TBI Voices

After Skull Fracture: Nancy Part Eleven I continued my interview with Nancy’s Mom, focusing on the day to day life after skull fracture in her first few months after returning home from UW Hospital. She doesn’t go back to school or fourth grade, but she has a tutor, what’s the daily..
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Residual Deficits After Severe Brain Injury: Nancy Part Twelve In part twelve I discussed with Nancy’s mom the residual deficits after severe brain injury Nancy was experiencing. Some of the ongoing issues that come with brain injury. For Nancy’s parents, as with almost all of the caregivers we have interviewed, there is..
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Recovery from Severe Brain Injury: Nancy Part Thirteen   From the beginning of my brain injury advocacy, I have tried to focus my educational efforts as much on the caregivers as the survivors.  Thus, in my interview, I also asked what life was like for Mom in terms of recovery from..
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Pediatric Brain Injury: Nancy Part Fourteen  Because of her severe pediatric brain injury, Nancy got tutoring instead of returning to the 4th grade.  But at the beginning of the next  year, even with her pediatric brain injury, she went back to school.  This interview was done in May of 2011. Is she..
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Severe Pediatric Survivor: Nancy Part Fifteen  Nancy was in the 4th grade when she got hurt, when we interviewed her, she was a month from high school graduation.  On the one hand, her grades were good. On the other hand, being a severe pediatric survivor her problems with education are significant: Challenges..
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Teen Years After Severe Brain Injury: Nancy Part Sixteen  I talked to Nancy’s mom about her teen years after severe brain injury and the difference of maturity level of Nancy and other kids her age. Nancy is 18 now? Yes. Do you feel like she’s stuck or is she maturing just at..
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18 year Old Brain Injury Survivor: Nancy Part Seventeen  We don’t have to take Nancy’s Mom’s word for it, just watch the YouTube videos of Nancy.  First, it is her fascination with celebrity boys. Hearing Nancy’s 18 year old brain injury survivor’s voice: What, what kind of things do cause you..
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 Severe Brain Injury Deficits: Nancy Part Eighteen  As brain injury is far more than a cognitive disorder, and also because so many severe brain injuries occur as a result of catastrophic forces on the human body, we try to focus on the physical and neurological aspects of the injury with each..
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Assessment After Severe Pediatric Brain Injury: Nancy Part Nineteen  Inevitably, the medical community sees Nancy as old history, a great miracle of modern medicine, one of the success stories.  Yet as she approaches adulthood, her need for further assessment after severe pediatric brain injury and care may in fact be greater.  Now..
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Time Management After Severe Pediatric Brain Injury: Nancy Part Twenty As there are many deficits caused by brain injury, we will talk about Nancy’s issue with time management after severe pediatric brain injury along with other issues. Too much reliance in brain injury diagnosis is put on MRI and neuropsychological test results...
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