I've come full circle from where I was before. She had started college, then took a break to decide what to study when she sustained a brain injury in a 1995 car accident. That's when she decided to be a nurse. The hard part was learning how to manage problems with attention span, organization and memory. Before the accident, Johnson was a naturally organized person, but now she has to rely on other methods to remember what to do each day.
Nothing flows in a natural rhythm.
Three years ago, Keri Bennett of Vocational Rehabilitation started a pilot program for BrainBook training with Moeller in Nebraska. Johnson was one of the first trainees and has since gone on to complete her nursing degree and now works as an RN at a hospital in central Nebraska. I'm not where I'd like to be or where I used to be, but with the BrainBook, I can make it in life. Although the BrainBook itself is too big to carry at work all day, Johnson applies the principles she learned. Before work, Johnson reviews her BrainBook list and copies it to blue paper that helps with her light sensitivity resulting from the brain injury.