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Happily Paying the Price

David and his wife in front of a mountain.

Over the last few years, the phrase "lived experience" has been gaining traction within the brain injury community. Early on after my injury, for many years in fact, I really didn't fully understand how much my injury would affect my daily life. As the years passed, I began to better understand what it meant to navigate life with an invisible disability.

My Miracle 15 Years Later: A Break in PTSD Night Terrors?

David Grant and his wife smiling at the camera.

Living alongside David Grant's TBI was a treatment-resistant case of PTSD. For over fifteen years, he lived with innumerable night terror events. The kitchen calendar counted the bad nights. A good month noted three or four bad nights. A tough month, like last November, came with nineteen night terror events. Last November was as bad as it gets. Life was unsustainable… until it wasn’t.

The Importance of Sleep after Brain Injury

The Importance of Sleep after Brain Injury

It’s time to put a label on one of my biggest fears as a brain injury survivor: Backsliding. Over the last couple of months, I began to fear that this was happening to me until another survivor shared with me that lack of sleep exacerbated brain injury symptoms. And in two ticks of a clock, the lightbulb went on over my head.

Taking it all in Stride

David Grant: Taking it all in Stride

Sometimes unexpected and unrelated medical conditions can exacerbate my traumatic brain injury symptoms. I have known this for years, but have just learned a new lesson about how true this can be.

Sleep Well

Sleep Well

Caregiver Rosemary Rawlins talks about why exhaustion was the most difficult physical reaction she had after her husband's brain injury.