Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Stories
Many people just like you have gone through difficult experiences with their brain or spinal cord injuries but you can read about their trials and tribulations here as a means of giving hope and encouragement to others so you can see others have gone through exactly what you or a loved one may be dealing with right now.
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My son Michael has been faced with brain injury and spinal cord injury from a car accident in 2008 and left paralyzed from the waist down and we are struggling and he is very suicidial and mentally...
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Unintended Consequences
July 11, 1989. While it was long ago, I can still close my eyes and relive almost every moment. It started out as a typical summer day and the warehouse my company was...
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In the spring of 2007 my family and I had moved to Washington state from California. At the time our daughter had just turned 16. Well she really missed her friends back in California,...
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My name is Trenell. I consider myself an inspiring young man that has overcome tremendous adversity to fulfill my calling to help others. At the tender age of 14, I experienced a life-changing...
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My personal story - Brain Injury Awareness Month – March, 2010
Hello everyone, I’m Sian Liu and this is my personal story on “paper” for the first time. I sustained a brain...
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Hello, my name is michelle. I went into the hospital on my third knee surgery. It was only a day surgery. My orthopedist left instructions to not give any narcotics patient does not tolerate. They...
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I am sitting in the hospital’s spinning outpatient waiting room, which reeks of disinfectant and old people. A smell that makes me want to escape to Peter Pan's Never Never land, so I never...
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I've survived 40 cognitive challenges/brain injuries. Why do I say that I'm challenged vs. disabled, retarded, handicapped, etc., because these terms only reflect our harsh treatment of...
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In 2004 I graduated college and was awarded an internship with National Geographic in Washington D.C., I was 48 years old. I rode a bike 3 or 4 miles to the train station and took the train...
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