Comments on: Unthinkable: A Mother’s Tragedy, Terror, and Triumph

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 01:37:20 +0000

I am a young prodigy who experienced a near-death motorcycle accident. Besides the multiple shattered joints, I sustained a brain injury (yes- wore helmet, boots, jeans and a padded jacket. 35mph ‘fluke’). As a family member- and certainly as mothers, your love and support goes a very long way. I am a completely different person. My mother is still not ‘over’ that and probably never will be. I don’t blame her and I am frustrated at my constant failure to communicate ‘it’. I myself didn’t get ‘it’ for three years. How could she know?
When I read your words I feel your pain and frustration.
If I can help anyone try to understand, I am at assertdesign@gmail.com . This was SO hard for me. I’d like to use the painfully acquired wisdom to help others experiencing it.

By: mary o"Riley

mary o"Riley — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 14:06:22 +0000

To Ann Kidd. I am so sorry and your right about unless you walk a mile in my shoes. My son was in a motorcycle accident with no helmet only 4 months ago. He is left with TBI as well as a c7 fracture. He is quadraplegic now and I will bringing him home next week to care for him at home with hospice. This is a nightmare that seems to not end. No mother should ever have to go through this and I’m so sick of the sympathy from everyone. no one knows what is going on in my heart unless you have been through it yourself. my heart bleeds day and night and i know yours does to. You are in my prayers.

By: Ann Kidd

Ann Kidd — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 20:35:18 +0000

The doctors were right. My son nearly died.And today he is not the same person he was before the accident. Nor am I.

I prefer to be alone. To think and ponder. To try to make sense of life, death, suffering.I have no patience for trivial things, conversations, most people.

Oh how comforting Dixie’s words are to me for on most days they are as if I wrote them myself.I too am the mother of a son with sustained brain injury and have become sick of the old throw away line, she’ll get over it, get back to your old interests and haunts but I’ve done neither. Yes I have moved on but I too am not the same person as before. Life seems to have taken on a new time line before the accident and after the accident and yet I am not unhappy just changed, as is my son.I have given up on trying to make others understand. I guess it comes down to unless you’ve walked a mile in my shoes.
Thanks Dixie for sharing, it’s comforting to know I am not alone, just different as a result of changes beyond my control.

By: Dixie Coskie

Dixie Coskie — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 18:29:22 +0000

Dixie Coskie – Unthinkable – Read what Oscar winning actress Patricia Neal, whose own son suffered from a brain injury, has to say about Dixie Coskie’s “Unthinkable”.http://www.dixiecoskie.com/testimonials.html