Betty Part Five: Betty discusses post coma therapy: http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/speech-pathology-and-occupational-therapy/ For Betty occupational therapy was fun, but she hated speech pathology, probably because it was in speech where her deficits were the most significant. Yet it was the intense attention she got in speech therapy that likely contributed to her..
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The situation with military suicides doesn’t seem to be improving: July was marked by the most such suicides in a one-month period in recent memory. According to USA Today, last month there were 38 confirmed or suspected suicides in the Army, more than one a day. http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/story/2012-08-09/army-suicides/57096238/1 And at this..
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Betty Part Four: Brain injury = physical injury http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/severe-brain-injury-comes-with-physical-disability/ Betty was paralyzed for nearly two months after her injury and still has ongoing problems with left sided weakness. She also has vision and balance and likely has a form of seizure disorder that causes absence spells. In Part..
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The widow of movie director Tony Scott, who committed suicide by jumping off a California bridge Sunday, has denied that he had inoperable brain cancer, according to the Los Angeles Times. http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-0821-scott-death-20120821,0,4205494,full.story Scott, 68 — the director of films ranging from “Top Gun” to “Crimson Tide” to “Days of Thunder”..
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Betty Part Three – Rehabilitation Begins: http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/rehabilitation-begins-from-coma-subdural-hematoma/ Betty talks about what she can remember about her rehabilitation, including the common problem of confabulating stories. Confabulation is the process of replacing things that the injured mind can’t remember with fabrications, because the brain doesn’t like holes, so it fills in the..
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Betty Part Two – The Family Learns about the Coma: http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/the-impact-on-the-family-of-waiting-out-the-coma/ The phone call to the relatives is how so many of the TBI stories begin. It was a central theme of waiting.com and a key element to Lethan’s drama. For Betty, as she was from Wisconsin and the..
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The New Jersey Supreme Court has thrown out a suit filed by a man who claimed his brain tumor was caused by a contaminated polio vaccine, The Star-Ledger of Newark reported Thursday. http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/08/bergen_county_man_who_says_pol.html The court ruled against Jamie Gannon and his wife Rebecca, in a 5-1 decision in favor of..
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New research has some troubling news for veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: The symptoms of combat concussions can last for years without any improvement. The New York Times blogged about a study by the University of Oklahoma, which tracked 500 veterans of the two wars who during..
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Betty – college girl injured in DUI wreck begins: http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/from-ambitious-college-girl-to-coma-survivor/ The irony of Betty being in the wrong place at the wrong time, in a car with a friend, because of the friend’s brother being in a motorcycle accident. Betty suffered a severe brain injury with months of amnesia...
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Roughly 4 million Bumbo Baby floor seats are being recalled after 21 reports of infants falling out if them and fracturing their skulls. The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), in cooperation with the Bumbo International Trust of South Africa, announced the voluntary recall Wednesday. http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml12/12247.html Consumers were warned to stop..
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