DAMAGED

 

    The endless cycle of recovery and reinjury.  You almost expect every injury to follow the same linear healing trajectory but a concussion changed my perspective on recovery and revealed the slow and painful back and forth between injury and repair. When you feel like you have moved beyond the damage, a minor bump or jolt can send you back down the ladder where you will start grasping at the first rung of recovery all over again. You go blank and lose yourself during this time, your personality stripped. You are a shell of yourself struggling to find relief from the persistent post concussion symptoms while trying to regain access to your old self. It is a daunting task, a frustrating test of patients leaving you questioning ' When or if this torture will ever end ? '

 

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