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Free, personalized brain injury wallet identification card designed to help police, emergency personnel, and others more easily identify brain injury survivors, and insure that they are treated appropriately, and provided support as needed.
Some caregivers I know feel as if they are giving to the point of depletion. While some who have sustained a TBI and receive care may feel powerless and resentful with no control. This imbalance on both ends can create friction and despair.
The group rushed down the halls and stairways as a growing trail of people followed. All searched for a path to safety. The security at the Pentagon, meant to keep enemies from breaching its perimeter, had trapped them within the fortified walls.
I recently heard the holiday trifecta of Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's called the Bermuda Triangle of exhaustion. No one knows this better than brain injury survivors!
After brain injury, many people notice their brains are more sensitive to alcohol. Learn about the effects of drinking post-injury and what to do and not do.
If I am busy with every little thing, then I don’t have time to be sad, angry, feel hopeless or miss our lives and the son I knew before. I can diminish the magnitude of Taylor’s injury. It just won’t hurt as much, until it hurts like hell and can’t be ignored. So here is what I learned in my own version of spin class.
Staff at Home Base are awed—daily, hourly—by the resilience, determination, and dedication of the veterans and service members with whom they work during the two-week immersion program. Dr. Zafonte recalls one Special Forces member who was injured multiple times but whose focus, invariably and unblinkingly, was to restore himself so as to return to theater to continue to serve. Military members like this man exemplify a dedication to protect our country; something all of us should take time to better understand and appreciate.
Learn about the 1.4 million “invisible caregivers” — children who help provide substantial care to a family member while trying to be successful students.