"Verdict's in... I do have brain damage from my (traumatic brain injury). Comforting to know my cognitive decline isn't just peri-menopause, discomforting to know what an uphill battle it will be to try to reverse the deficiencies,"
"almost every area in my brain is functioning at a decreased capacity."
"But now my job is to hit the bottom of that with the doctors and then embark on the hard work of fixing it, which I don't look forward to because I feel like hard work is all I do. But that's okay."
"come to believe that this 'checking out' is a result of my little soul reaching her limit of what she feels she can cope with in this life, and she 'leaves the building,' so to speak. Or 'leaves the meat suit' might be a better way of putting it."
Evangeline Lilly sustained a traumatic brain injury after fainting and landing face‑first on a boulder during a trip to Hawaii earlier this year. Brain scans showed that almost every area of her brain is functioning at a decreased capacity, producing cognitive decline beyond peri‑menopausal effects. She faces an intensive recovery process involving medical evaluation and rehabilitation and described the effort to reverse deficiencies as an uphill battle. Lifelong fainting spells preceded the accident; earlier assumptions about hypoglycemia were not supported by later blood work. She expressed a belief that the fainting involves a dissociative 'checking out' sensation.
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