Thank You, World
by
Donna O’Donnell Figurski
I started my blog, “Surviving Traumatic Brain Injury,” in March 2014 when I saw a need to connect with other survivors and caregivers in the brain-injured community. I saw people struggling as I had as I tried to make sense out of this new life that visited us when my husband had his brain injury in 2005. At that time, I had no community to turn to. There were no social media. I felt lost and alone. I didn’t know there were other people living with many of the same problems that we were battling. But now, because of the rise of social media, there are many places for people to find information about brain injury, and I wanted to be one of those places.
In the more than ten years that my husband, David, has lived the brain-injured life, I have learned a lot, and I want to share my information with newcomers to this unexpected life. I want to provide a place where they can go to obtain information, but mostly I want to provide survivors and caregivers a platform to SPEAK OUT! I want them to share their stories and their 
opinions, and I want others to draw hope and courage and inspiration from those who are traveling a similar path.
This page was created to say THANK YOU to the survivors and caregivers who have so graciously shared their stories here with the hope of raising awareness of brain injury.
It was created to say THANK YOU to everyone in the WORLD who stops by to read it. In the year and a half since I created my blog, thousands of folks have stopped by from all over the world (nearly 50,000 at this point).

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Comments on: "Thank you, WORLD!" (4)
MY TBI WAS MORE THAN 50 YEARS AGO AND I HAD NO IDEA THAT THERE WERE OTHERS “living with many of the same problems that (I WAS) battling”. SO I THANK YOU AS WELL. KEEP UP YOUR GOOD WORK, PLEASE).
Thomas Courtney
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You are a God send to many Donna. Keep up the great work.
Did you ever think maybe this is WHY David had a head injury? I know that is why I was left to live.
Thanks for all you do. ❤ Lee
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Lee,
Although I wish that brain injury had never entered our lives, it DID! For many years I was helpless with this – simply riding the roller coaster on which we were thrust – just getting by – doing what we could. But, because I have the skills to help others, I decided it was time to become active. As a teacher and an actor, I have the skills to present in front of audiences, so now I offer an up to 90-minute Power Point Presentation to caregivers and I host my own show called, “Another Fork in the Road,” on the Brain Injury Radio Network. As a published author, I have the writing skills to provide an informative blog. I only hope that my work is reaching the folks who need it. And, I wonder what my next “fork in the road’ will be.
All my best to you,
Donna O’Donnell Figurski
survivingtraumaticbraininjury.com
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Thomas Courtney,
Thank you for your vote of confidence.
Donna O’Donnell Figurski
survivingtraumaticbraininjury.com
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