Brain Damage Diaries
Christina Van DykeA true & irreverent account of how I acquired a frontal-lobe brain injury (spoiler: ocular shingles entered my central nervous system and gave me recurring meningeal encephalitis!) and what that's like from the inside
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 39 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | 2 months ago |
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Some Wins!
I feel like everyone could use a little boost at this stage of the apocalypse, and so - as I nibble on the pretzel chips and humus that constitute roughly 80% of my Spring Migraine Anti-Nausea diet - I am delighted to share some recents win...
The Dingbat, Revisited
In late 2023, the ultra-competent administrative assistant in my head was fired by Meningoencephalitis Inc. and replaced with a total dingbat. Suddenly, in lieu of a wonderful partner whose skills included - among many others -
- knowing...
Moving Goalposts
I was smack in the middle of writing a post today about my Social Security Disability hearing tomorrow morning when I received a call from my representative telling me that it’s postponed because the judge has some sort of emergency.
AARR...
Posticles and the Uncanny Valley
In the past two months, I’ve been stuck in a second-guessing-myself-in-everything rut. Ironically, this indicates that my overall brain function is improving, since this unhelpful meta-commentary appears to have borrowed its narrator from m...
Hear Me Out!
[I don’t usually dedicate posts to people, but this one goes out to my gorgeous freak of a friend E, who will enjoy literally everything about the bananapants story I am about to relate. Love you, my crone!]
To date, everything about my me...
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Currently on medical leave from my (awesome) job as a philosophy professor, working to recover from a post-meningitis frontal lobe Acquired Brain Injury
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