Archive for May, 2011

Music After TBI Was Her Best Choice with Her Limitations

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

Music After TBI: Helena Part Eleven Helena found a task for which she was far more suited when she decided to create a CD which was a compilation of her music after TBI. She explains: I decided that I wanted to make a CD of my singing, and I called it..
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Ex-Chicago Bear Dave Duerson Was Right: He Had Brain Disease

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

It shouldn’t have been a surprise to anyone this week when researchers announced the findings of their examination of the brain tissue of ex-Chicago Bears star Dave Duerson: He had chronic traumatic encephalopathy. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/03/sports/football/03duerson.html?ref=sports CTE, as it is known, is the mentally debilitating disease that’s been found in the brains of nearly two dozen..
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Work for Brain Injury Survivor Too Fast Paced

Posted on May 4th, 2011 · Posted in TBI Voices

Work for Brain Injury Survivor: Helena Part Ten This sense of what is best for her, what pace she can handle didn’t come automatically. She became keenly aware of how overwhelming the pace of information could be when she attempted to learn a new profession to go back to work for..
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Post Brain Injury:Living a Slower Life than Before

Posted on May 3rd, 2011 · Posted in TBI Voices

Post Brain Injury: Helena Part Nine Church, God, Music. Those are critically important to Helena, but she is also a woman of this world, who must survive day to day post brain injury. She describes her current circumstances post brain injury: I live independently but I live in an apartment house..
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Silent Song of Brain Injury as a Survivor Explains It

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

Silent Song of Brain Injury: Helena Part Eight As Helena tells it, her life, despite a life that was dominated by melody, the background noise was drowning out the harmony. In simplifying her life to accommodate to her brain injury, she believes she has found renewed faith and a quieter soul..
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Official Results On Ex-Chicago Bear Duerson’s Brain To Be Released

Posted on May 1st, 2011 · Posted in Brain Injury

Researchers are slated to release autopsy results Monday for ex-Chicago Bear Dave Duerson, who committed suicide by shooting himself in the chest rather than the head so his brain could be studied for disease from football-related injuries, according to The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/02/sports/football/02duerson.html?ref=sports There will be a press conference at the..
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Despite TBI: The Music Never Died After Brain Injury

Posted on May 1st, 2011 · Posted in TBI Voices

Despite TBI: Helena Part Seven There is a Don McLean song American Pie, with the line, the “Day the Music Died” in reference to the airplane crash that took the lives of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper. December 17, 2007 was not such a day. For Helena the..
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