{"id":127,"date":"2008-05-23T22:43:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-23T22:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/waiting.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/bridge-back-from-brain-injury-despair.html"},"modified":"2008-05-23T22:43:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-23T22:43:00","slug":"bridge-back-from-brain-injury-despair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waiting.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/bridge-back-from-brain-injury-despair.html","title":{"rendered":"Bridge Back from Brain Injury Despair"},"content":{"rendered":"In 1997, Becca Martin and I created <a href=\"https:\/\/waiting.com\/\">https:\/\/waiting.com<\/a>.   It is certainly the most important thing I have done in my career.  One of the most important contributions of that page was that its Bridge from Despair was the first internet collection of stories from those who had suffered the tragedy of brain injury on the internet.   The internet was young then, and people were just beginning to discover the value of the connection it creates.<br \/><br \/>Yesterday I got this story, and I thought this blog would be a good place to tell this story, a story we will probably add to <a href=\"https:\/\/waiting.com\/waitingbridge.html\">https:\/\/waiting.com\/waitingbridge.html<\/a><br \/><br \/><blockquote>Dear Mr. Johnson,<br \/><br \/>10 months ago I had a serious car accident and was in coma for 1 week. I had 3  brain-bleedings and 2 brain contusions. While I was in the coma my parents were with me and spoke to me. My father is German and  we live in Germany, my mother is English. And I think she spoke a lot in English with me, because since the coma I often think in English. I am very, very grateful to them that they were by my side. This is the most important thing in the world. The love of your parents. You feel it and you know that they are with you, although you are in the coma. To give this deep love is the most comforting and the most beautiful thig you can do to the person you love. And to know that there are people who don`t look at you like doctors look at their disabled patients is comforting. I want to thank you very much for your work. You really help the people. If you come back, sort of return to the world, it isn`t easy at all to talk to people about this time. Mostly they don`t understand, how could they?<br \/><br \/>I had just one possibility to get to know another person with a near death experience. And this was so different from mine. I don`t remember anything concerning the accident. And I even lost months of memory before the accident, but I can recall my near death experience. I saw multiple universes in higher dimensions. I`m sorry, I don`t know why I am telling you this. Maybe because I don`t know anyone I could talk to about this. Since I am reading books about the quantum-physical possibility of multiverses I feel a bit reliefed, because I know now, that there`s a scientific explanation for what I saw. But I know that every physicist I`d talk to about this topic would bring me to the booby hatch.<br \/>I know, that I was very lucky, that I can think again.<br \/><br \/>The neurologist couldn`t explain my improvement. Although I have problems remembering things, I want to finish the exams on the university in Munich. It might sound queer, but after I have been hating the woman who ran into me far too fast (and sometimes I still hate her and try not to do it) I thought that following Kant`s categorial imperative and wishing a peaceful earth for everyone, I hope that I can release the hate. And I am grateful that I was able to go through this near death experience.<br \/><br \/>You give the people hope, information and the feeling that one can talk about the accident. Thank you!<br \/><br \/>Lisa<br \/>alchwarizmi@web.de<\/blockquote>Thank you Lisa for allowing me to post your story on this blog.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1997, Becca Martin and I created https:\/\/waiting.com. It is certainly the most important thing I have done in my career. 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