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It's Not Brain Surgery

Tom Cronk

Long-form thoughts on life after traumatic brain injury.

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I should have had a dream by now... Right?

I sleep a lot (more) after the TBI.
10pm-6:30am.
Clockwork.

But my bonked brain hasn’t had a dream it can recall since August 2023.

At first it felt like defeat, a substantive change in circumstance. However, as the months wore on, I...

17 days ago
2

Brain injury and nostalgia (and the far right).

If this lighthearted article offends any Reform UK sympathisers, by loosely suggesting that they/you may have an undiagnosed head injury, I’m not sorry.

I can’t ‘go back’ to my pre-TBI self. And Britain can’t return to ruling the wav...

a month ago
1

It's just like riding a... horse?

Last week I pulled on a ~~helmet~~ hat*, swallowed hard, and hoicked my leg over a horse’s arse.

I was back in the saddle, of sorts, for the first time since plunging into a coma.

Me and a horse, not a recent photo.

There were nerves. Ob...

3 months ago
2

FOR SALE: Fun TBI slogans for hats.

Receding hairline? Brain surgery scar tissue? Crippling self-doubt? Devoid of personality? A desperate desire to say something oh-so-totally unique?

Whatever your affliction, these 12 hats will garner concerned looks from strangers and spa...

3 months ago
3

The Coma Club™ Commandments.

The day before I turned 31 I began to scribble down a few notes on where I was at: achievements, opinions, feelings. Half a year on from the aches and pains of critical care, here are the contents of my brain in that late January of 2024....

4 months ago

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