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Ankle Fracture Gets All of the Attention

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

Ankle Fracture: Otto Part Three We pick up Otto’s story through the narrator of his wife.  He is still in St. Germaine and she is in Madison, there daughter Nancy made if through the initial surgery to fix her skull, in her phone calls with him, he doesn’t seem to be..
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Motor Vehicle Wreck and TBI: Life Before

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

Motor Vehicle Wreck and TBI: Otto Part Two We know a little bit about Otto already with his  motor vehicle wreck and TBI because of his contributions to Nancy’s story and the interweaving of his injuries with hers.  See http://www.tbivoices.com/blog/index.php/braininjury/nancy-winter-wreck-leaves-9-year-old-girl-with-skull-fracture/  I asked him for more details about himself and the motor vehicle..
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Head Injury in the Family: Nancy’s Wasn’t The Only One

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

Head Injury in the Family : Otto Part One While it is not a unique circumstance, imagine how much more difficult dealing with a pediatric brain injury caused by a skull fracture to your nine year old daughter would be, if one of the parents of such child, also suffers serious..
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Brain Injured Children: Parting Thoughts To Others

Posted on September 30th, 2011 · Posted in TBI Voices

Brain Injured Children: Nancy Part Twenty Four  As with most of my interviews, I ended with Nancy and her Mom asking them to share their thoughts to help others who were struggling with what they have been through with brain injured children. First, with Mom: You have given us a lot..
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Pediatric Severe Brain Injury Survivor: Future and Ambitions

Posted on September 29th, 2011 · Posted in TBI Voices

Pediatric Severe Brain Injury Survivor: Nancy Part Twenty Three  As I write this, Nancy has graduated from high school as a pediatric severe brain injury survivor. The issue remains what now? I asked her. What are you going to do after you graduate as a pediatric severe brain injury survivor?  Well, the..
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Adulthood After Pediatric Severe Brain Injury: A Growing Gap

Posted on September 28th, 2011 · Posted in TBI Voices

Adulthood After Pediatric Severe Brain Injury: Nancy Part Twenty Two With many physical disabilities, a prosthesis can be designed which aids or replaces the functions done by the injured body part.  While it has often been said that there is no prosthesis for the human brain, certain deficits of frontal lobe..
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Mood After Severe Pediatric Brain Injury

Posted on September 27th, 2011 · Posted in TBI Voices

Mood After Severe Pediatric Brain Injury: Nancy Part Twenty One  As Mom explained in Part Nineteen, mood after severe pediatric brain injury is an ongoing issue for her.  Her temper is the biggest mood after severe pediatric brain injury issue. Can you give me a feel for her mood after severe pediatric..
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Time Management After Severe Pediatric Brain Injury

Posted on September 26th, 2011 · Posted in TBI Voices

Time Management After Severe Pediatric Brain Injury: Nancy Part Twenty As there are many deficits caused by brain injury, we will talk about Nancy’s issue with time management after severe pediatric brain injury along with other issues. Too much reliance in brain injury diagnosis is put on MRI and neuropsychological test results...
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Assessment After Severe Pediatric Brain Injury

Posted on September 23rd, 2011 · Posted in TBI Voices

Assessment After Severe Pediatric Brain Injury: Nancy Part Nineteen  Inevitably, the medical community sees Nancy as old history, a great miracle of modern medicine, one of the success stories.  Yet as she approaches adulthood, her need for further assessment after severe pediatric brain injury and care may in fact be greater.  Now..
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Severe Brain Injury Deficits: Physical and Neurological

Posted on September 22nd, 2011 · Posted in TBI Voices

 Severe Brain Injury Deficits: Nancy Part Eighteen  As brain injury is far more than a cognitive disorder, and also because so many severe brain injuries occur as a result of catastrophic forces on the human body, we try to focus on the physical and neurological aspects of the injury with each..
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