Nurse, Writer, TBI Advocate

Stacey Hamilton

I’ve spent 17 years at the bedside of trauma patients as a registered nurse. In 2025, a fall on a snowboard gave me a traumatic brain injury, and I became the patient.

Stacey Hamilton in front of her bookshelves

My first book

After the Fall

A Nurse’s Experience with Traumatic Brain Injury

Published by 5 Two Press on January 8, 2027

After the Fall follows the first year of my recovery. It’s about the physical, cognitive, and emotional challenges of living with a traumatic brain injury (TBI), and what it took to get my life back. It releases two years to the day after my fall.

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Stacey Hamilton

After my TBI, I discovered I needed to become my own advocate. I learned to stop listening to “the experts,” trust my intuition, and forge my own path.

My doctors told me my headaches, dizziness, and cognitive changes would ease in about three months. I’m a nurse, and I still had to fight to be heard. So I started writing as a way to heal. More about me

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  • Her laptop on her desk by a window of autumn leaves, open to the manuscript of After the Fall
  • Stacey on a rock beside a waterfall in the woods
  • Her dog eating a birthday cake from a plate
  • Her dog stretched out on the couch
  • Stacey with her son in his Marine Corps uniform
  • Stacey standing by the fireplace with her dog

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