Comments on: Brain Injury Affects Parents and Siblings http://www.lapublishing.com/blog/2009/brain-injury-family/ Helpful Brain Injury Articles and TBI Tutorials Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:32:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Christy http://www.lapublishing.com/blog/2009/brain-injury-family/comment-page-1/#comment-27533 Christy Wed, 22 Jun 2011 19:11:31 +0000 http://208.79.82.146/~lapub/blog/?p=133#comment-27533 How very comforting to find this site and read your words. The words you share echo for me everyday and have since October 2010 when my son was in an accident that caused him to sustain 3 broken ribs, a collapsed lung, both pelvis broken, a cracked skull at the right base and a level 3 TBI. He tremors at times on his right side due to the impact from the rollover, walks slowly and deliberilty, holds his right hand and arm up to stabilize his walking yet faces each day while all I can do is just watch. We just finished outpatient therapy after a 6 week stay at a rehab facility that was absoulutely wonderful. His initial care in the trauma center was outstanding and we are so fortunate we can wake up everyday and tell him we love him! Thank you for your words of encouragement and know I am here and feel what you do just mine is fresh as if it happened yesterday! How very comforting to find this site and read your words. The words you share echo for me everyday and have since October 2010 when my son was in an accident that caused him to sustain 3 broken ribs, a collapsed lung, both pelvis broken, a cracked skull at the right base and a level 3 TBI. He tremors at times on his right side due to the impact from the rollover, walks slowly and deliberilty, holds his right hand and arm up to stabilize his walking yet faces each day while all I can do is just watch. We just finished outpatient therapy after a 6 week stay at a rehab facility that was absoulutely wonderful. His initial care in the trauma center was outstanding and we are so fortunate we can wake up everyday and tell him we love him! Thank you for your words of encouragement and know I am here and feel what you do just mine is fresh as if it happened yesterday!

]]> By: Judy G. http://www.lapublishing.com/blog/2009/brain-injury-family/comment-page-1/#comment-24125 Judy G. Tue, 23 Nov 2010 04:03:15 +0000 http://208.79.82.146/~lapub/blog/?p=133#comment-24125 I can relate all too well....my ex-husband who had viral encephalitis - in a coma, almost died, and never was the same again. Neither am I. Our youngest daughter who started having seizures at 11 months old and has sufferred with them for the last 10 years without a cause or much control. I pretty much understood that people would view them differently which they did. The part I still struggle with every day is my own family who has pretty much turned their back on us, I feel because we are damaged goods (for lack of a better term) Even though my ex and I are close (we still have children to consider) he has been ostrasized from the family because he is forgetful, has memory loss, and also suffers from a "joking" disease where he giggles or makes jokes when not appropriate. According to my family they feel he knows exactly what he's doing, plays games with memory issues and just jokes around because he's an idiot. My beautiful daughter has sufferred more in her short 11 years of life than most people do in their lifetimes, yet her smile brightens a room and she perserveres in spite of everything. Her medication keeps her delayed in her learning and she does not process things as fast as most people, so she gets dismissed as stupid and even her own Grandmother doesn't want to be around her. Sorry for the long post but I so understand and relate to this and really feel for everyone who goes through this. I wish you the best and just keep forging ahead. Day by day is all we can hope for. I can relate all too well….my ex-husband who had viral encephalitis – in a coma, almost died, and never was the same again. Neither am I. Our youngest daughter who started having seizures at 11 months old and has sufferred with them for the last 10 years without a cause or much control. I pretty much understood that people would view them differently which they did. The part I still struggle with every day is my own family who has pretty much turned their back on us, I feel because we are damaged goods (for lack of a better term) Even though my ex and I are close (we still have children to consider) he has been ostrasized from the family because he is forgetful, has memory loss, and also suffers from a “joking” disease where he giggles or makes jokes when not appropriate. According to my family they feel he knows exactly what he’s doing, plays games with memory issues and just jokes around because he’s an idiot. My beautiful daughter has sufferred more in her short 11 years of life than most people do in their lifetimes, yet her smile brightens a room and she perserveres in spite of everything. Her medication keeps her delayed in her learning and she does not process things as fast as most people, so she gets dismissed as stupid and even her own Grandmother doesn’t want to be around her. Sorry for the long post but I so understand and relate to this and really feel for everyone who goes through this. I wish you the best and just keep forging ahead. Day by day is all we can hope for.

]]> By: Bruno Deriggi http://www.lapublishing.com/blog/2009/brain-injury-family/comment-page-1/#comment-9734 Bruno Deriggi Sat, 17 Apr 2010 13:15:15 +0000 http://208.79.82.146/~lapub/blog/?p=133#comment-9734 You wrote a very interesting post I love your blog. It contains very informative articles that I will share with my friends. You wrote a very interesting post I love your blog. It contains very informative articles that I will share with my friends.

]]> By: Ann Kidd http://www.lapublishing.com/blog/2009/brain-injury-family/comment-page-1/#comment-8960 Ann Kidd Mon, 29 Mar 2010 23:35:12 +0000 http://208.79.82.146/~lapub/blog/?p=133#comment-8960 The doctors were right. My son nearly died.And today he is not the same person he was before the accident. Nor am I. I prefer to be alone. To think and ponder. To try to make sense of life, death, suffering.I have no patience for trivial things, conversations, most people. Oh how comforting Dixie's words are to me for on most days they are as if I wrote them myself.I too am the mother of a son with sustained brain injury and have become sick of the old throw away line, she'll get over it, get back to your old interests and haunts but I've done neither. Yes I have moved on but I too am not the same person as before. Life seems to have taken on a new time line before the accident and after the accident and yet I am not unhappy just changed, as is my son.I have given up on trying to make others understand. I guess it comes down to unless you've walked a mile in my shoes. Thanks Dixie for sharing, it's comforting to know I am not alone, just different as a result of changes beyond my control. The doctors were right. My son nearly died.And today he is not the same person he was before the accident. Nor am I.

I prefer to be alone. To think and ponder. To try to make sense of life, death, suffering.I have no patience for trivial things, conversations, most people.

Oh how comforting Dixie’s words are to me for on most days they are as if I wrote them myself.I too am the mother of a son with sustained brain injury and have become sick of the old throw away line, she’ll get over it, get back to your old interests and haunts but I’ve done neither. Yes I have moved on but I too am not the same person as before. Life seems to have taken on a new time line before the accident and after the accident and yet I am not unhappy just changed, as is my son.I have given up on trying to make others understand. I guess it comes down to unless you’ve walked a mile in my shoes.
Thanks Dixie for sharing, it’s comforting to know I am not alone, just different as a result of changes beyond my control.

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