Archive for November, 2011

Severe Brain Injury Under Medicaid Limited Therapies for TBI

Posted on November 17th, 2011 · Posted in TBI Voices

Severe Brain Injury Under Medicaid: Rita Part Seven Severe brain injury under Medicaid is limited to how much therapy they will cover and in Rita’s case it was very little considering how severe her brain injury was. At some point, every family realizes that they have to do more than they are..
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Transition to Rehab after Severe Traumatic Brain Injury

Posted on November 15th, 2011 · Posted in TBI Voices

Transition to Rehab after Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: Rita Part Six After all of the time she was parked on the trauma floor, a floor away from meaningful rehab, she still didn’t get moved to the 6th floor directly from the 5th floor for transition to Rehab after severe traumatic brain..
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Waiting for Care After Catastrophic Brain Injury

Posted on November 15th, 2011 · Posted in TBI Voices

Waiting for Care After Catastrophic Brain Injury: Rita Part Five Blame it on bean counters who want to cut costs – blame it on bureaucrats who want care to fit care into pigeon holes –  blame it on neurosurgeons who don’t believe in the power of their own miracles, but a..
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Emergence from Coma an Ambiguous State

Posted on November 14th, 2011 · Posted in TBI Voices

Emergence from Coma an Ambiguous State: Rita Part Four Sometimes the signs of emergence from coma are so subtle that it is hard for even the family to keep the sequence clear. In Part Four we talk about Rita’s emergence from coma. When they start to pull the drugs off at three..
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Before Catastrophic Brain Injury:The Family Before Coma

Posted on November 11th, 2011 · Posted in TBI Voices

Before Catastrophic Brain Injury: Rita Part Three In part three we talked about who Rita was before catastrophic brain injury.  She had moved to Florida to be with her parents and working as a waitress with no insurance. Your daughter is how old on the date of the accident before catastrophic brain..
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Horror of Catastrophic Brain Injury and What They Don’t Tell Parents

Posted on November 10th, 2011 · Posted in TBI Voices

Horror of Catastrophic Brain Injury: Rita Part Two I asked her mother about the horror of catastrophic brain injury and whether or not they had any idea what they were about to embark on with Rita’s injuries: So let’s start with your part of the story as the horror of catastrophic brain..
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Catastrophic Brain Injury: Pedestrian Suffers Catastrophic TBI

Posted on November 9th, 2011 · Posted in TBI Voices

Catastrophic Brain Injury: Rita Part One As we start Rita’s story we hear about the horrible accident that caused her catastrophic brain injury and how the system failed when she needed it the most. Sometimes there is no audible voice after TBI.  TBI Voices has largely been a page about past..
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Severe Brain Injured: Making the World a Smaller Mountain to Move

Posted on November 7th, 2011 · Posted in TBI Voices

Severe Brain Injured: Steven Concludes – Part Twenty We ended with Steven and Bill as we do all of our interviews with the severe brain injured. What parting words do you have to make the world a better place for those severe brain injured.  First, from Steven our severe brain injured: I..
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Accommodating Severe Brain Injury in School and In the Workplace

Posted on November 7th, 2011 · Posted in TBI Voices

Accommodating Severe Brain Injury: Steven Part Nineteen In part nineteen I ask Steven if he has any thoughts on how the schools and the workplace could be more accommodating severe brain injury survivors.  Here are his thoughts: You have been through the difficult effort to learn a trade in an area that..
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NFL Failed San Diego’s Dielman, Who Suffered Seizure After Concussion

Posted on November 5th, 2011 · Posted in Brain Injury

The National Football League is giving lip service to the notion that it is taking concussions seriously, but head injuries are still falling through the cracks. Take the case of San Diego’s Kris Dielman. On Oct. 23 Dielman was hurt when there was “about 12 minutes left in the game” against the..
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