Depression. It's a topic that I don't like to think about...but it is something that all tramatic head injury survivors must deal with---at one time or another.
People are amazed at how upbeat I am. I choose to be positive instead of negative. I choose to look at the bright side of life when it would be so easy to look at the gloomy side instead. I choose uplifting stories that fill me with hope rather than letting things bring me down.
That was not always the case. I am a survivor of an acute stroke which left me paralyzed and speechless. My doctors pronounced, "You will never speak nor walk again due to the totally crippling brain injury that you suffered." One to ten, ten being the worse; I was told that I had a thirteen---never could anyone feel the devastation I felt and my doctors were witnessing, seen from my cat scan. And I was living it. The crippling feeling that I was never going to speak again. Of all the things that I might loose, my attitude was such that I would still succeed in life, in everything---all except one thing. The loss of my speech.
With that being my diagnosis, I had a decision to make. I had to decide whether I would shrink from life or (despite my doctors) I would find a way to speak again. I chose life. I would do everything in my power to find a way. That way was God. With Him, all things are possible to him that believeth.
With Him, many prayers and the will to survive I took a journey over the last 17 years that I would like to share a glimpse of it with you. I have produced a free digital cd entitled, "Hope...even after total devastation." Just let me know where to send my email and I will send you a digital copy.
Thanks for hearing me. Maybe I could be a hope to you. I look forward to our correspondence through email.
