Near Drowning Victim Awakes, Talks to Brave Rescuer Hero. That is one word that describes 12 year old Nicole Kissel. She went out into heavy surf and braved rip tides on her wake board off the Washington coast to rescue a boy Charles ‘Dale’ Ostrander, 12, whom she saw flailing..
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Attention Problems and Concentration: DJ Part Eleven DJ explains the attention problems along with his trouble with concentration. He describes situations where he has difficulty. “As long as I’m concentrating on one thing, like what we’re doing right now. One question at a time. Give me a second, boom. ..
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Ryan White Brain Injury Nine year old Ryan White of Pennsylvania, and a woman were struck by the driver of a pick up truck after attending the Philadelphia Phillies and San Francisco Giants game on Thursday night in San Francisco. The boy received injuries that included a lacerated liver, a..
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Tools for Short-Term Memory Problems: Part Ten A PDA is one of the tools for short-term memory problems, as long as you don’t forget it someplace. While the low-tech option of the teapot timer as one of the tools for short-term memory problems, helps him in the kitchen, DJ has..
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Short-Term Memory: DJ Part Nine DJ could not be a waiter anymore partly due to his short-term memory problems. Not only would he have trouble remembering orders, the attentional demands, as the pace and the noise got greater during rush periods, would push all of his cognitive functioning to its..
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I have prioritized advocacy and education about brain injury throughout my career as a brain injury lawyer. The web part of that began with https://tbilaw.com in 1996 and http://waiting.com in 1997. https://tbilaw.com was the first major treatment of brain injury and law on the internet and http://waiting.com was the first..
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Co Morbid Alcohol Use: DJ – Part Eight DJ’s co-morbid alcohol use should not complicate the diagnosis of a severe brain injury. As our brains are essentially all that we are, it is hard to argue that anything is completely irrelevant to assessing the nature of dysfunction after brain injury. This..
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Neuropsychological Assessment: DJ Part Seven One of the neuropsychological assessment tests used in assessing brain injury is what is called an MMPI-2. There is a lot of controversy regarding this test. The brain injury community must say NO to the MMPI-2. No one who has survived a coma should ever be given..
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Early Rehabilitation: Dj Part Six DJ doesn’t remember being an inpatient at Daytona. He doesn’t remember the early rehabilitation. He woke up there, but his memory began later. Events Leading Up to the Beginning of Early Rehabilitation Where did you go after you left Daytona? Daytona down to HealthSouth in..
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DJ’s Caregiver was his Mother who was by His Side: DJ Part Five DJ’s Mother, his caregiver, was by his side during the entire 16 days while he was in a coma. DJ states wanting to see his mom his caregiver, once regaining conscientiousness. “When I came out of my..
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