WeAreTBI.org - The Social Support Network for People Living with Traumatic Brain Injury

Yippee I'll be a senior this year!

I sustained a left-right Traumatic Brain Injury on 11/22/97.  My bottom left three ribs were broken and my brain slammed at sixty miles per hour against both sides of my skull.  I was in a coma for one month and came out of my coma three days before Christmas.  I graduated with my class and went to a junior college were I got an Associates in Science.  The biggest kicker for me was learning how to control my muscle spasms while at Rose State College.

AND NOW...I am a 12 going on 13 year survivor of a left/right Traumatic Brain Injury. I have managed to make a full recovery in that time.  Last fall I was able to go two weeks without having any muscle spasms! I am going to be starting my senior year of college and will be getting a Bachelor's in Universal Studies. My three areas of focus are Health Education Promotion, Physical Education, and Nutritional Sciences. In January of 2002 I created TBI Raiders with the mission of helping students and young adults who had sustained a TBI succeed at the dreams they want to achieve in both school and life. Besides being an online club it is also a volunteer service that people here in Oklahoma can become involved with and also an opportunity to volunteer online. Volunteers would have the opportunity to gain job skills, leadership skills, and so much more. I wrote a paper on disabilities and highlighted TBI back in January of 2005 when my state representative asked me to write a paper on disabilities and he shared it with some members of the Health and Human Resources Committee, was recognized in May of 2006 through a Oklahoma House of Representatives Resolution Bill that was passed unanimously that recognized volunteers who helped TBI survivors in their recovery, and then in September I spoke before the Oklahoma House of Representatives' Health and Human Resources Committee on TBI when they did a study on TBI. Lead up to now and I have scheduled two and will arrange another event to speak to some high school juniors and seniors in August. I have a web ring of websites dedicated on the subject of TBI.

Members of TBI Raiders
http://raidersmembers.yolasite.com