Meet Prateek

Acceptance

"It’s an important phase of my life that importantly marked the beginning of my recovery from the ABI. Largely, because of its invisibility, it’s very difficult to come to terms with your shortcomings. Not just your doctors and caregivers, but in your social circle in front of BRAVE survivors who fought the ABI illness and, on a daily basis, continue to choose to live and not give up! It's for those who are interested, survivors of brain injury, looking for one tiny light of hope, to inspire them and their loved ones." -Prateek M

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CHIRS client Prateek M was recently involved in a film called Becoming the Butterfly.  Many people from the CHIRS Community attended the event in support of Prateek in April.  We asked Prateek about the project. He had this to say;

"I got involved in this project thanks to BIST. Earlier this year, they had been in touch with the organizers on many different projects of varying lengths. I had enjoyed working with them previously and grabbed this opportunity as I had, earlier in the year, already done a zoom interview for a newspaper article on the role of caregivers and an art collage with the team on what brain injury means to me.

The movie, or its story, was primarily run by Olivia-Autumn Rennie (film director) who had a very unique blend of different experiences which made the movie turn out the way it actually did. First up, her very own brother was an ABI survivor, and her experience living with him as a caregiver thoroughly showed in tiny parts of the movie and its layout. Secondly, Olivia is a MD/PHD student who is also a student at Toronto Film school. This unique blend of art and science shows in the quality of her work, especially in this short film titled “Becoming the Butterfly” - a powerful story of stroke recovery and transformation.