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An artistic expression created by members of the Ohio Valley Center who gathered for a weekend of empowerment at Recreation Unlimited on September 16, 17, 18, 1994
The Life We Live is Yours and Mine
9-16-94
Have you ever had a traumatic head injury and did it alter your capability?
Did it change the way you view society?
Well, I have had a traumatic brain stem injury
and
it has altered my sense of reality
it has re-directed my life's destiny
even if my TBI happened in 1979, and some medical advancements, society's views have changed since that time-the changed life I live is still mine
many doors have been shut, but I will not give up!
Give up, the hope that I can still cope even if I've almost given up that hope and when this life I live is less than fine...
like it or not, this life I live is still mine!
A TBI is a heavy, hard load to carry down life's continuing long, rocky road -
But, I can make it this time, if any- because this life I live is still mine!
I wish to give you this hope I found...
Believe in yourself and try...even when no one else may be around-
Because this life we live is still yours and mine.
Thank God we can do it together!
Author:
Michael A. Straight
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