← Return to Adult Life after a Traumatic Brain Injury

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I had a TBI and 8 hour brain surgery. Now I have memory problems, vision impaired and epilepsy. I can't see anything well enough to do anything fast. I have no depth perception. I carry my address and phone # in my purse because I can't remember it all. My family is all dead from cancer and my friends all moved out of this expensive shit-hole. When I applied for disability they denied me!! This is in Vancouver, Canada. I wrote them a scathing letter back explaining why I can't work. I had a good job. I wouldn't quit so I could lie around and do nothing! I am 57 years old today. They Federal government gives me $1200/month which pays my rent and the Provincial government gives me $300/month to buy food, cleaning products, pay bills and take the bus. It doesn't add up. I was homeless before but now I share an apt with a room-mate I hate. I live off my credit card until I can't make that bill payment. I just want to say to the Feds, Pierre Trudeau and the BC provincial government FK U! I hope you get old, lie around in dirty diapers and have bed sores. If you can't pay the enormous taxes that we pay here, the government literally wants you dead.

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@crawford I had a TBI 20 years ago after numerous blows to the head by my x partner, which left me with seizures. I have damage to the left temporal lobe which they said caused Epilepsy. I have not a drug to help, in fact the seizure drugs made them worse so I stopped them after 8 years in 2012. I would be very cautious to let Drs operate on my brain. I have lost hope really in the medical profession. I wish I had never tried the drugs they recommended which took 2 seizures a year to around 24 a year.