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Where Broken Crayons Still Color
A story of the founder with Military Grade determination where giving up is just Unacceptable.
One Navy veteran's tragedy turns into hope for others. Douglas Scott but friends call him Scotty.
His brain injuries with PCS impacted neuro-cognitive function of balance, vision, and hearing after surviving a car accident that changed his life forever.
Remaining military strong, he learns to read and write again with the help of mobile dictation tools and smartphone cognitive games.
Learning to laugh at what he calls his life of "Forest Gump" moments built a spirit of determination for a comeback.
His head injury back in 2015 when a young lady ran a traffic light that cause Frontal lobe. Auditory cortex, and Occipital lobe damage.
He began using hippocampus and amygdala exercise since learning the techniques for recovery.
He was told several times since 2015 to just go file for 100% disability but my military training to keep fighting does not allow such things.
If the condition was left without rigorous brain exercise the condition would rapidly age into early onset dementia or Alzheimer.
Remaining military-grade tough and began exercising the brain rigorously daily but would get tired much quicker.
Imagine one day, Forest Gump gets a call one day to join Cyber Defense teams to continue serving his country. Much of his day was spent listening to brilliant people all over the world. They can’t witness his struggles in a 100% remote role managing the teams design and delivery timelines. Instead the teams recognize God’s gifts of leadership.
There is no reverse for Scotty and no making it all better but he keep moving forward with a very repeatable process and procedures each day.
It’s Scotty’s urgent mission to capture as much of God’s miracles and purpose along this journey to help others with their new normal.
Scotty wakes early mornings with the pressure behind his eyes and the same headache most would call a migraine.
The injury caused blurred and double vision and begin my mornings with pain from coughing deep in his lungs.
His neck pain starts at the base of my skull and goes behind both ears then to both eye sockets.
The pain on his left side starts at the calf, up to center of thigh up to his groin. The hip pain is at the top of both joints.
If he accidentally tilt my head up, it causes shooting pain in both eye sockets.
The damage to the optical nerve creates white flashes in the corners of both eyes.
His hearing was damaged to 60% loss along with balance so he holds on to things.
He gets really tired easy so the team members help delivery miracles.
The doctors told Scotty the four brain injuries will not improve but the healthy cell will pitch in only if I exercise them.
If Scotty fails to exercise his brain, he will most likely bring early onset dementia and Alzheimer’s.
Remember broken crayons still color.
Keep Pushing On & Don’t Stop Believing
These were positive reinforcement since 2015 after a life changing event with multiple brain injuries.
Song by Christian rock band MercyMe.
Be Bullheaded, Persistent, and Resilience
Resilience is the process and outcome of successfully adapting to difficult or challenging life experiences, especially through mental, emotional, and behavioral flexibility and adjustment to external and internal demands.
A number of factors contribute to how well people adapt to adversities. Among them are ways in which individuals view and engage with the world the availability and quality of social resources specific coping strategies.
Medical Costs
In the US alone, there are about 5 million people living with disabilities caused by TBI.
That accounts for around $48-56 billion is spent annually on direct and indirect costs related to TBI.
Brain Cells Chatting
Chronically Capable
After four brain injuries life will never be the same but it pays to have a sense of humor and remaining military grade tough each day helps.
It has taken five years of neuro-cognitive therapy but Scotty is very thankful, grateful, and blessed in hopes to encourage others less fortunate.
It pays to have a sense of humor when forgetting even the simplest of things often stumbling with my words and numbers. For awhile I feel like I’m back in the great game of business, then the next moment it’s what Scotty calls his Forest Gump time.
When all felt hopeless a former NFL doctor measured four brain injuries and Scotty’s Neurologist shared they were impacting his cognitive reasoning, speech, hearing, and balance. The doctors and the family attorney advised them to file for 100% disability right away but that's just not Scotty. Medical bills overtook all major credit cards and the lake side home that they had work so hard for was on the verge of foreclosure. By tapping both retirement plans they managed to keep our lake place.
Miracles Happen
Nuance Mobile Dictation Tool
Before Scotty's accident he was at the top of his career as an award winning senior technical program manager. After the accident he could not read or write very well so when one of his doctors recommended using a miracle mobile dictation tool to capture of his global teamwork methods before they may be gone forever. After years of practice in cognitive therapy, Scotty learned to read and write again by practicing mobile dictation and cognitive games that now offer hope for other Traumatic brain injury survivors. Now five years later, he still practices every day by reading everything on the latest breakthroughs in early detection and treatments offer hope and purpose for other Traumatic brain injury survivors.