Author: A Recovering Brain

I am just really learning about this. I had heard about it before and thought it was just another name for short term memory. I have problems with my working memory. When I think of something, or hear something I immediately forget it. It used to be worse. I would be half way through a … Continue reading Working memory

This is the length of what is called my down time. Basically the amount of time I was 'technically' dead. It is weird to think about this but it is in my thought a lot of the time. I wondered what was happening to me at the time. I can imagine it was a terrifying … Continue reading 15 minutes

I was just on the exercise bike and just thinking about this. I don't do any of the above but why is my health do bad? Whenever I have a hospital appointment I am surrounded by old people, I don't mind this but I just think that it is so unfair. Why couldn't I have … Continue reading Don’t drink, don’t smoke what do you do?

I get really worried when I have to do something new, or something that I haven't done for a while. I used to be good at things and good at understanding things. Now I have problem with it. Today I had to go into a shop and ask for help with something that two years … Continue reading The little things

Over the last year I have doing some brain training, I try to do it every night. A lady from neuro rehab recommended it to me. You have to subscribe to use it but it doesn't cost too much. It is called Lumosity. I think I have written about it before. So I have been … Continue reading Brain training

I was trying to think what to call this post but I guess this word just sums it up. Realisation is a big thing when you have a brain injury. Recently I have been looking back at the last year and how I was then. I was at the start of my recovery and I … Continue reading Realisation

I owe my life today to the wonderful paramedics that saved me. I have been able to meet up with one of them last year but I know that there were at least two others that I haven't seen. You don't think about it but it must, sometimes, be a horrible job to do. Probably … Continue reading Life savers

I think about this number all the time. I want to get a tattoo of this number on my body somewhere. I want to be able to look at is to remember how lucky I am. The thing is only 8% of people who have a cardiac arrest survive it. Thinking about it blows my … Continue reading 8%

How to describe a brain injury.... Imagine watching a TV programme for years, and one day a character you love in it suddenly leaves or is killed of. It takes a long time to get used to the change. You do get used it it but is never the same again... You might give up … Continue reading Brain injury

Everything I do now is hard as I think I am doing it wrong. This is the case most of the time when I am at work. I am painfully slow at doing things as I am worried that I will make a mistake. Some times I do. My memory doesn't help as from one … Continue reading Making mistakes