TBI Voices

Brain Injury Accident: Motor Vehicle Wreck

Posted on October 2nd, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Brain Injury Accident: Lori Part One A normal morning, vivid in Lori Faitel’s mind because of the normality of it, fractured in her memory because of the unexpected event that changed her life.  It was April 25th, 1986, a moment in time that dictated the direction of Lori’s future.  A motor..
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Severity of TBI: Understanding Severe Brain Injury

Posted on October 3rd, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Severity of TBI: Lori Part Two  There are primarily two methods to classify the severity of  TBI, the length of coma (or loss of consciousness) and the length of amnesia.  In assessing amnesia, it is not so much the loss of memory for events before the injury that is significant (retrograde..
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Brain Pathology and the Nature of Injuries

Posted on October 4th, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Brain Pathology : Lori Part Three  In Part Three we will discuss with Lori her brain pathology and the nature of her injuries.  She states that the left parietal brain pathology is the part that was injured.  We also talk about the her parents grief and how to this day it..
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Prior to Brain Injury: Who Was this Survivor

Posted on October 4th, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Prior to Brain Injury: Lori Part Four   In this part we talk to Lori about who she was prior to brain injury.  What was her life like prior to the accident and prior to brain injury.   Let’s talk about who you were before you got hurt prior to brain..
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Maturity Levels Before Brain Injury and After Brain Injury

Posted on October 9th, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Maturity Levels Before Brain Injury: Lori Part Five Lori and I discussed the difference in her maturity levels before brain injury and the maturity after brain injury.  She was in the young adult years where maturity levels increase rapidly. Now you told us that you were an executive secretary at the..
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Hospital Stay after Severe Brain Injury

Posted on October 10th, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Hospital Stay after Severe Brain Injury: Lori Part Six In Part Six we talked to Lori about her hospital stay after severe brain injury. Her memories of this time are very vague. Now let’s go back and talk about how what happened to you in terms of that first period after..
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Speech Pathology Post Severe Brain Injury

Posted on October 11th, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Speech Pathology Post Severe Brain Injury: Lori Part Seven  We discuss Lori’s speech pathology post severe brain injury in Part Seven and how much of a role in her recovery this played. Tell me about the speech pathology post severe brain injury you got while you were an inpatient. I remember when..
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Neuropsychologist: Treatment Overcomes Survivors Fear

Posted on October 15th, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

 Neuropsychologist: Lori Part Eight One of the sad ironies of brain injury rehabilitation is that neuropsychologist, who are perhaps the best trained specialists in brain injury, rarely do therapy.  Most neuropsychologist work is devoted to assessment of injury, not at rehabilitation. We don’t see a lot of survivors who got neuropsychological..
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Return Home Post TBI: Going Home to Parents

Posted on October 16th, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Return Home Post TBI: Lori Part Nine  In part nine we talked to Lori about her return home post TBI and in her case it was returning to live with her parents instead of to the apartment she lived in before her severe brain injury.   You were able to go..
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Relationship With Parents Following TBI

Posted on October 17th, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Relationship With Parents Following TBI: Lori Part Ten We talked to Lori about the her relationship with parents following TBI.  The relationship with parents following TBI for Lori was very strained as they had to treat her like a small child for her own safety. I’m going to do this in..
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