All posts tagged 'severe brain injury'

Elizabeth-Successful Return to Work After Severe Brain Injury

Posted on November 30th, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Elizabeth Part Four – Successful Return to Work After Severe Brain Injury Although Elizabeth was not able to perform her previous duties at the end of her therapy, her employer sent her back to work doing another job. This is a common practice in workman’s comp cases since the person..
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Elizabeth-Treatment for Severe Brain Injury

Posted on November 29th, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Elizabeth Part Three – Treatment for Severe Brain Injury   In this segment, Elizabeth describes her life prior to her severe brain injury and then talks about the treatment and rehab she received after her injury. Elizabeth was 36 and describes herself as a hard-working, fun-loving person. She worked at..
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Elizabeth-Second Injury Contrast to Severe TBI

Posted on November 28th, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Elizabeth Part Two Elizabeth suffered a second, seemingly mild, brain injury three years after her first injury. After clocking out from her job one day in March of 2005, conditions were slippery when walking to her truck; Elizabeth fell and once again hit her head. Unlike her first injury, she..
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Elizabeth-Severe and Mild TBI

Posted on November 27th, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Elizabeth Part One Although one might reason that a more significant brain injury is harder to recover from than a less severe injury, this is not always the case. Elizabeth suffered from both a major brain injury involving coma and brain surgery and what is commonly referred to as a..
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Lori-Am I Brain Damaged?

Posted on November 19th, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Part Twenty Twenty Eight -Lori tells us about her book Am I Brain Damaged? Am I Brain Damaged?  By LoriPurdy Faitel One month before I turned 25 years old, I was in a devastating car accident.  I was clinically dead 2 times, and then was kept alive on life support..
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Success in Recovery:The Thesis of a Survivors Story

Posted on November 16th, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

 Success in Recovery: Lori Part Twenty Seven  – The Thesis of Her Story Now if I were going to write the thesis for your story of your success in recovery as to why you are here publishing books, you are able to do this interview so flawlessly and so interestingly, I..
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TBI Book: Authoring Your Own Story After TBI

Posted on November 15th, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

TBI Book: Lori Part Twenty Six One way that Lori has helped her progress as far as conquering some of her issues is the TBI book that she wrote of her own experiences. So tell me about your TBI book.  So it’s called Am I Brain Damaged.  I self-published.  And..
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Fatigue After TBI and Other Sleep Issues

Posted on November 13th, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Fatigue After TBI: Lori Part Twenty Five As many brain injury survivors, Lori has had some sleep and fatigue after TBI issues.  One that she talks about is a period when she didn’t dream. Let’s talk a little bit more about fatigue after TBI and sleep. You talked about this..
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Senility After TBI: Anxiety About the Risk

Posted on November 12th, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Senility After TBI: Lori Part Twenty Three  It has long been suspected that brain injury accelerates age related cognitive decline including senility after TBI. The research is beginning to show that those who’ve had significant brain injuries when they were younger, are going to show signs of senility after TBI..
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Frontal Lobe Challenges After Severe Brain Injury

Posted on November 7th, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Frontal Lobe Challenges After Severe Brain Injury: Lori Part Twenty One In each interview, we try to cover a series of questions about typical frontal lobe challenges that face survivors after brain injury.  A number of frontal lobe challenges had already come up in the interview, such as disinhibition and decision..
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