This entry is part 16 of 24 in the series Nancy Part Sixteen By Attorney Gordon Johnson 800-992-9447 Nancy is 18 now? Yes. Do you feel like she’s stuck or is she maturing just at a slower rate? I think she’s maturing at a slower rate because she has been..
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While we often picture the brain being injured as a result of the external force on the head, it is what happens inside the skull, which causes the “closed head injury”. The term “closed head injury” means an injury to the brain where the skull is not broken or penetrated...
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This entry is part 15 of 24 in the series Nancy Nancy - Part Fifteen By Attorney Gordon Johnson 800-992-9447 Nancy was in the 4th grade when she got hurt, when we interviewed her, she was a month from high school graduation. One the one hand, her grades were good. On..
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There are many events which can result in brain injury, such as a blow to the head, the head striking an object, a penetration of the skull such as in a gunshot, or particularly relevant to auto accident cases, by rapid acceleration and deceleration of the brain. In each of..
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This entry is part 14 of 24 in the series Nancy Part Fourteen By Attorney Gordon Johnson 800-992-9447 Nancy got tutoring instead of returning to the 4th grade. But at the beginning of the next year, she went back to school. This interview was done in May of 2011. Is..
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This entry is part 13 of 24 in the series Nancy Part Thirteen Attorney Gordon Johnson 800-992-9447 From the beginning of my brain injury advocacy, I have tried to focus my educational efforts as much on the caregivers as the survivors. Thus, in my interview, I also asked what..
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This entry is part 12 of 24 in the series Nancy Nancy – Part Twelve Attorney Gordon Johnson 800-992-9447 For Nancy’s parents, as with almost all of the caregivers we have interviewed, there is a sense of exhilaration that she not only survived, but that she came out of her coma..
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This entry is part 11 of 24 in the series Nancy Part Eleven Attorney Gordon Johnson 800-992-9447 I continued my interview with Nancy’s Mom, focusing on the day to day life in her first few months after returning home from UW Hospital. She doesn’t go back to school or fourth..
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“There is no such thing as a minor concussion.” – American Academy of Neurology. The AAN defines concussion as a “alteration of mental status due to a biomechanical forces affecting the brain.” The AAN definition does not require a loss of consciousness. The AAN guidelines, break down concussion into three..
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This entry is part 10 of 24 in the series Nancy Part Ten By Attorney Gordon Johnson 800-992-9447 Returning to the timeline of our story, we now turn to Nancy’s return home from Madison. How long is she at UW Hospital? Thirty-six days. So what are the last ten days..
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