Rehabilitation for Severe Brain Injury: Jeremiah Part Five Those with severe brain injuries often leave the initial Trauma Hospital stay for an intermim inpatient stay and then get discharged home with usually outpatient rehabilitation for severe brain injury. Jeremiah stayed at UW Hospital a bit longer than some often do at..
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Memory after Brain Injury: Jeremiah Part Four There are many misconceptions about amnesia, most of which Hollywood is to blame for. The temptation to give someone a clean slate, loss of identity, rediscover who they are is too strong for screenwriters to resist. Dozens of times over the years I have..
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Physical Injuries: Jeremiah Part Three I asked Jeremiah, what other physical injuries he suffered: Well of course, I suffered a very bad broken skull and face and such and broke ribs, my clavicle, I believe, which is your shoulder blade was broken and those weren’t fixed. And, oh I broke my,..
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Amnesia From Severe TBI: Jeremiah Part Two The most significant indicator of severity of brain injury, is the length of amnesia from severe TBI, for events both before and after the injury. Jeremiah had given us a very detailed description of what caused the accident. Sometimes such memories can be the..
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Continuing Brain Injury Recovery: Jeremiah Part One Poetry has been a part of my brain injury advocacy almost from the beginning. There must be something about having to struggle so hard for words, that creates a hyper-appreciation of words – lyrical use of words, in certain TBI survivors. Further, poetry, rhymes,..
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Friend After Severe Brain Injury: Ian Part Twelve Ian’s friend after severe brain injury was key to our insights into Ian and his recovery. The time he spent talking to us was just a small thing compared to the energy and patience he has devoted to Ian’s recovery as a friend after..
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Brain Injury and Coma: Ian Part Eleven In the world of journalism as in the world of law, the interviewer is only supposed to ask the questions, not answer them. But this is the internet and it can be anything we want it to be. The end of my interview with..
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Family After Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: Ian Part Ten In Part Nine we talked about anger issues and the potential threat to family poor control of mood and anger can create. In this part we will talk about the importance of family after severe traumatic brain injury. We asked Ian..
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Unfortunately, it looks like it will some time before we find out the cause of death for New York Rangers hockey player Derek Boogaard, 28, who was found dead in his Minneapolis apartment Friday. On Saturday the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office conducted an autopsy on Boogaard, a fierce and..
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Mood and Anger Issues: Ian Part Nine In far too many cases, the biggest problem that interferes with a good recovery after a severe brain injury is the breakdown in relationship’s that comes from the survivor’s inability to control his or her temper. The mood and anger issues are particularly intense with men...
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