Friday night lights. Roaring fans, announcers checking mics, slight chill in the air. The Burlington Edison High School football team runs onto the field. My cheer team and I prepare for a stunt as we are pumping up the crowd. Moments later I am thrown into the air, staring into the crowds. The next thing I remember was waking up, it’s a new day, and I am in a hospital bed. My eyes were blurry and my head was pounding. That night at the football game I was dropped on my head, learning to find I suffered a traumatic brain injury. I had no idea what had happened. The last thing I was able to remember was staring at the crowd midair.
The thing that scared me most about this whole thing, was my lack of memory. The only memory I had from that night was right before the …show more content…
I had to keep a spiral notebook with me at all times so I could write things down and keep track of what needed to get done so I could graduate on time. I constantly wrote in it. Some pages were for a running list of things to do on a daily, weekly or monthly format. That ensured that assignments were completed and turned in on time. Some pages were for a list of homework assignments or upcoming projects or I would write specific goals for reading a certain number of chapters each night. It was really frustrating to read a chapter of a book 5 to 6 times repeatedly until I could remember what I had just read. And, trying to remember to write in the notebook became a challenge as the days turned into weeks and then into months. I kept thinking that very soon everything would just come back to me. Like I’d wake up and this whole thing would be some kind of dream. I was hoping everything would fall back into place and my life would return to the way it was just a few months before my injury. Instead of continuing to wait for my memory and abilities to come back to me, I started to put more focus into how to work around my
The thing that scared me most about this whole thing, was my lack of memory. The only memory I had from that night was right before the …show more content…
I had to keep a spiral notebook with me at all times so I could write things down and keep track of what needed to get done so I could graduate on time. I constantly wrote in it. Some pages were for a running list of things to do on a daily, weekly or monthly format. That ensured that assignments were completed and turned in on time. Some pages were for a list of homework assignments or upcoming projects or I would write specific goals for reading a certain number of chapters each night. It was really frustrating to read a chapter of a book 5 to 6 times repeatedly until I could remember what I had just read. And, trying to remember to write in the notebook became a challenge as the days turned into weeks and then into months. I kept thinking that very soon everything would just come back to me. Like I’d wake up and this whole thing would be some kind of dream. I was hoping everything would fall back into place and my life would return to the way it was just a few months before my injury. Instead of continuing to wait for my memory and abilities to come back to me, I started to put more focus into how to work around my