City: Kailua-Kona

Brain Injury: At 10 months I fell from a high chair.  I was hemipalegic for my childhood.  I can pass for normal.  I fall a lot.  I can walk  & work & create.  I grieve the me that might have been and I am grateful for all I have become.

Explanation of Mask: Constantly trying to hold it together while my firecracker brain spills out in unseen rage and unwiped tears- keep it all zipped.  My TBI has come between me and every human relationship of my life.  I am 68 and I get better all the time… If I make it to 150, who knows.