Nine years in the making. A labour of love and frustration as the narrator Francene Gillis struggled to accept her new reality. On her way into school February 1, 2016 she slipped on black ice going into her school and fell backwards on the cement. Her head bounced on the pavement. And then she woke to an altered reality that she did not understand.

Diagnosed with a concussion and whiplash, and consequently PCS  Post Concussion Syndrome, her fall ended her beloved teaching career. Hers is a story of pain, frustration, anger, sadness, rejection, heightened emotions, extreme fatigue, knowing nothing to discovering all that was available if only she had known where to look.

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Her writing journals created in occupational therapy grew and she realized what she was learning might help others. When she found herself using the expert advice she dug up, she knew as a teacher and professional writer of 35 plus years, she had to put her findings in a book to help others. Included are seven plus stories to balance and heighten the themes found when the unexpected in life occurs. Read of the tremendous salt-of-the-earth people she found, and never give up on yourself.