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Smoothing Out - Section 4
If the period after The Accident was “In the Rough,” I can term the next period one of smoothing out. It meant gathering together what I had been able to accomplish, learning more about the difficulties ahead, and particularly solving the practical problems of living alone, except for one cat, and the occasional daughter.
In the […]Filling in the Background - Section 3
April 3rd, 2007
Filling in the Background - Section 3
by Sigrid Peterson in Unedited material, Sectional work
What was my world like, the day that driver failed to clear her windshield on a wintry day, and ploughed right into me?
What comes first? Surroundings? Social Status? Religion — after all, I lived in Salt Lake City, even though […]In the rough
How do you know when you have recovered from traumatic brain injury? When you go back to work at your old job? When you learn a new task and perform it better
than most?
Is there a way to measure learning to walk again?
I think the clearest way to self-knowledge in recovery is setting a goal and […]Another Maslow Quote
“The brain-injured person has an exaggerated need for certainty, safety, definiteness, and order.” Abraham Maslow, Motivation and Personality from memory, at this point.
A Slippery Flat
Today is the end of a week of ice-storm and its aftermath, that was supposed to end the day after it began, with a torrent of rain. Instead there were five days of intermitten (and intermittent) snow and sleet that layered the roads and sidewalks with treachery. Because the storm would pass us by, I […]
A Disabled Mind
Most of us, readers of this book, will only know what it is to have a disabled mind from the outside looking in. As a counseling/clinical psychologist, I knew disabled minds from interviewing their possessors, and from a neurology textbook, and from the observations that informed Abraham Maslow, especially in his Motivation and Personality. I […]
Contrast II
Less than a month before the date of my premature graduation, I had filed an answer to a complaint by the University of Pennsylvania that I owed them $15,000, in part for University housing. I have never lived in University housing. Instead I have lived in one of two wheelchair-accessible apartment buildings near the University, […]
Organization
Perhaps I can begin to outline the story:
A. There is the non-graduation Graduation;
B. Then the horrific accident and recovery;
C. Then a section on “All the Other Stories” which should be brief vignettes, not necessarily chronological, of things like AIDS work, including lobbying, quilt; “favorite things;” surviving Philly, its downers; travel tales; the talented Kraft, and […]Brief Aside on Collection Tactics
And the logical fallacies! Get a lawyer, they said. We don’t want to talk to you, that implied. What would you know? Pay a lawyer $1,000 (to start) in order reduce the bill to some amount I could not pay and didn’t owe?
So at one point I offered $1,000. They told me That’s not enough! […]