Living in Shitville

How do you explain an invisible brain injury to someone when you look like you're doing fine? In May 2018, a compressed air accident at the dentist sent me home with a brain injury. My 31-year career as an occupational therapist was over. Welcome to life in Shitville. Living with brain injury and reading about it in textbooks were not the same thing. I hope to provide family members, friends, coworkers, professionals, caregivers, anyone, with insights into the daily struggles of living with brain injury while looking normal. I hope the easy-to-read layout will help others with visual processing difficulties to read about brain injury. This is a story about the grueling stages of anger, frustration, grief, and sadness to find the new "you". It took a 9,461-mile solo road trip and time away from home to find my new identity, meaning, and purpose in life.