The brain

[Huwbo31]

The brain is amazing! I'm always up and down but it's just finding new ways to work around my problems, so clever I just hope people would understand my problems better

[lisa85]

So very true, that's what I always want with people that I meet.

[cat3]

It's a sore point with most of us here Huw. I felt I was personally treated like royalty during my time in hospital. It was literally one-to-one nursing care followed by 1-1 rehab & physio. Then suddenly nothing.

You're out on the street amongst people who don't have a clue about the new difficulties you face daily and family & friends keep repeating the mantra of "how well you look".

Brain injury has always been an invisible issue so obviously it doesn't attract the same publicity as cancer or heart disease for example. So there's never been information out there to explain why those individuals who are often perceive as 'odd' are the way they are or what caused their condition.

Thankfully teams such as Headway are doing their best to raise more public awareness of brain injury through sponsored charity events, having input on tv dramas dealing with the subject and getting word through to GPs (who are sadly ignorant in the main of the issues we face) and much more.

But in the meantime, it's up to us as individuals, I'm afraid, to explain, over & over, that we might look ok but the situation is so, so much more complex than it appears on the outside.

But yes, the brain IS a marvellous organ, working away minute after minute to repair itself to the best of its abilities in order that we have the best quality of life possible !!

Take care .............................. Cat xx

[paxo05 in reply to cat3]

I agree the brain is amazing. How it can repair or adapt to injury is truely unbelievable.

I have mainly pathway damage ( dont quite understand it myself) and I feel amazed how other parts of the brain take over to compensate. It may not work perfectly but it constantly tries to improve itself.

Was put on a brain trace machine. Not sure how it worked but I looked a bit like hellraiser. It was strange to know that other parts were trying to compensate for any failures my brain had.

It has made me more interested (nosey) into how the brain works......or maybe should work.

All the best Pax.