Hello everyone. My name is Melinda. My husband and I are raising our 12 year old grandson, Tyler, who has TBI due to shaken baby syndrome. His abuser was...
The question was asked elsewhere. Here is my response. Dear ....., Yes, I do. I had my tbi in 1985 (car accident). And it wasn't a "little cut on my finger",...
Thank you, .......... I appreciate your high-five. Yes, twenty years ago I couldn't have been doing this. I understand the difficulty for people. That is why...
Response to someone whose doctor said everyone got over it within a year. Virtually nobody I have ever spoken with "got over it" (the tbi) within a year. That...
Educators regard people with brain injuries in their programs as students whom they educate. Educators operating educational think tanks (and there are quite a...
Educators regard people with brain injuries in their programs as students whom they educate. Educators operating educational think tanks (and there are quite a...
Is there a way of finding out how "severe" a TBI is/was?? Mine was in 1998 and I have no idea how bad it was. I do know they told me I'd have limitations in...
... Hud answers Annie's Q re: DETERMINING SEVERITY OF A TBI... Hello there, one and all! This is my first post to this Listserve. I have done an enormous ...
OCCUPATIONAL TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURIES I am going to writing about OCCUPATIONAL TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURIES but I need help. If you are a survivor of an...
Dear Hudjr, I am somewhat confused by this post. I do not know the traumatic brain injury@yahoogroups.com group. Annie did post this question you answer on the...
I see what you mean with the Glascow coma scale. I was rated between a 3 and 4 on the Glascow coma scale, where 3 is the worst rating. Also in my case the ...
Hi, Mike. You seem to be doing a lot of great things for our community. I have known a couple of people who were in coma a couple of months. You guys who woke...
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Hi, my name is Jeannette. My niece was a victim of a TBI due to Shaken Baby's Syndrome at the hands of her father at 4 wks old. Doctors say that she should not...
When a killer is on the loose in novels or on the silver screen, there's a special urgency for the detective on the case. It's a race against time to capture...
"Sweet dreams are made of this," sang Annie Lennox during her stint in the Eurythmics in the 1980s. But you might notice that Lennox is suitably vague about...
In the 2004 film "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," the characters played by Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet undergo a process to erase all memories of their...
This section might just "blow your mind," to use a common expression. But do you even have a mind? Scientists don't know where the brain ends and the mind...
Twins -- when Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have them, it's fascinating. When they appear to Jack Nicholson in the corridors of the Overlook Hotel in the film...
Facts The adult human brain weighs about 3 pounds (1,300-1,400 g). The adult human brain is about 2% of the total body weight. The elephant brain weighs about...
More than half of the people who are homeless in Toronto are suffering from a traumatic brain injury, according to a new study that suggests early diagnosis...
Alzheimer's disease (AD), one form of dementia, is a progressive, degenerative brain disease. It affects memory, thinking, and behavior. Memory impairment is a...
About two million head injuries of all types (including skull and facial fractures) occur each year in the U. S. (175 to 200 per 100,000 population).1 Over 1.5...
Hello, my name is Vonda. My husband had a brain tumor removed in May. As a result of this, he suffered what has been classified as a "severe" brain injury....
What I find unacceptable is if a hospital is not a major trauma unit they will only test one problem, and they weigh which is the worst, and leave all the...
Hi, I recently had a car accident and now have yet another concussion. Usually it happens with a slip and fall on ice. 2006 had one of the worse head bang, for...
 If there is any thing good about a brain injury it is. The younger the age at accident the better the recovery. It sounds like he is young as are you.  ...
Hey There All, I'm a long term tbi survivor, from 1979, and I thought I was doing pretty well but I suffered a couple of Grand Mal seizures last weekend and I...
Hello Susan, I'm much the same- old and new. For many years I was doing very well but in the last week I had two siezures and got some hospital time, I almost...
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