Probably not the typical answer to the question, but here is what I learned. My first book ‘Living in Shitville - What Invisible Brain Injury Feels Like’ was about an 84 day/9,461 mile solo road trip in the US Southwest contemplating whether life was worth living. Writing the follow up book “Kicking Brain Injury’s Ass” is about the second chances of traveling 2022 through 2025. Life with BI is about forgetting what you did and feeling guilty about doing “nothing” from being on disability. The huge surprise was adding up the miles and days for those trips: 27,138 miles and 253 days away from home without accidents and injuries, dealing with everything that came my way. I never would have had this insight if I didn’t write the book.

Brain injury symptoms are invisible. Difficult to describe and explain if you have the brain injury. Difficult to understand if you don’t have one. It’s easy to think that survivors are faking it, why could you do something yesterday, but not today? Inconsistent performance. And so on. Makes me tired just thinking about it.

It will be good for me to get going.

I would like to know too.

@K J it helps me to have an external motivator like a commitment or I told someone I would do it😉