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▲ 9 r/TBI

Seeking a weekly virtual support group: TBI survivors navigating the return to work (ideally in tech or similar)

In August 2023, I fell off my bicycle and suffered a TBI, a broken back, a broken shoulder, a fractured skull, and other facial fractures requiring emergency reconstructive surgery.
While my physical wounds have thankfully healed, my brain has not. I live in a "zero-session state"—meaning every task feels like starting from a blank screen. I cannot reliably form new memories, and my executive dysfunction is severe.
Before the crash, I was the primary breadwinner for my family as a designer in the tech industry. In February 2025, I was laid off for "performance" issues directly related to my TBI. I am currently stuck in a horrific benefits loop where I have been denied LTD, EDD, and SDI.
Because of the massive cognitive load required to do my previous job, I am struggling to figure out how to ever return to work in my field, or what a pivot even looks like.
What I am looking for:
Does anyone know of a weekly, virtual support group specifically for TBI survivors who are trying to navigate returning to work?
Ideally, I am looking for a group of professionals, or people specifically in the tech industry, who understand the unique hell of trying to manage severe memory issues, screen fatigue, and cognitive walls in a high-demand corporate environment.

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u/sarsfox — 13 hours ago
▲ 13 r/oaklandballers

Can someone tell me more about this Bash Bros night? I assume Mark, Jose, Andy, Jorma, and Akiva will all be there hanging out all night, but I can't see that written anywhere

u/sarsfox — 1 day ago
▲ 43 r/baseball

The best umpire 2026: Like any fan, I hate when umps' incompetence and egos impact a game. But I went on Umpscorecards.com and saw that John Tumpane is doing the best job of all umps this year, so I suppose I should tip my cap. KUDOS

... that is, until the robuts are able to get rid of umps and then i dont have to bother with this stupid hat anymore

u/sarsfox — 2 days ago
▲ 15 r/SFGiants

21st-century Giants Nostalgia Tours #1: Kevin Frandsen

In the not so distant past, largely in the Sabean era, the Giants had a heartwarming tradition of re-signing their former heartthrobs years after their prime. There’s spectacular examples like Vogelsong and Ishikawa, Barely Left’s like Galaragga, and other categories, all of which I’ll be exploring in this series.
Fellow Old Bastards remember when Kevin Frandsen was the future. It was a simpler time, mid 2000s, when a badass named Kevin Ferguson was going viral as Kimbo Slice. A different kind of badass, Kevin Frandsen, was also gaining momentum with a similar name.
In 2005 he played on the USA team for the Futures game alongside future Giants names like Petit, Melky, Merkin and Ryan Garko - who was the starting catcher.

Frandsen became part of giant expert trivia when he received his 2010 SF Giants World Series Champ ring. See, on March 26, 2010, he was Purchased by the Boston Red Sox. So he never played even in the regular season for the team. However, he’d made such an impression or whatever that the Giants took a vote after the season and decided that both he and Fred Lewis would both get World Series rings despite 0 games played.

He bounced around until, in 2015, it was brought back to the Giants and went 2-11, never appearing in MLB again. One of his 2015 teammates, Stephen Okert is on the Astros right now.
We speak your name, Kevin

Next time: Originally a shortstop in the Giants' system, he debuted as a pitcher in 1999. He was infamously traded to Minnesota in the A.J. Pierzynski deal but returned to the Giants in 2016.

u/sarsfox — 3 days ago
▲ 15 r/SFGiants

Coming off the '89 Earthquake World Series, the 1990 Giants had some solid centerpieces: Matt Williams and Brett Butler both put up 5.;0 WAR seasons, and closer Jeff Brantley was an All-Star.

But there was another guy in that bullpen: Ed Vosberg.

Vosberg appeared in 18 games for the Giants in 1990 with a 5.55 ERA. But his professional baseball journey is a carroty rabbit hole:

  • Vosberg managed to stay in the majors until he was 40. Last stint on the 2002 Expos alongside Andrés Galarraga (right in the middle of the Big Cat's Giants sandwich: Giants '01 ➡️ Expos '02 ➡️ Giants '03).
  • He kept playing pro ball until 2007. At age 45, he was pitching for the Potros de Tijuana. He went 3-2 with a 2.40 ERA in 9 starts, leading the team in ERA, H/9, BB/9, and K/BB (min. 5 starts).
  • One of Vosberg’s teammates on that 2007 Tijuana squad was a 17-year-old named Leonardo Heras.
  • Here's Leonardo Heras hitting a go-ahead single in 2026 WBC:
  • Haras is currently playing for the Olmecas de Tabasco.
  • Heras's current Tabasco teammate is 40-year-old former big leaguer Fernando Salas
  • In 2007, Salas was playing for the Saraperos de Saltillo alongside 45-year-old Juan Manuel Palafox.
  • Palafox was on the 1983 Mexico City Tigres Capitalinos with Vicente Romo (no relation to Sergio 😞 ). At age 40, Romo went 14-6 with a 2.48 ERA, capping off a career where he'd spent 8 years in the majors pitching in 335 games.

Anything, really, is better.

u/sarsfox — 11 days ago
▲ 8 r/SFGiants

Hint: Not JVW (pictured), who we acquired a year after he’d hit .299 with a .972 OPS and 94 RBI. Posey had a .957 OPS when he was MVP... so JVW = good guess! you're getting closer

u/sarsfox — 11 days ago
▲ 22 r/SFGiants

Carlos Santana, the only 40+ MLB player today, needs to step it up

u/sarsfox — 15 days ago