I'm Kerin and I'm a brain injury survivor

First of all, please protect the children.

The temper/anger and personality change are common with brain injury.
So is the sitting and just looking at the wall thing.

It takes time for a brain injured person to get better,
even though we may not ever get as well as we or our loved ones
wish. Is he getting any rehab?

Please take care of yourselves.

I wish I could offer more help.
You are not alone in this.

Kerin


--- On Mon 05/01, chyna610 < chyna610@... > wrote:
From: chyna610 [mailto: chyna610@...]
To: Traumatic_Brain_Injury@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 00:52:03 -0000
Subject: [Traumatic_Brain_Injury] support for family members of brain trauma
victims

Hello my name is Darlene and my son-in-law had a terrible accident causing
severe brain damage. Right now he is better than a year ago when the accident
happened. He is unable to speak, can't walk unless we are helping him and he has
become very mean to his children! He has grabbed there arms and squeezed then
leaving marks and my daughter cries because she nor I know why he is doing this!
He has gotten to the point where all he wants to do lay an the couch and smoke
cigarettes. When we try to explain to him that he is hurting the children he
will smile and this truely has become frustating to us. My daughter is unable to
spend time with the children like she would like to because of my son-in-law
needing 24 hour care. It has becaome truely hard for my daughter and I to deal
with this at times due to us being stuck in the house all the time. It takes 2
people to care for him so if 1 of us is here the other has to rush back incase
he needs something. Will someone PLEASE help
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