--- In Traumatic_Brain_Injury@yahoogroups.com, "Wendy"
<ms_wendy99@...> wrote:
>
> Thank you for allowing me to join your group. My name is Wendy.
This
> is a long story, BUT PLEASE help me. My brothers fiance has been
> diagnosed with TBI after a terrible "freak" car accident on
November
> 7, 2006. Her name is Lisa Chundi Rose, she is 30 years old. My
> brother and her have been living together going on two years and
he
> has been helping raise her two children by a previous marriage.
> Chundi has been in a coma now for two months today. She is
breathing
> on her own. Has been since a few days after the accident. Her
eyes
> are open, looks around. Her arms and legs move, sometimes her
head.
> She blinks (sometimes) on command. Her neuro dr is still
> optimistic. Her MRI that she had 4wks after accident
> showed "significant healing in the brain and brainstem - but still
> needs alot more healing" He believes she will come out of the
coma.
> She has been in a rehab hospital, but they are now saying she is
not
> progressing enough to stay there. They say she needs to go "home"
or
> to a nursing home. I know when she looks at me she is now focusing
on
> me when I talk. What questions should I ask? What do I look for
in
> a nursing home? I can't make any of these decisions because my
> brother and Chundi didn't marry before her accident. Its really
all
> in the hands of her family - which she never was close to before
the
> accident. Its just awful. I hope by reaching out to people who
> might understand and has been/or knows someone that has been
through
> this can help me help her very confused/non-communicating family.
> Please respond.
>
> Wendy
> well you are on the right track here, but the one things that
doctors and hospitals really over look in TBI cases is ATTUIDE, if
you can get her into a rebel hellrasing attuide the better off she
will be the quicker, when I was in my coma in 1968 the nures played
outlaw country music all night. i delvoped that arruide that made me
better faster. no she will nevewr be 100% the same as before, but
with help and attuide she can come close. For real insprinpartion
Read the HANK WILLAMS JUNIOR STORY he is a brain injury sarvivor
like us. you got to get that bad attuide like Hank to sarvivor all
this...best wishes hope this helps...houston Moss