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Anya's Photos of the Day
A first-person account of recovery from a serious traumatic brain injury


10.17.24: Chinese food and a walk
Thursday, Oct. 17, 2016 On this day, we had Chinese food for lunch, which I took a photo of just because it was so good and tasty. On...

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Oct 19, 20241 min read


10.16.24: Mayo Clinic + Miguel, Burson, Kurt
October 16, 2024 It started off as a Mayo Clinic day..... and got better from there! In the nighttime Miguel came over and we chilled and...

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Oct 17, 20241 min read


10.07.24-10.11.24: A week of testing at the Mayo Clinic
Monday-Friday, Oct. 7-11, 2024 SO, I Spent a whole week at Mayo recently... I had lots of tests, including brain and spine MRIs and a PET...

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Oct 13, 20242 min read


10.06.24: Sleepy day, played games around the house
Sunday, Oct. 6, 2024 Alright, so this day I just hung around a bit and played some games at the house. I also, apparently, checked in...

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Oct 13, 20241 min read


St. Helena, food, and accompanying me while I had a fever
Saturday, October 5, 2024 Texts of the day’s events for photo of the day! So for this day, Miguel and I took a very long walk, over to...

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Oct 5, 20241 min read


10.03.24: Quiet day, hanging out with Miguel
Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024 It was mostly a quiet day. Looking at the calendar shows lots of naps I Had a session of speech therapy with...

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Oct 4, 20241 min read


10.02.24: I voted early!
Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024 The big thing was going to vote early in Minneapolis. I've voted early there before too, and afterwards one...

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Oct 4, 20241 min read


10.01.24: Visiting the Methodist food shelf
Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024 I stopped by the Methodist food shelf, which I used to volunteer at every week and visited with several of the...

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Oct 2, 20241 min read


09.30.24: Bananagrams and movie with mom
Monday, Sept. 30, 2024 I've just got photos here of me playing Banagrams and Backgammon with papa on the patio, which is something we...

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Oct 2, 20241 min read


09.29.24: Itacate for lunch and and Maplewood Mall
Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024 Sunday was a big day for me where I did more than usual!ss So the day started with Miguel and I going to Sister...

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Oct 2, 20241 min read


09.28.24: Walk with a TBI neighbor, watching "Big" movie, playing games
Saturday, Sept. 29, 2024 I took a walk with our neighbor, John, who has TBI (and his partner, Meghan too, which I learned how to spell.)...

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Oct 2, 20241 min read


09.27.24: Dominoes and a walk, and a fever
Friday, Sept. 27, 2024 The first photo is a Snapchat I sent to my high school friend Liam, and it says "Hello Goose! because that's his...

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Sep 30, 20241 min read


09.26.24: Walking with Miguel after a Mayo appointment
Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024 On Thursday, I went to Mayo Clinic and got a CT Scan in the Emergency Department because that was the fastest...

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Sep 30, 20241 min read


09.25.24: Drinking shake as usual
Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024 I don't have much to report about this day because based on looking at my calendar I basically slept all day,...

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Sep 30, 20241 min read


09.24.24: Miguel and I hanging out
Well, on Tuesday, Miguel sent me this photo of us from over the weekend, and I'll use it for today's photo of the day because really, not...

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Sep 25, 20241 min read


09.23.24: One selfie and three things from a photo walk
Monday, Sept, 23, 2024 First off, I’m actually finishing this two days later. I was pretty tired on Monday and didn’t end up finishing...

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Sep 25, 20241 min read


09.22.24: Pizza, movies, and patio games
Sunday, September 22, 2024: So for this day, we sat outside on the patio and played a few games Blokus, with both Miguel and Papa, one of...

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Sep 23, 20241 min read


09.21.24: Jodi and The gym with Miguel!
Saturday, Sept. 21 Well, yesterday I was able to go to the gym with Miguel, and we literally just swam the entire time. Afterwards, we...

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Sep 22, 20241 min read


09.18.24: Chilling around the House
The Week of September 18 Here we have some pics from the last couple days: In the middle, Miguel and I were hanging out, and on the left,...

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Sep 18, 20241 min read


09.06.24: Fish fry at brewery for Liam’s birthday
Friday, Sept. 6, 2024 On Friday, Miguel came over and we ran to the store to pick up a birthday card for Liam. Then we drove over to St....

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Sep 8, 20241 min read
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