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Friend After Severe Brain Injury: Ian Part Twelve Ian’s  friend after severe brain injury was key to our insights into Ian and his recovery. The time he spent talking to us was just a small thing compared to the energy and patience he has devoted to Ian’s recovery as a friend after..
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Brain Injury and Coma: Ian Part Eleven In the world of journalism as in the world of law, the interviewer is only supposed to ask the questions, not answer them. But this is the internet and it can be anything we want it to be. The end of my interview with..
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Family After Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: Ian Part Ten In Part Nine we talked about anger issues and the potential threat to family poor control of mood and anger can create. In this part we will talk about the importance of family after severe traumatic brain injury.  We asked Ian..
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Mood and Anger Issues: Ian Part Nine In far too many cases, the biggest problem that interferes with a good recovery after a severe brain injury is the breakdown in relationship’s that comes from the survivor’s inability to control his or her temper. The mood and anger issues are particularly intense with men...
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Assessing Frontal Lobe Function: Ian Part Eight One principal theory for assessing frontal lobe function is that the diagnostician cannot make those determinations based upon the word of the survivor, that “collateral witnesses” are necessary. While I don’t subscribe to that theory in totality, it is one of the reasons we..
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Frontal Lobe Functioning: Ian Part Seven While all brain injury problems impact a survivor’s life, frontal lobe deficits are often the most difficult to accommodate for and the hardest to measure, particularly through neuropsychological testing. One of the principle goals of the TBI Voices project is to focus our interview on..
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Years after TBI: Ian Part Six In this part we talked to Ian about where his life is now years after TBI.  He tells of being on disability and his limitations to this day years after TBI. We asked Ian what his life is like now years after TBI: I am..
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Neurological Problems: Ian Part Five Serious motor vehicle wrecks, often present with serious physical injuries that have there pathology outside the head. Thus, in any case with severe TBI (even without other physical injuries) there can be muscular and peripheral evidence of the injury. There may be some other neurological problems..
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Rehab for Severe Brain Injury: Ian Part Four Ian’s rehab for severe brain injury began in the hospital. He describes some of the things he remembers about rehab for severe brain injury: It had its ups and downs in there. There were some things in there that, I was like, “Oh,..
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TBI Accident: Ian Part Three We asked Ian to tell us what life was like before the TBI accident. What was his family situation and what he did for a living. Hunting, fishing, dancing going to the bars, having fun. Married, two kids. One is 19 and the other one’s 14...
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