My relationship with traumatic brain injury

JoAnne Silver Jones
4 min readDec 22, 2020

I’m ready to talk about my relationship with TBI. Relationship may sound like an unusual word to use, but TBI, for me, has some of the features of a relationship. There is struggle, familiarity, times to defend its presence and times to wish it far away. I want to be clear, though. TBI does not describe all of me. It is not my essence or my soul. It does not reflect my deepest thoughts or desires. It does not…

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JoAnne Silver Jones

Author of Headstrong: Surviving a traumatic brain injury, Professor Emeritus, Springfield College, Massachusetts, love family, friends, the ocean and my dog