I think therefore I’m a woman
Years ago I was in a workplace accident back home where several of us suffered life threatening injuries. To this day I continue to suffer from post concussion syndrome. I had only recently started to feel things might be getting better. I had gone through phases where I thought I might be getting well only to suffer setbacks. One little tap on the head and I would be right back where I had started. The mental haze and anguish just couldn’t be sustainably managed. It felt best to be alone, in the dark. So I spent the better part of the years locked away hoping and waiting for something like a monk. I pushed everyone out of my life and closed myself off. My parents had passed away long before any of that and I …