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The Girls' Book of Glamour: A Guide to Being a Goddess | Sally Jeffrie

First #bookhaul of 2020 🙌🏻
Some @gettbr recs - horror short stories (1 from @carolinekepnes 🖤) - a book of personal experiences with #tbi - and #thegirlsbookofglamour 💁🏻‍♀️. Got it for my baby niece - now I have my own copy to read with her ♥️

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Love You Hard: A Memoir of Marriage, Brain Injury, and Reinventing Love | Abby Maslin

"It's all a mind-fuck - a roller coaster barreling from peaks of gratitude to valleys of seething anger and resentment...Eventually though, I must learn to quiet the anger that...leaves me screaming inside...If I don't...I know I will harden - losing my balance and everything else I'm trying to protect."

#abi #tbi #caregiver

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CuriousG

Love You Hard: A Memoir of Marriage, Brain Injury, and Reinventing Love | Abby Maslin

Just cried my way through the first 35 pages of this gem. Not sure that everyone would find it quite so emotional, but it took me back to my hours spent waiting for my husband to have a craniotomy done due to a head/brain injury. This is going to be a *tough* read, but I love everything she writes on her blog, so it will be totally worth it! #abi #tbi #hardlove #loveeverysecond ❤

8little_paws Wow this book sounds intense! 5y

CuriousG It certainly will be for me. I think anyone will find it interesting and emotional, but I know it will trigger me to a much greater extent. Not sure exactly how the book will go (in terms of writing style,) however I think it would be an amazing thing for people to read. The ways brain injuries change families are definitely intense. 5y

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8little_paws I read another memoir about TBI in a marriage. This may interest you as well.

Wondering Who You Are: A Memoir

CuriousG I've actually never heard of that one @8little_paws - thanks for telling me about it! 5y

8little_paws You're welcome! 5y

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CuriousG

Love You Hard: A Memoir of Marriage, Brain Injury, and Reinventing Love | Abby Maslin

Need to wait until March 15th for it to arrive, but I absolutely could not be more excited for this memoir! For several years I have been following Abby Maslin's blog/articles for brainine.org - I cry every time. If you are interested in caregiving perspective, acquired (traumatic) brain injury, or just plain how does love survive ongoing trauma/challenge, this will be something to read. Is it March yet?! #abi #tbi #caregiver #love #reinvention

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Prudence | Gail Carriger

Lunch time reading in the conference room. My brain is working MUCH better than the first time I tried to read this book. I am so happy my attention span seems to be better than it was a few months back. #Post-ConcussionSyndrome #TBI

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Hornsby78

Prudence | Gail Carriger

Trying this one again at the beginning. I was a few pages in a year ago when my attention span left me completely and I had to stop reading novels altogether. I had no idea I would still be dealing with concussion symptoms 3 years out from injury but here I am. #TBI #MentalHealth

jpmcwisemorgan I hope it goes better this time. I‘m sorry that you‘ve had symptoms for so long. 6y

Hornsby78 @jpmcwisemorgan I thought the symptoms had resolved themselves 14 months after the wreck but they popped back up again last year unexpectedly when my immune system became wore out from asthma flares. It seems I will have this to deal with for a while if I get too ran down or stressed out, like a virus that stays dormant for years. 6y

jpmcwisemorgan Yikes! That has to be hard because it‘s easy to get run down or stressed. And to have something like asthma that can be a problem for the same reasons, or mean you‘re more susceptible to other crap when you‘re run down or stressed. At least, that‘s how it is for me. 6y

Hornsby78 @jpmcwisemorgan That's how it is for me too. Thankfully, I believe I have finally found a treatment for my asthma that will keep it mostly under control which will help everything including the concussion symptoms. 6y

jpmcwisemorgan Good! Fingers crossed. 6y

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CuriousG

Tell Me Everything You Don't Remember: The Stroke That Changed My Life | Christine Hyung-Oak Lee

Spending #NationalBookLoversDay reading this amazing memoir. A tough read for me as so many things parallel my husband's experiences since his acquired brain injury 8 years ago. I encourage everyone to read this - she does an amazing job of really helping you feel the loneliness & frustration involved in a health condition that people don't 'see'. 'But you look so good!' is something my husband hears all the time. 😩 #ABI #TBI #invisibleinjury

UglyOldBat Yep I get told that all the time but my body hates me 7y

coffeenebula I feel you. My husband has had 4 strokes since 2014. It's so frustrating and tiring. 😞 7y

CuriousG @coffeenebula Wow! That must be utterly depleting/discouraging to experience that again and again. Sending you both my positive thoughts and hoping that you are able to find some joy in your time together. I have no doubt your lives have changed drastically in the last 3 years! 💟 7y

CuriousG @abandonallhope It must be very frustrating to have people minimize your struggles by saying that (even if it isn't intentional on their part, it still hurts). I hope you are able to find some things that help you feel more at peace with your body and less like it is fighting you. You're doing a great job already....I know this because you obviously like books and go on Litsy! Books heal our souls 💛 7y

UglyOldBat Thank you 💜 7y

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CuriousG

The Iceberg: A Memoir | Marion Coutts

"The first thing to understand is that endless retelling is overwhelming. It is boring, draining, dispiriting."

I can't say what it was like for my parents when my brother's brain tumour was discovered, but I imagine this was true. I do know that since my husband's traumatic brain injury, I certainly feel this acutely. #braintumour #ABI #TBI #storyrepeateddaily ?

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