@lisalucier I'm almost 10-years into this brain injury journey and 80% recovered. I feel fortunate for every day I'm here. Failing to hit that "recovered" goal post is tough. It took me 5-years to realize that recovery after a brain injury is a journey and NOT a destination. My deficits are invisible and mostly cognitive - executive function, brain processing speed, central auditory processing difficulties, and when I'm tired my balance takes a hit and my post trauma vision syndrome symptoms flare.

Now, from an ortho surgery perspective, because I'm about to embark on one - I'm expecting a recovery goal post. So I do think it's different. Most ortho surgeries do have expected dates and milestones to hit. Brain injuries don't fall in that category because every stroke is like a snowflake and no two are the same.