Ten years and counting

 

Brooke Taylor 

9:41 AM (3 minutes ago)
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I’m a little late on this post given the subject matter. 



I’ve always been a person focused on the calendar or numbers of personal significance to me. There are obvious ones that you remember like birthdays of immediate family and social security numbers. For me, that also includes the date I started working at my law firm: August 19, 2002.  Other examples are my bar number and social security number. 

Those dates and numbers were significant well before my accident. I recalled them easily both before and after my accident. Maybe that's because they were stored in long term memory.  Information in long term memory is more likely to be preserved. 4/24/2016 held no significance to me until it became the date of my accident.

This year marks ten years of my recovery. This anniversary reminds me that I have made more progress than people thought possible in those earliest days. I firmly believe that I can continue improving with more hard work. Case in point: I won first place in a horseback competition yesterday.

 I’m looking ahead to the next decade. 

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