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Tara's plead for help
I could use some encouragement from anyone concerning my youngest daugher. She had a reaction to a an antidepressent a year ago this January. She rolled ...
25 Years post
Very Happy to tell that today I am living a functional, purposeful, happy and developing life.
When I was 24 years old I was driving to work on a local ...
April 20 1997 when i was 10 years old
When I was 10 years old I use to get a lot of headaches. My mom never though anything of it cuz she use to give me tylenol and I would go to bed and wake ...
Anoxic Brain Injury People
Dear All,
I suffered a cardiac arrest at the age of 39 and due to lack of oxygen for 20 minutes, plus in a coma for 2 wweks, i now have a brain injury....
Work Work, It Bites!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Work, Work, It Bites!!
Work, it’s such a strong word, but we all do it, one way or another. Workman's comp just wants me to work, what they don’t know ...
My husband, the stranger
My husband sustained brain damage which at first was thought to be from a knock on his head, but later turned out to be a brain disease making its way ...
Our Son
As a parent Im feeling helpless. It's been over a year and few months since his motorcycle accident. I guess he or we are at a point. I don't feel like ...
Every mother's nightmare- anoxic brain injury- drug overdose
My 18 year old son was hours away from starting college on a football scholarship. He was found after I placed a phone call to check on his journey to ...
Looking for the light in the Dark
My daughter Katie was in a car accident on Oct. 6 2010. It has only been 11 months and yet these 11 months feels like a lifetime. As her family, we are ...
Ians brain injury
Nov. 5 2010. Ian age 15 was a passenger in his sisters car on their way to school. Roads were wet and Tara was driving too fast. The car left the road ...
candaces brain injury story
i spun my mr2 into an ambulane (whats the chance of that )last september. i was claced as serverly brain damaged and spent 2 months in a coma, i was so ...
Can't believe Im here doing this!!
Hi! My name is Melanie Leatherman>
On October 30,2010 I was in a vehicle accident that totally changed my life.
I use to be a very successful ...
TBI due to fall with Horse
My husband sustained a severe brain injury back in July of 2010. He was 27 yr old. He was competing in a rodeo on his horse when the horse tripped and ...
close to death
It was hard but i had a baby girl at 16 she was three months old during the year 2009 i knew i couldnt miss anymore school so i went off to school i dont ...
Last year, every year.
I suffered my brain injury twelve years ago during the first of around a dozen brain surgeries to remove a ten to twelve year misdiagnosed/undiagnosed ...
carol ansell
My daughter Laura had a fall in a shop. She fell over a box ....i took her to hospital because she was complaining about her knee...she was xrayed and ...
A Summer of Sleep
My head injury occurred in a town called Stockton-On-Tees, Middlesbrough, United Kingdom July 1st of 2009. I had just finished my second year of college....
Anoxic Brain Injury
In June of 2010, my father, age 62, suffered a massive heart attack and coronary arrest. He had no symptoms and was in pretty good health so this was quite ...
Brain Injury In the News
As I watched TV coverage of the rampage shooting in Arizona, particularly the press conference held at the hospital, I was transported back to July 2, 2005....
Will I Ever Be Whole Again
On 12-10-08 my world literally flipped upside down. Though most of my details are foggy I can tell you that I was driving along a highway about to pay ...
22 year survivor of TBI
Oct 24th 2010 will be 22 years since I died in a car accident. In my previous entry I mentioned all my injuries but had left out that I had a 1% chance ...
Dealing with brain injury after vehicle accident
In 2005 I fell asleep while driving after a night shift on the rigs and hit an approach and flipped my truck. I then needed STARS air ambulance to come ...
Anoxia
Breathless and heart ach while sent to hospital along the way reach A&E her heart bit stopped couple of minutes rescuit and admitted ICU 3days later awake ...
Auto Accident Brain Effects
It was October 24th, 1988 when I collided with a truck head on. I had a transected aorta, fractured skull, broken jaw, multiple rib fractures, broken ...
BiPolar Disorder led to recklessness and bicycle accident at 57
Our kids were out of college, 2 had married and life was going forward. I am the now 59 year old spouse/full time caregiver of a man who was poorly treated ...
Loved Brain Injury Survivor's Guide
OMG, I loved, loved, loved your book!!!!!!!! I am a TBI survivor from 1986. Upon completing your book I am able (for the first time in 24 years) to admit ...
Falling from Ladders
In October 2003 I fell off a ladder, when cleaning gutters, hit my head on my driveway's concrete slap and then the ladder fell down & hit my head as well....
Rebekah Vanderfriff, LMSW
I am a survivor, living half of my life with a Traumatic Brain Injury. I don't like to dwell on what happened, and how I was in a coma for over 8 weeks,...
A TBI Waiver Provider's story
Every day from 1pm-5pm participants arrive at our office to take part in our Structured Day Program. The NYS TBI waiver has tagged the name “Structured ...
FishWife...His Wife
How do I begin telling how brain injury has affected my life? I called myself fish wife because nowadays that's what I feel like--a nagging fishwife. Do ...
Discover Your Brain Injury - revised
I am a survivor of a traumatic brain injury(the invisible injury). I was diagnosed with repeated concussion causing brain damage associated with epilepsy ...
Healed from a TBI! How can I spread the word?
My daughter was kicked in the head in a soccer game and changed overnight. The once sweet, intelligent and driven girl was reduced to a fetal position,...
My Heroes Have Scars
At the behest of a fellow head banger I'm posting something I wrote. I write a lot. It's one way I deal with being alone so much and all of the things ...
Jake's Brain Injury Accident
i was 14 years old and i was skateboarding by a set of stairs and i decided to try and and jump the stairs and i landed it but i hit a rock and got thrown ...
Finding Sandra After Anoxic Brain Injury
In July 2000 I was taken to our local hospital where I went 10 minutess without oxygen to the brain due to respiratory failure. I was put on a ventilator....
I Have Gained So Much More Than I Lost ~ Helen's Story
On July 14, 2007, a man I had been dating for 3 weeks asked if I wanted to go for a ride on his motorcycle. He didn't tell me his tires were so worn he ...
Living with Brain Injury in Maine
I am a 56 year male (mabye 55 ). My life is completely falling apart,because of a head injury I had at work. Its been 6 months I think. I seem to be getting ...
A Mom's Story: The Journey
On March 3, 2008 my son (13 yrs. old) was on a climbing rope in PE class at school. The rope came loose at the ceiling and he landed on the back of his ...
Brain Injury Recovery - Beth's Story
Brain injury recovery is often a misused term because it makes people think they may be able to return to the way things were before the head trauma.
My ...
Old Info...
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Why Is Society Blind? II (September, 1998)
If movies could do it, have I, II, and even more titles with the same name – Here I am writing my number ...
I'm Surviving Brain Injury
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Here I go again.. Always brainstorming, trying to explain my point of view. I know people get mad at me when I say “you’re not a brain injury survivor”...
Choked My Life Away
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I woke up in the hospital with a tube down my throat. I was in a coma for 4 days. I am recovering from severe hippocampus damage. I choked on pastrami,...
Post concussion syndrome
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I am just updating my story
I am three years and three months post accident, I have good days and bad days. At the moment I am having bad weeks due ...
From on top to looking through a dirty window
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I'm happy to be alive, to have time to spend with my young children, and to not be financially destitute. Five years ago, a motorist in a large car ran ...
Cameron's Story
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My son was 9 years old on Oct. 23, 2010, when he was shot in the head by his 11-year-old cousin while squirrel hunting. He was flown to Ruby Memorial ...
praying for a miracle
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Four weeks ago my little cousin who is going to turn 9 on October 4th had tonsil surgery to remove them, a small and easy surgery as the doctors said....
brain injury recovery continued
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this is a follow up to a previous story i have written.
It has been three years since my accident and sometimes when reading other peoples stories i get ...
My Legal Nightmare Part 4
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So the basis for this legal haressment? The Neurobehavioral Care Plan used at the inpatient unit and adapted to the Care Home Plan per the sisters is ...
My Legal Nightmare Part 3
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So what is my legal Nightmare? Well the sisters who would never help, in fact they worked with her husband to have her thrown out of her home last year,...
My Legal Nightmare Part 2
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My friend is now at my house. My husband and children are willing to let her stay while I get her some help. I take her to follow up psychiatrist visits,...
Legal Nightmare Helping Brain Injured Friend Part 1
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My legal nightmare helping my ABI friend began in August 2010 and it continues today. She had brain aneurysms, stroke, and a large subdural hematoma in ...
My Summer of Recovery
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On April 12th, 1989 I was hit by a car and suffered a major head injury. After seventeen days in a coma, I was admitted to the Rehabilitation Institute ...
Brain injury in jersey channel islands uk
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I had gone to work as normal and did my deliveries in town, I drove the three miles back to the ware house where a new floor was being installed. I went ...
Starting over
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My name is Adam. I am a 40 year old man who suffered an overdose-related brain injury.
I was living at an adult drug rehabilitation center in Salt ...
Even if it's been 17 years.
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It's been 17 years since I had a ruptured brain aneurysm that almost took my life. I recovered very well, and am grateful for the support I got.
It's ...
So what's the big deal?!!!
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In 1964, when most new cars were being installed with seatbelts, most people didn't know what to make of them. So they didn't use them. And even today,...
My personal experience about what happens when brain injury goes untreated.
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It was July 9, 1987. It was a beautiful Connecticut summer afternoon and I was out riding my motorcycle. I had just turned 20, and had a lot going for ...
SHOCK TRAUMA MARYLAND 1982
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yes, they saved my husbands life. they did NOT SAVE ME OR MY LIFE of what the future would be like. total personality change, forgot the present life ...
Anoxic Brain injury after hanging
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Tyler Archibald was only 15 when he attempted suicide by hanging. It has been 7 yrs and he is bedridden, but I can not imagine life any differently now....
The Incredible And True Story Of Jimmy And Jazzy
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Jimmy B was just beginning his second hour as DJ at an exclusive Jersey Shore Nightclub. As he was cueing his next selection, a weird yet amazing feeling ...
Don't believe me, I've had a brain injury
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I had a ruptured brain anuerysm in sept of 2009 while I was home alone. From what we pieced together, it was 2 days before my son found me. He immediately ...
My Life by Bethany
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My story begins on December 18, 1987. My parents had an attic in their garage that was accessed by ladder through a small opening. I had climbed up and ...
My New Car
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Ok.. so here we go... My story starts on May 14, 2008. I got a new car, couldn't drive it because it was a manual. My brother was supposed to teach me ...
A Sudden and Complete Change
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I was in the eighth grade, made honor roll every semester, cheered for the high school in which I was assigned to go, and had recently received the ...
Nurse Question
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A 12 year old boy was shot in the right cheek two years ago and spent a year in a children's hospital where fought for his life and won.
He is now at ...
Music Therapy Groovist Rehabilitation
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I was brain injured by crashing my bicycle. Recovery enlists many rehabilitation strategies. Although I questioned many rehab techniques, there was one ...
Our Journey1997
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Our journey with brain injury started on a crisp October morning in 1997. My husband and I had just completed our morning walk and I was getting ready ...
Living With That Other Person who Pretends to be Me
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I had a closed head injury that resulted in PTSD. I feared whom I had become and how this accident changed my life, endangered my family and crushed my ...
Michael Broz - Brain Injury Survivor
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It has been 1 year and three months since my traumatic brain injury; it has been classified as moderate/severe. I have gone through 12 weeks of cognitive ...
Conquering Trauma
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I was small, age 12, when my first cognitive challenge/head injury occurred. I was hit by a vehicle in the right side of the head in 1977 in Arkansas....
Helpful Brain Injury Information
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I am writing because I looked over your site and I feel it is a wonderful resource to TBI survivors. We also have a website and blog we're working on to ...
