Author: A Recovering Brain

Well yesterday was a big day for me. For the last two and half years I haven't been unable to drive. When I was first unwell I suffered some seizures so that ruled me out of driving for a year. I always thought that when the year passed I would be ready but I quickly … Continue reading Driving me crazy

This is the most personal thing that I have wanted to write about. I think about it every Saturday night. It doesn't sound very personal but it is to me. Before I was unwell I used to love to dance in the evening. It sounds a bit strange but at night I used to put … Continue reading Keep dancing

What if that didn't happen is something that I think all the time. When I was talking to the paramedic last week she told me not to think this. She said that it would just hold me back and not move on. I guess she was probably thinking 'what if' she hadn't attended the call … Continue reading What if?

I love Tuesday's as it is Headway day. It is the time of the week when I can talk to people who are in a similar situation to me. There is no one there on the day I go who have a cardiac arrest but we all have brain injuries. It doesn't matter what type … Continue reading Headway day!

Being a paramedic must be an amazing but hard job to do. From day to day you just don't know what you will encounter on your shift. Some calls can be boring, some can be complex and some can be lifesaving. Today I meet my lifesaver. She said it was a team effort but the … Continue reading Lifesavers

I was sitting at my desk at work and thinking about this. I was doing a task that I did before I got my brain injury. It is the only task at work that I used to do that I still do now. The things that I do at work now have changed, I think … Continue reading Back to normal?

It's the end of the year so I thought about looking back at the year. I don't really want to write much so I thought it might be easier to just write twenty words that relates to my past year. I think I had a good year hopefully it will continue. Restart, Memory,  Driving Frustrated … Continue reading Twenty words

Over last few months I have been trying to piece together the pieces of the puzzle of what exactly happened to me on the night I got my brain injury and the weeks afterwards. As I have said before I think, I have no memory of that night and the month afterwards. People often wonder … Continue reading Puzzle pieces

I used to own my own house which I loved. I brought the house even before it was built, it was just a pile of mud. I watched as it was built and looked forward to moving in and calling it my own. It was my house from it's beginning. I chose all the fixtures … Continue reading My house, our house

I have been told that I am risk adverse and after thinking about it, I think this is true. The person who said this also said that in life I had taken on a role which did not stretch me. I have been analysing my life a lot over the last year and it has … Continue reading Keep calm and carry on