Trying to Exist in the World with TBI

Who am I?   Our existence is fragile.   After a brain injury you try to find your old self.   You look for who you were physically, mentally, emotionally, intellectually, professionally.  You look for your worth as a person in all aspects of your life.      Most of the time, in the early stages after a brain injury, you work hard to live your life but its at a much lower level of existence depending on the extent of your injury.     As all this is going on, life is changing around you, inevitably your environment changes.      Some of the changes are a result of life and the world just going on without you, some of it is a result your injury has had on others and the world you knew.