Name: Becky R.

City: Narvon

Brain Injury: MVA when a man ran a red light

Explanation of Mask:  The gray represents depression, the red is anger, and the blue is the beginnings of good feelings.  The zipper and lock on the mouth are for how lonely and unable to communicate my pain I felt.  The lightening stroke is for the years of post-traumatic seizures and the cross is for my deepened faith through this experience.  The green represents my mind where I can still think complex thoughts (e=mc2), but they are jumbled and when they leave my mouth they are often simple and wrong after going through the TBI filter.  The words around the outside are my new reality after the accident with doctors, meds, hospitals, lawyers, depositions, aphasia, apraxia and feelings of guilt, loss, depression, anger and finally empowerment.