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“Planning on finishing my degree in accounting”

Category: TBI Survivor's Stories Written by Survivor

Summary - the cause - the injury - today's quality of life?

choked, better than ever expected

 Please share your experience at the time you became aware of the injury?

choked, 4 days in a coma, severe short-term memory loss.

Tell about the experience immediately after the injury. Surgery? Coma?

4 days in a coma

Tell us about the hospital stay after the survivor was no longer in a coma

don't remember it, only remember the day they said i could go home and one MRI.

Tell us about the time in rehabilitation?

don't remember it

Tell us about coming home!

i was relieved

"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"

enraged, terrified, betrayed

Tell us about life today?

Planning on trying to finish my degree in accounting, then maybe go into pyschology.

What do you want to tell others going through the same process? Treatments, understandings and actions that made a difference?

mornings are clearer. stay away from comfort foods. stay away from things that upset you.