Tag: disability
Xanax?
Posted: May 6, 2014 by Tamara Puffer
TAGS: creative, disability, stress
I had an appointment with Dr LeMauviel, my primary care physician, yesterday for a blood test to make sure the thyroid medication I’m taking is the correct strength. The appointment usually takes all of 10 minutes but this time she wanted to talk to me. To my chagrin, I waited for an hour for she […]
Read more...Disability Difficulties
Posted: December 19, 2013 by Tamara Puffer
TAGS: Advent, Choir, choir practice, disability, Disability Institute
I had surgery on my thumb on December 2 in Charlotte, NC. At first I had to wear a fairly big cast which meant I couldn’t use my left arm at all. Two weeks later, they put on the purple cast which is the perfect color for Advent. This picture was taken at choir practice […]
Read more...Adam’s Way
Posted: August 12, 2013 by Tamara Puffer
TAGS: disability, Henri Nouwen
When I was in Toronto, I went on a field trip to visit the L’Arche community where Henri Nouwen spent the last decade of his life. He wrote a book called Adam: God’s Beloved about his experience working as Adam’s assistant. L’Arche communities are all across the world now. These communities began when Jean Vanier […]
Read more...“On Our Way”
Posted: January 23, 2013 by Tamara Puffer
TAGS: awareness, disability, Dr. Martin Luther King, journey, memory, mental fatigue, resting brain, survivor
Mark Ramsey and Kristy Farber, the two pastors at Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church here in Asheville, NC are doing a sermon series on communion, baptisim, funerals and marriages. Last Sunday the day before Dr. Martin Luther King Day, Mark preached about funerals. I couldn’t help thinking, “Now how in the world is he going to […]
Read more...A New Year
Posted: January 17, 2013 by Tamara Puffer
TAGS: Choir, cognitive overload;, cognitive overload; overstimulation, creative, disability, over stimulation
I finally made the switch to WordPress. It is much easier to comment now so I do hope folks will take advantage of this. One doesn’t need to have a brain injury to comment but I really see this blog as a place where brain injury survivors can share their struggles as well as their […]
Read more...“People-First” Language
Posted: March 12, 2012 by Tamara Puffer
TAGS: cognitive overload;, disability, organization, stress
You’re probably wondering what a picture of the Y’s pool has to do with “people-first” language. Absolutely nothing. I don’t know how to put pictures throughout my post but I can post them at the beginning so you’ll have to wait until further down when I talk about the pool! This morning I emailed back and forth […]
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