The Reason for my blog...
by Kathleen Quinn-Farber on Monday, June 20, 2011 at 12:23pm
My recent but eventual ambition was to someday write a book about Danny's and my TBI journey, in fact I've always wanted to write a book. I excelled in journalism since I was as young as elementary school. In '75-'76 at the age of 12 I had an over 400 page novel started abt flying saucers called "The Ultimate Encounter". Ironically in 1977 "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" was released. My mom threw my project in the garbage on one of her wild cleaning rampages :-( In 6th grade I wrote a play abt conservation starring African animals, and I actually got to choreograph it, create costumes, practice and put the play on for the school. I took courses thru the mail back in '94-'95 and my teachers all told me I have great talent for writing. And those of my friends and family who have read what Ive written thru the years have praised my work as expressionful, creative and with the ability to paint emotional pictures for people. Unfortunately money didnt allow for me to pursue that dream, nor an art career, and then as life went on I got side-tracked and well, its all history now.
So anyway, I realized there is such a lack of information out there on brain injury...for victims as well as families. To really find books and reading material to help ppl feel not alone in this problem, is difficult. The few books and movies I found, I soaked up like a sponge. And if you dont find a support group as I did, it all can become extremely overwhelming. So I wanted to write a book, someday, but thats not realistic right now. I'd have no idea where to start, how to do it, or where to find the time or money to do it correctly. Not at this point anyway. So I started a blog last night.
After Danny's accident in Dec, I used my Facebook as a way to chronicle things in order to keep family and friends abreast of the day to day changes and happenings. From family, friends, co-workers, old schoolmates, I received an out-pouring of love, prayers, and eager requests for updates as they followed what was a miracle. So I started going back to all those posts and copy/pasted them in my private journal on my online support site, and will use them, as well as adding all my other memories and so forth. I just got thru the introduction last night, and a couple more entries this morning. It will be a therapeutic, as well as enriching and creative endeavor for me. And for ppl going thru the same, or ppl who come across it in a search for help, it will help others as well.I'm really excited abt this :-)
http://dannysjourneyback.blogspot.com
