Six months in PCS

[Graceissufficient]

Much has improved, I know how very lucky I am, and that it is still very early days, but I have questions...

I can walk now without a stick for half a mile on a good day - but my body and brain really hate steep uphill walks however slow - have others experienced this? Is it some autonomic dysfunction? It feels very odd.

For the first time I am becoming tearful - luckily I know from here that new concussion effects emerge down the road - including depression. I can feel the mood changing. Lots of rest and just keep trucking?

The anxiety and loss of the old ability to manage life - I have to psyche myself up to make a phone call and can collapse into stammering - is difficult - keep trucking through it slowly I guess.

[Friddie]

I feel for you. I have PCS. I don't experience the struggle you have walking uphill but as you say lots of rest , and give yourself a welldone because you are trying. I have terrible headaches and certainly ups and downs emotionally; I often feel like crying which I do. I have just started mindfulness and meditation which helps with emotions, memory and attention.You are doing well.

[Nafnaf87]

Good morning Grace

You said it, just keep trucking. After 27 years I can tell you things do get better but it is interminably slow (I was 8 on the Glasgow Scale shortly after accident). It is a good idea to expect things will go wrong AND from time-to-time others will behave badly if only so that doesn't also add to the weight on your shoulders (for some time my head was heavy enough on my shoulders without anything else!).

Through it all remember you are worth it and the alternative is not.

Best wishes

Michael

[skydivesurvivor]

all of the above!!! Took me 20+ years to accept/ recognise the new me?!! Shit times have gone past!! Made me stronger!! Weirdly on antidepressants as would burst into tears in high street suddenly?! Took it that new neurons were filing bits of old me?! Learnt to smile to spite my TBI. Been a long road, don’t get me started on gov. Changes to benefits!! It’s progress for sure!! A whole new journey starts now. Good luck xx