Chris Part Two – Severe Brain Injury with Coma: http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/understanding-severity-of-chris’s-brain-injury/ At the time of her injury, Chris was a typical 10th grade girl who loved shopping and hanging out with her friends. Her coma, which lasted months, left her with severe physical problems, some of which were caused by..
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Chris Begins – Story of DUI & Coma: http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/chris-story-begins-dui-results-in-a-year-of-coma-and-treatment/ The Chris story begins with the contrast between the absence of memory for the survivor to the nightmare ordeal of the parents of someone in a coma. Chris was hurt in January of 1998, when she was 15 years old...
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Betty Part Five: Betty discusses post coma therapy: http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/speech-pathology-and-occupational-therapy/ For Betty occupational therapy was fun, but she hated speech pathology, probably because it was in speech where her deficits were the most significant. Yet it was the intense attention she got in speech therapy that likely contributed to her..
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Betty Part Four: Brain injury = physical injury http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/severe-brain-injury-comes-with-physical-disability/ Betty was paralyzed for nearly two months after her injury and still has ongoing problems with left sided weakness. She also has vision and balance and likely has a form of seizure disorder that causes absence spells. In Part..
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Betty Part Two – The Family Learns about the Coma: http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/the-impact-on-the-family-of-waiting-out-the-coma/ The phone call to the relatives is how so many of the TBI stories begin. It was a central theme of waiting.com and a key element to Lethan’s drama. For Betty, as she was from Wisconsin and the..
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Betty – college girl injured in DUI wreck begins: http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/from-ambitious-college-girl-to-coma-survivor/ The irony of Betty being in the wrong place at the wrong time, in a car with a friend, because of the friend’s brother being in a motorcycle accident. Betty suffered a severe brain injury with months of amnesia...
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Petit Mal Seizures: Part Eight Seizures are typically thought of a dramatic events where the sufferer is lying on the floor, shaking, foaming at the mouth. While these kind of seizures do occur after brain injury, seizure activity covers a broad spectrum of abnormal brain function all the way to..
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Brain Injury Coma Survivor: Betty Part One – TBI Voices Begins its Second Story I have been doing brain injury representation for over 20 years, and there are times I swear that the condition is contagious. Of course it isn’t, but it is such a prolific tragedy, that as soon..
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Doctors actually froze the skull of a 25-year-old Utah man who sustained traumatic brain injury in a longboarding accident, according to Fox News. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,599652,00.html The patient, Kyle Johnson, had 10 fractures in his skull from his accident, which happened when he and his friend decided to go longboarding down a..
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Mr. Johnson, My name is Teri Curington and I am finishing my graduate work this semester at The University of Texas at Tyler’s College of Nursing. I have worked in the field of ER medicine and neurological intensive care, working with patients who have suffered traumatic brain injuries, among other..
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