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


Selfie, Shopping w/ madre, Trivia with Alex, Liam, Lily, bonfire w/Jorge
July 8, 2023: Doing this before trivia now. Alright so today I randomly woke up at 4:30am and realized I hadn’t taken the shower...

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Jul 9, 20234 min read


Yoga with Maya and Canasta with Papa and Jodi and Car with gas
July 7, 2023: Ok I’ll start this right away today. Meds at 5am with a honey greek yogurt. Then I played the games we play, and did my...

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Jul 8, 20235 min read


Open Door Mac & Cheeese and Open Door with Anita and Pat
July 6, 2023: Alright time to write through the day. Didn’t do any of it early. Basically I started by taking my meds a bit before 5am...

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Jul 6, 20233 min read


Yoga with Sarah and Dancing Salmon Poké and First Impression post
July 5, 2023: Ok so I started off the day with my meds at 6:09am with a strawberry vanilla 11g fat yogurt. I also messaged some people a...

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Jul 5, 20234 min read


Hannah’s w/parents, BeReal w/Papa, Jodi, Grandma, Talia bday w/Rosie
July 4, 2023: Alright well today started kind of slow but it developed into something a bit more interesting. Basically in the morning I...

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Jul 4, 20233 min read


Selfie, Therapy with Jessica, BeReal before MRI, no Poké
July 3, 2023: Well this morning I kinda felt like it would be a pretty nice day. Just because I was gonna drive us down to Mayo Clinic...

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Jul 3, 20234 min read


Hannah at Mom’s pool, Los Padres, Hannah at Curry Corner
July 2, 2023: Alright this morning started way better than last morning because I had the 11g fat yogurt to start my day with, not a...

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Jul 2, 20232 min read


Lagos Tacos with Bill and Jodi and Margarita and Canasta
July 1, 2023: Alright so this morning I had my meds at 6:09am with some smoked salmon chunks. They were honestly hard to eat, and they...

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Jul 1, 20234 min read


Yoga with Debi and Jordan and Fogo Review and BeReal with Pizza
June 30, 2023: Ok so meds at 6:08 this morning with an 11g fat lemon yogurt. Then I went to my dad’s house to drop off the laundry that...

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Jun 30, 20234 min read


Selfie and Fogo with Annali, Andy and Mattheas
June 29, 2023: Alright so today is gonna be cool. What is happening is my dad is taking me over to the Mackenzie Pub to meet up with...

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Jun 30, 20234 min read


Open Door w/Ed, Make A Wish w/Sara+, Papa w/Rosie, Papa reading
June 28. 2023: Alright another busy day. Basically in the morning I went into Open Door at 10am to be a translator, and I actually ended...

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Jun 29, 20234 min read


Open Door with Liz and Methodist w/Barb and maybe Linda, and clients
June 27, 2023: Well today was a day of an incredible amount of volunteering as a translator. Stupidly I didn’t write any of this earlier...

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Jun 27, 20235 min read


Canasta with Rosie and Papa and Daily Selfie
June 26, 2023: Alright so today so far has been interesting. I kind of didn’t do much. So first thing in the morning I took my meds at...

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Jun 27, 20233 min read


Bagels and Canasta with Papa and Jodi and Burrito with Bill and Jodi
June 25, 2023: No idea what I’m going to do today. I just woke up at Liam’s house having slept on the couches with Alex, and then I...

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Jun 25, 20234 min read


Methodist with Aaron, Papa cards, and Trivia with Alex, Lily, Liam, Ben and Cas, Fire!
June 24, 2023: Alright so this morning I took my meds at 5:13am with a 6g fat container of yogurt. I didn’t realize it was low fat until...

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Jun 25, 20234 min read


Barre with Jordan and Eating Burger with Hannah, Max, Caroline
June 23, 2023: Alright so lemme go to my photo first because that’s the thing I’m writing just after doing right now. Basically Hannah,...

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Jun 23, 20234 min read


Open Door with Sean and food
June 22, 2023: Well today was an incredibly Open Door day. In the morning I took my meds at 6:50am with some yogurt, that had close to...

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Jun 22, 20233 min read


Yoga with Bridget, Andrea, Meg, Debi and Open Door with Liz and Marguedy
June 21, 2023: Ok starting this in the not-quite morning. So today I took my meds at 5:34am with combination of things. It was one of the...

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Jun 21, 20234 min read


Mostly BeReals: Liz, Owen, Austin/Papa, and also Open Door with Sandy
June 20, 2023: Well let’s finish today on the day of. Alright, so most of my day is just BeReals I took. God bless Hannah for introducing...

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Jun 20, 20234 min read


Therapy with Jessica, Poké with Papa, Photos with Deb
June 19, 2023: Well dear God I stupidly didn’t work on this yesterday at all. Didn’t even put the photos in, even though I had the...

anyatbirecovery
Jun 20, 20233 min read
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