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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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Jennifer Borton's Story: My son was born with hydrochepalitis which was not found out till he was 8 months old. He had a vp shunt placed feb. 1st 1999 and they... |
Larry Naccarato's Story: On July 23 of 2004, I lost my brakes, in my truck. I was following a friend, after work. I tried to go around him.... |
Liz's Story: My nickname is liz and i'm going by that. i am going to be 30 on February 22, and i have had tbi since 2 months of age. i was abused by my biological... |
Briana Munoz's Story: My dad, Tony Munoz, has been riding horses since he was a young boy. No one would have ever imagined that our lives would have changed... |
Mary Yates's Story: July 9, 2009, 9:05PM. I stood on the corner and watched as the policemen and rescue teams arrived at the accident scene. I didn't know... |
Katrina L Johnson's Story: Hello my name is Katrina Johnson. On March 12 2009 i was shot by my sister exboyfriend. I am now paralized from my chest down. It's been... |
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Mohammad Dehfouli's Story: 10 years ago in an accident suffered a broken my waist and able to walk I am not. Broken seals and transferringL1&T12 I have been... |
Angie Jones's Story: The last thing that I remember is screaming into the cell phone "On the fucking curves before the flats" The rain was coming down so... |
Chavenia Gaymon's Story: My son is 4 months old.He was diagnosed with rsv a month and a day ago. 2 days later i took him to his pediatrician to |
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Shane Conner's Story: Hmm how do I start? I was 24 yrs of age. just recently got married found out my wife was pregant, and my work schedule was 2 16hr days 1 8hr.... |
Esperanza DeLa Mora's Story: My son suffered a TBI as a result of an overdose of his pysch meds. He is a loving young adult whom would really benefit from a well... |
Donna Fisher's Story: On Christmas Eve 2008, I had driven from my mother's house in mid-Ohio to my sister-in-law's house in Ann Arbor, MI to meet my spouse and spend... |
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May Allan's Story: I was dropped in hospital flat on my back after serious back surgery and then dropped several times in a nursing home, which has left me paralyzed... |
Lucy Hayes's Story: Hello, I am 12 years old, and earlier this year, on April 7, 2009, I had gotten hit by a bus. It was about 20 days after my twelth birthday... |
Steven D. Smith's Story: July 14th 2003 – Kansas City: I am in a vehicle accident that results in my sustaining a closed head injury (TBI), a broken... |
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Tapas Das's Story: One of my very close relative had a motor cycle accident on 23rd November 2009. He is diagnosed to have been suffered from Diffused Axonal Injury.... |
Sandy Pina's Story: i fell 3 times in the ice storm on dec 10, 07 it has been a rough road of unanswered questions and pain. it was first said i had a concusion... |
Dawn Brace's Story: Husband had bicycle accident, NO hemet. He had an emergency craniataimy, 35 staples in his head.When he got released from the hopital... |
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Owen Sharp's Story: Hi when I was 5 in 1957 I fill of the back of a truck head the top part of my head on a large rock I it knocking me out for a second seeing stars... |
Tricia Leschkies's Story: My daughter Tricia (44) was shot in the left side of head by her husband. when I received the call to go the hospital, i knew something very... |
Linda Mollo-Holmes's Story: On Dec. 23,2008, my husband Michael, 55, suffered a heart attack in the street and was not found for ten minutes. When Michael fell, he... |
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Troy Parks enjoyed fishing and hunting with his sons, leading a pack of Cub Scouts and youth groups at his church, and encouraging everyone he knows to get active in the outdoors. Now, after falling out of a deer stand while hunting in the woods near his home, Parks has been confined to a wheelchair, [...]read more >> - New SCI Treatment Shows Early Promise for Possibility of Recovery
Researcher Hans Keirstead at University of California Irvine has developed what he says might be the key to helping spinal cord injury patients regain movement, and ABC Local article reported. Keirstead was able to get paralyzed rats to run after receiving his novel treatment for spinal cord injuries. The next step is getting his treatment [...]read more >> - Lancaster Spina Bifida Paralympian Competing for the Gold
A doctor told Adam Page’s father that his son would never walk and that he would likely be blind and possibly retarded. Page was born with spina bifida; his spinal cord was growing outside of his body. Luckily, Page defied the doctor’s assumptions and he is already competing for the U.S. team in ice sledge [...]read more >>
