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When it comes to brain injury, it's difficult to make predictions about a person's recovery. This uncertainty, unfortunately, creates a lot of anxiety for families.
Recently, some friends asked me to join them at a local bar for a monthly get together. I chose to decline because I try to avoid situations that make me feel brain-injured.
After my brain injury, I could not tolerate most sounds or most music. I did find, however, that there was certain music or sounds that worked like “brain massage” for me.
Simple things become a challenge after a brain injury. During the extremely challenging years of my recovery, here is what I did to help myself get through a phone call and accomplish what I needed to do.
Family life after brain injury? It’s complicated. People walk out of your life without explanation, without just cause, leaving you to wonder what the heck happened.
Of all the things I was warned about following TC’s brain injury diagnosis, no one suggested the idea of mistrust or suspicion. I didn’t anticipate waking up one day, twelve exhausting and painstaking months into his recovery, to find myself on trial, accused of harboring ulterior motives and secret plans...
I know everyone’s story, while different, can be similar in a lot of ways. I have found there are many ‘walls’ that I have come up against. Some hit me right out of the blue with no warning and others crept up slowly. But, once I realized what the ‘wall’ was, I always manage to find a way to climb over it.
People often make resolutions as the new year arrives and the previous one recedes. But sometimes, as Rosemary explains, it takes a serious wake-up call to make those big self-changes.
"My mother is amazing. Sometimes I tell people she’s an alien because there is no one I know like her," says Janna Leyde about her mother in the wake of a TBI that changed their family.
Patients who have right parietal damage and suffer from left hemineglect will often copy only the right half of a drawing, eat the food off only the right side of their plate and disown their left limbs.
Learn what vision-related reading problems can crop up after brain injury and what strategies are out there from using a "hemi card" to "last letter cancellation therapy."