I too fell in a skiing accident in 2007. All of the attention was paid to my fractured back and none ever to my head even though I had become such a different woman. My husband and children noticed that I was different but attributed it to my pain. I needed to have them see that it was more than that, that I needed help and needed it badly. After having made so many unusual for me mistakes, definite personality changes like responding in ways I never would have if I were normal, inability to follow a recipe, leaving water running and flooding out a room, repeating myself when telling stories, being late for everything, always late, after all of this and finally even a serious suicide attempt the help I need has not come. No one has a place for me to get help. I have suffered the embarrassment of the suicide attempt and being punished by doctors for having done such a bad thing. They didn’t know what was the matter. It’s amazing to me that people don’t automatically recognize TBI’s. It’s a chronic problem but one that no one talk about. I now watch football players getting tackled and I cringe. Why don’t they know that these men are hurting themselves?
Well, over the past month I have fallen twice, planted my face first on the ground both times. My brain hurts, sounds hurt, light hurts, I’m exhausted. I broke by arm and my tooth went through my lip and chin.
No one has checked for a brain injury. I don’t even know how they do that but I know that my brain has been injured two more times and that it still hurts just like my arm.
What can I do?