Brain Damage Diaries
A true & irreverent account of how I acquired a frontal-lobe brain injury (spoiler: ocular shingles entered my central nervous system and gave me recurring meningeal encephalitis!) and what that's like from the inside
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[Note: this is a post less about how I’m doing physically or cognitively than how I’ve been doing emotionally since we lost our Fenja girl. I get it if that’s not your jam. I promise I’ll write an update soon about how everything else is going, but those words have been pushed down under my overwhelming sadness even in the midst of happy events like seeing family and friends in Michigan and enjoying summer with our friends in Pennsylvania. What follows is what came out when the words finally sta
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