Today while in my work meeting at Community Neuro Rehab i realized how thankful i should be for the experience and education i am getting at CNR. I also thought how nice it was that i was using my college education in the real world. I may not always be in brain injury but cognitive psychology and psychology type jobs but those were two disciplines i studied in college. After going to a coffee shop and meditate on the thought, i thought it was pretty interesting that not too long ago my job did not exist and certainly not for someone right out of college. Most of them were kept for doctors and people of that sort. I found this describing when brain injury started to come into the rehabilitation era....
Facilities dedicated to TBI rehabilitation were probably first established during World War I.[122] Explosives used in World War I caused many blast injuries; the large number of TBIs that resulted allowed researchers to learn about localization of brain functions.[132] Blast-related injuries are now common problems in returning veterans from Iraq & Afghanistan; research shows the symptoms of such TBI's are largely the same as for TBI's involving a physical blow to the head.[133]
Overall, it was just a wake up call. A wake up call reminding me not to follow into the everyday customs of going with the flow and complaining about different things when i have so much to be thankful for. It is so easy to get bogged down from boredom or other simple (in retrospect non-devastating) hinderances in our lives. If i sit down and recall where i was in the job word 7 months ago, a year ago, two years ago, i will quickly become extremely pleased with where i am at the moment and the experience and life skills learnt at CNR. I think this goes for many people who are working right out of college and even people who are in jobs that are particularly not as useful to their overall resume. We learn no matter where we are, we meet friends and benefit in unseen and unknown ways just for spending continual time with particular people and regularly being available in continuous locations. Just a thought......
Facilities dedicated to TBI rehabilitation were probably first established during World War I.[122] Explosives used in World War I caused many blast injuries; the large number of TBIs that resulted allowed researchers to learn about localization of brain functions.[132] Blast-related injuries are now common problems in returning veterans from Iraq & Afghanistan; research shows the symptoms of such TBI's are largely the same as for TBI's involving a physical blow to the head.[133]
Overall, it was just a wake up call. A wake up call reminding me not to follow into the everyday customs of going with the flow and complaining about different things when i have so much to be thankful for. It is so easy to get bogged down from boredom or other simple (in retrospect non-devastating) hinderances in our lives. If i sit down and recall where i was in the job word 7 months ago, a year ago, two years ago, i will quickly become extremely pleased with where i am at the moment and the experience and life skills learnt at CNR. I think this goes for many people who are working right out of college and even people who are in jobs that are particularly not as useful to their overall resume. We learn no matter where we are, we meet friends and benefit in unseen and unknown ways just for spending continual time with particular people and regularly being available in continuous locations. Just a thought......
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