This blog entry is inspired by another blog entry:

So what? Can we change anything that will happen from happening?  Even the most bizarre things, why would you upset yourself if say, a meteor were to come crashing down on your head?  OK- maybe that is fairly unlikely to happen.  But even if something was more likely to happen, specifically to you because of some prior events that happen (I was in a car accident and have a traumatic brain injury) why worry what COULD happen, and concentrate on the worst case scenario in your head? Maybe it will, maybe it won’t… if we can’t change what will happen, why worry?

Give you entire  attention to what God is doing right now, and don’t get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow.  God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up when the time comes.
Matthew 6:34  (MSG)

This quote is still applicable even if you are not extremely interested in the Bible, it does have a very good point.  For people with other beliefs ‘God’ can be substituted with ‘whatever’.

Individuals with a traumatic Brain Injury are more likely, as says the Alzheimer’s association of America, to acquire dementia later in life.
“Does every hit to the head lead to dementia?

Not everyone who experiences a head injury develops dementia. There’s no evidence that a single mild traumatic brain injury increases dementia risk. More research is needed to confirm the possible link between brain injury and dementia and to understand why moderate, severe and repeated mild traumatic brain injuries may increase risk. ”

Risk…not a guarantee.  I was totally unconscious for 5 weeks, and in a more conscious stage of a coma on the Glasgow Coma Scale for more than another month.  So ya, I have a very severe case of a TBI, [head injuries are considered severe if a person is unconscious for more than 72 hours] but do I let that worry me?  Not anymore.  It did worry me severely the first 10 years since the accident (hehe) but I’ve learned to let it go, because why worry?  [And anyway, my Mom has told me REPETITIVELY during the countless times that I’ve communicated my concern to her, that by keeping an active mind, by reading, crossword puzzles or whatever, that DEcreases the chance of acquiring dementia; she must have read that somewhere]…see my MINDFULNESS post to get more info about states of mind…

So yes, I’ve been through this too- but I take some great advice from Bobby McFerrin– in every life we have some trouble, when we worry we make it double; DON’T WORRY- BE HAPPY!