Friend Stories
"Live in the Moments"
Category: Caregivers of TBI Survivors Written by Caregiver
Summary - the cause - the injury - today's quality of life?
MVA-Diffuse Axonal-so so
Please share your experience at the time you became aware of the injury?
what now?
Tell about the experience immediately after the injury. Surgery? Coma?
Coma for 3 weeks-ish. great and important critical care.
Tell us about the hospital stay after the survivor was no longer in a coma
great acute Rehab.
Tell us about the time in rehabilitation?
We just passed our 1 year anniversary. he's been with me now for going on 6 weeks.
Tell us about coming home!
He's doing wonderfully. lots of gain. much anger problems, however. inability to accept what it is, right now.
"Please type some single words that describe how TBI has touched your life. For example: Frightened, confused, sad, etc. Enter as many or as few words as you like. Separate each word with a comma"
hypervigilance
Tell us about life today?
hard work.
What do you want to tell others going through the same process? Treatments, understandings and actions that made a difference?
Screw on your scientific head, and leave it there. live in the moments. don't fantasize or pre-worry. look into Neurofeedback, immediately.