My New Brain

My New Brain

Lori Williams
While in the US Army, Lori Williams was in a collision that resulted in a severe traumatic injury and forced her medical retirement from the military.
 
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While in the US Army in Germany, Lori Williams sustained a severe traumatic brain injury that forced her medical retirement from the military. Not only did she have to adjust to the physical and cognitive changes caused by her injury, she also had to adjust to civilian life back in the states again. Her memoir takes the reader through her cognitive, physical, emotional, and spiritual recovery.

The chapter titles reveal her wit and sense of humor.

 

Chapter 1 Getting into a Pickle in a Pickle Suit “…absolutely everything about me changed that day; however, it would take me a long time to not only realize that but to remember it, too.”

 

In Chapter 2 Cognitive Changes, describes herself as “A Little Dippy with That New Brain”

 

Chapter 3 Physical Changes or “Strange Gait” that led to her army discharge.

 

Chapter 4 delves into the Emotional Changes or How Does it Feeeeeeel to Get a New Brain? sharing shame, social cues and responses, depression, and social isolation versus solitude.

 

Chapter 5 “Mourning a Brain Change - What Do You Mean, This is Work?” covering the loss of a brain through the lenses of the four tasks of mourning.

 

Chapter 6 “Spiritual Recovery - it’ll Never Be Perfect, but it does Get Better” exploring layers and nuances leader to spiritual reconciliation and acceptance.

 

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Item LWILLIAMS
ISBN# 9781432725990
Pages 116 pages, 5.5 x 8.5 paperback
Year 2008

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Lori Williams was born and raised in northern Minnesota. In 1984 she enlisted in the U.S. Army. While serving in Germany, a car accident left her with a severe traumatic brain injury, forcing her to medically retire from the military. Subsequent to her injury, she attended the College of Saint Catherine in Saint Paul, Minnesota, earning a Bachelor of Arts in Social Work degree. She later earned a Master of Social Work degree from Michigan State University. She currently lives in northern Michigan with husband, Russ, and their cat, Lucy.

 

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