Cindy goes for a short walk

After suffering from a brain injury 5 years ago Cindy still struggles with simple tasks. This video shows how a walk just a few houses away from home wipes her out for at least an hour. She fatigues quickly and then suffers a cluster of symptoms including: migraine headache, neck and shoulder pain, difficulty with speech and motor planning, dizziness, nausea, and sensitivity to light and sound. This short was filmed over the course of a 20 minute walk.

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• SERS
• TBI
• disability
• brain
• injury
• MVA
• fatigue
• walking
• walk
• migraine
• disabled

[Melissarowland21]

Please view the other video's I now have posted about Cindy and her struggles. More information to come but if you can write your state representative about her trouble with the state retirement system it would be helpful.

[Melissarowland21]

We are coming up with a game plan to help Cindy defend herself against the private disability/retirement system that has decided she's not disabled. Please keep checking back to see what I add next.

[gentlesong]

I have watched this vibrant, gifted woman, who used to give incredible and inspiring lectures to large groups of people including me, struggle with the simple things of daily life.that we all take for granted.

anyone who says she is not disabled is crazy and definitely has not spent time with her!! And none of this is her own doing, she is a victim.

That she should have more stress added to her struggles by someone denying her her own retirement funds so she can survive is inhumane!

[smriley76]

Melissa, this is so heartbreaking...amazing how fast life as we know it can be ripped away..what are you trying to do for Cindy? What can I do?