Hello, my name is Jennifer and I'm a newbie to this group as well.
I'm 35 and i've suffered 2 brain injuries with 2 comas and had to go
through extensive therapies. It took me 4 years of outpatient
rehab/training for new employment etc to get back to work. Anyways
enough about me for now, but I'd also be willing to share, discuss,
offer some adivce as to what got me through some hard times. I came
here becuase i'm having problems in several other areas that have to
do with TBI's that i'd like more help with.

Jennifer

--- In Traumatic_Brain_Injury@yahoogroups.com, "GLERON"
<benoit.gleron@m...> wrote:
>
> I'm a 36 year old male with 2 kids.
> I come to this group because in 98 while I was in vacation in
Chile, I
> had a car accident with coma ( + 3 month), TBI and a few other
> problems ( fortunately I had a good travel insurance and was
treated
> perfectly in Chile).
> It took me a year to almost recover and another year to feel a bit
> better. Today I have problems with my heap ( osteomme in french )
that
> had surgery but nothing that can ruin my life, I can walk, swim,
watch
> TV but nothing very hard for my legs.
> My main problems today is from a cognitive aspect. I have many
> problems of memory and my come back to a professional life has
been a
> catastrophy. I didn't ask for help and had exactly the opposite.
Any
> way I had recently a cerebral RMI ( or IRM in french) that showed
> many sequel in different part of the brain.
> I try to look for information about these problems because in my
small
> island I don't have many advices. For exemple I didn't loose my
> english that I was speaking before but it seems impossible to
improve
> my spanish ( my english needs too !! ).
> In fact I didn't loose what I had but the process of learning a
> language ( I was fond of this before) is really a problem. My
spanish
> needs more improvments and I don't manage to do it.
> I often forget something I have to do in every aspect of life.
> I get mentally tired quite quickly and physically too because I
seem
> to have becomed a very lazy man ( I was not an athlete before but
was
> active). Since my accident I have never been able to read a book
even
> though I baught many on different interesting subjects.
> I didn't rewiew all messages but I can share something with all of
> you. Each TBI is different and each human being is different but a
> good way of thinking might help !
> I had this accident 7 years ago but I realize very late all the
range
> of the after-effects of a brain injury.
>