SHK: My brain impairments and damage are permanent

This is an editorial penned by SHK with the assistance of his staff editors.  This is the first time that SHK has publicly confirmed that he suffers from permanent brain damage, which, has subsequently resulted in the discovery of a major seizure disorder. Both of which are direct results of the previous Uber car-crash that nearly ended SHK ‘s life as we know it.

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Quietly for the past 8 months, I, have been dealing with the lingering aftermath of a car crash.  I have little to no memory of what happened to me, other, than the fact I got into an Uber car a and that the Uber car  crashed into an interstate sign — rendering me both unconscious as it did with what I would later discover to be permanent and lifelong brain damage.

My entire life has been rewritten, because, I cannot remember the most basic things about my own day.   I wake up some days, and, often feel like I was just born for the first time — because I have absolutely no recollection of who I was before the car-crash.   At times, my headaches, are so strong that it feels like someone literally took a mind-eraser to my head and everything goes black.

I want to make it a point, that, although I don’t remember much of anything before the crash — what I do remember is that I was never disabled before that time.  This summer, for the first time, I was declared legally disabled.  With irreversible brain damage, doctors, finally determined that there is likely no cure in sight — and the symptoms from Post Concussion Syndrome will more-than-likely never fade.

I now live as a disabled-man and am proud of my invisible ailments. I take pride in the fact that I am now forced to take things a little slower, and, to cherish the moments I do have.   Photographs and videos help me more than anything, and, so do taking notes.  My iPhone is probably my best friend, because, without it — the world before me probably wouldn’t exist.

But I also want to use this as an opportunity to distance myself from my drug-abused mother who got much of her own disabilities from extreme drug use. I have never used drugs.  That is not and has never been how I became disabled.

But it was this summer that changed everything. My doctors informed me that there was nothing that they could do, and, my brain damage/memory recollection issues had become irreversible.  Over the course of the holiday season, I, will be publishing quite a few editorials on life and how it has changed me to now live publicly disabled.