Well there is alot so I am going to try to put them all here. First thing
is that I cant work, at least not as the sheetmetal duct fabricator and
furnace installer I was before, too dangerous because I have no more
feeling on my whole left side of my body and I have lost half the vision in
my left eye, I broke my left eye socket when I fell and that caused the
loss of vision, I may be able to be trained to do some other kind of work
but I also may never be able to work again. The injury I had is called a
Subdurral Hematoma it is broken and bleeding blood vessels on the surface
of the brain below the membrane that covers the brain and the doctors say
that after a year to a year and a half I will have all of the improvement I
can expect to have and I am there. The reason I may never be able to work
is I have short term memory loss, easily confussed and the biggest thing is
headaches, now I always have a headache but it is usually tolerable but
certain things make it BAD this may sound funny but simple things like
thinking and concentrating make my head pound, talking on the phone more
than 5 minutes make it pound, being in a group of people, in a car in
traffic. So Workers Compensation and my Doctors are working with me in the
hopes that we may find something I can do, like they said it will have to
be something repetitive with people around me that I can ask for help when
I need it.
Ok some other way it affected me, well I am an alcoholic and I love going
to A.A. meetings well whats there? lots of people so I cannot get to the
meetings like I want to, I still go but it is only a couple times a month,
at least I have got my friends that I talk to and see quite often and I
found these groups on MySpace and they help keep me grounded. I lived in a
sober living house with 14 other guys just like me for the first 2 years of
my sobriety and there we had to go to a meeting everyday and I miss that
but I am sober and alive today and for some reason I am more at peace with
things now than I have ever been.
Another way is I hit the right side of my head so that is where they had to
do the surgery and they removed about a 6x6 inch piece of my skull and I
have a permenant indentation from where they cut my skull, yeah thats kinda
gross, its not visiable but it can be felt.
I have also been left with no sense of smell or taste because of the nerve
damage done to my brain.
Ok I got out most of what I wanted to say, after my surgery my family was
told that I had less than a 20 percent chance of living and here I am a
year & a half later walking talking typing on my computer with some minor
problems so the only thing left for me to say is thank you GOD for blessing
me with your love and the love of family and friends
is that I cant work, at least not as the sheetmetal duct fabricator and
furnace installer I was before, too dangerous because I have no more
feeling on my whole left side of my body and I have lost half the vision in
my left eye, I broke my left eye socket when I fell and that caused the
loss of vision, I may be able to be trained to do some other kind of work
but I also may never be able to work again. The injury I had is called a
Subdurral Hematoma it is broken and bleeding blood vessels on the surface
of the brain below the membrane that covers the brain and the doctors say
that after a year to a year and a half I will have all of the improvement I
can expect to have and I am there. The reason I may never be able to work
is I have short term memory loss, easily confussed and the biggest thing is
headaches, now I always have a headache but it is usually tolerable but
certain things make it BAD this may sound funny but simple things like
thinking and concentrating make my head pound, talking on the phone more
than 5 minutes make it pound, being in a group of people, in a car in
traffic. So Workers Compensation and my Doctors are working with me in the
hopes that we may find something I can do, like they said it will have to
be something repetitive with people around me that I can ask for help when
I need it.
Ok some other way it affected me, well I am an alcoholic and I love going
to A.A. meetings well whats there? lots of people so I cannot get to the
meetings like I want to, I still go but it is only a couple times a month,
at least I have got my friends that I talk to and see quite often and I
found these groups on MySpace and they help keep me grounded. I lived in a
sober living house with 14 other guys just like me for the first 2 years of
my sobriety and there we had to go to a meeting everyday and I miss that
but I am sober and alive today and for some reason I am more at peace with
things now than I have ever been.
Another way is I hit the right side of my head so that is where they had to
do the surgery and they removed about a 6x6 inch piece of my skull and I
have a permenant indentation from where they cut my skull, yeah thats kinda
gross, its not visiable but it can be felt.
I have also been left with no sense of smell or taste because of the nerve
damage done to my brain.
Ok I got out most of what I wanted to say, after my surgery my family was
told that I had less than a 20 percent chance of living and here I am a
year & a half later walking talking typing on my computer with some minor
problems so the only thing left for me to say is thank you GOD for blessing
me with your love and the love of family and friends
