Lilly Barnett’s Story
http://www.caringbridge.org
If you want to read another amazing story go to this link and become a visitor to Lilly Barnett’s page. She and her family are on a journey all their own in the world of Traumatic Brain Injury. We are Fortunate to celebrate their lives through these poignant journal entries from her mom Kelly Barnett. Lilly and her grandmother were in a serious car accident almost 3 years ago near Milford, Delaware. Fortunately they both survived but Lilly suffering serious head trauma. Please sign in and read the amazing story that Kelly wanted me to share. This is a story you will not forget.
About www.recoveryofthemind.com
Live Life so you never have to say, “I should have.”
I have lived like this, because at an early age I was brutally beaten and kidnapped while walking to school and acquired a traumatic head injury with a seizure disorder and a lifetime of recovery. I live despite what everyone believed I would become. You would not know any of my struggles or what I have overcome and face daily, if you met me on the street or spoke to me for any amount of time. People with Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI) are mostly anonymous. You can rarely tell that anything has happened to them or that they may need extra support or patience, they are strong, intelligent, kind people, living in all shapes, sizes, colors, and sexual orientation, out there defying the odds daily. Their lives often have been turned upside down by their head injury and they are seeking or had to find a new normal and themselves all over again. I hope to be one voice that speaks out for them/us in a World that is not listening, understanding, or providing much in the way of assistance to people with TBI when we are in need.
As a writer who observes all people and works with people with disabilities for the past forty plus years, I have noticed that those with TBI are often misunderstood and some of the most underfunded among disability groups in the country, and I want to help change this.
I hope to inspire people to live well against all odds and those odds are treacherous mountains to climb, but I am here to say you can summit them!