Single TBI Mom, impact on the kids
February 25, 2012 Traumatic brain injury is both an internal and external journey to wholeness. I haven not had the full awareness to ponder how it has affected my two children, until fairly recent. My focus has been on how to move through this to be the best Kristy I can be in the Now. While it's far too easy to get trapped into thinking I'm the only one affected by TBI, it has affected everyone in my life. Back in 2007, when I was in the car accident, my daughter (Erin) just turned 15 Sean & Erin 2008 and my son (Sean) was 18 years old. Thinking about this now brings me to tears actually. I have this sense of guilt that I've let them down. I know it wasn't my fault, but they were still in their formative years when this happened to us. Yet the mother they knew and relied upon as their only stable parent vanished in an instant. Roles reversed. Our collective World turned upside down. While this experience has turned them both into amazingly
