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Choose to Laugh or Cry After a Brain Injury

One has a choice after a TBI: to laugh or to cry. Artist Ginny Ruffner thinks a TBI is like the universe having a really wicked sense of humor ... but she shows that determination and humor can outmatch any challenge.

Posted on BrainLine September 19, 2012.

Produced by Victoria Tilney McDonough, Ashley Gilleland, and Jared Schaubert, BrainLine.

About the author: Ginny Ruffner

Ginny Ruffner, an internationally acclaimed artist, was featured in a feature-length documentary called "Ginny Ruffner: a not so still life," on her refusal to let a debilitating brain injury slow down her drive to create art.

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