Tramatic Brain Injury

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TBI for short also called post concussive syndrome. Some of you may have noticed spelling errors in my post, after my listing job as Executive Office Manager and going back to school and earing two degrees. I graduated with honors and high honors. Six months ago an accident at work changed my life. (I wished there was spell check on here)I received a head injury, was knocked unconcious for just a short time, but that short time has changed the course of my life. TBI...it's what our soldiers are coming home from war with. I can't imagine the horrors they are going through, mine was a minor injury. I have memory loss, My spelling is messed up, some days I can't spell even the easiest words, other days I back up and try three or four times and might can figure them out, I can't do even third grade level math, and part of my job was accounting, a lot of days I don't have a clue what day it is. I forget things that happened even an hour ago. Neurogist and Neurotherapist still tell me there is hope, first was saying time will heal it..time hasn't....the therapist is now saying intensive rehabilitation to retrain other parts of my brain to make up for what isn't working. I can't even control my emotions. I get frustrated and start crying. I get angry or upset and start cussing, I hardly ever cussed before this happened, now I can out cuss any sailor..or lol teenager.The two full days of testing they put me through showed that I didn't even have the ability to make rational discions. I feel like I have lost me. I can't find me, and I'm afraid I never will find me again. Is there anyone out there that has had a brain injury? You know I look normal, but when I talk I get confused and can't find my words or use the wrong word or it takes me longer to communicate or to pay at the check out line at the grocery store because I have to make sure I write down the debit amount then because I'll forget it and lose the recipet before I get to the car so it looks like I'm slow or retarded and really I'm a normal person whose life suddenly got turned upside down.