Shine Magazine Summer 2022 edition out now
Shine is produced for participants of Lifetime Care and the Workers Care Program.
Through sharing personal stories in their own voice, others are able learn about life after a severe motor accident or workplace injury. These real-life stories of resilience, recovery, personal growth, and new beginnings provide insight into life after a serious injury.
In this edition, we hear from:
Gabby
Gabby is a fiercely independent cyclist who is back on her bike after a cycling accident on the road. While learning to live with her brain injury, Gabby has now started working as a disability support worker.
Danette
Danette was driving 20 minutes from home when she blacked out and collided head-on with an oncoming car. Now, almost a decade on from a traumatic brain injury, she regularly exercises, works at a craft cooperative and is on the steering committee for Synapse, the national brain injury organisation.
Karen and Nick
Mother Karen shares her experience of caring for her son Nick who lives a brain injury and what helps her to support him.
Steve
Steve fractured his skull in a work accident that left him with a traumatic brain injury. Almost two years later, he had driving lessons to get his licence back and has returned to a job he loves and previous hobbies.
Jason
Jason went through periods of depression and hopelessness after a spinal cord injury more than 20 years ago that left him in a wheelchair. Having turned his life around, he is now working to help others in the same position adjust to their new lives.
Daniel
Daniel was only a few days away from his final electrician’s exam when he had a motorbike accident on his way to work. He was in a coma and rehab for several months. Living with a traumatic brain injury, he has accomplished some big personal goals.
Matt
Matt sustained a traumatic spinal cord injury at age 22 following a motor vehicle accident in 2016. At the time, Matt had finished his studies and just started full-time work as a radiochemist. Today, Matt has recently got married and gone back to study psychology at Sydney Uni.
Tanya and Lewis
Mother Tanya shares her experience of caring for her son Lewis who lives a brain injury and what helps her to support him.
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If you are a Lifetime Care or Workers Care participant, or a family member or carer and are interested in sharing your story, please call 1300 738 586 or email shine@icare.nsw.gov.au.
