Thanks Candy. Boy - do I understand camping out in the ICU waiting room!!! You're absolutely right about brain injury being portrayed so differently on TV. Of course, it is such a misunderstood condition everywhere, even in the medical community.
I read a report a couple of days ago from the chief of Neurosurgery at Elmendorf Air Force Base that said the vast majority of soldiers suffering from TBI fully recovered in 3 to 6 months. That's certainly not the brain injury I'm familliar with.
Have you ever seen the movie, The Lookout. It presents brain injury accurately. The language is very, very salty and I would not want to watch it with children, but it's a really good movie. We have a short trailer on our site if you'd like to see it. Click here for the movie trailer for The Lookout.
Hopefully - all of us together can change attitudes by getting accurate information out among the general public. Beth and I have recently sent information to the Arkansas TBI Task Force of our legislature and hope to work with them to spread the word here in Arkansas.
Thanks for asking Kristie. She's doing pretty good. Of course, she has "those" days. Her short term memory is not as big a problem as it once was but that's probably due to 18 years of developing strategies to deal with it. She still has problems substituting b's for p's and vice versa. Outside her comfort zone she's unsure at times. All in all, she's A+ compared to 18 years ago.
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