All posts in 'TBI Voices'

Traumatic Brain Injury Headaches Different Than Before Brain Injury

Posted on March 20th, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

Traumatic Brain Injury Headaches: Zach Part Twenty Six   Understanding the roll that traumatic brain injury headaches play in Zach’s continuing challenges is complicated that he had a significant traumatic brain injury headache problem before he got hurt. It is significant to explore Zach’s pre-injury migraines. To start with, it is important..
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Walking after Severe Brain Injury:Left Sided Neglect Impacts Running

Posted on March 18th, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

Walking after Severe Brain Injury: Zach Part Twenty Five Zach and I talked about his walking after severe brain injury and how to this day he has an abnormal gait to his walking after severe brain injury.   I’d like to try to cover a series of issues or symptoms with..
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Social Life After Severe Brain Injury: Dating

Posted on March 15th, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

 Social Life After Severe Brain Injury: Zach Part Twenty Four  We start this part talking about meds that Zach may have been on in which he reveals that he doesn’t take any.  We go on to talk about what Zach did to improve his social life after severe brain injury. Were..
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TBI Relationship Gap: Alcohol No Answer in Filling Gap

Posted on March 14th, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

TBI Relationship Gap: Zach Part Twenty Three  Zach and I discussed the TBI relationship Gap and how alcohol didn’t not replace his girlfriend.  Alcohol did not mend the gap for Zach. When you break up, now you’re a sophomore, beginning of your sophomore year.  Yes. Do you try to replace her..
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Severe Brain Injury Relationships: Hampered

Posted on March 13th, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

Severe Brain Injury Relationships: Zach Part Twenty Two  What is it like socially in college for you? How were your severe brain injury relationships with other students once you started college? Its like this, I would go to a party and I would try to like hang out with some friends,..
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Writing After Brain Injury: Discovering His Gift

Posted on March 12th, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

 Writing After Brain Injury: Zach Part Twenty One  One blessing of his recovery from severe brain injury is that Zach discovered his gift for writing after brain injury.  While now his verbal communication skills is seemingly intact, his writing skills are exceptional.  Read even a few pages of his book, the..
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Accommodations Pre-Arranged for Severe Brain Injury

Posted on March 11th, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

Accommodations Pre-Arranged for Severe Brain Injury: Zach Part Twenty  You said there was this accommodations pre-arranged for severe brain injury sheet. What was the process like in terms of getting the accommodations pre-arranged for severe brain injury that you missed?  I got set up ahead actually.  My transcript said I needed accommodations or..
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College After Severe Brain Injury: Leaving Home

Posted on March 8th, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

College After Severe Brain Injury: Zach Part Nineteen   We’ve talked about that period right after your injury, we talked about the rehab, we’ve talked about school.  The one other area I want to talk about in specifics before we talk more about symptoms would be the transition to going to college..
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Double Vision after TBI Prevented Return to Baseball

Posted on March 6th, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

Double Vision after TBI : Zach Part Eighteen  Brain injury is thought too much of as strictly a cognitive and behavioral disability. Yet, everything that a human does is controlled by our minds and the central nervous system.  When a brain suffers a severe injury, the deficits are not going to..
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Achievement After Brain Injury: Graduation Seemed Hollow

Posted on March 5th, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

Achievement After Brain Injury: Zach Part Seventeen Another area that Zach and Lethan’s stories run in parallel deals with the hollowness of what would seem to be the great achievement after brain injury of graduating on time from High School.  For Lethan, graduation became more of a time that set him..
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