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Living Confused

April 9, 2018 Michael Boyd jr

My story dates back to july 1996 when I flipped a four wheeler and crushef my left side of body and fractured my skull in four places. I prayed that as time went by I could live a normal life.as it has turned out that’s not the case for myself. Before accident I was married for ten tears and worked one job the ten years .immediately after the accident I went into a divorce. Since then I tried holding on to many many different jobs and a lot of what at the time good relationships. I simply can’t concentrate and finish any kind of project anymore that adds up to what use to be.i have no sense of time anylonger and my short term.memory is no longer past 2_3 days.at best. Before my accident everyone called me a walking dictionary of time and numbers of items at work were memorized. It was gift that is no longer. I really try to improve day to day things .that at once was second nature .now is a major task. Ive list three homes and I’m days from losing a nother. I have moved 15_20 times from family and my own.placez. mainly to be near my kids. I haven’t worked in 3 years.its so hard feeling as a failure of your own mine. I truly dont understand some of the simple things in life. Depression is and has been most my life lately and meds seen to no help. I miss me… for my self and family I’m truly not me anymore…. Will it ever change ?

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