A brain injury turns a writer into an ‘activated patient’ focused on the beauty of the now

How old is Claire Snyman? “I am now…” she says with pause. “I always have to think. I have a brain injury as a result of my surgery, so many of these things do not come naturally to me.”

The thought arrives. She is 47. But on this day in late August, there’s a more important anniversary: 11 years since doctors removed an expanding mass from her brain. And a decade of learning to live in between the known and unknown, the pieces remembered and lost.

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