I am now able to lift my friend Cher's wheelchair into my car when it's absolutely necessary. I had to stop taking her places because of the chest injury I had last year.

Her glasses broke and we went to Walmart to order her new glasses and we both needed to shop. Cher and I hadn't been to Walmart in over a year, so we had a good time. I take the buggy and she rolls along behind me. I make the path and she follows. I have to watch people because they don't pay attention and hit her with their buggies.

Anyway, we had a grand time and I'm exhausted. There was a problem though. I made an absolute fool out of myself when I came to pick her up at the apt. building.

We have a little ramp that people with wheelchairs can use so they can get into a vehicle. Someone had parked a truck where you couldn't get to the ramp. Without the ramp, I couldn't get to Cher.

It was pouring rain and I decided to go around the truck and try to back into the spot. My shoulder is really sore so I couldn't turn to look where I was going. My right mirror was out of alignment and I couldn't use it. I kept bumping the sidewalk and had to try several times before I got to Cher.

She has never driven and was absolutely puzzled by what I was doing. I opened the car door and got out with rain dripping all over me and she said, "What were you doing?" I yelled, "I was backing up because some &(()*&^^% blocked the ramp!"

A Traumatic Brain Injury can cause you to say exactly what you're thinking and to my horror, I heard myself yell that to Cher in front of the neighbors. It startled one of the neighbors so much that he ran in and got the manager to tell her the truck was there! When Cher and I drove off they were deciding if they needed to have the truck towed. I do hope they did. They were probably also wondering if I'd lost my mind.

Oh well....

Jan