As we near the end of Brain Injury Awareness Week in Australia, I’d like to turn things around by talking about brain injuries not as the end, but as the beginning.
In 1994, Milly Parker was a 21-year old accounting student. She had a busy social life, and knew where she wanted to go in life. Then she suffered a traumatic auto accident and woke up in the ICU. She had suffered a traumatic brain injury, and her life would never be the same.
She could no longer study, since the injury had affected her memory and her ability to work with numbers and complex plans. She found socializing traumatic, and working a regular 9-to-5 was nearly impossible. She battled depression for seven years, unable to accept the change her injury had wrought on her. Then she stopped being embarrassed of her brain injury, and stopped focusing on what she couldn’t do. By focusing on what she could do, she turned her life around.
Though she had lost her facility with numbers, she had discovered a new creativity. “Having a short attention span is great for coming up with new ideas,” she said.
She created a home business selling gourmet dog biscuits called Happy Yappers, which had become a national success in Australia and is growing internationally.
If you or a loved one has suffered from a brain injury, you don’t have to think of it as the end, but as the beginning. Don’t spend seven years in depression, wandering aimlessly. To help you get the help and support you need, including a just settlement for your injury, contact Houston auto accident lawyers at Kennedy-Hodges, LLC for your free initial consultation.
