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Severe Brain Injury Relapse After Discharge Complicates Recovery

Posted on March 28, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Severe Brain Injury Relapse: Quinn Part Six Quinn’s wife talks about his severe brain injury relapse after his return home and the complications this caused.  The hospital released him too soon, while he was having a severe brain injury relapse. Hospital Releases Quinn During a Severe Brain Injury Relapse He..
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Caregivers Numbness after Brain Injury is more Complex than Denial

Posted on March 26, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Caregivers Numbness after Brain Injury: Quinn Part Five Quinn’s wife talks about the caregivers numbness after brain injury.  The numbness she felt immediately after the phone call. When we did http://waiting.com in 1997, it began with words, from the spouse of a severe TBI survivor talking about the dullness, the..
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Pascrell Defends Soldier In Afghan Slaying, Champions TBI Legislation

Posted on March 24, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

One might think it would be hard to find a lawmaker who would defend Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, who is accused of slaying 17 civilians in cold blood in Afghanistan.  But last week U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr., D-N.J., did just that. Pascrell, you see, is co-founder and co-chair..
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New Orleans Saints Coach Suspended A Year Over ‘Bounty’ Program

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Facing concussion lawsuits from an army of ex-players, the National Football League sent out a strong message last week with its punishment of New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton. Payton was suspended for a year without pay last week for his role in what has been dubbed a “bounty” program,..
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Knucklehead LeBron James Claims He’s ‘Too Tough’ To Get A Concussion

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LeBron James is a moron. The Miami Heat basketball player helped perpetuate one of the macho myths about concussions and brain injury following a recent game against the Phoenix Suns, according to an online story by Fox Sports Florida. http://www.foxsportsflorida.com/03/21/12/LeBron-James-too-tough-to-be-kept-out/landing_heat.html?blockID=692552&feedID=10140 James, you see, crashed headfirst into opponent Grant Hill in..
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Retrograde Amnesia for Day of Traumatic Brain Injury

Posted on March 23, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Retrograde Amnesia for Day of Traumatic Brain Injury: Quinn Part Four   As I have stated repeatedly throughout this project, the presence and length of retrograde amnesia is a particularly important diagnostic indicator with respect to the severity of brain injury.  Absence of memory for events before the trauma, retrograde amnesia,..
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Sense of Humor Survived Severe Brain Injury

Posted on March 22, 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 21, 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 20, 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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North Dakota Oil Boom Offers Older Workers Jobs, And Danger

Posted on March 18, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

The AARP Bulletin recently did a story about how Americans 50 and older are flocking to North Dakota to work in the oil industry. http://www.aarp.org/work/job-hunting/info-02-2012/north-dakota-boom-town.html?cmp=RDRCT-OILBM_FEB10_012 In a nation that is slowly crawling out of a recession, where jobs are still scare and older workers are not-so-subtly discriminated against, at first..
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