Waiting in the ICU After Severe Brain Injury: TJ Part Five Part Five we discussed with TJ’s step-mom about the pain of waiting in the ICU after severe brain injury and not knowing what to expect. Whether he was going to live or die and would he come out of his coma..
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Before His Severe Brain Injury: TJ Part Four As with most survivors, even though TJ was in a near two month coma, he has near total recollection of his life before his severe brain injury. While there is some difficulty during the period of emersion from coma, that is not retrograde..
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Severity of Brain Injury: TJ Part Three Waiting is never a complete void of information. Often, it is a flood of the wrong type of information, in a language that only the doctors understand, used not just by habit, but because the lingo masks the reality. The reality is that the..
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Coma Call: TJ Part Two In part two we talk about the phone call ( the coma call) to his step-mom that tells her that her step-son has been in an accident. She also is informed that he is in a coma that we will refer to as the ”..
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Ejection Causes Severe Brain Injury: TJ Part One In the beginning of TJ’s story we talk about how TJ’s incurred his brain injury. In his case ejection causes severe brain injury after a high speed wreck. It is not always the “innocent” who suffer severe brain injury. Sometimes the survivor’s are not..
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Future after Catastrophic Brain Injury: Rita Part Seventeen In my conclusion with Rita and my interviews with her mom, we talked about her future after catastrophic brain injury and how every day renews her hope. Where do you see your as your future after catastrophic brain injury? You know what? I haven’t..
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Football and ice hockey aren’t the only sports that are causing long-term brain damage in athletes. Soccer is, too. That was the finding of a study done Dr. Michael Lipton of New York City’s Montefiore Medical Center, a researcher who presented the results of his work to the Radiological Society of North..
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Veterans who are now suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after tours in Iraq and Afghanistan are not getting prompt help or treatment from the Department of Veterans Affairs, according to testimony at a Senate committee hearing last week. http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/story/2011-11-30/veterans-PTSD-health-care/51515992/1 USA Today covered the proceedings before the Senate Veteran’s Affairs committee,..
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Technology for Brain Injury Accommodations: Rita Part Sixteen Rita’s mom and I discussed the need for more technology for brain Injury accommodations. Because of some of Rita’s deficits it make it hard to work with what is available. Rita is not able to use the computer by herself? Not yet, but..
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Are Pittsburgh Steelers’ officials deluding themselves, or are they just plain stupid and reckless, in their cavalier attitude about the two recent head injuries that player Troy Polamalu sustained? Sports writer Mike Bires of the Beaver County Times did a nice job of outlining the disturbing way that the Steelers organization is treating Polamalu...
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