About Me/Personal Description: Dorothy Kay is a Kansas-born head-injury survivor living New York City. In 1998, in her first semester of college she was walking home one evening when a drunk driver hit her with his pick-up truck. With a severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) she was given a 7% chance of moderate recovery, but that did not stop her. Since then she has graduated, worked abroad, organized international festivals, and much more. -- She beat the odds, but she doesn't just want to beat them; she wants to change them. She has written a (as yet unpublished) memoir and guidebook of the accident, recovery and her time in university. Today she still struggles with deficits, but she's learned to manage them (for the most part). This blog is about the City, life, TBI, travel, exploration, and adventure. Through it she hopes to help inspire other survivors toward fuller recoveries, and show that full joy-filled lives are well within reach. Dorothy welcomes comments, discussion and input on all posts. She firmly beli
Interests: adventures, exploring, trying new things, reading, good conversation, interesting people, music, discovery, creativity, Travel (with a capital T), learning DJing, going to concerts, camping, kickboxing, sleeping, cooking, baking, the possibi
Activities: hiking, riding horses, kick boxing, training
Organizations: The Internet Brain Collective, the Healing Exchange Brain Trust, NYCares, New York Presbyterian
Favorite Music: Everything from punk rock to opera, indie rock to classical, hip hop to old country, Oh I have my guilty pleasures but for the most part "good" is my only requirement.
Favorite Movies: Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, All About My Mother, Eastern Promises, Old Boy, Amelie, Labyrinth, Rebecca, Brick, Persepolis, Donnie Darko, Harold and Maude, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, the Fall, and pretty much a
Favorite TV Shows: Twin Peaks, the Prisoner, Coffee Prince (Korean Drama), My So-Called Life, Pinky and the Brain
Favorite Books: Absolutely everything by Haruki Murakami, Dorothy Parker, Anna Karenina, Watership Down, the Trial, the Plague, Good Omens, Musicophilia (and pretty much anything by Oliver Sacks), I also find books on neurology fascinating
Personal Website: thekayinkafka.blogspot.com/
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