Living in Shitville - Ready, René
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How do you explain an invisible brain injury to someone when you look like you're doing fine? In May 2018, a compressed air accident at the dentist sent me home with a brain injury. My 31-year career as an occupational therapist was over. Welcome to life in Shitville. Living with brain injury and reading about it in textbooks were not the same thing. I hope to provide family members, friends, coworkers, professionals, caregivers, anyone, with insights into the daily struggles of living with brain injury while looking normal. I hope the easy-to-read layout will help others with visual…mehr

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How do you explain an invisible brain injury to someone when you look like you're doing fine? In May 2018, a compressed air accident at the dentist sent me home with a brain injury. My 31-year career as an occupational therapist was over. Welcome to life in Shitville. Living with brain injury and reading about it in textbooks were not the same thing. I hope to provide family members, friends, coworkers, professionals, caregivers, anyone, with insights into the daily struggles of living with brain injury while looking normal. I hope the easy-to-read layout will help others with visual processing difficulties to read about brain injury. This is a story about the grueling stages of anger, frustration, grief, and sadness to find the new "you". It took a 9,461-mile solo road trip and time away from home to find my new identity, meaning, and purpose in life.
Autorenporträt
René Ready, an occupational therapist, is the author of the memoir "Living in Shitville - what an invisible brain injury feels like".She graduated from the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa in 1987 with a bachelor's degree in occupational therapy.Her clinical background provides a unique perspective of the struggles of living with an invisible brain injury.Retired after a brain injury in 2018 during a dentist visit, she now travels in a converted minivan exploring and photographing the western USA.René lives in Washington State with her husband and four wiener dogs. She grows tomatoes in summer, plans road trips and learns to drive the school bus.