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b'The book is the story of the author\\u2019s journey from a car accident to dealing with her traumatic brain injury.\\xa0\\xa0Traumatic brain injury and physical disability will change life as you\\u2019ve known it.



My accident was a tragedy that changed my family forever. Ultimately, I was able to overcome it with courage and faith.\\xa0The book begins with my marriage two years before the car accident that changed my perfect life with no warning. I describe the car accident that resulted in my traumatic brain injury. My mobility, fluent speech, my driver\\u2019s license, my career, my new family: these are the losses I incurred after my unfortunate car accident.\\xa0I recount all of the trials, challenges and triumphs of living without the balance required to maintain an active life.



I describe, often with humor, the new challenges of living in a disabled body. Life with poor balance is different from anything I have ever encountered.\\xa0\\xa0Yet my fierce independence and determination propels me to keep reaching for more improvements to finally attain the \\u2018normal\\u2019 life I so desired. I still looked the same.\\xa0Please God! Let me move as quickly and effortlessly as I used to!I write extensively about all the family, friends and sometimes perfect strangers that have helped me to navigate in my new disabled world. For someone with such a self-proclaimed \\u2018simple life\\u2019, I sure do have a lot of great (and funny) stories to tell!\\xa0I end each chapter with a prayer concerning the events that transpired in that chapter.



This is my life. So until I read back to what it was like in the beginning, it\\u2019s hard for even me to see how God has been directing my every step. My prayers are for thanksgiving and sometimes for help!\\xa0I write about seeing God\\u2019s grace as He carried me through this newest chapter in my life. I spend two decades trying to get back to the active, athletic, and fit person I was before my brain injury. That was the \\u2018old Mary\\u2019. Now I have become the \\u2018new Mary\\u2019\\u2026.still active and fit, but with a new perspective on what is really important in life.\\xa0I\\u2019m embarrassed that it took so long to figure this out. You can be healthy, attractive and intelligent with a great career, family and friends; but without God as the center of your universe, you cannot have a truly joyful life. It took a traumatic brain injury to finally realize it wasn\\u2019t all about me.\\xa0




https://www.amazon.com/Light-Through-Tunnel-Embracing-Traumatic/dp/1945976543'