Almost 20 years ago, life Aurora lasaleta He turned upside down. He suffered a heavy traffic accident, from which he was able to leave his life, obviously, with some physical continuity. However, she felt that she was no longer intact even though she was very healing outside. I was able to walk and talk … but He could not restore his work as a psychologistIt is difficult to focus on simple tasks, read, write and plan.
After two years of response and felt misunderstanding, he got a series of cognitive cognitives due to brain damage. From then. Brain damage Invisible.
Tell us, what happened to you?It will be 20 years since I had a very severe car accident in May. Fortunately he was alone because nobody survived, fortunately two doctors stopped the accident and made the right decisions like listening to the helicopter, because he would not be here. I would like to meet you to thank you.
Already, in the hospital, they instigated me with a coma, and they acted in a hurry and spent several weeks in a coma. In other parts of the body, I had a very severe head trauma and many fractures. First of all, the focus of physics was placed, raising myself, I walked on the crutches, walked … but I realized that there were other things that were not seen later. The thought of ‘you will already walk, it’s already fine’, but it is not so, I noticed that there are other things.
You have the so -called invisible brain damage, what is it?They are a continuation of cognitive, behavior, emotional level … they are not seen, so I call them invisible, because they are not found from the outside, but others do not understand them, but they have a huge impact on the person’s quality of life. I don’t understand first, because when my friends came to see me, they asked me to read and use the opportunity to watch the movies, they brought me books, I could not attract attention or when I wanted to keep my young children so worried that I wanted to stay with them. I also noticed that this was a very distress, I did not recognize myself …
Did someone tell you what you can do after your accident and then find it later?No, no one warned me, doctors paid much attention to the body. In fact, two years have passed since they finally referred to a rehabilitation center to Ceadac, where they evaluated and identified the cognitive sequel. Until then, I noticed them, I wrote them and commented to the doctors, but they did not give importance.
There is a lot of difference in thinking that what is happening to you is the reason for your mood, which depends on your attitude or that it is emotional, and that they are neurological damage to the place where they think this is what it is.
After the accident, no one warned me that I could have cognitive sequences, I felt a strange
What is your experience and professional training influence when identifying symptoms?I am a medical psychologist, I am very experted in this area, which is not neurological psychology, but a psychologist I think it helped me a lot of analysis, notice me a lot, and feel that there is a different one. I don’t know what happens to me.
What are the continuity you have today and how do they suffer from your day?I have many. Although I had a good assessment, in some cases I was able to improve a lot, and not in other, but, above all, I learned to use continuous compensatory tools, which helps me live better with the aftermath. Today, the issue of attention is even more difficult, it also causes me complications for administrative functions, which seem to be simple, such as managing a family … I have hypergusia, sound, visual, visual and alfalry hypersensitivity, sometimes causing myself to stimulate, and I have a sleep disorder.
How do you live with them?For example, to do this interview, I know that I do not have to be very satisfied that day and that I cannot do any serious task today. I know how much battery is on my mobile, and I dismissed the lines I left behind every activity I do. Prior to this, I point out a bomb, and I was more controlled … but I couldn’t afford it now, but I know what is the best thing now, I know some tools that allow me to get the best of the day, know how far I can go, let things do, and how to travel with my friends, or how to travel with my friends.
When you explain in your book, you continue with your goal of ‘one day only one serious task’ …Yes, I will try to keep as much as possible. It is true that I have been able to do more things over time, but if they are so serious, I will only try that one thing, because if I don’t take it into account, I will pay for its consequences.
Is there any body continued?Yes, in addition to the ear, I lost the sensitivity in the abdomen, and even if I was trying to strengthen, I have chronic pain, chronic pain, I can’t stand long, but they are also invisible, because when they see me walking, it is normally moving … I seem to have nothing.
On the one hand, what led you to write the book and to create an invisible brain damage association?After all, I wanted to explain what happened to me to prevent others from happening, and I spent two years without knowing what happened to me. First of all, I started writing it for me, without the intention of publishing it, but as a newspaper trying to understand what was happening to me. Since I was in touch with Ceadac experts, I sometimes asked them what happened to me, and I said what to do with the wound, read it yes, and I explained it uniquely, and they encouraged me to write it. I was surprised, because if I couldn’t read it almost how would I write a book?
But you are encouraging …Yes, but with the condition that they will help me, because I say the signs of the first person, and they explain the cause of the symptoms. I thought it was difficult to expose me to the nickname, because it was important to know this less known continuity and that it did not happen to me, so they did not feel that they were alone or ‘different errors’. Many of these sequels are treated with neurroppitration because they sent me to a psychologist, which is useful to go to the process, but does not treat this continuity.
This idea with the book and association is to give the choice of less known, and they are not misunderstood, because ‘invisible’ means ‘mild’, many believe that many believe in life quality and can be very disabled. Many, if I tell them the percentage of my disability, they will not believe it, so they do not reduce or ignore.
At the beginning of the book, you must write the phrase “Please, trust us, listen to us” …Yes, this is important, because first you are so unsafe, you don’t believe in you, you don’t know who you are, it affects your identity so much, you don’t know if you are going to improve … that insecurity justifies you all the time, and that I know what is happening to you and now I know my limits.
Already many, and another rhythm, with brain damage, can do many things
How do you explain to another person that someone with cognitive problems can write a book?This is very important because there is a social stereotype that connects the brain or a person Wheelchair And many movement problems, or a person DisorderAnd in most cases, there is no intellectual disability other than complete damage. You need some tools to take you, but, with my intellectual continuity, memory, focus … I have been able to write it in my speed and in the tools I have purchased …
In the signs of explaining, what do you think that makes people very much to understand?Cognitive fatigue, because you are very angry now, hahaha … above all, because my fatigue is not like before, you have to relax for a while or have taken coffee and recharged batteries, but it is a fatigue that will freeze you, it will cost people to understand it. Administrative dysfunction, I too, I enjoy it, it costs me to understand, difficulty in organizing the goods of the house, purchase, decision -making, erection …
They say that rehabilitation of brain damage is less intense than the beginning. Is this your case?Somehow yes. For example, for me, it was very rehabilitated to bring a psychological support group in the association, although I could restore things with tools before, my best rehabilitation, managing a four -year -old family, and re -reading in English … still continued rehabilitation. After 18 years I have done the treatment for hypergusia. Little by little, then, things can be restored, so, in a sense, I still have to rehabilitate and invite people to do so.
What other things do you want to claim?Many. One of them is that they do not forget their families and the emotional companions they need, because they are like parents, children and caregivers, but they have to accept the change that can affect them.
It, a Stroke.
After learning everything during this process, what would you say at the dawn of the accident?There are many curves on this path, but with the inner strength in it, it will get the best version of itself, which creates itself and its instinct.
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