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"How do you explain an invisible brain injury to someone when you look like you're doing fine? In May 2018, a compressed air accident at the dentist sent me home with a brain injury. My 31-year career as an occupational therapist was over. Welcome to life in Shitville. Living with brain injury and reading about it in textbooks were not the same thing. I hope to provide family members, friends, coworkers, professionals, caregivers, anyone, with insights into the daily struggles of living with brain injury while looking normal. I hope the easy-to-read layout will help others with visual processing difficulties to read about brain injury. This is a story about the grueling stages of anger, frustration, grief, and sadness to find the new ""you"". It took a 9,461-mile solo road trip and time away from home to find my new identity, meaning, and purpose in life."

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"Ren� Ready, an occupational therapist, is the author of the memoir ""Living in Shitville - what an invisible brain injury feels like"".She graduated from the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa in 1987 with a bachelor's degree in occupational therapy.Her clinical background provides a unique perspective of the struggles of living with an invisible brain injury.Retired after a brain injury in 2018 during a dentist visit, she now travels in a converted minivan exploring and photographing the western USA.Ren� lives in Washington State with her husband and four wiener dogs. She grows tomatoes in summer, plans road trips and learns to drive the school bus."

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