ABSTRACT
It has now been six months since the author’s Mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) which resulted from a collision during a football, or soccer, match. The medical guidance had advised that the symptoms of concussion and post-concussion syndrome would have cleared up before now. However, the effects of the injury are still adversely affecting a return to normal daily activities.
The author reacts to the landmark with renewed determination to return a routine at work and in her social life. She tries several coping mechanisms but her efforts are scuppered by the hospitalisation of a family member and a street mugging.
The author also discovers more of the side-effects of an acquired brain injury (ABI) when irritability and obsessiveness interfere on a planned outing. These events combine to exacerbate the headaches, imbalance, dizziness and cognitive fatigue which provoke a further decline in the author’s depression and anxiety problems. This results in a collapse of her fragile mental state and the author pushes for further medical intervention.
