Journal of Pier Luck

I wanted to preface this with the warning that most of the beginning of this post is pretty negative, but it does turn positive at the end if you make it that far!  :)  I wanted to get this in writing so that I can go back and remember it years from now and also to possibly help anyone else that has to go through a traumatic brain injury......hopefully NOT! To start this post, I wanted to mention the people who were able to visit me in the hospital who helped distract me from the pain and bring me delicious food as well!  Jon, Taesha, Sommer, Kayla, Mike from work, Eric and Melissa and Cooper.   I was feeling pretty good when they visited and I wasn't even faking it!   I didn't fake it quite as well and Chris and Katie brought over Gianni's Pizza the first night. When I hugged Katie, I just broke down in tears, but she just knew exactly what to say and it was a great visit.Once we got home, it was nice to be on my couch or in my bed, but to be hones...

On March 28th, 2015, my life was literally flipped upside down.  I wanted to start a blog from the very start, but it has taken me 19 days in order to get enough energy and courage to start writing.  It was around 7:00 PM and we were riding our "lazy" bikes back home from Peter B's after watching Wisconsin's win.  There were 6 of us riding slowly (about 5 mph or so) along the bike path near the Aquarium in Monterey, CA.  Dustin and Airik were up ahead.  I was on the right side of the path in front of the other three.  As one of our friends almost caught another's wheel, he tried to swerve and ended up T-boning me near my front wheel and sent my bike forward and my body backwards.  As I was flying up in the air, I thought about how I wanted to protect my head, so I pulled up really hard with my neck and ab muscles, but it didn't help.  I hit the pavement hard on the upper back right portion of my head and then my right low back, then fell to the l...