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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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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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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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Handling Money after TBI: A Brain Injury Issue

Posted on March 9th, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Handling Money after TBI:: Kelly Part Thirty One of the frontal lobe deficits that brain injury survivors have is making decisions and this can coincide with handling money after TBI. You said that people say you make bad decisions.  Why do they say that? Well, this for an example, I have..
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Motivation after TBI: Motivation/Memory Remain Despite TBI

Posted on March 8th, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Motivation after TBI: Kelly Part Twenty Nine While any analysis based on a single interview and “self-report” is potentially flawed, based upon our lengthy interview and her accomplishments since her severe brain injury, it appears Kelly has few deficits in many of the classic cognitive and frontal areas.  It is likely..
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Coca Cola Works Best for What Ales Her

Posted on March 7th, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Part Twenty Eight By Attorney Gordon Johnson 800-992-9447 What problems do you have with fatigue? This is going to  sound really boring.  I really don’t have a problem with fatigue. Now, we’ve been doing this for a couple of hours now.  Are you starting to get tired? Not really.  But,..
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Natural Hormone Replacement for TBI: Stabilized Moods

Posted on March 6th, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Natural Hormone Replacement for TBI: Kelly Part Twenty Seven In part twenty-seven Kelly and I talked about the importance of natural hormone replacement for TBI and how they help stabilize her moods. Are you taking any medications? Well, I’m taking cholesterol medication.  I’m taking antidepressant, one I chose for myself. So you..
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Difficulties with Noise after Brain Injury

Posted on March 5th, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Difficulties with Noise after Brain Injury: Kelly Part Twenty Six While each TBI Voices story is unique, one of the purposes of this initiative was to describe in subjective terms, common deficits, so that the pattern of disability after brain injury could be best understood.  I turned my interview with Kelly..
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