The Light Through My Tunnel | Free Book
Traumatic brain injury and physical disability will change life as you’ve known it. My accident was a tragedy that changed my family forever. Ultimately, I was able to overcome it with courage and faith.
The book begins with my marriage two years before the car accident that changed my perfect life with no warning. I describe the car accident that resulted in my traumatic brain injury. My mobility, fluent speech, my driver’s license, my career, my new family: these are the losses I incurred after my unfortunate car accident.
I recount all of the trials, challenges and triumphs of living without the balance required to maintain an active life. I describe, often with humor, the new challenges of living in a disabled body. Life with poor balance is different from anything I have ever encountered. Yet my fierce independence and determination propels me to keep reaching for more improvements to finally attain the ‘normal’ life I so desired. I still looked the same. Please God! Let me move as quickly and effortlessly as I used to!
I write extensively about all the family, friends and sometimes perfect strangers that have helped me to navigate in my new disabled world. For someone with such a self-proclaimed ‘simple life’, I sure do have a lot of great (and funny) stories to tell!
I end each chapter with a prayer concerning the events that transpired in that chapter. This is my life. So until I read back to what it was like in the beginning, it’s hard for even me to see how God has been directing my every step. My prayers are for thanksgiving and sometimes for help!
I write about seeing God’s grace as He carried me through this newest chapter in my life. I spend two decades trying to get back to the active, athletic, and fit person I was before my brain injury. That was the ‘old Mary’. Now I have become the ‘new Mary’….still active and fit, but with a new perspective on what is really important in life.
I’m embarrassed that it took so long to figure this out. You can be healthy, attractive and intelligent with a great career, family and friends; but without God as the center of your universe, you cannot have a truly joyful life. It took a traumatic brain injury to finally realize it wasn’t all about me.
In The Press
“Overcoming the obstacles of a brain injury demands more stamina than most of us can muster. Follow Mary on the twenty-year journey that is still in process, including the writing of this book. Her story of perseverance, discovery, and determination will amaze and inspire you.”
Joyce Cordell, Author of A Heart for Truth
“Mary Varga is a walking, talking testimony to God’s healing power and the resilience of the human spirit! This book about her experience with brain injury is such an encouraging read. I highly recommend to all!”
Harriet E. Michael, Author of three books and over 150 articles, devotions, and short stories.
Brain injury is a life-changing event for the person with the injury, their family, and everyone who cares about them. Mary’s story, struggles and triumphs are well known to the Brain Injury Alliance of Kentucky. This book captures perfectly the depth of her struggle and the victory she has found through her faith in God’s grace.
This book is refreshing because Mary does not ask God why she has a brain injury. Instead, she shows in her reflection the presence of God in her struggles and how he has worked to help her overcome them through his grace.
Eddie Reynolds, Director of Outreach Service
Brain Injury Alliance of Kentucky
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