My Life

 On Sunday November twenty-two I had woke up from my bed in my bed room at six-thirty in the morning. So then I had got in my great big black manual wheelchair and then I had wheeled into my bath room. So then I had turned around to stretch my very, very, strong left arm was in back of my and so I had grabbed the great big wide white wooden door with my very strong left hand and then I would slide the great big wide white door shut so that I could get ready to take a nice warm shower. A minute had past then I were all down with my shower and so I had stretch my very strong left arm way in back of me to reach the bath towel so that I could dry my body. Then I had grabbed the great big wide  white door to wheel into my bed room so that I could wheel to my big long dark brown draw and then I had got out my dark gray long sleeve shirt and a  male staff person had helped me to put on my long black pants and he had helped me to put on my long white socks and my long white plastic right ankle brace. Then the staff person had walked out of my bed room and then he had walked down the long hall and then he had went into the kitchen  where he had cooked me a bowl of hot oat meal and he had poured me  a tall wide warm cup of coffee then he had  brought me a bowl of hot oat meal and me a tall wide cup of coffee into my bed room for me to eat and drink.  When I were all done I had face time my mother on my telephone down at her house in Boca Raton Florida,  So I had said hi to me mother and I was wondering did Maria, her husband   Rick and their two sons Michael, and Rickie, made it there ok and my mom had said yes. I usually go down to Florida to but I can not go because of covered nine-teen  and a client tested positive  for covered nine-teen on Monday November six-teen at my program So I am going to spend Thankgiving day at the McLaughlin house here in North Reading. Besides that there is no where to go now in Boca Raton Florida because of the dam virus so I would be in the house all day watching television. At lease in my room up at the McLaughlin house I have got my big wide flat screen computer and I could watch some video's on youtube or I could type on my web journal on my computer or I could just play with my art supplies that is under my bed.  Beside I can not go driving in my big black electric wheelchair to the Gumbo Limbo, nature preserve because it is close down because of the virus. The virus has close every thing down. So that means that I would stay in the house all day watching the television. Besides that I can not go down to Florida any ways because they said the I had caught covert nineteen from a client that work at my program at outside the line studio in Medford. So I had to stay in my room in North Reading, at the McLaughlin house and I had to eat all of my meals on my computer desk in my bed room and that's including my breakfast, my lunch, and my dinner too I could not even drive across the long wide parking lot to go drink coffee at the dunking donuts restaurant driving my great big dark red four medium wheel motor scooter. Boy I were so glad when I had tested negative. Now I could wheel out to the garage and get on my great big four medium wheel dark red motor scooter and drive to the dunking donuts restaurant to get some coffee to drink and a munchkin donut to eat. Just like I did on Saturday November twenty eight. Back on Thanks giving day of 2020, my family had Thanksgiving at my mother's house in Boca Raton Florida, So I was I my bed room at the McLaughlin, house in North Reading, so I had press my mothers name on my I-pad phone and I was video chatting with my family down in Boca Raton Florida, and they had a friend named Judy,  on to eat a thanksgiving day Turkey with them and they ate stuffing, onion, cranberry sauce, mash potatoes, and they ate a few other foods too. and I was at my group home here in North Reading, called the McLaughlin house inn my bed room drinking a cup of warm lemon tea making a live video called to my family that eat in the tiki  hut. But in the McLaughlin house in North Reading. some people came into the kitchen with a thanksgiving day turkey and stuffing, cranberry sauce, mash potatoes, green bean

 On Friday November twentieth 2020, I had got up from my bed at seven o'clock in the morning. So then I had stood up on the floor on the left side of my bed and I had sat back in my manual black wheelchair. At seven thirty a male staff person had put on my gray pants and on my long tan sweat shirt and he had put on my long white socks and I had put on my long white ankle brace and he had put on my black Velcro sneakers too. So I had turn on my television and I watched the news on my television that is in my bed room. So then I had to my my computer key board from my middle shelf that slides out a little bit. Then a male staff person had walked into my bed room holding a plate of three cut up waffle and a nice that wide cup of coffee so then I had ate my waffles with maple syrup on and I had drank my hot cup of coffee too. So when I were all done eating my breakfast and drinking my cup of orange juice and drinking my coffee too. I had called a staff person to take them away and so that I could watch my television for  a bit. Then at eleven-thirty A.M a male staff person had walked into my bed room to give me my lunch which was a baloney and cheese with maenads sandwich and some melted cheese crackers for dessert. So I had to pick up my key board from the middle shelf on my computer desk and then I had to put my key board on the upper shelf of my computer desk and so that the male staff person could give me my lunch to eat which was bolony and cheese sandwich and some cheese crackers for my dessert. Later a had a zoom meeting one on one with a female staff person who works at outside the line studio in Medford, on my computer screen and I had showed her my web journal and I even let her read what I had typed down on my web journal too. She was so interested in reading my online journal that she had said George, who is your case manager at outside the line studio in Medford and I had said Amanda, is why and she had said to me well how about if I just paste this to our computer so you would get some credit for work so I had said ok. At one o'clock P.M I had her again on zoom and three female clients too.  We all he talked about the great big celebration on zoom with all of the people that worked at     R.H.D

 On Thursday November nine-teen 2020, I had woke up from my bed in my bed room at seven o'clock in the morning. So then I had stood up at the left side of my bed so that I could sit down  in my wheelchair. Then at seven thirty A.M a male staff person had walked into my bed room to help me get all dress. By helping me to put on my long gray  paints and my long sleeve light brown sweater and he had helped me to put on my white socks, my long right ankle brace and my black Velcro sneakers too. Later at eight thirty A.M a male staff person had walk into me bed room carrying a egg, sausage and melting cheese breakfast sandwich and a full coffee cup sitting on a great big plate into my bed room. So I had to move my computer key board off of my computer desk so that I could eat my breakfast which was a egg, sausage and melted cheese sandwich and I could see the cheese sticking to the great big plate too and I had drank my full cup of orange juice and my full cup of coffee too. Later when I were done eating I would pick the great big plate up with the two empty cups with my very, very, strong left hand   and I would pull my wheelchair with my very, very, strong left leg and foot over to the great big white burrow and then I would call a staff person to take my great big empty plate with my big two empty big cup on the great big plate. So then I had pushed my wheelchair with my very, very, strong left and foot  back to my computer desk of course I were pushing my wheelchair backwards and I had turned my head as I was pushing my wheelchair back to my computer decks too. So later on I was quite surprise when a head male staff person had wake into my bed room and then he had said to me. He had sad George, and I had said what? Then he had said that you have a zoom meeting on your computer between ten o'clock A.M to twelve o'clock in the afternoon. So he had even wrote down my I.D number on a little square yellow piece of paper and then I he him type my I.D number on my computer key board and the I was on zoom with the people that works at R.H.D from Boston all of the way to Philadelphia, and I would hear different people being nominated for a award for their services to R.H.D. The award meeting on zoom last a long time. When a person would get his or her award you could hair all of the people that on zoom yelling cheering and clapping on zoom. Even I where yelling cheering and clapping too and everybody was proud for one another it was a great big celebration too. Later there were a great big dance party on zoom and there were great music and I could see all of the people dancing on zoom everybody had a great time including me I was dancing and wiggling in my manual wheelchair right from my bed room at the McLaughlin house that is in North Reading, When the party on zoom had ended and when everybody had said their good beys I had another zoom meeting to go too But the other zoom is my regular zooms times. On zoom at one o'clock in the afternoon there were two clients and one staff person that were at the party on zoom for R.H.D and we had all talked about all of the fun we had and al of the people that we Knew too. Later we had played a game called mad live. Made live is a game where you read a shot phrase and you have to pick what go in short story. At two o'clock P.M I had just watch my television for a few hours in my bed room. at  five o'clock a staff person had brought my dinner into my bed room. So I had put my key board to my computer on my top desk on my computer desk and then I would slide my second desk out and I would put my dinner on the second desk that slides out from my computer desk. While I were eating my dinner I were watching the munsters television show on my computer. When I was  finished my dinner I would call a staff person to come into my bed room to  take my empty  plate and my empty glass too. So I were watching my television for a few  hours. Then I was looking out my window and it were getting darker and it  got dark then at eleven o'clock mid night I had went to sleep in my bed.

 On Saturday November four-teen 2020, I had woke up from my sleep in my bed room at seven thirty in the morning. Then I had stood up on the right side of my bed. So that I could sat down in my wheelchair. Then I had wheeled into my computer desk to see all of the video's on the home face book. Then at eight o'clock A.M a male staff person had walk into my bed room to help me get all dress by putting gray shorts on me and a long sleeve shirt and he had also had put no my white socks and my long ankle brace including my Velcro sneakers too. Then at eight thirty A.M I had wheeled out of my bed room and then I had wheeled across the living room floor and then I had wheeled into the dining room and then I had wheeled into my spot at the table. So then a male staff person had opened the kitchen do to the dining room and then he had gave me a egg, sausage and cheese sandwich to eat that he had cooked for me and he had also poured me some hot coffee to drink too. Then after I had at my breakfast I had wheeled out of the dining and into the hall was then I had wheeled in my wheelchair across the living room floor and then I had wheeled right straight into  my own bed room so I could call my mother on my phone I had a face to face conversation with her way down in Boca Raton Florid and I had called from my bed room up in the McLaughlin house that is in North Reading, We had talked about the weather. Like I would say ha mom how is the weather down in Boca Raton, and then she would say to me that the weather was very sunny and eighty degrees too. Then I would say that it is sunny but fifty nine degrees up here in North Reading, and I had told my mother. Now when I am wheeling outside to the garage in my wheelchair and I would park right next to my big dark four medium wheels motor scooter and when ever I am driving to the dunking donuts restaurant to order my coffee at the counter that is in side of the dunking donuts restaurant I always see a big beautiful Christmas tree right next to the sliding glass door and a wide table with some coffee bags and coffee cups too and I would see two big wide wax candles and twenty-two different colored stocking's hanging from the wall in side of the dunking donuts restaurant too. Then I had told my mother what I had decorated on Friday November thirteen 2020, I had decorated a great big tee-shirt for me to wear over my shirt. Me and the other clients that goes to outside the lined studio on seventy Colby street in Medford are going to have a part on Thursday, November nine-teen 2020, When [ were at the dunking donuts restaurant on my big four medium wheel motor scooter on November four-teen I had drove to the dunking donuts restaurant two times I had drove there at ten thirty A.M a guy paid for my coconut Latte, and seven chocolate munchkins donuts and I had parked my big dark red four medium wheel motor scooter in between of two big long tables just eating my seven chocolate munchkins, and so I had face time my brother Joe and his wife Vicky, up in Epson Colorado, and me brother had said that he and his wife Vickie, is going to drive all the way down to Boca Raton Florida in their car. But they are going to stop at their friends houses on the way just to say hi how are you all doing may  stop for tea, or coffee,  and be on their way to my mothers house in Boca Raton Florida.

 On Tuesday November ten 2020, when I had got up in my bed at seven-thirty in the morning. I had stood up from the right side of my bed and then I had sat down in my wheelchair. So I had then wheeled into my bath room to take off my short sleeve shirt then I had  wet a face cloth and I had wash myself with liquid soap and water. Then later  I had dried myself off. Then I had wheeled back in my bed room and I had put on my gray tea-shirt and my long gray paints and a  male  staff person helped me to just put on my white socks, my right ankle brace and my two Velcro sneakers. So later at eight thirty A.M I had wheeled out of my bed room and then I had wheeled across the living room floor and then I had wheeled into the dining room and under the big dining room table too and so I had a bowl of apple oats meal to eat and I had a big cup of coffee to drink too.. Then later I had wheeled back out of the dining room and then I had wheeled across the great big long living room floor and then I had wheeled into my bed room too. So when I had got into my bed room I had wheeled up to my white draw and then I had turned on my television for a little while. Later at ten thirty A.M  I had to wheel back out of my bed room and across the great big long dining room floor then I had wheeled into the dining room where I had saw two beautiful ladies named Nancy, and Lesley. They had the four great big square table pushed together to be one great larger and wider square table so that they could teach my and the other head injury residents had to make a paper quilt by gluing medium colored paper squares on to a much bigger square paper. Later it was twelve o'clock in the after noon so me and the other head injured residents ate our own lunch at our own spot at the dining room table. we al had ate a bowl of chicken and vegetable soup and we ate a boloney and cheese sandwich. Then we had to go back to our own bed room some residents need to be pushed back to their our bed rooms in their own wheelchairs of course by different staff people When I had pulled my wheelchair with my very, very strong left leg out of the dining room then I would pull my wheelchair across the very long and very wide living room floor and I would wheel into my bed room. Then I would shut my bed room door so that I could turn on my computer to go on at appt. called zoom. A female staff person that works at outside the line studio in Medford, was on zoom at her house and some clients that also works at outside the line studio were also on zoom  to a few clients were on zoom at their on house but five clients would be right at the program doing zoom at the great big computer called the smart board in a great big room called the Zen room. We all had a group called music group so we all had said how was our weekends then I has only staid until the end of my song which was I which that they were all California girls. Then at the end of the song I had said goodbye to every body that were on the app. called zoom    then I had wheeled out to the dining and I had a class called Horticulture. In Horticulture a teacher named Lesly. would give me and the other residents at the McLoughlin, would put some very different plaints pots with teacher named Lesly, Then at two forty-five P.M I had went out two dinner with my sister name Maria Russo, and her husband too. They had drove me up to greater Lynne at the great Lynne, market place and we ate at a restaurant called Legal seafood of course all of the people were  out side sitting on chairs around big round tables eating their seafoods including me, my sister and her husband. A half hour later I had arrived at my group home called the McLaughlin house in North Reading, When I had arrived my sister said that  I could use my hemi walker to walk in to the house and I had walked back to my bed room too. Then at six thirty P.M I had wheeled in my wheelchair to the great big wide pink room with all of the other residents for a group called sit down yoga. We had all done a few stretching and stuff. At ten o'clock I had watch the news on my television while laying on my  bed in my bed room with my back and head elevated up and with my legs elevated up too. when it was eleven o'clock midnight I had turn  off my light and then I had went to sleep in my bed that is in my bed room 

 Brain injury Survivors are some of the strongest, most amazing, most brave and insightful individuals. They have Survived what should have killed them. 

Many brain injuries survivors spend the rest of their lives trying to regain what had been lost because of their injury. They are forced to deal with the physical, psychiatric, psychological, emotional and behavioral effects of the damage to their brain. They are abandon by a society that sees them as fine they are isolated by families, friends, and co-workers and other who have no idea the extent of the challenges that they live with daily.

We must change the way the world perceives  brain injury by continuing to raise awareness and by educating others.  

                Traumatic Brain Injuries

at the base of the skull can cause nerve damage to the nerves that emerge directly from the brain (cranial nerves)

Cranial nerve damage may result in   paralysis of facial muscles or losing sensation  in the face. Loss or altered sense of smell.