(From the "I Am Recovery" project.) Here is her story in her own, unedited words:
Heidi:
It was very scary to me. It is okay to know life don't always go our way. Sometimes go dons't go our way. In some ways I have changed and it hard. When grow up I wnat to get married have children and have a job.
In someways I appreciate life more or less. I do and I don't because theri new things do but their our things mis. I'm grateful for my abilities and what I can do. I am frustrated my own limitations their are things I can't do that could do before my brain injury. I could run and fas now I can't.
She never pretended it wasn't hard, but she tried to see the best in life. Always.