Emerging from a Coma: Chris Part Three Chris’s Mom says that emerging from a coma is nothing like you see in a soap opera. They don’t wake up and everything is great. It’s not one day they just wake up and their life continues. It’s a slow process. There are..
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Brain Injury Severity: Chris Part Two Chris’s Mom struggled with understanding the brain injury severity because of the enormous amount of physical damage that had been caused by the accident. Before her accident, Chris was a normal girl. Says her Mom: She was a Sophomore in high school, typical, loved..
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Traumatic Brain Injury Coma Results from DUI: Chris Part One For Chris that year is a blur, much of her childhood a blur. For her Mom, that year is a terrible ordeal that turned around a simple decision to walk to a party versus accept a ride. A simple decision..
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Never Giving Up: Betty Part Twelve Dealing with the grief for what is lost and finding a way to see the hope. Never giving up is perhaps the biggest challenge for any brain injury survivor. Says Betty: If I couldn’t remember any of (who I was before) and just came..
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Maximum Recovery: Betty Part Eleven One of the consistent themes of TBI Voices will always be maximum recovery of brain injury does not get better in a month, a year, but requires a lifetime of care commitment to improving. Larry, one of Lethan’s characters in “Who Am I Again” was..
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Dating and Relationships: Betty Part Ten Betty’s relative success in regaining her adulthood is verified by the long term marriage she is a part of. But to go from college girl to rehab to the dating scene is a difficult transition, one fraught with peril. Alcohol, not knowing who to..
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Frontal Lobe Challenges: Betty Part Nine Impulsivity as one of Frontal Lobe Challenges: Betty, like most severely brain injured survivors has frontal lobe challenges with impulsivity and impolitic speech. She just doesn’t know quite when not to express exactly what is on her mind. She gives the example of how,..
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Executive Functioning: Betty Part Eight Betty suffered a subdural hematoma in her frontal lobe injury, requiring brain surgery. It is in her frontal lobe functioning that she shows the most significant ongoing deficits with her executive functioning. Her frontal lobe deficits include social and emotional issues and executive functioning..
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Cognitive Challenges: Betty Part Seven Those who don’t know much about brain injury are often surprised at how “normal” someone with a brain injury may be and are not aware of the cognitive challenges of the brain injured. Only the truly profoundly injured will show the kind of overt dementia..
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Returning to Work : Betty Part Six: Returning to work for Betty involved reeducating herself. Betty received intensive vocational rehabilitation for nine months, which included more work with a speech pathologist and enrollment in a dental assisting program, even though she was already a license hygienist. “The problem was..
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