I was in a near fatal car accident in January of 2005 and was left with a third degree traumatic brain injury. So, turning 60 in 2016, freaked me out for several reasons. A year and eight months after the accident I was at a follow up doctor's appointment with MRI's. The neurologist told me that my brain had shrunk to the size of a 60 year old. I had just turned 50. He could not tell me what this meant, if it would continue or how it would ultimately affect me. After years of research I am convinced he indeed knew exactly what it meant. I have a significant increased risk of developing Dementia and/or Parkinson's. So in 2012, after a 37 year break, I decided to go back to playing the piano in an effort to keep my brain lit up like the skies on the Fourth of July and in hopes of making new neural pathways which could effectively forestall and possibly derail those "increased risks". I hope you'll join me as I fight this brain injury...one note at a time.