The Accident
One day it happens, the dreaded event that will change your life, the more ominous because you don't know what form it will take or when it will occur. To me it happened on July 22, 2004, at two a.m....
View ArticleAge, Trauma, and Contentment
Unaware of his accident or his dementia, my husband attributes his lack of short-term memory--the result of a traumatic brain injury that left him, at 75, like someone with advanced Alzheimer's--simply...
View ArticleHow to Survive in a Hospital and Fire a Doctor
To continue the story of my memoir, To Love What Is: After six weeks in a Maine ICU, my husband, Scott, who suffered traumatic brain injury (TBI) after falling from a sleeping loft, was flown to NYU...
View ArticleThe Dance of Experience and Time
Before Scott, my beloved husband, fell from a sleeping loft, sustaining the devastating traumatic brain injury that transformed our lives, I divided experience into two distinct kinds, both of which...
View ArticleThe Thriller
The summer I turned fourteen, I spent a month at the Lake Erie resort town of Cedar Point, with a friend whose parents ran a food concession on the boardwalk, which boasted the highest roller coaster...
View ArticleCould Happen
Before the accident that left him like someone with advanced Alzheimer's, my husband was an artist. After the severe injuries to his brain's frontal lobes, centers for the "executive functions" that...
View ArticleOne Benefit of Dementia
Sweetheart that he is, my 80-year-old husband is usually very cooperative, despite severe dementia resulting from a traumatic brain injury suffered five years ago.read more
View ArticleHow to Use Your Brain in Perpetuity
As I learned the hard way 8 years ago, when my husband began the downward spiral of dementia after suffering a traumatic brain injury, doctors are loath to admit they know little about what causes...
View ArticleA Dementia Group Visits MoMA
Museums are running highly successful programs for people with dementia. read more
View ArticleThe Death of Scott
Exactly ten years after his traumatic brain injury that left him with zero short-term memory, and six years after I began this blog, my dear husband, Scott York, aged 85, died peacefully at home.read more
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