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

Ellie and Diego plus Efi on pool table
March 25, 2024 This was yesterday. I spent all day at Mayo doing appointments. I met up with Jessica for therapy in person at 9am, and...
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Mar 26, 20241 min read
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Bernie and Dinner with Jodi + Tina and Jeff
March 24, 2024 I did the last two days today too, so I’m just starting today’s now so that that won’t happen again. I worked out with...
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Mar 24, 20242 min read
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Hot Pot with Minnesota Gals Making Friends
March 23, 2024 It’s 100% the next day now. For yesterday, I have yet another day that looks fantastic from photos, but I was still very...
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Mar 24, 20241 min read
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Yoga, Bernie and Hoefs Canasta
March 22, 2024 Another day of post. The day’s not over yet, so I’ll write this after I get back from Hannah’s parents’ house tonight. I’m...
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Mar 24, 20241 min read
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Dr. Tonkin and the trainer Kevin + coffee
March 21, 2024 Ok I’m FINALLY doing this one the day of. Today I drove to HCMC to meet with Dr. Tonkin. We had some decent talks, and I...
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Mar 22, 20241 min read
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Yoga, volunteer and compañeros de copas
March 20, 2024 Forgot to post this... Here we go for yesterday.. I worked out with Bernie, failing to take a picture, and then I did yoga...
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Mar 21, 20242 min read
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Spanish card games + class
March 19. 2024 Today started off with a therapy session with Jessica. She tried to convince me that volunteer working is real working....
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Mar 21, 20242 min read
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Lunch with Liza and Spanish with Francisco
March 18, 2024 Today started off with a therapy session with Jessica. She tried to convince me that volunteer working is real working....
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Mar 19, 20242 min read
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Talks and dinner with Mary Shea and family
March 17, 2024 I'm not even going to write about the 15th because it was a low day for me. But yesterday I had some decent moments. First...
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Mar 18, 20242 min read
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Not boring... gym w/ Bernie, yoga and Hannah/Caroline
March 16, 2024 I don’t even know if I have space to talk about all the things I did today. It started with a very exciting trip to the...
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Mar 16, 20242 min read
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Me and my BeReal being boring
March 14, 2024 Looking at yesterday’s photo now.... I did NOT mess up today like I did yesterday. I just did some kinda boring things,...
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Mar 15, 20243 min read
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Liam lunch and Bernie workout
March 13, 2024 Today was another kind of bad day. I started it off by messing it up massively in the morning. I went to go to my training...
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Mar 13, 20242 min read
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Blood transfusion + Ethiopian with Kathy
March 12, 2024 Well, today was not a good day like yesterday was. I literally just went down to Mayo Clinic and spent the whole day...
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Mar 12, 20242 min read
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Successful Spanish meetup, plus Francisco
March 11, 2024 Ok, I’ll write this one on the day of. It’s even before midnight, barely. Today I went to my Monday night Spanish meetup...
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Mar 11, 20242 min read
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Failed meetups over Bernie workout
First day in a few days I’ve written one of these. Today started off with going to the gym with Bernie. I was a little surprised to be so...
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Mar 10, 20241 min read
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Trivia with Liam and more
March 9, 2024 In a way, due to the traumatic brain injury, when I don’t take notes on my life I really don’t know what happened. This was...
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Mar 10, 20241 min read
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Mayo angiogram and selfie over Himalayan Place with Hannah
March 8, 2024 Alright, I just succeeded in getting the photos in here, and it was hard. First I’ve got some photos from when I went down...
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Mar 8, 20242 min read
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Workout and Kevin the trainer over Open Door
March 7, 2024 Well I’ve discovered that I don’t really remember my days when I don’t do this. First thing in the morning, I had a...
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Mar 7, 20242 min read
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Spanish meet with Carlos, Francisco, Alec
March 5, 2024 Alright, yesterday was awful so I didn’t do this. I felt like I was “lower than I’ve ever been,” which happens to me...
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Mar 5, 20242 min read
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Bernie workout, Spanish meet and Daniel over workout
March 3, 2024 Alright, I did an excellent job taking photos today. I’ll just read through them now. To start off with, I met up Bernie at...
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Mar 3, 20242 min read
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