Betty Part Eight – Frontal/Executive: http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/frontal-lobe-and-executive-functioning-challenges-after-coma/ Betty injuries included a surgical subdural hematoma in her frontal lobes. Thus, it is not surprising that her most significant deficits are frontal. High on the list of those deficits are emotional and social issues and challenges in executive functioning. With Betty’s story, we..
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Betty Part Seven – Dealing with cognitive issues: http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/cognitive-challenges-sequencing-staying-on-task-topic/ Betty, like so many other of the TBI Voices participants had a seemingly remarkable cognitive recovery, especially considering the profound difficulties she suffered early on. Her cognitive challenges are subtle, not the kind of things that show up in an..
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Betty Part Six – Return to Work as a Dental Hygienist: http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/returning-to-work-after-severe-brain-injury/ Access to extensive vocational rehabilitation made a big difference in enabling Betty to be employed as a dental hygienist. But “old learning” had greatly assisted her in finishing her studies. Her difficulty with “new learning” made long-term..
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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 Three – Rehabilitation Begins: http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/rehabilitation-begins-from-coma-subdural-hematoma/ Betty talks about what she can remember about her rehabilitation, including the common problem of confabulating stories. Confabulation is the process of replacing things that the injured mind can’t remember with fabrications, because the brain doesn’t like holes, so it fills in the..
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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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Part Nineteen – Angela’s Final Blog: http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/depression-anxiety-and-survival-after-traumatic-brain-injury/ For Angela, being depressed is more than a reactive sadness. Depression is something she wakes up with every day. Despite her best efforts to rededicate herself daily to being happy, that depression never leaves her. Her life is now the ying..
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Angela Part Eighteen – TBI and Self Insight: http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/insight-into-oneself-is-changed-by-brain-damage/ The issue of insight after brain injury is far more complex than typically thought. Insight is situational and often the brain injured person has great insight into the mistakes they make, after the fact. But being able to anticipate those..
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