After five months in Broadgreen Hospital, she moved to a specialist brain injury unit, where she has lived since November.<\/p>\n
“Everything is difficult because I have tremors in my hands,” she said.<\/p>\n
“Even putting on make up or having a cup of coffee. Just every day things you take for granted are so difficult.”<\/p>\n
But Raina said she is the kind of person who likes to keep busy and challenge herself – leading her to take on a 5km walking challenge, to raise money for The Brain Charity.<\/p>\n
The Brain Charity is a Liverpool-based organisation helping people affected by all forms of neurological conditions, across England and Wales.<\/p>\n
“I’m definitely still grieving but my brain never stops ticking so I like to set myself challenges,” she said.<\/p>\n
Raina has also written a children’s book about brain injuries – and plans on writing a second, about functions of the brain.<\/p>\n
“I’ve written a kids book to help children understand their brain injury,” she said.<\/p>\n
“I wrote it for my children, I wanted them to understand my brain injury and why I am the way I am. <\/p>\n
“The brain is so important, it’s the only organ we’ve got that can’t be transplanted.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After five months in Broadgreen Hospital, she moved to a specialist brain injury unit, where she has lived…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":725622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-725621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}