All posts in 'TBI Voices'

 Attentional Overload after Brain Injury: Kelly Part Fifteen Kelly talks about the troubles she had with attentional overload after brain injury and the issues that it can cause with concentration.  She also touches on some other brain injury issues she encounters. As an advertising salesperson, you’re in a profession that requires..
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Flat Mood After Severe Brain Injury: Kelly Part Fourteen In part Thirteen, Kelly attributed her flat mood after severe brain injury issues to age related hormonal changes.  Yet, her mood issues such as her flat mood after TBI is shared much with what many survivors of brain injury experience. Brain injury..
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Returning Home After TBI Complicated by Hormonal Problems: Kelly Part Thirteen Kelly and I talked about her returning home after TBI.  She tells about how her mother became over protective because of the TBI.  Kelly was a very independent person before the accident and it took some adjustment of her returning..
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Speech Therapy after TBI: Kelly Part Twelve In addition to physical therapy, Kelly also had speech therapy after TBI and occupational therapy as part of her rehabilitation from severe brain injury. Yet, the pace of that therapy was a bit off kilter with Kelly’s perception of what she needed. Tell me..
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Post TBI Disability: Hand Becomes the Symbol: Kelly Part Eleven Kelly talks about her  post TBI disability, her hand.  She explains that she feels like her hand is useless and frustrates her to the point of wanting to cut it off some times. Talk to me about looking at your hand..
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Relearning to Walk after Severe TBI: Kelly Part Ten Kelly talks about relearning to walk after severe TBI and how it wasn’t easy.  It took a long time before he was able to walk on his own.   Now you were mentioning in the transfer there were issues about whether you..
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Nutrition After Severe Brain Injury: Kelly Part Nine In part nine we will talk about nutrition after severe brain injury and while she had the trach she was fed by a PEG tube. We were beginning to talk about physical limitations, and you had some physical limitations with respect to your..
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Transfer for TBI Recovery: Kelly Part Eight Kelly talks about the transfer for TBI recovery from Texas to Tennessee so that she could be near her mother who lived in Nashville and didn’t want to remain in Texas. You were in  Breckenridge in Austin, Texas for how long? Four and half weeks...
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Continuous Memory Returns: Kelly Part Seven Kelly’s continuous memory returns is the discussion for part seven. There is sometimes just no logic to amnesia.  Kelly asserts that she has a clear memory of the pantomime of shooting the nurse, to be left alone. Yet she had a trach at the time, yet..
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Physical Disability Secondary to Brain Injury: Kelly Part Six Kelly and I discussed how her physical disability secondary to brain injury and that the physical disability was attributed to his brain injury. You had the brain injury, the subdural hematoma.  Did you have any other physical disability secondary to brain injury as a..
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