Part Seventeen – Relationships: http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/impaired-relationships-and-intimacy-after-a-traumatic-brain-injury/ The need to be loved is not erased by a brain injury, just made more difficult to fulfill. Despite ongoing efforts to find self actualization in life as a wife/domestic partner, that role has also been to cognitively and emotionally taxing for her as..
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Part Sixteen- Shopping After a TBI: http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/shopping-after-a-tbi-an-overload-of-the-decision-making-process/ Shopping is difficult for most brain injury survivors. Making a trip to the grocery store even harder for her is the environmental distractions, such as florescent lights or the crush of too many customers. At such times she will have a grocery..
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In Part Fifteen, Angela Discusses Dealing with Others Emotions: http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/brain-injury-makes-others-peoples-emotions-catastrophic/ The old adage in business is that the customer is always right. While Angela is wired so that she values making other people happy, she now has severe difficulty any time anyone is upset with her. She is concerned..
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The National Football League seems to be having some success in its efforts to curtail concussions. Largely due to the league’s changes in kickoff rules, last season overall concussions dropped to 266 from 270 the prior season, according to Edgeworth Economics, a consulting firm. Concussions at kickoff plummeted by 43..
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In Part Fourteen Angela talks about re-employment obstactles after brain injury: http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/mistakes-and-reliability-two-of-the-biggest-reemployment-obstacles-after-a-brain-injury/ Before Angela got hurt, she was the person people turned to make sure everything got done by the book. Now the risk of mistakes would require someone to be constantly checking up on her. Employers can theoretically..
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Part Thirteen Angela tells about working with TBI: http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/reemployment-after-tbi-vocational-losses-persist/ Despite her clear areas of strength, Angela is nonetheless, still significantly disabled, because of the decompensation that her brain does any time it is in a potentially stressful environment. Making matters worse, any type of distraction makes cognitive functioning harder..
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A Johns Hopkins study has found that the elderly who suffer major head trauma during a weekend are more likely to die of their injuries than those similarly hurt, but hospitalized during the week,” even if their injuries are less severe and they have fewer other illnesses than their weekday..
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Should lightweight aluminum bats be used in Little League games? The family of a Wayne, N.J., boy who sustained traumatic brain injury (TBI) after being hit by a ball during a game in 2006 doesn’t think so. A trial on the issue has been set for Sept. 10 in state..
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Part Twelve: the frontal lobe deficit of too much talking http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/uncontrolled-talking-after-tbi-logorrhea/ One major problem with brain injury diagnosis, is that the methodologies rarely take into account real world communication challenges that many brain injured people have. One such issue with Angela is logorrhea, a tendency to talk too much,..
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Part Ten discusses cognitive challenges: http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/stress-interacts-with-other-cognitive-challenges-after-tbi/ Stress can be extremely attentionally taxing and Angela’s memory problems increase whenever she is under stress. She would think things were under control, until the stress kicked. Stress would almost paralyze her brain, even though she knew that she should know what to..
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