City/State: Athens

Brain Injury: I was just one of many thousands driving to work that day.  I suffered a medical emergency and sandwiched my car on the driver’s side around a tree.  By the onsite emergency medical personnel and police, I was thought to be another traffic fatality.  When I awoke from my coma, I was being treated for multiple broken bones, bruises, and lacerations.  A week later, I was released home for outpatient PT only.  I began to experience seizures, vertigo, semantic aphasia and fibromyalgia.

Explanation of Mask: I continue to battle the later three foes daily and I am angered and saddened.  I am not angry because of the accident for “The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD (Psalm 37:23),” but because I feel that most of my world perceive the “new me” as a person of lesser value.  Hey, I am still here!