My Near Death Experience Arts and Thoughts

It isn’t possible for me to describe just one family member whose character has impacted my life. This is because three members of my family have each sustained brain injuries, and the effects vary depending on where the damage occurred—both in the specific tissues and on which side of the brain. Each injury expresses itself differently, shaping unique changes in personality and behavior. Because this subject is both complex and deeply personal, I will not focus on any one individual, but rather on how the location of each injury influences who they have become.

A right-brain injury can make life feel a bit like modern art—recognizable, but with the pieces rearranged. The right hemisphere governs creativity, emotion, and spatial awareness, so damage there can disrupt perception, attention, and even awareness of the left side of things. An occipital lobe injury, on the other hand, affects the brain’s visual center—imagine your mental “screen” flickering, distorting, or dropping images entirely. A frontal lobe injury targets the executive suite of the brain, influencing judgment, impulse control, and personality. It can turn a reserved person into a comedian or a meticulous planner into a free spirit overnight. For these reasons, it’s hard to write about just one family member—each has been changed in such uniquely intricate ways that to describe one would never tell the whole story.

And this is a nutshell version of my family members.

And I play with puppies and kitties as they are easier at times.