All posts in 'TBI Voices'

Brain Injury Transitioning Home: Mike Part Fifteen When done right, brain injury transitioning home, is a gradual one, begun with “furloughs”, allowing the survivor to go home for a few days at a time.  Sometimes, the return home is followed up by short stays in rehab, tune-ups so to speak. ..
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Rehabilitation from Brain Injury: MikePart Fourteen We can picture the numerous television stories of the struggle and pain a professional athlete goes through in rehabilitating an injured knee.  Rehabilitation from brain injury is a slower process, a seemingly less intense process, which is in reality so much harder because the..
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Brain Injury Rehabilitation: Mike Part Thirteen Our interview took place in the rehab center, Clearview Treatment Center, in Juneau, WI which specializes in brain injury rehabilitation. The more we fight for better care, the more places that provide such care, will continue to exist.   See http://clearviewtreatment.com Clearview has been an..
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Severe TBI: Mike Part Twelve Mike, with his severe TBI, sat through my entire interview of his wife, at times reminding her not to use his real name, other times shaking in agreement –  occasionally correcting his wife and doing so accurately.  On the conclusion of my interview with her,..
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TBI Rehabilitation: Mike Part Eleven TBI rehabilitation done right is a long road, often with multiple stops.  His wife tells that Mike’s started his journey of TBI rehabilitation in St. Vincents.       51 days, from September 1 until October 21.  October 21 he gets moved to Clearview Brain..
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TBI Physical Limitations: Mike Part Ten Mike woke up with TBI physical limitations.  When he woke up on the eighth day, this is what Mike’s wife saw, some of the issues due to TBI physical limitations: His whole body was swelled up.  His chest was totally black and blue for..
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Comatose Emergence: Mike Part Nine The conception of comatose emergence is that one moment you are out, the next you are talking, fully alert.  While occasionally comatose emergence is  like that, most of the time its ending is marked by the beginning of volitional movement, response. His wife describes Mike’s..
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Brain Injury Grief: Mike Part Eight At the end of Part Seven, Mike’s wife broke down with brain injury grief, unable to say the words: “Always tell him that I loved him.”   We took a break because of the tears that she and Mike shared.  “You okay”? I asked her. “Yeah.” Are you..
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Negative Prognosis: Mike Part Seven Waiting is mostly a time to watch, to pray, to hold fast to belief, to drift between fatigue and surreality. For Mike’s wife, it was also a time to ignore the negative prognosis which was coming from the doctors. But for all the miracles, neurosurgeons are..
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