Name: Randy M.

City: Phoenix, AZ

Brain Injury:  TBI from a car accident

Explanation of Brain Injury:  On 11-19-18 while were visiting family in North Dakota, I went to the store early that morning to get donuts and spices to make homemade sausage when we returned to Phoenix.
I was stopped on an outskirt road to make a left turn on a very snowy and icy morning. I looked in my rearview mirror and remember this large lifted truck coming at me very fast.
All I could think is, I need to get out of the way, but cars were coming at me and I could not move…
I awoke approximately 30 minutes later, no longer me… doctors, clinics, and therapy for over a year now.
I miss me so much.

Explanation of Mask:  The left side shows the bad of my injury, confusion, anger, anxiety, fatigue. The additional eye is for the double vision, the megaphone is when I get angry and yell at people, and then handicap status. The black is the damaged brain, where it feels empty… the right side is things that make my brain happy, I mean jump up and down happy. Music, hummingbirds, dog mountains, trees, flowers, meadows. Nature… And as always, DON’T TEXT AND DRIVE!