Erin McAllister

Picking Up The Pieces

In September of 2019 I had a freak accident. I fell and hit my head on a large boulder. The impact knocked me out of consciousness and fractured my skull. It resulted in a Level Three concussion and internal brain bleeding. A traumatic brain injury left me broken and it took 6 months to put the pieces back together to resemble some sort of normalcy. Two years in I still have unique difficulties. There is so much we do not know about the brain and although I went to countless specialists, all they could tell me was to be patient and rest as my brain, the most important organ in the human body, my internal operating system, healed and rebuilt itself.