well I gave my talk and spoke of my own very personal experience of waking up in hospital and then told ya missing maybe 2 months of your life, I spoke about the struggle of finally expecting reality and trying to move on with my new life.
it waz such a great feeling of having a reason to get up and for the day and not just going to doctors appointments, but I waz so tired when I arrived home my brain waz hurting, as its been a long time since I have used it.
I have also been asked to come back later on this year to yet again give another talk on my brain injury.
lets see how I go?
here I am now almost 8 years after my severe head injury, and have not had the opportunity nor confidence to go back any form of work. at the moment I am just trying to educate others about the my experiences, and explaining how and why a brain injury is so complicated, and so individual, I have been asked to speak to students whom are studying to work and look after people with disabilities. these students know alot about other common forms of disabilities, intellectual disabilities and so on.
as I had studied disabilities before my accident, and was unaware of acquired brain injury? and there is alot of people with a acquired brain injury being placed into, services which are not suitable, due to the lack of knowledge by caregivers and so on.
so hey this may be my calling
stay tuned..................
am I doing the right thing?
g'day all my name is jasmine and at the age of 21 i am now 28 yrs of age.at 21 waz busy going along with my life, until a car inwhich i waz a front seat passenger had a crash into oncoming cars. i waz air lifted by helicopter to the trama unit here in melbourne australia.
i spent 8 weeks in a coma and waz in p.t.a for many many weeks. i sometimes used p.t.a to hide from reality as it waz to unknown to me. me in a wheelchair, not being able to wash myself.it has been such a painful struggle back into mainstream life.
when people met me it is not observious that i have some much limimtaions on me now. i can not handle stress or too many people at once talking to me.
so what i find my trouble is these days is i still dont feel a part of this world i feel its all moving far to fast for me. i have not returned back to work at this stage 7 yrs later but i plan on doing so.
all i can think to say now is family support is so important.i would not be where i am today if waz not for the help of my family and friends just come and go
luv to hear something back from anyone whos in later stages of recovery. thank you catch ya jaz
Email Jasmine
View Guestbook Sign Guestbook Visit My Message Board
Visit My Calendar
owned by Jasmine "jazzie" Homepage. [Join Us-Next-List Sites] |