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You are all very brave. The issues in my family, and with myself, have not been birth issues but accidents and ilnesses. I have a sister who, many years ago in an accident, was TBI (traumatic brain injury). She was 16, a brilliant artist, and survived but not to the life she'd known. She has no short-term memory at all. You will talk to her and have the same conversation 5 minutes later. From that day she always had her pictures in her head, but never again could she put them to paper or canvas, that brain-action which allows you to convey your pictures from your mind to your hand is gone forever. She has been epileptic ever since. And many other issues.
I got myself a traumatic bunch of brain/bodily injuries one day, 3 1/2 years ago. I had no health insurance at that time and did all my own invented rehab. I had to teach myself how to do art again, something which had always come naturally to me, and I'm an entirely different artist now. To look at my art before and after is to look at the art of two different people in style and content. It took months to recover it, and I had paralysis in my arms and hands as well so the paintbrush would just drop out of my hands a hundred times a day. I started squeezing tubes of toothpaste to make my hands work. No longer would they just work, I had to tell them to. Sometimes I still have to do that, but not too often. I worked my way up to unopened soup cans, and after several months when I could do five-pound bags of flour I knew I was getting somewhere. I didn't speak or think properly for quite some time. (Though some might say I still don't and never did lol.
It was all kitchen-item therapy. There are leftovers, sometimes the paralysis which I can kill with mind-over- matter strategy, and I'm 80% deaf in my right ear now as that was detroyed. My jaw is no longer aligned so I'm always biting the inside of my mouth, OW. And my balance is shot. However, I'm as lucky as I can be and have no complaints, having been briefly expired in zee ambulance. So life is good.
Just keep on keepin' on, all you brave souls, 'cause it's worth it.
I got myself a traumatic bunch of brain/bodily injuries one day, 3 1/2 years ago. I had no health insurance at that time and did all my own invented rehab. I had to teach myself how to do art again, something which had always come naturally to me, and I'm an entirely different artist now. To look at my art before and after is to look at the art of two different people in style and content. It took months to recover it, and I had paralysis in my arms and hands as well so the paintbrush would just drop out of my hands a hundred times a day. I started squeezing tubes of toothpaste to make my hands work. No longer would they just work, I had to tell them to. Sometimes I still have to do that, but not too often. I worked my way up to unopened soup cans, and after several months when I could do five-pound bags of flour I knew I was getting somewhere. I didn't speak or think properly for quite some time. (Though some might say I still don't and never did lol.
It was all kitchen-item therapy. There are leftovers, sometimes the paralysis which I can kill with mind-over- matter strategy, and I'm 80% deaf in my right ear now as that was detroyed. My jaw is no longer aligned so I'm always biting the inside of my mouth, OW. And my balance is shot. However, I'm as lucky as I can be and have no complaints, having been briefly expired in zee ambulance. So life is good.
Just keep on keepin' on, all you brave souls, 'cause it's worth it.
one thing i found was that everyone i knew that had cp seemed to be really smart. although i wouldnt consider myself a genious. and i had to deal with teachers treating me like i had a very low IQ . i had a pe teacher that talked to me like i couldn't understand what they were saying. GRrrrr. so silly!
