After a traumatic brain injury, former CMO Wendy Lurrie stopped waiting to "get her life back" and started building something new. BestGuessistan shares unfiltered conversations about living in the after - when the treatment ends, the diagnosis doesn't resolve, and the systems built for cure and closure don't know what to do with you.
Through conversations with clinicians, survivors, and people rebuilding around what won't heal, we explore what accommodation actually looks like when "getting better" isn't the goal.
Wendy Lurrie
Cartographer of Collapse
BestGuessistan is real.
Not a metaphor, but a system of survival.
A scaffolding for lives unrecognizable to their former selves.
A bureaucracy for the broken.
A haven for the in-between.
Welcome to BestGuessistan.
Population:
whoever’s still trying.
You’re welcome here.
You belong here.
This place operates differently.
At its core, it’s built to accommodate life after rupture.
It doesn’t have to be a brain injury that brings you here.
It can be grief. Loss. Heartbreak. Diagnosis.
Or the slow, quiet unraveling of
everything you thought you were.
The thing that breaks your life into before and after. The moment you realize you can’t go back to your before-self, and your after-self is someone you don’t yet recognize— maybe don’t even want to.
Here, we don’t overvalue certainty.
We work with approximations. Metaphors. Hunches.Check-in comes with forgiveness.
Check-out is optional.
Luggage includes grief.
Language is fluid.
Time loops.
Progress is nonlinear.
Productivity is no longer the metric.
All the metrics are different now.
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