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My Brain Injury

By Lori Finnila

Dedicated to my son, Justin Finnila

Introduction

    Lori Finnila was an aspiring model posing for photographers and doing commercials and extra work in film before it would all be pulled to a stop because of a few who took her medical decisions out of her hands who couldn’t accept her and let her be herself making her medical condition worse making it impossible forever to work in this field again.

    This is a book of honesty and courage of one woman’s true account of her journey after brain injury and how it changed her life. The conspiracy of a medical cover-up and how she faced it all alone penniless. How she was encountered by bad men who forced her to do things she thought she’d never have to do.

    A true book of courage and how she came out of it and made her own success in her mind and how she found a new definition to it.

    She hopes in the end this book will help others in understanding the relation to it in everyday life as we live and make our decisions.

    In the end she came out her own hero.

    I started out this intelligent, vivacious, and intuitive woman. I had aspirations more than usual I was always told. But I never stopped working towards them. I would seek and find new ways to push or overcome new challenges that would come my way. And that’s what led me to New York. If I were going to make it anywhere as the saying went and it would be recognized and respected it would be there. Now wouldn’t it be awesome?

    When I first went out there my friends and family had a party for me. I had all the support you could imagine. The party brought in $500. Not enough for all my expenses but a good start. I sold my wedding ring—after all my husband wanted it back. Anger at the time. I wasn’t going to have that. LOL to him. That’s okay. So I went out this first time and it didn’t work out. My naiveness and lack of knowledge left NY to eat me up. But I was still alive, not raped or cut like some other women had been that I had been hearing about on the news. I would call my dad at these times sure he had heard these stories. He was surprised to even hear from me. I knew I was in a world of my own then.

    When I would venture back home for love and support when all had failed and my emotions battered and bruised I found I felt a sense of suffocation. Not to anyone’s fault but to my new found sense of exploration and identity. It would not die and this is what will lead you to my story.

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Copyright © Lori Finnila 2009

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