Traumatic Brain Injury: A Short Story

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TBI is Traumatic Brain Injury, mine is not that bad but sometimes my mind wanders. I was in a car accident where I lost my first husband, didn't remember any of the training I received when I joined the Army. Fortunately, one of the the instructors from the school I had attended was in the company so he retrained me, since I was radar repair it took about 8 mo. Thanks to him I was able to relearn my job so it all worked out. When I retired we got our two Cairns, wow what a handful, we must have gone to 3 or 4 basic obedience classes! Bob and I loved our Cairns, we trained together, did agility together, both became therapy dog handlers and we wouldn't even rent a place until it met all the specifications that the dogs needed. Being overseas

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