City: Abrams

Brain Injury: I was a passenger of a car that was rolled over by a semi-truck.

Explanation of Mask: My mask, in part, represents a passion of mine, dance, which I can no longer do. I can still dance, but it will never be the same as it once was. It is so painful for me to dance (more mentally than anything) because I remember how I used to dance. There are videos of how I used to dance and I can no longer dance this way. There are words at the top of this mask that read “just breathe” and “the true story of.” Just breathe, because often when I would dance I would literally hold my breath and forget to breathe. The true story of, because my mask is my story in a capsulized version. The middle represents a storm complete with lightning bolts, which is very similar to how crazy everything got during my recovery. My recovery was ever changing (a lot of ups and downs) and a very turbulent time of my life. The bottom represents how I was given a choice, which was to live or die and I chose to live.