TBI Voices

Subdural Hematoma Caused by Horse Bridling Error: Kelly Part One Kelly and I discussed the subdural hematoma that occurred when she was trying to bridle and untamed horse. The moments, the impulses that change lives.  Yet, sometimes, despite profound brain injury, people remain remarkably the same person.  Disability has been added,..
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Medflighted for Brain Surgery Our story of Kelly’s severe brain injury from a horse bridling accident continues and how she was medflighted for brain surgery to Brackenridge Trauma Center in Austin : What Determined Kelly Being Medflighted for Brain Surgery What happened to you after you got hurt? The ranch owner..
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Nutrition After Severe Brain Injury: Kelly Part Nine In part nine we will talk about nutrition after severe brain injury and while she had the trach she was fed by a PEG tube. We were beginning to talk about physical limitations, and you had some physical limitations with respect to your..
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Relearning to Walk after Severe TBI: Kelly Part Ten Kelly talks about relearning to walk after severe TBI and how it wasn’t easy.  It took a long time before he was able to walk on his own.   Now you were mentioning in the transfer there were issues about whether you..
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