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Transfer for TBI Recovery: From Texas to Tennessee

Posted on February 7, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Transfer for TBI Recovery: Kelly Part Eight Kelly talks about the transfer for TBI recovery from Texas to Tennessee so that she could be near her mother who lived in Nashville and didn’t want to remain in Texas. You were in  Breckenridge in Austin, Texas for how long? Four and half weeks...
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Continuous Memory Returns:End of Amnesia

Posted on February 6, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Continuous Memory Returns: Kelly Part Seven Kelly’s continuous memory returns is the discussion for part seven. There is sometimes just no logic to amnesia.  Kelly asserts that she has a clear memory of the pantomime of shooting the nurse, to be left alone. Yet she had a trach at the time, yet..
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The Thing Hockey Enforcer Couldn’t Beat In A Fight: Brain Injury

Posted on February 5, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

Pro hockey player Derek Boogaard was paid to fight. He made a living as a so-called “enforcer,” doing what other men are arrested for: Beating the living daylights out of his opponents. But ultimately, the game beat him — and his brain. Last May, Boogaard’s brothers discovered his body in his Minneapolis apartment. He was..
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While Watching Super Bowl, Think Of Concussion Suit by Tony Dorsett

Posted on February 4, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

Well, the Associated Press has done the legwork, and gotten some of the stories behind, the batch of concussion-related lawsuits that have been filed by ex-players against the National Football League. These tales may put tomorrow’s football dog-and-pony show, the Super Bowl, in a new perspective. There have been many articles written..
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Physical Disability Secondary to Brain Injury

Posted on February 3, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Physical Disability Secondary to Brain Injury: Kelly Part Six Kelly and I discussed how her physical disability secondary to brain injury and that the physical disability was attributed to his brain injury. You had the brain injury, the subdural hematoma.  Did you have any other physical disability secondary to brain injury as a..
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NFL’s Super Bowl Commercial: Rehabiltating An Image, Despite Suits

Posted on February 1, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

Brace yourself to see a commerical Sunday that you wouldn’t expect to pop up during the Super Bowl: An NFL ad on player safety. The league, according to The New York Times, has anted up several million dollars to produce the TV spot and a companion website, nfl.com/evolution. It looks like it is..
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The Battle Between NFL And Ex-Players Over Concussion Suits Begins

Posted on January 28, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

On Thursday the National Football League offered a preview of its defense against 21 lawsuits filed by several hundred retired players in six states: These ex-players can’t seek damages for concussions, since safety issues fall under the collective bargaining agreement they had with the league. http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/us-panel-mulls-whether-to-merge-nfl-player-concussion-lawsuits-against-the-football-league/2012/01/26/gIQAxawGSQ_story.html There were numerous press..
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Coming Out of Coma and Survivors First Memories

Posted on January 27, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Coming Out of Coma: Kelly Part Five Kelly talks about coming out of coma and her first memories. She talks about how she didn’t appreciate being prodded by the nurse and didn’t want to be poked anymore. Let’s go back now to what happened in your injury.  So you have, your..
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Before Subdural Hematoma:A National Guard Captain

Posted on January 26, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Before Subdural Hematoma : Kelly Part Four Kelly talks about who she was and what she did before subdural hematoma.  She was not only a sales rep for a country music station but also a Captain for the National Guard. Let’s talk about who you were before you got hurt, Kelly..
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First Memory after Brain Injury In Response to Nurse Prodding

Posted on January 25, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

First Memory after Brain Injury: Kelly Part Three Kelly and I talked about her first memory after brain injury after being in a coma for three and a half weeks.  Her memories are vague. You were in a coma? Three and half weeks. At what point does your memory begin again and..
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