from
https://livingwithheadinjury.wordpress.com/about/
My/our story is a bit different, rather ‘crazy’ – ‘unique’ m says….and she’s always right (I checked on the net…and ‘yes”, seems to be correct!).
At age 15 I suffered a serious closed head injury in a midget car racing accident in Cape Town, South Africa, where I was in a coma for a long time . Since my diagnosis (very traumatic) over 25 years ago after “emigrating”, together with many struggles in the working environment many years later in Perth Australia, I have been researching, studying and writing books and articles in this field. My other blogs in this area at http://www.headbraininjury.wordpress.com (which recently got mentioned in Yahoo News USA ) www.livingwithheadininjury.wordpress.com
and http://www.traumaticbraininjurytbi.wordpress.com may be of interest.
The immediate aftermath and consequences of traumatic head/brain injury (TBI)
SOME QUESTIONS
Here are some notes * , m (a rehabilitation nurse) made recently, regarding a discussion about our situation (sudden and extremely traumatic nearly 30 (long) years ago.
* brief (in note form)
I would really like in some small way to help share a better understanding of what is sometimes termed “the hidden handicap”(and/or “the silent epidemic”) … and this is my reason for sharing
“We share what we know, so that we all may grow.”
THE QUESTIONS (very BIG ONES)
Contemplating the “immediate future”
What kind of career should I now be looking at?
What sort of career can you go back to?
Can you go back to the same occupation?
Look at the long-term outlook
How to earn a living and support a family?
What are my career options?
What type of help and support can you access?
If you are married, what role will the spouse play (now and in the future)?
What is the social and medical assistance I/we can get (available resources)?
How are the/one’s extended family going to be able help in the situation?
The path to rehabilitation
What physical exercise should I be doing?
What mental exercises should I be doing?
What are the best options for me?
What are all the options I need to know on the road up ahead?
Do I need an advocate for support to come with me to medical and specialist appointments… to ask the questions?
This is very important if you have difficulty in processing lots of new information.
All this info was learnt “first hand through and trial and error” with no real assistance and support (most of it in another/”foreign” country)… let alone resources (such as the www) at the time.. M (the nurse) and I hope this info may be helpful to survivors of traumatic brain injury.
Be happy
craig
and
m (“the nurse”- thanks to you for all the care and support)
My other blogs in this area are at
http://www.headbraininjury.wordpress.com
http://www.traumaticbraininjurytbi.wordpress.com
https://headinjurytbi.wordpress.com/
https://livingwithheadinjury.wordpress.com/
http://www.livingwithheadbraininjury.wordpress.com
https://thenurseanewbook.wordpress.com
and
https://anoneextraordinarylife.wordpress.com/
I would really like in some small way to help share a better understanding of what is sometimes termed “the hidden handicap”(and/or “the silent epidemic”) … and this is my reason for sharing
“We share what we know, so that we all may grow.”
“Knowledge is the gateway to understanding…and understanding is the gateway to a better life.”
– Jeff Sebell
Shining a light of hope in the darkest corners
Helping promote better understanding and awareness of what is often termed “The Silent Epidemic” (and/or “The Hidden Handicap”)
“Inform, educate, inspire”
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI 
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To my “cyber-friends/pals” around the world….
Thanks for the follow/link/like/reblog and/or kind thought(s)
Hi everyone
I do really appreciate your liking, linking to and/or following this
blog (and “writing in”), so “thanks to YOU all for the thanx” (in thought)
if you want to follow me, go to https://www.facebook.com/craig.lock.31
and
https://www.facebook.com/Uplift-Encourage-and-Inspire-479972392393133/
Though my family and close friends say it would be far more entertaining
with a video-camera* in the “real world”, rather than in cyberspace!)
* By the way, do they still make them in today’s ever-faster changing
world..or is it all done with mobile phones?
(get with the times now,”luddite”* c – it should be a smart phone)
* or so I was often called by my “my techno-geek” friend, Bill (“the gonk”)
“total non-techno” c (who doesn’t possess a mobile phone, after a rather
eventful’ experience some years back, whilst trying to walk, talk and
chew gum at the same time) #
Who says men can’t multi-task!
Men…Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em!
“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”
– Colette (nice name for a girl, btw)
Now back to the message I was posting before I got distracted
enjoy anyway
“totally impulsive” c
#
Hi
CAN’T KEEP UP…BUT THANKS FOR THE “THANX”
I’ve had many many hundreds of thousands (even “zillions”) of comments
on my various other WordPress blogs at
https://craigsblogs.wordpress.com/2011/09/09/craigs-list-of-blogs-updated-sept-2011/
in recent years …true!). A few of my blogs went “balistically viral” a
few years back and I got swamped with comments on my various blogs… so
had to close them all off.
Obsessive or WHAT! Am really pleased you are enjoying my writings, as
the reason I write is to share.
Though I’m rather “driven”, I still get really, really fatigued (there’s
a few books there). So sorry can’t reply individually to all you good
people scattered around the planet. As mentioned (stop repeating
yourself, c – bad writing…otherwise the first signs of approaching
senility!), I was unable to keep up with the comments and was spending
entire days just on replies on my various blog pages, so had to close
them off on all of my blogs, except for one or two of particular
interest to me.
see
http://www.headbraininjury.wordpress.com
http://www.traumaticbraininjurytbi.wordpress.com
https://headinjurytbi.wordpress.com/
https://livingwithheadinjury.wordpress.com/
http://www.livingwithheadbraininjury.wordpress.com
https://thenurseanewbook.wordpress.com
and
https://anoneextraordinarylife.wordpress.com/
Sorry and hope you can understand.
* “Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t
edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most
intense obsessions mercilessly.”
~ Franz Kafka
I do really appreciate your liking, linking to and/or following this
blog (and “writing in”), so “thanks for the thanx”
“As we live and move and have our being, so from this vision, we create
heaven in our own lives… and perhaps even heaven on earth.”
– craig (as inspired by Acts 17:28 and the words of Felicia Searcy)
“Aim at the earth and you may not get off the ground.a
“Aim at the stars and you may reach the moon.”
“Aim at heaven and you’ll have earth thrown in…
and you may even hit the stars.”
– craig (as inspired by the famous quote by CS Lewis – 24th May 2012)
“When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with
your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will
always long to return.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
When (or if ever) you arrive in heaven, let faith, hope and love be the
wings that carried you there.”
– as adapted from the inspiring words of Jonathan Edwards, former
minister in New England, Massachusetts
“The Greatest Race: Living by (with) faith, hope and love is the highest
podium any person can reach, God’s podium that anyone stand on.”
– c
“Having pursued the goals, the dreams set before us and run the race
with persistence and endurance, after giving it all. Then one day
standing on the summit of life, breathing in the pure sweet oxygen of
achievement, totally satisfied in running the greatest race, the race of
life one that ANYONE can run and win.”
from http://racetothechequeredflag.wordpress.com/
and http://www.godandformula1.wordpress.com
“If a man is called to be a street-sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or
Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well
that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper
who did his job well.”
– Dr Martin Luther King, Jr.
PPS
Instead of trying to reply to each one of you, I’ll just keep on writing
(which I’m often told is what is “safest” for me!)
“If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I’d type a little faster.”
The various books* that Craig “felt inspired to write” are available at
http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B005GGMAW4
https://www.amazon.com/Craig-Lock/e/B005GGMAW4/ref=pe_584750_33951330_sr_tc_2_0?qid=1476388259&sr=1-2-ent
http://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B005GGMAW4
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=la_B005GGMAW4_sr?rh=i%3Abooks&field-author=Craig+Lock
https://www.createspace.com/pub/simplesitesearch.search.do?sitesearch_query=%22craig+lock%22&sitesearch_type=STORE
http://www.creativekiwis.com/index.php/books
and http://goo.gl/vTpjk
All proceeds go to a local charity (most worthy) – ME!
and/or
All proceeds go to the elderly, needy, infirm and mentally challenged – ME!
from
https://johnsphotopics.wordpress.com/
“When the writer is no more , the value of your purchase will soar! ”
Don’t worry about the world ending today…
as it’s already tomorrow in scenic and tranquil ‘little’ New Zealand
PPS
“I wish you well on a rainy day
I wish you rainbows to brighten your day
To feel your quiet moments with a special kind of warmth
to remind you that happiness can happen
when you least expect it.
I wish you rainbows to make you laugh and smile
to show you the simple beauty of life
and to give you the magic of dreams come true.
I wish you rainbows
I wish you well.”
– Larry S. Chengges
”Since I can never see your face,
And never shake you by the hand,
I send my soul through time and space
To greet you. You will understand.”
– James Elroy Flecker (1884-1915
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To my “cyber-friends/pals” around the world….
Thanks for the follow/link/like/reblog and/or kind thought(s)
Hi everyone
I do really appreciate your liking, linking to and/or following this
blog (and “writing in”), so “thanks to YOU all for the thanx” (in thought)
if you want to follow me, go to https://www.facebook.com/craig.lock.31
and
https://www.facebook.com/Uplift-Encourage-and-Inspire-479972392393133/
Though my family and close friends say it would be far more entertaining
with a video-camera* in the “real world”, rather than in cyberspace!)
* By the way, do they still make them in today’s ever-faster changing
world..or is it all done with mobile phones?
(get with the times now,”luddite”* c – it should be a smart phone)
* or so I was often called by my “my techno-geek” friend, Bill (“the gonk”)
“total non-techno” c (who doesn’t possess a mobile phone, after a rather
eventful’ experience some years back, whilst trying to walk, talk and
chew gum at the same time) #
Who says men can’t multi-task!
Men…Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em!
“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”
– Colette (nice name for a girl, btw)
Now back to the message I was posting before I got distracted
enjoy anyway
“totally impulsive” c
#
Hi
CAN’T KEEP UP…BUT THANKS FOR THE “THANX”
I’ve had many many hundreds of thousands (even “zillions”) of comments
on my various other WordPress blogs at
https://craigsblogs.wordpress.com/2011/09/09/craigs-list-of-blogs-updated-sept-2011/
in recent years …true!). A few of my blogs went “balistically viral” a
few years back and I got swamped with comments on my various blogs… so
had to close them all off.
Obsessive or WHAT! Am really pleased you are enjoying my writings, as
the reason I write is to share.
Though I’m rather “driven”, I still get really, really fatigued (there’s
a few books there). So sorry can’t reply individually to all you good
people scattered around the planet. As mentioned (stop repeating
yourself, c – bad writing…otherwise the first signs of approaching
senility!), I was unable to keep up with the comments and was spending
entire days just on replies on my various blog pages, so had to close
them off on all of my blogs, except for one or two of particular
interest to me.
see
http://www.headbraininjury.wordpress.com
http://www.traumaticbraininjurytbi.wordpress.com
https://headinjurytbi.wordpress.com/
https://livingwithheadinjury.wordpress.com/
http://www.livingwithheadbraininjury.wordpress.com
https://thenurseanewbook.wordpress.com
and
https://anoneextraordinarylife.wordpress.com/
Sorry and hope you can understand.
* “Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t
edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most
intense obsessions mercilessly.”
~ Franz Kafka
I do really appreciate your liking, linking to and/or following this
blog (and “writing in”), so “thanks for the thanx”
“As we live and move and have our being, so from this vision, we create
heaven in our own lives… and perhaps even heaven on earth.”
– craig (as inspired by Acts 17:28 and the words of Felicia Searcy)
“Aim at the earth and you may not get off the ground.a
“Aim at the stars and you may reach the moon.”
“Aim at heaven and you’ll have earth thrown in…
and you may even hit the stars.”
– craig (as inspired by the famous quote by CS Lewis – 24th May 2012)
“When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with
your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will
always long to return.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
When (or if ever) you arrive in heaven, let faith, hope and love be the
wings that carried you there.”
– as adapted from the inspiring words of Jonathan Edwards, former
minister in New England, Massachusetts
“The Greatest Race: Living by (with) faith, hope and love is the highest
podium any person can reach, God’s podium that anyone stand on.”
– c
“Having pursued the goals, the dreams set before us and run the race
with persistence and endurance, after giving it all. Then one day
standing on the summit of life, breathing in the pure sweet oxygen of
achievement, totally satisfied in running the greatest race, the race of
life one that ANYONE can run and win.”
from http://racetothechequeredflag.wordpress.com/
and http://www.godandformula1.wordpress.com
“If a man is called to be a street-sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or
Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well
that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper
who did his job well.”
– Dr Martin Luther King, Jr.
PPS
Instead of trying to reply to each one of you, I’ll just keep on writing
(which I’m often told is what is “safest” for me!)
“If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I’d type a little faster.”
The various books* that Craig “felt inspired to write” are available at
http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B005GGMAW4
https://www.amazon.com/Craig-Lock/e/B005GGMAW4/ref=pe_584750_33951330_sr_tc_2_0?qid=1476388259&sr=1-2-ent
http://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B005GGMAW4
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=la_B005GGMAW4_sr?rh=i%3Abooks&field-author=Craig+Lock
https://www.createspace.com/pub/simplesitesearch.search.do?sitesearch_query=%22craig+lock%22&sitesearch_type=STORE
http://www.creativekiwis.com/index.php/books
and http://goo.gl/vTpjk
All proceeds go to a local charity (most worthy) – ME!
and/or
All proceeds go to the elderly, needy, infirm and mentally challenged – ME!
from
https://johnsphotopics.wordpress.com/
“When the writer is no more , the value of your purchase will soar! ”
Don’t worry about the world ending today…
as it’s already tomorrow in scenic and tranquil ‘little’ New Zealand
PPS
“I wish you well on a rainy day
I wish you rainbows to brighten your day
To feel your quiet moments with a special kind of warmth
to remind you that happiness can happen
when you least expect it.
I wish you rainbows to make you laugh and smile
to show you the simple beauty of life
and to give you the magic of dreams come true.
I wish you rainbows
I wish you well.”
– Larry S. Chengges
”Since I can never see your face,
And never shake you by the hand,
I send my soul through time and space
To greet you. You will understand.”
– James Elroy Flecker (1884-1915
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Thank you so much for sharing Craig! God bless you always..☺
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