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Living Confused

April 9, 2018 Michael Boyd, Jr.

It was the summer of 1996 in July. I was juseilt moving onto ten acres of land and hoping to soon build a house for my family.we moved a mobile home there to live until we saved for the building of our house. One month of being there I was riding a four wheeler in a field outside of an old school baseball field. And flipped the bike .which crush the left side of my body and fractured my skull in four places. It was a terrible site for freinds find me barely breathing. I was life flight to Charlotte n.c with a 10 % chance of living. I was comatose for weeks. I was told they needed to releif my brain swelling . But a miracle happened when they realized my sinuses and ear drums and eyes were bleeding which relieved the pressure enough for me to survive….. the events after the resale from hospital later then and now has been a struggle. I soon within months found my self facing a divorce. My life has not been ME SINCE THE ACCUDENT.befire the wreck I worked one job for ten + years and married. Since then I’ve tried to work 12_ 15 jobs .and many different relationships. It seems I can’t concentrat or keep things in any working order. I no longer have a shirt ten memory. It seems it gets worse as I age. And living with chronic pain. I no longer have insurance for rehabilitate services. My life is no longer the person I once was.. I’m no more the proffessniol I once was at all things I can’t concentrate on one project at a ‘ll. And I have no sense or track of time any longer. For the first years I thought i could live a normal life and never doubted I was not the same person before. I was kidding my self as my life has calling apart around me. I have finally realizefc.after many failures of things that were always accomplished from me is no longer…my health has changed for the w first and I am about to lose my third home. I just can’t figure things out anymore.. I use to be the go to person for answers from all types of freinds and family. BUT IT s

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