Chris Part Six – School Plays an Important Role in Progress: http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/school-assisted-chris-with-progress/ After Chris returned home from the nursing home, high school and Chris’s friends played the next important step in her recovery process from brain injury. Living in a small community has its advantages: people rallied together and asked..
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Chris Part Five – Chris returns home, but it was not just a simple reunion: http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/chriss-return-home/ Chris and her mother talk about the 10-month transition from a nursing home to her family home after recovering from a coma. Concerns for Chris focus on difficulties such as managing stairs and friends..
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Chris Part Four – Clearview Key for Recovery from Coma: http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/clearview-key-stage-for-chriss-recovery/ Chris’s recovery at Sacred Heart was at a standstill, so she was transferred again to Clearview in Juneau, Wisconsin. It was while she was in Clearview that she began to make progress. Before the transfer to Clearview, she..
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Chris Part Three – Emerging from the Coma – Not Like In a Soap Opera: http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/emerging-from-a-coma/ Emerging from her coma was nothing like one would see on television. For her it was slow and unpredictable process. Making the coma more difficult for her mother was that the information she needed..
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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 Concludes in Part 12 – Don’t Ever Give Up: http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/dont-ever-give-up-after-brain-injury/ Betty concludes with words for the brain injury community, both survivor and family that one must never give up, be the best you can be today and that tomorrow you will be even better. NEXT…Chris’s Story Begins
Betty Part Eleven – Care Must Be Ongoing: http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/maximum-recovery-from-tbi-requires-a-lifetime-of-care/ Brain injury happens in an instant but the recovery must be for a lifetime. Betty is a great example of the long-term need to continue to grow, to continue to work hard to get better and how even through failures, the..
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Betty Part Ten – Dating and Marriage after Brain Injury: http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/dating-and-relationships-after-brain-injury/ Betty’s recovery was also benefitted by years of dating and ultimately marrying after her TBI. As she was in her early twenties when hurt, those parts of life were ahead of her at the time of her injury. While..
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Betty Part Nine – More Frontal Lobe Damage Issues: http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/particular-frontal-lobe-challenges-after-severe-brain-injury/ Betty has some areas of frontal weaknesses as well as frontal strengths. She has issues with impolitic speech and impulsivity, saying she marches to a different drummer. Possibly because of her extended years of working post-injury, she does better..
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