Training with Kevin and Open Door with Sylvia

February 29, 2024

Alright let’s just do the first part of the day. I went to a training session with a new trainer named Kevin. During the session I had to leave for 10 minutes to join part of a Zoom call that I think was about medication management. A huge part of me wanted to see it as symbolic that my medical situation was yanking me out of things I wanted to do in my regular life. I joined the call for 10 or so minutes, and my mom on on it as well. I still feel like I got a good workout in. Then at home, I was a little surprised to actually be hungry for lunch, which Papa picked up for me, him and Talia. It was Chinese food and I definitely had the thought that my life feels a lot better when I can actually be hungry to eat, which I was today. I went to Open Door tonight, and there I kind of came to an important thought about the brain injury. It stemmed from talking to this one lady name Sylvia who works the front greeter desk all the time. She’s actually also a nurse and has experience with patients who have brain injuries. I also told her all about this blog, and the way it kind of is my main coping skill for the brain injury. It’s saved it to her home screen now too (Hello, Sylvia!). She also got me kind of interested in some more things to do with photography. The Playwright theater on Franklin was mentioned as an option. In addition, the thought occurred to me that my work in photography seems to be the one activity I’ve been doing that hasn’t been impacted by the brain injury. Since then, I’ve made my dinner and also emailed Playwright Theater. I was also able to talk to her a bit about some of the “mistakes” I made working on the computer there. She gave me a little bit more specific information, and also agreed that they must have been caused by something related to the brain injury. I kind of feel like, having talked tonight, I have something that is quite a bit closer to the “true acceptance” that mom always insists I need to achieve.