Category: Journey with TBI
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My Journey with TBI: Share to Find Answers
Let me begin with the bottom line up front: if you are looking for answers, looking for purpose, or looking for support, the best thing you can do for yourself is share. Share your journey. Share your situation. Share! In my previous blog in this series, “My Journey with TBI: Invisible Injury and Shame”, I…
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My Journey with TBI: Invisible Injury and Shame
As I stood before the medical review board convened to assess my injuries from a series of falls while I was in the SEAL Teams, and determine what, if any, financial compensation I should receive as a result of these invisible injuries, I was immediately confronted with shame: “Lt. Doebler, I have to say we…
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My Journey with TBI: The Beginning of Worthiness
This blog series is about my newfound journey with Traumatic Brain Injury, also known as TBI. Throughout this series over the coming weeks and months, I will outline the many major head injuries I have suffered, the effects they have on me without me even knowing it, my realization that I have a problem, the struggle…
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365 Days @36.5 Degrees Saved My Life
At this time last year, I was beyond frustrated at the state of affairs in the world as my son celebrated his seventh birthday in our driveway without any of his friends because of COVID lockdowns. I was furious. But what I did not like most of all was my response to the things that were happening…