TBI Voices

Pain After Traumatic Brain Injury: Walking Caused Most Pain

Posted on February 25th, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

Pain After Traumatic Brain Injury: Zach Part Eleven In part eleven Zach and I discussed the pain he suffered and how walking was the source of most of his pain after traumatic brain injury. How long were you in Spaulding? Two months. So it’s middle of July when you got out?..
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Community Support After TBI: Coming Home from Rehabilitation

Posted on February 26th, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

Community Support After TBI: Zach Part Twelve  From our first voice on TBI Voices, Lethan Candlish, we have heard much about the value of community support after TBI, especially in small towns, when someone returns home after a severe brain injury.  As Lethan says in Who in Am I Again, http://whoamiagain.com..
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Friends After Severe Brain Injury: Adjusting to School

Posted on February 27th, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

Friends After Severe Brain Injury: Zach Part Thirteen  Homecoming is a day, a weekend, a celebration. Life, recovery takes longer. We will discuss Zach’s homecoming and his friends after severe brain injury. Now the flip side of that is that life coming home wasn’t quite as simple as you thought it..
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Return to High School After Severe TBI

Posted on February 28th, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

Return to High School After Severe TBI: Zach Part Fourteen Zach did return to high school after severe TBI.  We talked about the difficulties he had with this and what work he had to make up.   In September you return to high school after severe TBI? Yes. Did they do..
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No Athletics after TBI: Athletics is the Measuring Bar

Posted on March 1st, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

No Athletics after TBI: Zach Part Fifteen I talked to Zach aabout the changes after brain injury that he experienced.  On of the biggest changes after brain injury was no athletics after TBI. What were the changes after brain injury once football starts again with no athletics after TBI? I was..
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Transition After Brain Injury: Lighter Class Load Eased

Posted on March 4th, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

Transition After Brain Injury: Zach Part Sixteen  With Zach’s return to high school he had a lot of understanding teachers which made it much more manageable for the transition after brain injury.   How did you manage with your transition after brain injury to get the academic work done? In the..
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Achievement After Brain Injury: Graduation Seemed Hollow

Posted on March 5th, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

Achievement After Brain Injury: Zach Part Seventeen Another area that Zach and Lethan’s stories run in parallel deals with the hollowness of what would seem to be the great achievement after brain injury of graduating on time from High School.  For Lethan, graduation became more of a time that set him..
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Double Vision after TBI Prevented Return to Baseball

Posted on March 6th, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

Double Vision after TBI : Zach Part Eighteen  Brain injury is thought too much of as strictly a cognitive and behavioral disability. Yet, everything that a human does is controlled by our minds and the central nervous system.  When a brain suffers a severe injury, the deficits are not going to..
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College After Severe Brain Injury: Leaving Home

Posted on March 8th, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

College After Severe Brain Injury: Zach Part Nineteen   We’ve talked about that period right after your injury, we talked about the rehab, we’ve talked about school.  The one other area I want to talk about in specifics before we talk more about symptoms would be the transition to going to college..
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Accommodations Pre-Arranged for Severe Brain Injury

Posted on March 11th, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

Accommodations Pre-Arranged for Severe Brain Injury: Zach Part Twenty  You said there was this accommodations pre-arranged for severe brain injury sheet. What was the process like in terms of getting the accommodations pre-arranged for severe brain injury that you missed?  I got set up ahead actually.  My transcript said I needed accommodations or..
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