don't get better and get back to the things I really like to do, then I will remain a victim and that is not acceptable for me. To have my life ruined by some careless drugdealer could turn me in to a bitter old person and that's not really me. All my friends, including my sister and brother-in-law, are cyclists, so if I don't get back to that group, I will lose a big part of my life.

I am really sorry about all your loses, especially your mother, and I hope you have recovered from your latest head incidence. I lost one of my best friends to cancer on Jan. 1 of this year and I still miss him very much.

I just had an idea - what would you be like at present on a tandem bike - your balance wouldn't have to be perfect and you could enjoy the outing. I don't think that I am a victim. I have always had the idea in my head that what you do and what happens in the first 6 months seems to play a big part in your recovery. i.e. if you are diagnosed asap and rest. I spent my first 6 months fighting for somebody to believe me and trying to carry on working full time etc - I think this has somehow damaged my sub concious. As this for me seems to be such a long process (6+ years) I have had to make the most of the "now" in order to have some enjoyment out of life. Some days I do wake up feeling normal - and it is just bliss - once I have actually clicked what is different. I have to learn to hang onto that feeling now!

Lynlee