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Many nights I find myself lying in bed thinking of the gift of life God restored to me and my family. I do not know how I would have stayed sane through Angie’s heart failure (12/7/12) had I not had my faith. The doctors gave us no hope for Angie to recover without a heart transplant, yet somehow I knew that without hope & without belief we get in His way! I had to believe that God had a plan for Angie that was bigger than my human belief. Now we all see that plan in action, as God uses her

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2018

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It was a Saturday afternoon, I was with my family bowling at the club. It was a normal day, I was fine, I didn’t have a headache, or anything! I was playing with my husband and playing well (could be this the problem?). I started to feel dizzy, I got up to sit and did not feel my left foot! That's weird!! Then I went to put my head down. At this moment, my body was down , almost fell, a friend helped me! That same friend saved me by calling the club ambulance. My husband was stunned without

September

2018

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We call mom (Clare) “The Energizer Bunny”. She gardens, she cooks, she cleans, she sews, she crafts, she upholsters, she does handy work, she paints, she organizes, she designs and decorates, she cares deeply about her friends and family, she's a number one grandma; she was once gifted with a chain saw for Christmas, people...for goodness sake!  So in February this year, when my dad called and said she'd had a stroke, it wasn't easy to believe. When we talked for the first time on FaceTime and

September

2018

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I was shot in the head.  On April 23, 2017 my car was surrounded by six people when a gunman shot at me through my drivers side window.   When the shooter saw that I was still alive he put the gun against my head and pulled the trigger causing the bullet to enter one side of my brain and exit out the other.  Nobody plans for a TBI and that is why I am sharing my TBI journey to inform warriors and caregivers about TBI treatments, and procedure preventions, that work from a first hand to

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2018

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On December 18, 2015, I was driving to work when I was involved in a near-fatal car accident. For some unknown reason, I lost control of my vehicle and flipped so many times that I ended up on the other side of the highway. I was airlifted to Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital. When I arrived, I had a severe traumatic brain injury, several broken bones and was in need of 4 units of blood. Shortly after, it was discovered that I had suffered a stroke. I was taken into emergency brain surgery to try

September

2018