Recovery From Brain Injury: Zach Part One This is the story of Zach Gauvin, author of the autobiographical book, the Miracle Kid. But recovery from brain injury is not about “miracles” – it is about medicine, it is about rehabilitation, it is about the “not quites.” When I say “not quites”..
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Retrograde Amnesia from TBI: Zach Part Two As there is almost always a period of retrograde amnesia from TBI that precedes a coma brain injury, one would by definition, expect someone who emerges from a coma, to be confused as to his or her whereabouts. But of course the confusion is..
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Amnesia After Severe Brain Injury: Zach Part Three Zach believes that his amnesia after severe brain injury ends and he remembers the moment he awoke from his coma. For a coma that is not drug induced, this would be highly unusual. However, to the degree his coma was induced, it is..
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Pre-Severe Brain Injury: Zach Part Four One of the things that makes Zach’s story compelling is the portrait of such a young and dynamic man pre-severe brain injury – baseball star, homecoming queen, party animal. He had much to lose and came close to losing it all. While I enjoyed the..
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Pre-brain Injury Teen: Zach Part Five In part five we talked about what kind of life Zach had as a pre-brain injury teenager and the kind of activities he was involved with. We talked about sports in high school. You were a good student in your pre-brain injury teen years?..
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Severe Weight Loss after TBI : Zach Part Six In part six I discussed the physical problems that occurred such as severe weight loss after TBI along with muscle atrophy. From what you’ve told me, you had a brain pressure problem, probably a hematoma where you said the blood accumulation was...
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Brain Injury Rehab: Zach Part Seven All right, let’s talk about your period of brain injury rehab when you were at Spaulding. What do you remember? Well I remember being confined to a wheelchair for almost a month. So I had no means of transportation beside the wheelchair. That was, it..
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Physical Injury in Addition to Severe Brain Injury: Zach Part Eight In addition to the brain injury, you had some physical injury? A broken jaw? I had like I shattered my foot. So when I was learning how to walk again, they didn’t want me to have to stay off..
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OT After TBI: Zach Part Nine Zach also needed significant OT after TBI. While the distinction between OT and PT can be blurred, the essential difference is that the occupational therapist takes the recovering muscles and body systems and focuses therapies on doing specific tasks, the occupation or application of those..
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Speech Pathology: Zach Part Ten Speech pathologists are some of the true trench warriors of brain injury recovery. They not only deal with the language challenges that come after brain injury, but they must also address physical deficits that can come both from the primary brain injury, but also from other..
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