City: Reidsville

Brain Injury: Benign neuro-cytoma in the right ventricle of my brain

Explanation of Mask: For about 15 or 16 years, I was a pretty normal American girl.  The first white section of my mask represents that time of my life.  When I was in 11^th grade, I started to have anxiety attacks and I was not as social as I used to be.  The white mixing into the black is representative of when things started to progressively get worse.  Eventually, as symbolized by the black section, things were just terrible.  I never went anywhere, I was too nervous too, even rarely saw some extended family.  The dark gray is when I was in the hospital after having emergency brain surgery, when more severe symptoms started to show.  Progressively things have gotten better.  I’m not entirely who I used to be, as shown by the lighted gray, but I’m getting there.