Donna has always wanted to help people even as a young girl growing up in New Jersey. In her early days, she started sending money to charities to help others with disabilities and life changing experiences. As she got older, she manned the telephone to raise money and participated in many walks over the years to raise awareness and donations to help a number of different charitable organizations. Never would she believe that one day, her friends and co-workers would be walking and raising money for her.
In 1995, Donna’s world changed when she sustained a traumatic brain injury. After many years of occupational, physical and cognitive therapy along with holistic therapy, Donna began her long journey toward recovery. Since it took years to find the right doctors and support, Donna set out to find a way to raise awareness about traumatic brain injury for survivors and their loved ones.
Donna currently mentors other brain injury survivors as well as speaks at events to help healthcare workers understand what it is like to live with a brain injury. Donna’s creation of a green brain injury awareness magnet that can be displayed on cars, office desktops, refrigerators, etc. has helped to raise money for survivors. She has also created marketing material such as pamphlets and tips and distributes them to people she has met on her journey raising awareness as well as educating those around her.
Donna’s goal in creating this web site is to raise awareness and help share her story of faith and recovery. Donna wasn’t given much hope after her diagnosis of a brain injury; however, her story is inspiring and Donna wants to be able to encourage others that nothing is impossible, especially with God on their side. There are holistic approaches as well as folks that are willing to help – the challenge has just been finding them – Donna’s goal is to raise awareness and find the resources brain injury survivors need to enhance their quality of life.
