City:  Overland Park

Brain Injury: Rear-ended making a right turn on red in rural Iowa on my way to vacation with family in Lincoln, NE

Explanation of Mask: When you get rear-ended you don’t see it coming but your life stops just the same. I felt broken, lost, labeled forever by the word “TBI”. I wondered if I was invisible as I listen to my “friends” talking about my “life changing event” to each other but not to me. It’s been a slow, frustrating journey but I am coming out of this forever changed and now stronger than before. I am courageous and strong in my own faith, confident because I have a new label, that of “survivor”.