Seeming Normal After TBI: Jeremiah Part Fifteen Most people without first hand experience with survivors of brain injury expect them to appear profoundly impaired. Thus, when such people are around TBI survivors who appear seeming normal after TBI, they often think there has been a complete recovery. There is some benefit..
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Mood Issues after Severe TBI: Jeremiah Part Fourteen There was quite an emotional continuum from the time Jeremiah started as an outpatient at Meriter to where he is today. I asked him about the emotional swings and his ongoing mood issues after Severe TBI : Well I had, I always try to,..
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Reemployment After TBI: Jeremiah Part Thirteen Jeremiah and I talked about his reemployment after TBI and the obstacles that he faced and how he became successful in practicing his engineering again. What were your biggest obstacles to success in your reemployment after TBI? Memory and pain. Memory and pain and fatigue, and..
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Giant Fan Suffered Brain Damage at Dodger Game Sometimes, it looks like justice has a chance of prevailing. I hope this is so in the case of Bryan Stow. Stow, in case you don’t remember, is a San Francisco Giants fan who was brutally beaten at Dodger Stadium in Los..
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New York Rangers enforcer Derek Boogaard, who was put out of commission in December after suffering a concussion, died of an accidental overdose of the pain killer oxycodone and alcohol, according to authorities. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/21/sports/hockey/boogaard-died-from-mix-of-alcohol-and-oxycodone.html?_r=1&ref=sports Boogaard, a feared player, was discovered dead in his Minneapolis apartment May 13. He was 28. His family..
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TBI Advocate in the Workplace: Jeremiah Part Twelve It is clear that but for the commitment of his friend, his TBI advocate in the workplace, to find him work it would have taken him a much longer time to get reemployed. More significantly, had he not had someone really committed to helping..
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Return to Work: Jeremiah Part Eleven In Part Nine we talked about the frustration and fatigue that Jeremiah went through preparing himself for a return to work. That struggle was worth it for Jeremiah did return to work as an engineering in September of 2006. He explains his return to work..
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Brain Injury Care giver: Jeremiah Part Ten One of the problems after severe brain injury is that the brain injury care giver role becomes the role of the coach, the parent, the evil therapist role. This is true especially early in rehab, and especially with spouses. What that means is that the..
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Caregivers Role in TBI Recovery: Jeremiah Part Nine Jeremiah and discussed the caregivers role in TBI and how important it is to recovery. In Jeremiah’s case it was a lot of people around him that took the caregivers role in TBI recovery that helped him through. Jeremiah Depended on the Caregivers..
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Recovery from Severe TBI: Jeremiah Part Eight Frustrations and Fatigue from Recovery from Severe TBI Jeremiah was an engineer before his brain injury and his recovery from severe TBI, as he says: “still an engineer.” That identity as a professional is clearly important in retaining his sense of self after his..
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