Comments on: How Does A Brain Injury Affect A Person’s Day-to-Day Life?

By: fran s

fran s — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:25:43 +0000

SS for brain injury — keep appealing. I know people who have received it through persistence.

By: John Ultee

John Ultee — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:23:44 +0000

I suffered a right temporal lobe stroke 3 years ago. My recovery has been weird beyond belief. I just don’t get music, I have 100′s of cd’s which I have no desire to listen to. My wife says that I’m a better person now but I’d like to go back to the “old me”.

By: Richard Dale

Richard Dale — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:01:06 +0000

My wife suffered from a brain injury that left her with severe short term memory loss (clinically tested) Social Security has refused her disability.

By: Tracy

Tracy — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:14:21 +0000

My son suffered a TBI over five years ago. He had a honeycomb bleed, (all thru the brain), was in a coma and they didn’t think he would make it. He came out of his coma in about 5 days and was very disoriented, confused and very timid.Those are the most mild complications or results. He thought he said things that he only thought of and many, many more issues. Five years later, he got back as much as he can and he is different. His personality, temperment,frustration levels,inability to keep on one train of thought, etc. He has been called a miracle after what happened to him. He had more injuries than just a TBI but now he is able to live his life without any assistance anymore. His IQ dropped significantly due to the TBI but he is alive and able to function. Not as well as he would like, but he is functional. They do not really know what results you get from TBI’s so take everything they say with a grain of salt. Prepare for the worst and hope for the best. He was in a rehab unit far away from home for awhile too. We live in a rural area and they sent him 2.5 hours away from home to rehab him. No rehab anywhere in northern Michigan. God does some awesome things and we do not know the reason but there is always a life lesson to be learned from every hardship.