Community Support After Brain Injury: Lethan Part Seven There is a term often used to describe one of the key variables in outcome after brain injury: community support after brain injury. Recovery from TBI is not a finite milepost, not achieved by passing neuropsychological tests. Recovery is measured by the degree..
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Neurobehavioral Extremes: Lethan Part Six Probably the scariest things for a family after severe TBI, are the neurobehavioral extremes, wild mood swings and temper outbursts. While a teenager returning home to his parents is not nearly as dangerous a situation as when a man returns home to his wife, the nature and..
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Brain Injury The Unmaking of Cool: Lethan Part Five The unmaking of cool. Adults and non-conformists often ridicule the almost universal desire to be cool – to fit in – to be attractive to peers and members of the opposite sex. Yet, this desire is at the core of our human..
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Before Traumatic Brain Injury: Lethan Part Four Lethan talks about who he was before traumatic brain injury in part four. He uses his story “Who Am I, Again” to explain his thoughts. Lethan sets his own stage in “Who Am I, Again?”: I was 17 years old, a senior..
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Pre-Brain Injury Self: Lethan Part Three In Lethan part three we continue our discussion about the effects of brain injury, Lethan’s pre-brain injury self and his memories or lack there of the accident. “Who Am I, Again?” begins with Lethan waving au revoir to his French teacher in the rear view mirror, leaving..
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Phone Call About the Accident: Lethan Part Two As we have talked to the mom’s and spouses, we have consistently heard the story of the shock, the unreality of the phone call about the accident or the knock on the door. Lethan’s mother’s story was what originally drew me to “Who Am..
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Themes of Brain Injury: Lethan Part One As we start our interviews with Lethan we are revisiting themes of brain injury. Lethan has a very unique way of telling about his brain injury in order to share with those who are survivors themselves. We started http://tbivoices.com with Lethan Candlish’s performance of “Who Am..
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Staying Positive After Brain Injury: Kevin Part Thirteen One of the most important things we learned from our interview with Kevin was the importance of Staying Positive After Brain Injury. Our discussion of frontal lobe challenges with Kevin continued as we talked about changes in routine and writing things down to assist..
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Frontal Lobe Functioning: Kevin Part Twelve Not entirely due to Kevin’s fault, our interview wandered around a lot, with more focus on sports than brain injury symptomotology. That was partially due to technical problems we were having with the filming, but also because I wanted to explore Kevin’s cognitive strengths when..
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Medications After TBI: Kevin Part Eleven Another area where the absence of a collateral source of information about Kevin made it hard to get a feel for his actual functioning was in the area of his mood, emotions and medications after TBI. This is particularly difficult because of issues he has..
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