The Story of Anthony Macchio-Young's TBI Recovery
Upon sharing my three edited x-rays, that were originally created in 2015 for Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas, I realized that my TBIed self had missed the last significant date of the Holiday Season…New Year’s Eve/New Year’s Day. With that being said, I decided to go ahead and make up for my TBI of a mistake …
Below is the third installment of my Stanford University Medical Center x-ray taken in the ER, before my neurosurgery was performed, with holiday twist. I know it’s once again slightly belated, but the holiday season will put everyone in over their heads…especially for all of us TBI/ABI survivors. 😜 With that being said, I hope that you …
After having posted my unedited ER x-ray in honor of Halloween to Instagram, and other social media accounts, two years ago I then had the fun idea of using the same x-ray for Thanksgiving…but with a little editing to make it more practical for such a holiday. Not to mention that I have been MORE than thankful each of the four …
I know that I’ve been beyond lazy on updating my recovery blog this year, and I apologize to all of my subscribers for that. I’ve, honestly, been looking to migrate all of it’s content from the current domain, slowlybutsurelytbi.com, to the new one that I secured a little while ago to match my hashtag, SlowlyButSurelyTBI.com, but …
Before I begin this post I have to make it known that I am typing this entry, in full, with my laptop in my lap, using both my left and right hand and with a timer running. I am doing this in place of my New Year’s resolution of typing my OT, Vicky Whalen, one …
I ALWAYS have been thankful to have grown up in the awesome town of Charleston (Chucktown), South Carolina. But, after my accident I’ve grown to appreciate it for even more reasons as to why it’s awesome! Upon growing up I learned to respect the fact that this was such a historic city, littered with fun …
The mom of all moms, my mom, has been telling both my brother and me that we need to be sure to have our Christmas list ready by Thanksgiving day, at the VERY latest. At first this was equally as difficult as it is each and every year. Then, one day, during an OT session …
Yesterday, while at my typical Thursday MUSC OT/PT sessions, I completed a goal for both the real world bucket list of things I had yet to learn before my accident AND post acquiring my TBI. While this goal never really seemed significant before my TBI it hit my bucketlist upon realizing that I am now a 26 …
I once again have not had any time to reconstruct my recovery blog’s web presence this month (September 2016). BUT, I do have rather decent news to announce though! I have yet to be able to meet my longterm goal of getting my gait pattern (walking pattern) down to the typical stride of a healthy …
Last month I was planning on not updating my blog for the month of August 2016. I said rather that I was going to redesign the blog’s UI/UX design instead. Well, I (un)fortunately have not found the time to do so. I have really been too busy with a few graphic design projects, so that’s …
This’ll be a relatively short entry for my month of July blog posting… I say that because after creating, and still tweaking, the WordPress blog layout for Mama B at MamaBSays.com it has inspired me to do a full make over to my recovery blog. With that being said I may, or may not, have a …
This time last month (5/19/16, when I started writing this post) my parents and I were checking into our hotel room in Alexander City, Alabama. We were doing so in order to prepare ourselves to wake up early the following morning and make our way to Shepherd Center’s adaptive springtime camp Adventure Skills Workshop (ASW). …
My parents have been a HUGE benefit to my recovery and, of course, my life as a whole. With that being said, I’ve decided that this May blog posting will act as a belated Mother’s Day present AND an early Father’s Day present to the both of them! First and foremost, I have to start …
As I’m sure many of you know, I received the majority of my therapy since returning home to Charleston, SC at Roper St. Francis’ Downtown location. Roper St. Francis’ outpatient therapy became my home away from home after going there for physical and occupational therapy four days a week for almost two full years. My …
SPOILER ALERT: This next post is all about the second half of my Throwback Thursday experience. If you have yet to read #ThrowbackThursday1 I would highly suggest you do so before diving into this one! When the Grand Cayman government ambulance had finished backing up into the Health City ER port the hospital’s group of …