This is the story I have wanted to share with you for about six months now, but I sat on it because I was scared. Let me start at the beginning…

Last August, I was talking to my dear friend, Cheri, about Sarah Polley’s book, ‘Run Into Danger.’ Like me and Cheri, Sarah Polley had also suffered a brain injury.

Sarah’s symptoms had been a lot like ours - extreme visual light sensitivity that led us to wear darkened sunglasses a lot of the time, short-term memory issues, and the biggest and most debilitating symptom was the excruciating headaches caused by stimulation.