I have a brain injury [video]
A big metal Christmas street ornament installation fell on my head and shoulder as a rode my bike on the street underneath. Briefly on a ventilator. Thankfully can&#x27;t remember that or the week after personally and mostly recovered over the following weeks, months and years. Kind of like a logarithmic curve; fast at first and then ever slower. From what I was told, that&#x27;s generally the case and there isn&#x27;t really anything you can do except accept it and learn to deal with it and just take care of yourself as always. After being able to speak again etc I remember the frustration of feeling tired but subsequently not even being able to deal with previously relaxing things like watching TV or reading a book or listening to music. Pretty much was just sleeping 16 hours, eating and meditating during that time. Had to learn to speak a bit slower (used to speak too fast anyway) to work around damage in that area of my brain. Still get brain fatigue almost every day which gives a subtle strange kind of headache and makes me struggle with words and clumsy etc. I still get stressed a lot more easily and find it more difficult to concentrate. I think my IQ must have dropped; also according to friends. Regardless I&#x27;ve learned to live with it pretty well with a lot of help from experts; kept my job but working 20 hour weeks now, with colleagues shielding me from stress, helping out and accepting when I have a bad week. Also learned that even while I&#x27;m tired and feel stupid; that&#x27;s not the end of the world either and I can still do and enjoy things. All in all I can do most anything again; just for a shorter time and gotten used to it where it now just feels normal. Feel pretty blessed with all the help I got and that I was able to recover as I did. Could have been a lot worse.<p>Anyhow, yeah, sorry for my rambling. Be careful with your head and carpe diem and all that!<p>PS: Keep doing fun and challenging things as far as possible. I happened to dance 3 to 4 days a week before; am back to 1 to 2 days now except for Corona measures getting in the way these last years. Think that can help exercise your brain in many ways. Also working and speaking different languages etc.