Cathy Crimmins

Cathy Crimmins is the author of Where is the Mango Princess? and her story as a Traumatic Brain Injury or TBI caregiver is the focus of the book. At the time of her husband's brain injury in 1996, she was 41 years old, and a freelance writer with a specialty in humor. Cathy and Alan had attended English graduate school together at the University of Philadelphia, and had fallen in love and married, having daughter Kelly seven years after their marriage.

Alan's injury sent Cathy into many months of anxiety and massive stress. She went through a gamut of emotions, blaming herself for Alan's accident, becoming furious with her HMO for denying benefits, and trying her best to deal with her traumatized daughter. She fought tirelessly for Alan, and coped as best she could with Alan's different personality and various disabilities and social awkwardness.

She learned all she could...