Archive for March, 2012

Sense of Humor Survived Severe Brain Injury

Posted on March 22nd, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Sense of Humor Survived Severe Brain Injury: Quinn Part Three   Quinn’s sense of humor survived severe brain injury and had me giggling throughout my interview with him. It started with his demanding his dollar because of the language in the release reciting that he had received “one dollar and other..
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Brain Injury Crisis: Wife’s Medical Training Doesn’t Help

Posted on March 21st, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Brain Injury Crisis: Quinn Part Two Brain Injury Crisis effects more than the injured. Much of TBI Voices has been the stories not just of the survivor’s of TBI, but also spouses and family members. For most of those caregivers, the shock of being informed of the dire, is complicated..
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Preventable Brain Injury Has Secondary Consequences

Posted on March 20th, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Prevental Brain Injury: Quinn Part One Brain injury, head injury, are often preventable brain injury or head injury. In the day and age of helicopters, CT scans and neurosurgery, secondary complications, particularly those that occur a week after the original injury simply are preventable brain injury. Sadly, both Quinn’s initial..
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North Dakota Oil Boom Offers Older Workers Jobs, And Danger

Posted on March 18th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

The AARP Bulletin recently did a story about how Americans 50 and older are flocking to North Dakota to work in the oil industry. http://www.aarp.org/work/job-hunting/info-02-2012/north-dakota-boom-town.html?cmp=RDRCT-OILBM_FEB10_012 In a nation that is slowly crawling out of a recession, where jobs are still scare and older workers are not-so-subtly discriminated against, at first..
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CDC Looks To Create Video Library Of Those With TBI

Posted on March 17th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is launching an initiative that is in some ways very similar to my own project, TBI Voices. The CDC is asking people who have suffered traumatic brain injury, TBI, to submit their own videos about their experiences, according to Stars and Stripes. I’ve..
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Ex-Wisconsin First Lady Dreyfus Dies After Surgery For Brain Injury

Posted on March 16th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

It happens so often with the elderly: They stumble and hit their heads, sustaining traumatic brain injury.  And last week it happened to Joyce Dreyfus, the wife of former Wisconsin Gov. Lee Dreyfus. And it was fatal. Dreyfus, 85, fell and hit her head at an assisted living facility in..
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Friends Help TBI Recovery For This Survivor

Posted on March 16th, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Friends Help TBI Recovery: Kelly Part Thirty Two In part thirty-two and the conclusion of Kelly’s story, she talks about how friends help TBI recovery and what part her friends took in helping her recover. We’ve been doing this a long time and I always want to give the people who contribute..
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Afghan Slayings: Deadly Mix Of Soldier, TBI, PTSD

Posted on March 15th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

PTSD and Brain Injury May Have Contributed to Slayings Last weekend when I heard that a U.S. staff sergeant was suspected of murdering 16 Afghan villagers — including women and children — in cold blood, I had a pretty good idea what had happened. I suspected that this sergeant at..
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Taxi Partitions, No Seat Belts Add Up To Head Injuries In Cabs

Posted on March 15th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

Anyone who has ever been in a Manhattan taxi knows it can be a hair-raising experience. And it can also be a very dangerous one, because of the plastic partitions in cabs that are meant to protect their drivers from robberies and assaults. The problem is that most passengers don’t..
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Time Management After Severe TBI Another Brain Injury Issue

Posted on March 14th, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Time Management After Severe TBI: Kelly Part Thirty One Kelly goes on to discuss time management after severe TBI and how she has very little trouble with it.  She talks about how routines help her with this. Do you have problems with time management after severe TBI? No. How do you handle..
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