This entry is part 14 of 17 in the series Rita Part Fourteen By Attorney Gordon Johnson 800-992-9447 I met Rita’s mom at the “Jamboree”, an annual get together of the Florida Brain Injury Association. The Jamboree is held each June. My interview was done June 23, 2011. You..
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This entry is part 13 of 17 in the series Rita Part Thirteen By Attorney Gordon Johnson 800-992-9447 You’ve got a long way to go yet. Oh I know. How do you feel about that? What are you, what’s your strategy for getting there faster? Oh gosh, I just..
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Hockey star Keith Primeau drives a hard bargain. When former National Hockey League linesman Pat Dapuzzo wanted Primeau to appear at a charity event, Primeau said he would do it on one condition, according to The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/28/sports/hockey/for-ex-nhl-linesman-dapuzzo-recovery-doesnt-stop-when-injuries-heal.html?_r=1&ref=hockey Primeau wanted Dapuzzo to do what he had done: agree to donate his brain..
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This entry is part 12 of 17 in the series Rita Part Twelve By Attorney Gordon Johnson 800-992-9447 Has she had a neuropsychological evaluation? No, no. Has she not recovered enough to make that meaningful? I don’t know that much about them so I can’t say. Nobody’s suggested it..
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In what The New York Times called “the most closely chronicled concussion in hockey history,” Pittsburgh Penguin Sidney Crosby came back to the ice this week, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/22/sports/hockey/sidney-crosby-ready-for-return-to-ice.html?_r=1&scp=3&sq=sidney%20crosby&st=cse Crosby was benched for roughly 10 1/2 months, recovering from concussions that he suffered Jan. 1 and Jan. 5 this year. As The Times pointed out,..
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There was a big step taken recently that will go a long way toward guaranteeing that brain injury patients get doctors who are thoroughly schooled in that field of medicine. The American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS), which oversees the certification of physician specialists in the United States, has created a new subspecialty..
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This entry is part 11 of 17 in the series Rita Part Eleven By Attorney Gordon Johnson 800-992-9447 So now she’s getting physical therapy three times a week. Is she getting any speech therapy? No. Can she communicate at all? Oh yeah, oh yeah, she communicates fine. She talks?..
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This entry is part 10 of 17 in the series Rita Rita - Part Ten By Attorney Gordon Johnson 800-992-9447 At the end of Part Nine, Rita’s mom explained that they were left to themselves to find ways to help Rita when she came home: I started doing the research..
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This entry is part 9 of 17 in the series Rita Part Nine By Attorney Gordon Johnson 800-992-9447 The question remains whether Rita’s brain suffered any additional damage as a result of this secondary infection, or whether this was just a temporary setback. Did Rita ever get back to..
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This entry is part 8 of 17 in the series Rita Part Eight By Attorney Gordon Johnson 800-992-9447 Almost as if the medical community had been waiting for its first real chance to expel her from its umbrella, when the mandates had been met, she was sent off the..
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