WINNIPEG — Survivors of brain injury, friends, and family walked in support of brain injury awareness Sunday.
Each year, for the last 12 years, this walk has helped organizers promote awareness about living with brain injury and has helped raise funds.
Manitoba Brain Injury Association hopes events like these can remind people that a brain injury can affect every aspect of a person’s life, from the physical straight through to the emotional. The association wants to remind people often times there are no visible physical symptoms.
At the walk at Assiniboine Park, Executive Director of MBIA, David Sullivan, said people need to understand what life is like with a brain injury. Explaining that events like the walk help raise funds put back in to the vital support needed to help survivors and their families.
“It’s on going headaches. Not being able to do what you used to do. There’s nothing minor about that…it’s a long haul,” said Sullivan.
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