Archive for January, 2011

Rehabilitation After Coma: Subdural Hematoma

Posted on January 28th, 2011 · Posted in TBI Voices

Rehabilitation After Coma Begins: Betty Part Three While Betty was receiving some type of rehabilitation after coma, at each point of her recovery journey, even while still in a coma, her recollection of that begins towards the end of her three months of inpatient stay. After discharge, she went to..
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TBI Coma: Impact on the Family of Waiting Out the Coma

Posted on January 28th, 2011 · Posted in TBI Voices

TBI Coma Survivor: Betty Part Two One of the common denominators of all TBI coma cases is the shock of the phone call to the family.  Our page http://waiting.com written in 1997 begins with these words: “You have a phone call” “From the hospital.” he adds. Everything turns flat and..
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Brain Injury Coma Survivor Story: From College Girl to Coma Survivor

Posted on January 28th, 2011 · Posted in TBI Voices

Brain Injury Coma Survivor: Betty Part One – TBI Voices Begins its Second Story I have been doing brain injury representation for over 20 years, and there are times I swear that the condition is contagious.  Of course it isn’t, but  it is such a prolific tragedy, that as soon..
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Brain Injury Grueling Recovery May Foretell Gabrielle Giffords’ Rehab

Posted on January 24th, 2011 · Posted in Brain Injury

Young Man’s TBI Recovery May be What Gifford Faces in Recovery The New York Times Monday did a profile of a young man who, after being shot through the head, underwent treatment at the same facility where Rep. Gabrielle Giffords will be going: the Institute for Rehabilitation and Research in Houston. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/24/us/24rehab.html?scp=1&sq=mark%20steinhubl&st=cse..
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Rep. Gabrielle Giffords Moved To Houston Hospital For Rehabilitation

Posted on January 21st, 2011 · Posted in Brain Injury

U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords Friday was moved from Tucson to Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center  in Houston, where she will do what most expect to be a difficult rehabiliation from the gunshot wound she sustained to the head Jan. 8.  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/22/us/22giffords.html?_r=1&hpw Giffords, who has so far been making a miraculous recovery from her horrific..
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Rep. Gabrielle Giffords To Move To Houston Rehabilitation Hospital

Posted on January 19th, 2011 · Posted in Brain Injury

U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is in fact headed to a Houston rehabilitation hospital to continue her recovery from a gunshot wound in her head following a bloodbath in Tucson Jan. 8. http://www.mercurynews.com/nation-world/ci_17137388?nclick_check=1 Unless there are any unexpected medical problems, Giffords will be transferred Friday to the TIRR Memorial Hermann Rehabilitation Hospital..
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Depression after Traumatic Brain Injury, Anxiety and Survival

Posted on January 19th, 2011 · Posted in TBI Voices

Depression After Traumatic Brain Injury: Part Nineteen of Angela’s Story Angela explains her depression after traumatic brain injury: I didn’t know what depression was and I do know what depression is now.  Because depression is not what people think when they say, you know, your dog died and you’re sad,..
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Insight After Brain Injury of Oneself is Changed by Brain Damage

Posted on January 19th, 2011 · Posted in TBI Voices

Insight After Brain Injury: Part Eighteen of Angela’s Story Angela’s Insight after brain injury of herself has dramatically changed: Insight after brain injury changes but not how you might expect.  I once heard a neuropsychologist say that the tragedy of a mild brain injury was that the survivor had such..
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Impaired Relationships After Traumatic Brain Injury

Posted on January 19th, 2011 · Posted in TBI Voices

Impaired Relationships After Traumatic Brain Injury: Part Seventeen of Angela’s Story Impaired Relationships After Traumatic Brain Injury is another issue Angela faces. If Angela can’t work, can she at least be a wife, a domestic partner?  Sadly, this is another role that despite her best efforts has proven to be too cognitively..
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Shopping After TBI – An Overload of the Decision Making Process

Posted on January 19th, 2011 · Posted in TBI Voices

Shopping After TBI: Part Sixteen of Angela’s Story Shopping after TBI is a difficult thing for most brain injury survivors.  A store is a distraction filled world, with countless decisions to make, which most of us give little thought to. Those little decisions challenge the frontal lobes, interfering with memory..
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