What Day Is It? Living with Brain Injury
August 10th, 2009 |
Categories: Brain Injury Survivor Books, featured |
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By Rebekah Vandergriff, LMSW ~ 2008
Rebekah Vandergriff takes a “head on” approach to living with a brain injury. By sharing her personal fears, struggles, and challenges, she gives readers an inside view into what it is like to live with a brain injury.
Despite grim predictions for her recovery, she progressed from learning to walk and talk again to achieving a master’s degree in social work and raising a family. By revealing her family’s reactions and involvement from her early days in rehabilitation to her struggles at home and in the community for independence and self-reliance, she reveals dynamics of siblings and parents.
It’s more than a documentary on brain injury treatment and rehabilitation. Exploring the changes in her thinking and reasoning, her social skills, and her emotions, she demonstrates this affected her self image and self esteem. She and her family experienced trials and conflicts discovering this new world of brain injury.
She explores the impact of her brain injury on dating and friendships. Becoming a parent changed her life completely again as she moved from being the person who was cared for to caring for her daughter. Going to college added new goals and direction to her life as she looked for work and established a career.
Order “What Day Is It?”
by sending a check of $14.95 + $2.55 shipping = $17.50
to: Rebekah Vandergriff
PO BOX 4446
Overland Park, KS 66204-0046
What can I say about a project that took over a decade to create from a thought to a book between two covers? I can say, there is another book bubbling inside me right now. My next book idea could burst at any time, but first I need to let everyone know about the trip I can take you on, through the pages of “What Day Is It?”. Give my book a chance to seep inside your mind. You’ll thank me once you have!
Rebekah’s book reads like a novel, telling the story of her family’s journey through learning about TBI. Her skill in writing can be compared to a photographer focusing in to her subject through the wide lens of a camera, yet the photo developed is the image from a panoramic view of recovery. Including facts from a survivor, mother, sister, wife, and practitioner working in the field of BI. A delightful, inspirational, and informative read. Rebekah should be recognized by the medical, academic, and rehabilitation fields, just to mention a few. “What Day Is It?” is quick, flows from beginning to end, and will often make you laugh. Definitely a must read!