Archive for December, 2011

Independent Breathing After Severe Brain Injury

Posted on December 13th, 2011 · Posted in TBI Voices

Independent Breathing After Severe Brain Injury : TJ Part Six Returning to my interview with TJ we talk about his emergence from the coma and we touch on independent breathing after severe brain injury: How long were you in a coma? Like nine weeks. You were at Beth Israel Hospital.  The..
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Waiting in the ICU After Severe Brain Injury

Posted on December 12th, 2011 · Posted in TBI Voices

Waiting in the ICU After Severe Brain Injury: TJ Part Five Part Five we discussed with TJ’s step-mom about the pain of waiting in the ICU after severe brain injury and not knowing what to expect.  Whether he was going to live or die and would he come out of his coma..
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Before His Severe Brain Injury Who Was this Survivor

Posted on December 9th, 2011 · Posted in TBI Voices

Before His Severe Brain Injury: TJ Part Four As with most survivors, even though TJ was in a near two month coma, he has near total recollection of his life before his severe brain injury.  While there is some difficulty during the period of emersion from coma, that is not retrograde..
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Severity of Brain Injury: How TBI’s are Gauged

Posted on December 7th, 2011 · Posted in TBI Voices

Severity of Brain Injury: TJ Part Three Waiting is never a complete void of information. Often, it is a flood of the wrong type of information, in a language that only the doctors understand, used not just by habit, but because the lingo masks the reality. The reality is that the..
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Coma Call Had to Go Looking for Parents

Posted on December 7th, 2011 · Posted in TBI Voices

Coma Call: TJ Part Two In part two we talk about the phone call ( the coma call) to his step-mom that tells her that her step-son has been in an accident.  She also is informed that he is in a coma that we will refer to as the ”..
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Ejection Causes Severe Brain Injury in High Speed Wreck

Posted on December 6th, 2011 · Posted in TBI Voices

Ejection Causes Severe Brain Injury: TJ Part One In the beginning of TJ’s story we talk about how TJ’s incurred his brain injury.  In his case ejection causes severe brain injury after a high speed wreck. It is not always the “innocent” who suffer severe brain injury.  Sometimes the survivor’s are not..
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Future after Catastrophic Brain Injury: Every Day Renews Hope

Posted on December 5th, 2011 · Posted in TBI Voices

Future after Catastrophic Brain Injury: Rita Part Seventeen In my conclusion with Rita and my interviews with her mom, we talked about her future after catastrophic brain injury and how every day renews her hope. Where do you see your as your future after catastrophic brain injury? You know what?  I haven’t..
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Soccer Players Who Frequently ‘Head’ Ball Sustain Mild Brain Injury

Posted on December 4th, 2011 · Posted in Brain Injury

Football and ice hockey aren’t the only sports that are causing long-term brain damage in athletes. Soccer is, too. That was the finding of a study done Dr. Michael Lipton of New York City’s Montefiore Medical Center, a researcher who presented the results of his work to the Radiological Society of North..
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VA Lagging Treating Vets With PTSD From Combat In Iraq, Afghanistan

Posted on December 3rd, 2011 · Posted in Brain Injury

Veterans who are now suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after tours in Iraq and Afghanistan are not getting prompt help or treatment from the Department of Veterans Affairs, according to testimony at a Senate committee hearing last week. http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/story/2011-11-30/veterans-PTSD-health-care/51515992/1 USA Today covered the proceedings before the Senate Veteran’s Affairs committee,..
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Technology for Brain Injury Accommodations

Posted on December 2nd, 2011 · Posted in TBI Voices

Technology for Brain Injury Accommodations: Rita Part Sixteen Rita’s mom and I discussed the need for more technology for brain Injury accommodations. Because of some of Rita’s deficits it make it hard to work with what is available.    Rita is not able to use the computer by herself? Not yet, but..
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