What Happens Immediately After the Injury?

Really enjoyed reading this article, lots of great information on it in a condensed version. I recently formed a non-profit with my family where we are trying to connect health care professionals to educational opportunities about the brain and trauma. Check out our website www.smithbrainconnections.com for our story and more about our mission.

I am praying for you. I am so sorry you have suffered so deeply through no fault of your own and that you feel abandoned. Please make several copies of what you have written here and distribute them to people: to your doctor, family members, a women's shelter, counselling centre etc. There is help out there for you and there are people who care deeply. Know that you are loved even if it doesn't feel like it. I will continue to pray and I know that others are praying too.

My story is one people never hear or talk about. Before i get this off my chest, they say that once you have a blow to the head, then another before the first is able to heal, you make very poor decisions, and which I did. I was in an abusive relationship for 8, yes, 8 long yrs. The first blow lead to countless others one after another, repetitive blows. I feared this person and somehow from injuries, thought in my mind I loved, needed and couldn't live without this person, like Stockholm syndrome. I thought I loved him soo much that I could fix him. My anger, sadness, depression and uncontrollable emotional outbursts got worse and no one, not even myself understood what was going on with me. I was 26, beautiful and very smart, funny and considered "the life of the party". Now I'm 42 and no one understands. I've been called bipolar, crazy, my own sister told me " get some help you crazy bitch". My mother doesn't want to talk about it, my 20yr old daughter is even pulling away from me. I've lost everyone since my symptoms have gotten worse. I feel soo alone, hell, I am alone. I'm scared. I took soo many hard blows, they're countless. My sister was murdered by her husband in 2008 and THAT, FINALLY got me away alive. I can't remember where I'm going, what I was saying, how to put words together, severe headaches, severe mood swings, uncontrollable crying and sadness because I don't understand why my thoughts work the way they do. I have no one to turn to, no help, that's turning to no hope. Domestic violence... Ppl say "why didn't you leave, I don't feel sorry for you, it's your fault". I hope I can pull through this, cause I fear such damage has been done that it's even far worse than the MRI showed, the frontal lobe TBI. I look normal but that evil person changed my life forever. Like football players that are committing suicide because it's too overwhelming and no one, not even I understand how to fix myself. Domestic violence is not because the woman is an idiot, is probably because damage has been done to the brain. I'm not me anymore and feel that I probably never will be, even though EVERYDAY I try my hardest to be normal. I miss ppl in my life, I feel that I've been deserted... And I have. If anyone reads this, please pray for me. I'm completely terrified.

Years ago I was attacked and sustained a head injury. I was unconscious and I lost my memory. I don't know anything about the hospital stay or anything. I didn't even get a diagnosis. My mom and sister picked me up from the hospital and I have not talked about it till now. It happened in 1987.

How do you categorize brain injury due to radiation damage that was given for a brain tumor? This happened to me and left me barely able to function and had to access many resources and therapies.

I suffered severe brain trauma as a child and at the age of 58 became to have coherent return of my memory.  This article is very helpful.  I do wonder about the Rancho Los Amigos levels because my life is marked by much overlap.  I have always felt anxiety ridden and personally depressed while at the same time working, seeking out physical health and putting myself through college at night - very appropriate but intrinsically unhealed.  I feel I lived a bifurcated life.

This information is great and spot on but people with a brain tumor and brain surgery experience the same but do not get the TBI diagnosis. Is this because doctors are afraid to be sued. We need better awareness and support.

How marvellous to read something that explains A.B.I. my son his two years into his recovery and his still in a rehabilitation unit.but l never give up hope.and visit every day. at

Arthur Cortis, this comment of yours got me in a way I was completely unprepared for, like the two gunshots to the back of my head only few months back! But in this case, I've been there and I've seen it all happened. Life anew. Fears and many more fears. Trying to recognize the new person while still struggling to come to terms with the death of the old guy. It's an experience better imagined. The new normal is just as strange as the old death!

I'm very caught on this subject and really want to figure out how to heal axons. This article has helped me a lot and I hope to be back with more news. Thank you

From,

A  scientist

May 12th 2001 (Mother's Day) at the age of 16 I experienced a severe tbi. I wrecked a motorcycle doing (from what the police said) anywhere from 75-120mph head on into a ford f-550 service truck. I was in a severe coma for 3 1/2 weeks and literally died 4 time throughout the initial hours/days in the hospital. I was in the hospital for approximately 4 months total. Including the inpatient rehabilitation center. I had to learn EVERYTHING down to tieing my shoes but for some reason maintained a two year college level reading ability....i have a hard time remembering much of anything before that wreck happened to me and except for triggers once in awhile that bring back memories that sometimes I wonder if they are actual or fabricated by my brain. Because a lot of times my friends or family don't even remember them happening. It is now 9-22-14 and I am still here to tell you that recovery has been very long and difficult...I still struggle with anger/temper issues as well as impulsive decisions I make without thinking things all the way through before I move forward with the decision. I am a single father at the age of 28 raising a beautiful 8 year old son, I have an associates degree and am working a job that brings in close to 70,000 dollars a year. Now, with that. I am by no means trying to brag or flaunt about my success but rather provide inspiration to victims of tbi and families of tbi victims showing them that everything can work out to be ok. With my personal tbi, I had what you would call a subduralhematoma with my brain hemoraging (bleeding) inside my skull with no room to expand due to it being a closed head Injury. The doctors put a drain into my scull to relieve the preasure until swelling and bleeding subsided. I still have a large problem relatively often with my short term memory but it has improved over the years and I am still at high risk for having seizures. (Haven't had one yet) but in closing, If you are a victim of a tbi or family of a victim of a tbi (traumatic brain injury) reading this comment. DONT LOSE HOPE!!! DONT GIVE UP!!!! PERSEVERE THROUGH IT!!! It may not be the end all be all! Everything happens for a reason!!! You may never understand why so don even bother wasting your breath asking yourself that over and over and over. Just see it through. I hope everything works out for you as it has for myself.....and if you ever doubt the ability you do have to see it through to the end. Say a prayer! I will say one with you! I'm sorry you have to/are going through this. Either way you look at things...it will all work out. God bless you!

Immediately after Injury I was in a hospital ,but now I'm at home continue my recovery . I still work on my memory and I don't want memory of my accident back to me. What the doctors say I had one year in  front of me. During this time I try to help my body doing YOGA exercises and continue to wait. If you have something to say or share your own experience please just write I will be very pleased to read it.

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