TBI Voices Blog
The Stories of Those with Traumatic Brain Injuries
High-Def Fiber Tracking Is The Next Best MRI To Find Brain Damage
The world needs a better MRI when it comes to finding and treating the damage that traumatic brain injury does to the brain’s inner wiring. That destruction to the brain’s axons, its nerve fibers, is essentially not visible with traditional MRIs, which diagnose bleeding and swelling of the brain. The axons form a path or ...
New Orlean Saints’ ‘Bounty’ Program May End Team In Court
The New Orleans Saints’ practice of offering its players “bounties” to injure opposing players could make the team the target of lawsuits, according to legal scholars interviewed by The New York Times. The Times looked into the issue of what legal liability the Saints team may have for ir program of paying players to actually ...
Michael – Vision Problems Post Brain Injury
Part Seven By Attorney Gordon Johnson 800-992-9447 One of the often missed symptoms of brain injury are vision problems. While those surviving a severe brain injury, like Michael may get diagnosis of this problem, they can occur even in milder cases. Visual problems can come from an injury to the eye itself, to the ...
Michael – Partial Paralysis Related to Severe TBI
Part Six By Attorney Gordon Johnson 800-992-9447 You have tingling in your left arm? Yes, I get that all the time. Tell me about that. Well I’m right handed and I’ll be sitting watching TV or even walking and I have a nervous habit to where I go like this because I can’t ...
Michael-Recollections of Therapy for Severe Brain Injury
Part Five By Attorney Gordon Johnson 800-992-9447 Let’s talk about your therapy. You were getting therapy at the nursing home in Elizabethtown? Yes. Do you remember any of that? Bits and pieces. What do you remember? I remember I used to have to walk. I guess they were the walking bars you had ...
Michael-Who Michael Was Before TBI
Part Four By Attorney Gordon Johnson 800-992-9447 Part Four – Who Michael Was Before TBI Let’s talk about who you were be, and what your dreams, aspirations were, before you got hurt. You were a college student? Actually, UWO was my third college. Did you have any idea what you wanted to ...
Michael-Memory Returns with Joke
Part Three By Attorney Gordon Johnson 800-992-9447 Michael’s only island of memory before his wreck involved irony. His first memory afterwards was a joke. What have people told you about the time you were in the hospital? Let’s talk about the University Hospital. Well University Hospital, as my dad related to me, there was one ...
Michael-Severe Brain Injury and Skull Fractures Leave in GCS 3
Part Two By Attorney Gordon Johnson 800-992-9447 What is the severity of the injury that you suffered in the wreck? When the other car hit me, my head flew back and I broke the back of my neck. Then my head flew forward and turned my steering wheel put a whole thing in it ...
Michael-Head On Collision Leaves College Student in Coma
Part One By Attorney Gordon Johnson 800-992-9447 College is a time of life for education, to explore new freedoms, to probe the beginnings of adulthood, to lay the foundation for a career and future relationships. It is a vital period where the mind is allowed to transition from childhood to adulthood, where the frontal ...
Quinn-Patience Key to Caregiving After Severe TBI
Part Thirty-Two By Attorney Gordon Johnson 800-992-9447 Quinn ended his interview with an ode to his wife. Thus, in honor of her commitment and of all the other caregivers, we will finish with her words: What would you say to someone who might be in a support group, whose spouse is just coming home? ...
Quinn-After TBI .. Normal is a Roller Coaster
Part Thirty-One By Attorney Gordon Johnson 800-992-9447 As we conclude this, the reason you’re here is you want to help other people with this. Yes. What is it you want to say to someone else, a person who’s first coming to the support group and first starting where you were 6 months, 8 months, 12 months ago? ...
Quinn-Fatigue and Sleep Contribute to All TBI Deficits
Part Thirty By Attorney Gordon Johnson 800-992-9447 We’re almost finished. We’ve been doing this a long time. I haven’t asked you about fatigue and sleep, is that, are those issues for you? Yeah. If I do a lot of brain things during the day, I often have to take a nap later in the ...
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