Name: Henry G.

State: Arizona

Type of Brain Injury:  In 2016 (January) I had a stroke.

Explanation of Brain Injury:  From my stroke, which was on the right side of my brain, I developed a condition called aphasia. Sometimes I don’t know words. Sometimes, I know the words but can’t say them. I can’t really write, so I use a computer program, Dragon Speak.

Explanation of Mask:  My brain is pretty good, but my brain injury affects things besides the brain. Things like speaking and swallowing. The therapists I work with want me to use my left side of my brain more. So I’ve been trying to. I enjoy music more now, instead of reading, for example. For my mask, I wrote “not so bad” on the left side, which is the side of my brain w/o the stroke. I put “frustrated” on the right side, because that’s where the stroke was, and it doesn’t work like it used to. The word “Ally” is in the middle because the left side of my brain is helping my right side.