Hello, Everyone!

I hope this note finds you well. :)

I know it has been a little quiet here since I first launched.  One of the lingering effects of my brain injury is that I can sometimes get overwhelmed easily.  The flood of offers of (sometimes quite expensive) services to my campaign in-box was unexpected!  If I had $300 to spend on such things, my campaign goal would be $300 less than it is.  I calculated that figure of $3500 to be the amount I actually need to make this happen.

My seasonal job has begun picking up, and although I only work a couple of days a week at this point, it has been quite tiring.  My job involves carefully watching my environment and talking constantly for up to eight hours a day. 

If you have never had a brain injury, it is difficult to appreciate just how much information the brain takes in minute by minute -- all of those colours and shapes and shadows and movement.  And that's just visual stimuli!  Brains are amazing things, and when one's grey matter is still repairing itself, all that data coming in over a prolonged period of time can really kick the stuffing out of it!  So I have to rest for a day or two both before and after each day I work.  But I really love what I do, and the fact is that I am able to do it when I couldn't have a year ago.  So I will gladly take care of myself the way I need to in order to do it.

But that's why you haven't heard from me in a bit.  I will do better. :)

Be well, my friends.  And remember -- if you can't contribute personally, sharing my campaign so that others see it helps tremendously.  Your support is so appreciated!

-- Karen