Tag: Welcome to Holland;
Gabby Giffords
Posted: January 27, 2012 by Tamara Puffer
Gabby Giffords squelched all talk about whether she would run again for another term in Congress by resigning this week. I must say, I am not at all surprised. A part of me was fearful that she would run again for lack of awareness is very common for TBI survivors. I thought I could go […]
Read more...Fifty
Posted: October 7, 2011 by Tamara Puffer
TAGS: Welcome to Holland;
My fiftieth birthday was on October 5. It’s hard to believe I’m 50! I saw this tongue in cheek picture above about turning 50 and it made me smile. What does turning 50 mean to me? In my forties I kept thinking about how much farther other people had come than me. Now I’m thinking […]
Read more...Grief
Posted: June 10, 2011 by Tamara Puffer
TAGS: grief, Welcome to Holland;
Twenty years ago I learned about Kubler-Ross’ stages of grief. At the time, they made sense to me. However, several years ago I couldn’t understand why I seemed to be back in the early stages of grief surrounding my TBI. Shoot, I’d already gone through all the stages so I thought I was free and […]
Read more...Welcome to Holland
Posted: February 9, 2011 by Tamara Puffer
TAGS: grief, Welcome to Holland;
I was organizing my files on brain injury when I came across a poem I had clipped from the newspaper years ago. I share it at the risk of taking it out of context but Emily Perl Kingsley’s poem called Welcome to Holland resonated with me. “I am often asked to describe the experience of […]
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