Moving into 2022 - originally posted 12/30/2021

Hi y’all, I haven’t posted personally in a while so here’s an update and a 2021 review rolled into one!

In 2021, my migraines & dysautonomia post-brain injury continued to be major players…

A New Path Discovered - originally posted 12/30/2020

As 2020 comes to a close, I have some good news I want to share!

As many of you know, I have still been struggling with my brain injury recovery. I just…

Mom’s death taught me that I wanted to live. If death could come as unexpectedly for me as it had for her, I knew I wanted to live my life with as much joy as possible and use my…

Just before the first anniversary of my initial brain injury, life presented a new challenge. I found that my usually very healthy Mom had become very sick. On April 30th, 2019, I brought my Mom to the hospital. That day…

Trying to Find Light in the Dark Times:

Within 6 months after the concussion, I began to stay at home with my Mom in the countryside. The isolation needed to focus on daily treatment with rest & recovery time in…

Doctors, Treatments, and Life with Post-Concussion Syndrome

When I finally saw a specialist that summer, he advised me to stop working to focus on recovery and referred me to rehabilitation therapies. It felt good to hear that someone would be…

My 26th Birthday: The Concussion & Immediate Aftermath

It was May 13, 2018 and I was performing in a musical. In a dramatic performance of my character’s death, I hit my head on the floor. I didn’t lose consciousness, but…

Life Before Concussion (in a nutshell)

I grew up with music innately present in me. My Mom was a music director at a church for forty years as well as a music teacher, accompanist, and musical theatre director. She shared…