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What Day Is It?

A family’s journey through traumatic brain injury

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.

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