A Serious Wakeup Call

It is Friday, and I am already tired. Normally I would be winded or even slightly ready for a weekend.   Today was my first independent day ever.   During the course of the day I was given a list of things to do.   Each of the things was designed to keep me busy and to spur me onward by making sure I used good time management. The hard part was I had to stay organized and finish the list of tasks before I left at two o'clock. The hard part was I had to track down my therapists, and they had to sign off on my work. Which was difficult as some of them were not here today. First I had to plan my day out.  The list of activities were also timed meaning I had to take a lunch and had to do them at certain times of the day. Time management was definitely part of my schedule--and I had to be organized.  So I started earnestly.  I went from task ti task doing them in places where people could see me, specifically tasks where I needed to do 15 minutes ...

You can learn so much from the Golden Girls. There is a lot to learning about a brain injury.  From my time at the Center, I have learned much about my fellow patients in many new ways that help me know them more intimately. Every day that I go to the center I meet a patients who teach me something important about myself and brain injury. The person who taught me the most was Mike Greg.  Mike Greg who taught me patience and kindness.   Mike taught me a lot about stroke patients.  He taught me about filters and patients who lose the ability to filter the things they say.   There were many times I understood better but it was not until my mandatory four week vacation that I began to watch or rather binge the Golden Girls, and I noticed that Sophia, (played by Estelle Getty,) the oldest golden girl, mentioned in the pilot had a stroke.   It was only mentioned occasionally at first and only in the pilot. Now, I watched the series for many years, but...