thanks for any advice!
Lise Neer
Denver, CO

You can help us by voting everyday, and passing on the word.
Here is what I wrote in my own blog:

Hey everyone please do me a favor! My best friend who has a TBI from a boating accident and I are rallying for a great cause. It is for my best friends Doctor named dr. Ivanhoe.. She is trying to get enough votes to win money for her cause on Pepsi refresh project. Most of her paitients are low income due to a horrible accident they went through. it is only a few mins of the day everyday this month and you could be helping give money to a deserving cause. The only thing you will loose is only mins a day, so it is a win win situation Vote and spread the word. Feel free to post the website and anything useful on your fb, myspace, twitter, webpage, send info to work buddies, church buddies, and such to help us spread the word. Go to http://www.refresheverything.com/theivanhoefoundation
it explains what she wanted to do. Trust me it is a worthy cause *vote everyday* and *spread the word* thanks guys!

If you can post a blog for us we would be so grateful! We need a lot of votes and support from everyone! God bless and thank you so much!

I, too, have been affected by TBI as a result of several concussions while playing sports. Over the past couple of years, I’ve developed seizures and memory issues. Sometimes, the medicines that one has to take for the conditions are worse than the conditions themselves. After having surgery for thyroid cancer, I found myself unemployed for the first time after working for 15 years in the medical field, and several years at Apple.

I discovered Evernote while trying to find something to help me salvage little pieces of my life so I wouldn’t forget everything. I could look at photos I’d taken at a family event, and not remember being there. I could see pictures of a special vacation, and not remember making the trip. Tags are fantastic, because instead of having way too many folders and having no clue which folder I put things into, I just have a few folders but lots of tags. That makes it much easier to find things.

With Evernote, I can add everything into it. I add business cards and take photos of them with people I meet (I had the pleasure of meeting Phil at MacWorld and added him, too!), I record meds, events, daily schedules, websites, photos, errand notes, sketches, literally everything. Having access to it on my Macs, my iDevices, and the web ensures that I’ll never be away from it when I need it. Evernote is my peripheral brain, and I really don’t know what I would do without it.

Largely thru using Evernote, and with the encouragement of a good friend, I started working with a software company almost a year ago providing online customer support. There’s no way I would be able to do this without Evernote. It’s quite amazing since my doctors didn’t think I would ever be able to work again.

Words cannot express the self-worth that I have because I am able to work. There are times when I feel like I have to work ten times harder to produce half as much as a co-worker, but you know what? It’s totally worth it, because it’s one more part of me that I’m still able to hold on to, and one more thing that I can do without relying on someone else. So thanks, Evernote, for helping me to remember everything, and for giving me my life back.