OK today is a new day, I have decided after wallowing for awhile ( a luxury I allow myself sometimes for short periods), that i am not going to go through my injury step by step but offer things that have worked for me to help me heal more and more. you see my doctors wrote me off saying that this is the way you are and will be so here are your drugs and live with it, WELL I am not a person who is willing to settle for someone giving up on me because I will not settle for less than 100% no matter how long it takes. I assure that I have many many challenges but since I have had to do this alone and no support I push the best I can, I have almost lost my home, my health, my credit, my practice, i was an acupuncture physician, massage therapist, kundalini yoga instructor for many many years, and the list goes on, BUT the ONE thing that I have never lost is ME and my faith and so forward we will go. If anybody wishes to discuss the challenges feel free to respond and we will do so, whether you are the caregiver or the patient. I have alway been involved in nutrtion and alternatives healing aspecst and these are the things that have been helping me. This is not medical advice but only personal experiences that have worked for me. Here we go, in the beginning I got acupuncture and massage therapy 3-5 days a week, I am so overly sensitive to touch that it was extremely painful for me but I did it anyway, I new that I had very little time frame to bring my body and mind into some sort of balance, I have achiropractor as well but still to this day she is only now being able to do some sort of minimal adjusting but the things she could do helped as well, I awlo started b-12 shots daily because b-12 helps to heal the nerves and the connections in transmissions, now I do once a week or every other week depending on what my body needs, it also helps with the energy because your body is using incredible amounts of energy to try to maintain itself. Although difficult for me to get in and out of bathtubs I would take baths with healing essential oils (medical grade is best) mixed with epsom salts, brain games ,brain games, brain games, do them everyday, luminosity.com is great for that, and YES it is extremely frustarting bvut do them anyway no matter how long it takes to finish them. You have to understand that I have no insurance no help and no doctors will work with me because it was a car accident and they do not want to be involved in an active case, so I have had to find ways to help myself, and the process is very long. I have not been able to doyouga but I can do the yoga in my head, remember the body does not recognize whether you are actually doing it physically or not so long as yuor mind is doing it, it will respond, so do it! I am only able to walk, sit, stand for about 10 minutes at a time , so that is what I do and I push for 1 sec- 2 second however many more I can push for I do. Remeber our healing is measured in moments, cherish them and give yuorself the credit for them, you have to meve on your schedule NOT what someelse thinks it should be according to their protocal, you know youo body better than anyone. Eat specific foods that are brain foods, things that will nourish the nerves, example, walnuts are brain food they looklike the brain, ginger strengthens the nerves, lecithin, i eat a recipe called mung beans and rice in the heealth book caleed FOODS FOR HEALTHAND HEALING, very important, make all your own fresh juices, fruits are body cleansers, vegetables are body builders, is you are taking alot of drugs you must cleanse to keep your liver and kidneys strong, they are your biggest detoxifyers for your body, also jucing gives your body live nutrtion to strenthen it better and faster. If you are interested in what I do please ask, I am very happy to share. Lots and lots of rest, and most of all FEED YOUR SOUL!!!!!!! Gotta go be back soon :-)

Very bad day today, the insurance companies in their wondorous ways has decided to deny my disabilty claim today and states that I am fine and nothing is wrong with me to enable me to collect and type of disability from them, but I quess social security felt my brain and spinal injuries were good enough for them, very depressed and upset, how do they expect people to live, ss barely covers my maortgage with little to spare to live on, heartbreaking again. Thank goodness for my mantras dhan dhan ram das, 22 pauri of japji and 25 pauri of japji, I can't give up and go down the deep dark hole

Please forgive me to those who post comments I would love to comment to you but am not sure how, do I post comment here or do i respond in email since you are also coming to email? The computer savy my hat is off to you just give me simple on off buttons and I am good to go. OK day 2 here we go. My eyes are open laying in bed and my dogs are giving me my daily dose of morning love, such pure love what a joy to wake up with, but my head is spinning so badly I can hardly focus and I find that I can barely move, my brain is a big cotton puff and as I look around i am not sure if anything looks familiar or not, i felt as though my spirit had jumped out of my body on impact and hasn't been able tofind it's way back to me yet, it is a very strange and empty feeling, I am very disconnected, but i have to pee so I must get up. Well 30 minutes later I have found a way to move I think but the pain is almost unbearable but I get up to sitting position hanging on for dear life cuz the spinning inside my head is unreal and the headache is blinding only to attempt to stand and come crashing to the floor, aha my legs and my body cannot support me, omg what a shock that was, well i still have to pee so i crawl to the bathroom,(by now my dogs think this is a new game we are playing, so they want to help), finally I can pee, now the next step hugging the walls to my vanity so i can wash my face and brush my teeth I look in the mirror shocked again asking WHO is that person looking back at me, ok now this is getting really scary, I must lay back down because i cannot hold me up any longer. Laying here I am so discombobulated that I cannot figure out what is going on and I hav only been awake for maybe 45 minutes, boy am I in trouble.

Patience OMG, I am still trying to figure this blog thing out. How exciting to find others out there , Sirian Gian suggested that I do this and I am glad I did but for me patience is deffinately the word of the process here. I am not a computer person by nature so if it looks goofy have a good laugh on me. :-) There is a saying that started who knows when but it goes like this, BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR! ah the truth be known, my journey began with this. On August 1 2007, i was driving home from work having my usual conversations with God about my day and was very frustrated that I was moving to far off my spiritual path into the corporate world and during my conversation I specifically said God I can"t do this anymore I am getting to far from me and low and behold BAM! I was rear ended at a red light (you know the things you sre SUPPOSED to stop at), where did this person come from , I was the only one on the road, I did not even realize that I had been hit, all I heard was this loud bang , it sounded like a bomb went off, and the next thing I knew this guy was screaming at ME, through something at me and left. I was stunned. schocked etc... it felt liker my head exploded and all at once the pain ,numbness, paralysis, began it was instant but the only thing my mind could comprehend was that there was no blood, so of course when I called the police and they asked if I needed an ambulance after describing my symptoms to dispatch I said no because no blood=no ambulance. How foolish is that! That my friends was the bigest mistake I could have ever made, I had to wait for 2.5 hours for the police to show up even though they drove past me 3 times,one of their own was hurt, so I didn't matter, and now th juorney begins. Finally they show and I was 2 miles from my home and I was hurting so bad all I wanted to do was go home, so the police refused to write a police report and off I went. So much for justice there. Got there barely able to move or even think cleart at all, really as I look back on it I wasn't even sure where I was or who I was what a blur. Day 2 begins with I must see my doctor my head is exploding and I am spinning so far and nasueas and by the way I cannot feel my arms and my back is a mess and my right face is paralyzed. HOLY SMOKES so this is what feeling like you just got hit by a mac truck feels like. AND THE JUORNEY BEGINS...........

Hi everybody, welcome to my blog and my journey through my brain injury and WOW what a journey it has been so far. I am new to this blogging thing so be paitient, ha now THAT"S a funny word, when we were getting ready to come to this earth and standing in all the lines to get equipped for here I thought the Patience line said LUNCH and boy did I ever miss the patience for sure but rest assured there is always a plan to teach us what we may have missed in those lines, hense the injury to REALLY teach me what being patient is all about, ok ok I think I got enough already! I am sure that we all have many things to share and share we will so that we can and will all grow together to be the strong and beautiful being that we all are. REMEMBER that we are all our own best entertainment so have a good laugh and maybe a good cry every now and then and lets get moving, times awasting!