She thought that she was getting up…but then, she wasn’t.
Category: The Shower Accident 11/14/25
Misalignment
Much like the prow of her ship from past collisions, her hip and shoulder were twisted from recent effort to swab the deck.
(Stronger [What Doesn’t Kill You] – Kelly Clarkson)
Brain Crash With Fighting Off Impending Meltdown
Because she could not “see” where the needed undergarment had gone to.
Suspension Anxiety
She couldn’t tell if it was from circumstances, or physical injury.
The Job
Keep stitching torn sails, work to repair rigging, and pray for reinforcements.
Resolute
The concussion scenario being a dead end recipe for complete disempowerment, she just kept trying to do whatever she could try to do, despite it – peppered with moments of stopping for breaks to try to rest.
Braaaaiiiiinnn
“One could think that being told one must rest for recovery would be liberating.
But it isn’t – no, not one bit – not one bit at all when one’s boat is sinking.”
Discussion
“After two and a half years of working toward reactivating muscle responses, it becomes apparent how essential that the surrounding fascial support tissues are in also needing reactivation to cushion and hold structural supports, as well as keep them within their own sectors vectors.”
My Phrasing
“Based upon personal and professional experience.”
Official Terminology
“Connective tissue integrity disruption.”
Building On Belief
“A doctor’s assistant doing initial intake before I saw my primary recently listened to how I’d discovered that my workouts had actually been gaining ground in restabilizing my spine – and then how devastated I was to have that progress disrupted and basically wrenched from my hands from the concussive fall.
Whereupon, I was surprised and encouraged when she reflected my prior once faith back to me by saying assuredly, ‘But you can get that back…'”
I Was Astonished
“That the orthopedic doctor actually said, ‘What good would an MRI do?’ – and he’s a surgical specialist!”
Can I Opt Out?
“From this whole body and brain injury scene?”
(School’s Out – Alice Cooper)
I Am Literally
“Quite twitchy.”
Dr’s Note
“There’s this feeling that I can’t place, like being body-slammed or hit in the face – felt since hearing that the only recovery path for my concussion is rest minus brain use activities when survival requires opposite.”
I Am Tired Of Struggling
“Pick A Subject…”
Parallel Tracks
Narrowed fields of vision
Along gaptic crossways
Make it near unfathomable to
Work several projects linearly
Thunk!
“I got a deep hip adjustment when I extended my leg out for a stretch while on my back.
Maybe I’m closer to some better tracking!”
Something I Won’t Get Near To, AgaIn – AHAHAHAHAHA
Inner Eye
“And to try to see makes my brain want to scream!”
Catching Up With Falling Down
She was hungry
And her neck and head hurt.
Getting up hurt,
Staying up hurt.
Thinking hurt.
Needing love and yearning burt.
Wanting hurt.
Not having hurt.
Lack of any options hurt.
Striving now felt pointless.
Purposeless.
Her father warned depression could come from concussion.
But that wasn’t why she hurt.
She hurt because the accidents hurt her and she couldn’t have what her soul and heart wanted because they hurt her.
She couldn’t reclaim her self determination’s independence or feel free – only disepowerment.
She couldn’t have tbe man she wanted who reawakened her to things long buried.
She couldn’t have the dreams that had kept her vital despite setbacks.
She was being rendered obsolete to society not just from arbitrary age bias, but because she couldn’t perform on the treadmill, any.more.
She was becoming irrelevant even to herself because she could no longer single-handedly provide for her family’s – or even now, her own – survival.
Darn It!
“I’ve hurt myself from today’s workout.
I can barely do anything, now, without reinjury!”
Adrenal Anxiety
“I need to apply for longterm help, and it feels like I have done something terrible.
Like I took a very wrong turn, somewhere.
And I can’t go back to change anything – only forward.
I didn’t make any of these injuries happen.
Neither accident was my fault, and I fought back bracedly both times to resist their happening.
So why am I having to pay the price for others’ laxity?
Why is my reward relegating me to dependency?”
Concussed Fatigue
Another aspect of injury is that
My body tires quickly standing
Fu** You!
Impact damage
Downgradation
Makes me want to
Scream in rebellion
Gaps In Synapses
I have three brain injuries now
Original, new, and combined
Did I say this?
Have I said this?
The walls are thicker
Behind closing doors
Help Me Before I Fall
I Was Afriad
After the concussion
My arms became weak
My hands and face had
Increased numb patterns
Body and limb discoordination
Was knocked back into tailspin
Neck instability meant any movement
Upon elliptical pulled on brain injury
So now I do even less at the gym
To allow myself to try to catch up
Lack Of Confidence
I need to get back into
Previous yoga-pilates
But it was not safe to
After the car accident
So it’s hard to believe
Strength will recover
Although time’s passing
Says to do now not later
Depths Of Connection
As my body resettling
Moves to new “normal”
It brings to the surface
Support tissue atrophy
When lying upon a shoulder
Things sink where shouldn’t
Causing destabilizing strains
To bone attachment structure
Accident Prone
Going into third year of recovery’s
Recurring negative enforcements
—
(Title of multiple meanimgs)
Me, Myself, & I
“We are pretty dissatisfied in this current predicament.”
Great Angst
“Trying to coordinate fingers threading shoe laces through resistantly-tight, flick-flapping shoe straps.
What happened to standardly-practical, solid and easy-to-use holes?”
Will I Rise Again?
When my grandparents finally rested,
They either gave up & chose to die or
Stayed in bed for the rest of their lives
Two & A Half Years
Being unable to work
Dependent on systems
Has very much sucked as
I prefer self determination
Discontinuity
“Being unable to work flies into the face of the American Dream.”
Dust To Dust
I’ve got nothing to strive for
No more umph in my motor
I always had manifestation
As my high-driving priority
Even if I had to wait
I knew it was there
I could feel it’s pressence
Just like I feel you, my love
It’s very discouraging after all of that
To find myself flat-stopped, diverted
No more climbing
No more aspiring
Because I’m just
So damn hurting
Nothing seems attainable anymore
It’s just slipping through my fingers
(The World I Know – Collective Soul)
(You Better Run – Pat Benatar)
(Treat Me Right – Pat Benatar)
Renegotiating
Sanity
Carrying The Burden
“It becomes more clear that my neck, shoulders, and spine have become more destabilized since the concussion accident as muscles torque-torsion into spasmed misalignments carrying loads that they weren’t meant to be hoisting.”
Puffer Fish
“Dang-nab it!
The concussion has made my body swell, again!”
Backed Into A Corner
“I was not responding well as of today from the concussion when getting other people’s help as they were pressuring.
I was either dealing with their trying to be time efficient and going in too many directions at once – spinning me in circles – and/or wasting my time, etc..”
The Question Is
“Can you self regulate?”
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(Re the maelstrom that descends when engaging resource acquisition processes due to brain injury)
“There Can Be Only One”
“I now have two kinds of brain injury – and boy, let me tell you how fun this is navigating the shattered internal stratosphere!”
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(Title reference to movie Highlander and the struggle to reclaim primary power)
Brain Injury Gaslighting
“An advocate for brain injury support tried helping me today, and finished our appointment by giving me the number to call my next errand item.
After several times of copy and pasting the number, dialing, and getting my own voicemail, I finally realized that she had given me my own number by accident!”
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(Re: object identification shutdowns)
Family Support
“My eldest assures me that I still have time to live a wonderful life, and that we just need to find more healing answers.”
