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It's a journal. It's a devotional. It's a record of a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) survivor. It's documentation of God's activities in real time. There are good days and bad, happy times and sad... I tell it like it is. This is an unscripted walk along the meandering paths of my mind. My life has never been dull... and I've never known boredom. Read on, you'll see...

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Name:Iona Hoeppner
Location:Kissimmee, Florida, United States

I am a happily married mother and grandmother of a large family. I've also had several careers including writer, teacher, trucker, investment and finance advisor, web master and artist. I am an ordained minister (not to the pulpit) and consider my calling to Christ's service my most important role in life.

Thursday, January 04, 2007

Giveback

I didn't feel much like going, but Giveback is too important to me to miss a minute. At Giveback, brain injury survivors, care givers, students and professionals work together for recovery. The organization is the brainchild of Dr. Larry Shutz. I invite you to find out more at the web site: http://givebackorlando.com where a wealth of resources and information is available.

There, I am learning to become my own therapist... Good thing because my workmen's comp carrier decided to deny further therapy long ago because I was just too far gone to benefit and would never get well enough to hold any kind of job. When I appealed, they denied it again, this time saying I had produced an organized, well written letter, therefore didn't need further therapy!

At Giveback, survivors work on recovery. There is no charge, not even for the two books available on the web site. Just print them out! FREE!!! Then as the survivors recover, they help other survivors, giving back to the system that they received from as it were. Sorta sounds like God's economy, doesn't it?

I praise God for Dr. Shutz and all the others who participate... with no financial remuneration whatsoever. WHAT A BLESSING!

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