O.C. housewife turns sleepless nights into
effort to help military spouses
The accident resulted in amnesia, which landed Briggeman in therapy for two years and
caused her to miss out on a bachelor's degree just six units shy of graduation. Instead, she...
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O.C. housewife turns sleepless nights into
effort to help military spouses
The accident resulted in amnesia, which landed Briggeman in therapy for two years and
caused her to miss out on a bachelor's degree just six units shy of graduation. Instead, she
found herself fighting to remember whether she had turned the oven on or if she had
poured herself a glass of orange juice.
"When you have to work hard to get those basic things back, you start to look at things
differently," Cynthia Briggeman says. She opted to forgo further therapy. She decided
she wanted to impact the lives of other people instead of feeling sorry for herself. It felt
more like a wake up call."
SELLING 'ICE TO AN ESKIMO'
Between her sleep-deprived nights with a colicky child, Briggeman had visited the
website of Toys for Tots, a U.S. Marine Corps Reserve program, to see if she could
donate some toys. She found that among items children requested were backpacks.
She connected the dots in her mind and figured this was
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