Month: December 2013

We’ll wind down the long 48 hour holiday, and concentrated seasonal sensory overload, by kicking back, sharing some tunes, and trading some chat. How did your holiday seaso go? Roast those final chestnuts, take in the fire and twinkling lights…And join me. 🙂

Kevin, Maggie & Luke are up to their neck with the “moving blues.” Family on the way and bull baskets, I offered to step in tonight.

With Christmas around the corner, if you feel like getting into the spirit with old friends and new…Tune in to regular Wednesday host Kim Justus this evening. We’ll chat and rock around the holiday clock, in time for her to be back again on Christmas night. 🙂

Call in with your holiday stories of joy and sorrow, good memories or bad. Or, just kick back and listen to some great holiday music. TGIF, WTF?! We’ll try to be FUNctional tonight too.

As an accomplished athlete, author Catherine (Catz) LeBlanc knew the risks of sports injuries. As a physician’s assistant, she knew how the brain and body work. But the concussion she sustained in a team handball game was compounded by a rear end high speed auto-truck collision 2 months later – and her life changed completely. Unable to find the hope, reassurance and inspiration she needed while struggling with her physical and cognitive challenges, she wrote Tell Me This. She captures the complex feelings and emotions that are shared by so many individuals with concussions and brain injuries, but she does this with clever graphics and short phrases or “snippets” that make reading this guide a real pleasure. You will pick it up again and again. Tell Me This: Encouragement and Hope after Brain Injury can be found at Lash Publishing www.lapublishing.com/concussion-recovery-sports-athlete/

CRS Radio Network: Kim Justus suffered a ruptured brain aneurysm in 1995, and then spent 11 days in a coma. It was during that time, that she experience her journey to the other side. She made a journal of what she remembered while recovering, but because she appeared back to normal, buried the journal for seventeen years. In 2012 she finally wrote a book about her experience. We were one of the first to interview her after her book was released. Amazing things have happened for her since then, including becoming a host on Brain Injury Radio. You can find more information about Kim on her website www.inaflash.org or her Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/inaflash.org

This show is a gathering place for anyone seeking recovery from the challenges of life on life’s terms. I introduce topics, and survivor’s share their experience, strength and hope. We discuss useful tools that have helped us lighten the load, of our journey through recovery.

Fantastic Frank will back next week!! In the meantime, you get me one more night. 🙂 It’s been a rough couple weeks, so “mellow” hasn’t been a word I’d use to describe me at the moment. None the less, I’d like to try and get back there. The full basket syndrome I speak of, and the sensory overload have been flairing. That in turn fires up the chronic pain conditions I have, amplifies my memory loss and sends my emotions on the roller coaster from hell. Ahhh, the domino theory of brain injury. Combine a few residuals, and we’re having fun now eh?

Tonight I have a few stories to make us laugh, of course when they were happening the last couple of days…I was FAR from laughing. The back half of my show last night was “Suicide Hurts”. Some of you know I lost friend. Tonight I’m not going there, but just sharing what happens when something big (or an accumulation of small things) throws me off my stride. Yep, even I poop in my perfection pail sometimes. 🙂

Two part show tonight! The Science Of Happiness, host Lori Faitel will be joining me to tell us details about the changes to our Peer Support Line. I encourage the audience and our hosts to listen. Lori will be in the road, so we’ll keep her as long as we can and also hear more about her show and the new earlier platform. Open mics, new Indy’s and breaking out the first few holiday tunes. I talked to Alice Cooper. 🙂

Suicide Hurts was added to the back half of this show. You matter. Get help. People do care.