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...
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sabi_sue
Jun 29, 2007 2:24 pm
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",...
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sabi_sue
Jul 7, 2007 10:30 am
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...
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sabi_sue
Jul 7, 2007 10:32 am
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...
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sabi_sue
Jul 7, 2007 10:32 am
Educators regard people with brain injuries in their programs as students whom they educate. Educators operating educational think tanks (and there are quite a...
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sabi_sue
Jul 7, 2007 10:33 am
Educators regard people with brain injuries in their programs as students whom they educate. Educators operating educational think tanks (and there are quite a...
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Annie
anniewc169
Jul 20, 2007 10:02 am
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...
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hudjr
Apr 8, 2008 10:23 pm
... 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 ...
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Steve Love
lovesc54
Apr 8, 2008 10:24 pm
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...
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Sabi Sue
sabi_sue
Apr 10, 2008 8:28 am
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...
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Mike Jennings
michaelrjenn...
Apr 10, 2008 2:18 pm
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 ...
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Sabi Sue
sabi_sue
Apr 12, 2008 2:21 pm
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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dynamic_gentleman
dynamic_gent...
Aug 11, 2008 9:08 pm
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dynamic_gent...
Aug 11, 2008 9:15 pm
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jeannette_sierra
jeannette_si...
Nov 10, 2008 1:24 pm
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...
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faithful_ameena
Nov 25, 2008 11:24 pm
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...
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faithful_ameena
Nov 25, 2008 11:27 pm
"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...
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faithful_ameena
Nov 25, 2008 11:29 pm
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...
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faithful_ameena
Nov 25, 2008 11:31 pm
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...
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faithful_ameena
Nov 25, 2008 11:38 pm
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...
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faithful_ameena
Nov 25, 2008 11:40 pm
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...
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faithful_ameena
Nov 25, 2008 11:45 pm
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...
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faithful_ameena
Nov 25, 2008 11:48 pm
Alzheimer's disease (AD), one form of dementia, is a progressive, degenerative brain disease. It affects memory, thinking, and behavior. Memory impairment is a...
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faithful_ameena
Nov 25, 2008 11:51 pm
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...
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vheverly
Dec 8, 2008 11:29 pm
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....
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zuni281
Dec 8, 2008 11:30 pm
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...
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zuni281
Dec 8, 2008 11:31 pm
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...
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Scott Fraser
rhino4572003
Dec 11, 2008 2:22 am
 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.  ...
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Tim
timothydj
Dec 29, 2008 8:45 am
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...
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Tim
timothydj
Dec 29, 2008 8:46 am
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...
