{"id":1358,"date":"2014-11-25T07:40:49","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T14:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebrainfairy.com\/?p=1358"},"modified":"2014-11-25T08:07:35","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T15:07:35","slug":"the-brain-fairy-milestones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebrainfairy.com\/?p=1358","title":{"rendered":"The Brain Fairy – Milestones"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thank you for your support and participation on my Facebook page, The Brain Fairy \u2013 Living with Brain Injury<\/em> and on my website www.thebrainfairy.com<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0As of this month it has been two years that I have been doing this.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0It has helped me in my journey of<\/strong> recovery.\u00a0\u00a0 I feel that I cannot say, or that any of us can say, a journey to<\/strong> recovery.\u00a0\u00a0 To me, that means recovery is a final destination.\u00a0 I think that after a brain injury there is no end point in recovery.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0It keeps going.\u00a0\u00a0 We can\u2019t stop working to make progress in improving or maintaining the improved functionality of our brain especially as we also start experiencing the effects of aging.<\/p>\n

We also can\u2019t stop raising awareness of brain injury whether it\u2019s due to traumatic brain injury, stroke, aneurysm, anoxia or whatever the cause.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I did not understand the impacts of a brain injury before it happened to me even after seeing it happen to people I know.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I think there\u2019s been much more awareness in recent years due to the soldiers returning from the Middle East wars and the NFL players suffering from brain injuries.\u00a0\u00a0 But there\u2019s still a long way to go in educating people about what a brain injury does to you.<\/p>\n

About 3 years ago I was talking to my husband about some problems I had that day and I said \u201cI guess the brain fairy just wasn\u2019t helping me that day\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0 That\u2019s where the name of my website came from.\u00a0\u00a0 How our brain works and how it repairs itself is still a mystery.\u00a0\u00a0 Medical professionals can do much to help in recovery but there is still a mystifying process that brings our brain back to a better place after a brain injury.\u00a0\u00a0 For me, the \u201cbrain fairy\u201d has been that elusive thing that has caused the problems and healing associated with my brain injury.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0I do not understand how it works but slowly things have worked better in this mysterious world of my brain.<\/p>\n

When I started the The Brain Fairy I was dabbling to challenge my brain but hoped that someone would visit and get some benefit from the information available on the site and from the posts I wrote in my blog.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0My goal was first to get maybe 50 views a month on my site but I am happy that so many more people visited than I expected.\u00a0\u00a0 As of a couple of evenings ago, I have reached 30,000 views for the 2 years in existence.<\/p>\n

So thank you all for your interest and support.\u00a0\u00a0 You have helped me make my brain get better.\u00a0\u00a0 Two years ago, I needed perfect silence and needed to be well rested to write anything I posted or to do any of the maintenance work on the website.\u00a0\u00a0 Yesterday evening after a busy day of doing other things, I wrote this, and I was listening to music at the same time.\u00a0\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t have done that 2 years ago. \u00a0I have gotten so much better in this time in so many ways.<\/p>\n

Keep visiting me and I\u2019ll keep visiting you to share our experiences and important things to know about the brain.<\/p>\n

Linda W. Arms\u00a0 (a.k.a. Mina Kitty)<\/p>\n

Visit me:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Web site and blog – www.thebrainfairy.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Facebook – https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/The-Brain-Fairy-Living-with-Brain-Injury\/288317964619749<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0Email me at:\u00a0 MinaK@thebrainfairy.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Thank you for your support and participation on my Facebook page, The Brain Fairy \u2013 Living with Brain Injury and on my website www.thebrainfairy.com\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0As of this month it has been two years that I have been doing this.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0It has helped me in my journey of recovery.\u00a0\u00a0 I feel that I cannot say, or that any of us can say, a journey to recovery.\u00a0\u00a0 To me, that means recovery is a final destination.\u00a0 I think that after a brain… Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[15,17,9,22,19,23,43,29,25,10,45,37,32,50,47,49,39,16,8],"class_list":["post-1358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abi","tag-brain-aneurysm","tag-brain-injury","tag-brain-tumor","tag-cognitive","tag-cognitive-difficulties","tag-cognitive-overload","tag-cognitively-challenged","tag-communicating-after-brain-injury","tag-concussion","tag-head-injury","tag-life-after-brain-injury","tag-living-with-brain-injury","tag-losing-control-of-our-lives-after-a-brain-injury","tag-music-and-brain-injury","tag-sensitivity-to-sound-after-brain-injury","tag-sensory-overload","tag-stroke","tag-tbi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2GcQn-lU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrainfairy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrainfairy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrainfairy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrainfairy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrainfairy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1358"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thebrainfairy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1360,"href":"https:\/\/thebrainfairy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358\/revisions\/1360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrainfairy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrainfairy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrainfairy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}