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When you suffer a brain injury, your life turns into competing top priorities. I was asked to write on the following question: When everything is a high priority, how do you decide which one to tackle?

Catastrophic brain injury can affect every part of your life and every part of you, giving rise to multiple top priorities, which leads to things going awry financially, socially, in family relationships, health and health care, psychologically, cognitively, emotionally, with regard to shelter, activities of daily living, and so on.

The first step to corralling order is deciding which is the most important to you then making that an absolute, immovable topmost priority in every decision.

If you let other priorities take precedence, then either it isn’t as important as you thought, or you’re letting other people or other priorities dictate your topmost priority. If it’s the former, re-evaluate. If it’s the latter, stick notes on your fridge, your bathroom mirror, computer, and anywhere else to remind you that this area is topmost in every priority decision.

Without health, all else worsens.

For a person with brain injury, survival isn’t only about food, shelter, and clothing; it’s also about healing the injury.

Unfortunately, Canada's medicare doesn't cover restorative neurostimulation and neuromodulation treatments. Private insurance for psychological, chiropractic, and/or physiotherapy may cover all or part of it. In the US, the situation may be similar. And so at first glance, these treatments that radically heal the brain appear unaffordable.

I faced this conundrum when I first found brain biofeedback at the ADD Centre. I needed it to restore my concentration, but I had no income and was mired in insurance lawsuits. I faced two competing........

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