ABSTRACT
It is three and a half years after a collision during a football, or soccer, match gave the author a Mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) which included concussion, post-concussion syndrome, vestibular migraines and bleeding in the brain. The author’s daily routines and career have settled into a new normality. Though she has been discharged from four Neuro-rehabilitation clinics, she is still under the care of Neuro-otology due to ongoing vestibular migraines.
As the author relaxes a little from the rush of diagnostic and therapeutic orders of the previous years, she begins to question if she can just fit back into the same life she had prior to the acquired brain injury (ABI). The pursuit for a full diagnosis was difficult and the fight to recover and return to work had been all consuming. With more time to think, decisions about her career and what the author considers important are asked.
As a result, she tries her hand at a little advocacy to raise awareness of brain injury and to give back through assisting and volunteering. Increasing employment demands and shocking injuries to rugby league and football, or soccer, players convinces the author that the priorities of her old life do not match her new identity as a brain injury survivor.
