Decisions After Brain Injury: Zach Part Thirty Three
One of the hardest challenges that some traumatic brain injury survivors encounter the decision making process. It can be very difficult for survivors to make decisions after brain injury. We have talked about this is other survivors stories. For instance, shopping is one place they might have to make decisions after brain injury. In Zach’s case, he states that it is deciding what to eat is the hardest decisions after brain injury he experiences.
Do you have trouble making decisions after brain injury?
Sometimes.
About what?
Like, my biggest decision to make, the hardest one for me is what to eat for food. I never know. I stand in the kitchen and I’m just like, you know, and that’s it. I can’t make a decision usually, now where do you want to go to eat, you know? I don’t know where do you want to go?
Does food taste as good to you as it used to?
Yeah. Yeah. So I’d like to thank God. Sometimes it taste a little better than it did.
And you’re back to your normal body size. What do you weigh now? 155, 160?
170, yeah.
And, and that’s where you want it to be?
Yeah, that’s what I want to weigh.
Do you ever go to a grocery store?
Yeah, yeah I do.
Do you have trouble figuring out what to buy when making decisions after brain injury?
No. I write everything down. I write it down on my list what I need, get this and I’m out.
Would you have trouble remembering if you hadn’t written it down?
Yeah. I remember most of it but, like anyone else, they, they forget it so I like to.
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Hello Rachelle,
Your post makes me want to cry. I truly hope you have received support from other survivors. My TBI was severe. I am still and always will be recovering. Feel very fortunate to be alive every day. yet struggle just the way you do, every day. God Bless. Write back if you need. Resources I am gathering more and more over the past eight years.
Smile, we are loved, we are survivors!
Jennifer
OMG your video made a huge difference for me. I am so struggling- no support 🙂 Had a bad injury from a car accident 3 years ago. Problems with doctors refusing to treat me- because car accident. Than in Dec, almost 3 years to date. I had another accident. Neither were my fault- but who cares. I just want my life back. I never finished healing from the 1st accident and than had another. I am so struggling. Don’t know how to contact you or get help.