Over time it’s easy for me to concede to the complications from my brain injury and become content with the soreness from the injury. The ability to think, speak, walk and so forth is replaced by other priorities of life. This is when I doubt I’ve done enough to recover from my brain injury and continue my efforts at healing. For me the need to recover from the TBI swings back and forth like a pendulum.
My days are often filled with fatigue from yesterdays activities, soreness from nerve damage and or dizziness from not enough sleep. It becomes difficult to maintain any routine so I can reach my goals.
Falling short of my goals can be caused by not understanding the needs to finish the goal and or poor judgement, both cognitive skills that have been damaged in my brain injury.