Cathy Crimmins > Quotes

“Rehabilitation is an equalizing process. No one much cares what you did before; they’re focused on what you can do now and how you can learn to live independently once again. Going from an acute hospital to a rehabilitation environment represents what current sociological jargon calls a “paradigm shift”: at an acute hospital, you are sick and being taken care of. But once you arrive at a good rehab hospital like Magee, you go from being a passive patient to becoming an active participant in your own recovery.”
― Cathy Crimmins, Where Is the Mango Princess?: A Journey Back From Brain Injury

“Or I can try to educate them about TBI, tell them that brain injury is an event from which one never fully recovers. The aftereffect of a major blow to the head is a lifelong, chronic condition that will have its flare-ups and remissions. And a severe brain injury inevitably causes personality changes.”
― Cathy Crimmins, Where Is the Mango Princess?: A Journey Back From Brain Injury