Brain Injury: Post-concussive syndrome secondary to a fall on the ice at work.

Explanation of Mask: I have so much anger. I have disconnected from my family.  They say I have changed.  I scream and get mad too easy.  I don’t listen.  I’m angry for falling down and busting my head.  I’m like a football player who loved my job but now I can’t do it.  I loved taking care of the elderly.  I was doing something with my life.  Now it’s the last thing I want to do.  It’s way too stressful and too hard on my body.  I’ve lost my self-esteem.  I’m grateful to be back at Rehab and having my support team.  They push me, they make me laugh, they understand me; give me a reason to live, to get out of bed, out of the house, to breathe, to workout, to be who I once was. Pink-was my life before, I had everything going on. Black on the right-this is after I fell. Black on the left-this is when I was taken out of therapy at Frazier due to worker’s comp insurance. Mixture of pink and yellow over the black-represents my return to therapy when I was happy, hopeful, but scared. Unfinished part-It’s unfinished. I’m not finished.  There’s more left.  It’s unknown.  How do you go with the unknown?