Why UnCommon Sense?

As an artist and seeker who’d spent a lifetime developing as many senses as I could discover, those senses saved me when I lost my sight in 1998. They saved me when my brain and nervous system began to fry and sometimes I couldn’t think...THEY said I’d never see again--that I’d “never get much better and probably get worse...” Today I can SEE. I'm WELL. It took years for me to prove them wrong. But as I made my medical journey through the worlds of brain injury, blindness and disability--when I described what was happening to me--people kept telling me I had "an UnCommon Sense..."

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Spaghetti Gazetti: Brain injury graduates celebrate a “return to real life”

Spaghetti Gazetti: Brain injury graduates celebrate a “return to real life”: "symptoms after suffering an acquired brain injury include seeing a familiar face but not being able to remember a name, always feeling tired and struggling to accept the person you have become.

It results in people losing jobs and careers, their families, hobbies and interests. “Crucially, these are the things that tell us who we are,” added Dr Quinn.

“Any one of these challenges would be enough to face without a brain injury to contend with, let alone facing them all at the same time."

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