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Confabulation...
When I first heard that word I was thinking of Elmer Fudd saying something and yet  reading it in a report on Deb and again on a brain injury website I learned it is a real word and a real disorder with TBI.
Occasionally, a person with a brain injury tries to fill in memory gaps by making up information. Known as “confabulation,” this behavior is different than lying. Do not...

March
List your essentials
lovehonestyhopehubbyfamilycameraiphonerazorsbookskindlerunningpenpaperwritinglip glosshair straightenercozy blankets 

Have you met these people? They try and try to bring sadness or upset into your life and yet each day you get up singing like the characters in whoville...
Because you have a choice. You can either let their negative actions consume you or you can learn that those actions speak more about them than they do you. 
For me life has been a series of ups and downs, and these ups and downs are the life...

What do you do when you feel overwhelmed with life?
There are days when I feel like life is falling in on me from so many directions, forging me into something new. I've always been a journaler, and as these struggles continue to shape me.  My writing has given me more strength as my words teach me and hopefully others, and that part I like.
Problems are our opportunity to find our strengths and...

Life has been counted by the weeks...
Three weeks in ICU, 2 weeks in step down, five weeks at Lakewood hospital, endless weeks at Mentis in Stow and most recently, 5 weeks of radiation. "wow, that's a lot of time!" Somehow, the time keeps passing and before we know it and we are out of another phase.
I'm glad this phase is over and I am sure Gordon is too, although we know the effects from the...

List the ways you can cleanse for spring
healthy eating habitsletting go of things I cannot changecleaning out house beginning in basementwater... more waterreading and writing moredigging deepfinding gracedonate, give, share 

As we drive down the road listening to 70's songs and singing "you make me feel like dancing" at the top of our lungs, I am reminded of the sister I had before the surgery. We laugh and sing and talk about silly things, and that feels good.

But once the song is over and the questions begin again... "did you see dad", and I reply, "no dad died in 1998", oh...
"Are Joe and Rob at your house",...

I often wonder what goes on in her head? What she's thinking, remembering or if its just like static on a television... a sort of silence?
She doesn't say much when you are with her, except for thank you, repeating it so many times I lose count. Or how nice the day is, with her equivalent of nice being the sun is out despite the 20 degree temp. The same can be said on days when she bought lunch...

March
List the places you want to go
IrelandThe Biltmore - Ashville NCCruise AlaskaCruise Bahamasbroadway showssummer concertsZen Center in SF Caliget my hair donesee my sister ring bell once radiation completefacials with Chelseashopping at Athletafind summerfor a run outdoors

Oh my! Where did the years go? My daughter, my friend, my running partner. You have saved me  through some of the roughest times in my life, brought me to tears with your bravery and constantly make me laugh.
We shop together, work out together and even take care of family together
You have brightened our life from the moment you were born, which was at exactly 7am, kind of explains your always...