ABSTRACT
It is now two years since a collision during a football, or soccer, match resulted in injuries to the author and the diagnoses of concussion and post-concussion syndrome. These initial diagnoses did not cover the full extent of her Mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) which was expanded to include vestibular migraines and a brain bleed.
The author’s Fatigue Management Planner is a blur of neuro-rehabilitation clinics and her graduated return to employment. She is trying to follow the therapeutic, vocational and diagnostic orders while rebuilding her career and maintain some form of home and social life after an acquired brain injury (ABI).
Benefits of the treatments begin to appear, however, the migraine prophylactic, amitriptyline, which was prescribed for the vestibular migraines is still provoking difficult side effects. She also experiences a series of weekly migraines which interfere with the recovery and her return to work.
This setback leads to a change of career plans and the author is demoted to a position created to accommodate her reduced capacity. This disappointment combines with difficulties in rebuilding her social life to produce more cognitive fatigue and decline in the author’s mental health and recovery.
