Name: Dwayne S.

City: York

Brain Injury: I had a TBI on July 20,1988 by falling from a horse and needed a search party to find me.  I was released from the hospital in early November, then did a few months of outpatient therapy.

Explanation of mask: I tried to do a ying-yang mask because in the accident I had caused some good and bad things.  I lost the ability to hear in my right ear and individual finger dexterity in my left hand.  The job I had before the accident allowed me to return to my job, but, I was not going to advance any further then I was so I went to college, received a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology.  I then went to work as a caseworker for 17 years, currently working in an intellectually disabled household, to up the individuals function in a more typical environment.

In bad times; there is something good. In good times’ there is something bad.