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I Found Peace of Mind Online After a Traumatic Brain Injury

It was an early Saturday morning on May 31, 2014, and I was driving home from visiting some friends out of town. I had worked all week and hadn't slept well the night before. I felt myself becoming too tired, so I made the wise decision to pull over and park in an empty parking lot to rest. I rested about an hour or so before I woke up and decided I could continue on.

The last memory I have before I found myself confused —covered in dirt, grass, and glass, after my vehicle had rolled and flipped off of the road—is leaving the parking lot.

Dazed from the multiple blows to my head and barely able to speak. I remember being terrified, because I had never been in an accident.…

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 I Found Peace of Mind Online After a Traumatic Brain Injury

March is Brain Injury Awareness month—a fact I wouldn't have known three years ago, before this happened to me. But traumatic brain injury (TBI) affects millions of people. Having a brain injury can make you feel very isolated, especially with so many big changes to your life, but I found that while doctors, friends and family were helpful, the internet was the key to my ongoing recovery.

5 Things Every TBI Survivor Wants You to Understand

March is National Brain Injury Awareness Month, and as promised, I am writing a series of blogs to help educate others and bring awareness to traumatic brain injuries (TBI).

BrainScope

BrainScope® is a medical neurotechnology company that is improving brain health by providing objective, diagnostic insights that enable better patient care.

Glasgow Coma Scale

The GCS is scored between 3 and 15, 3 being the worst, and 15 the best. It is composed of three parameters : Best Eye Response, Best Verbal Response, Best Motor Response.

LoveYourBrain Foundation

Improve the quality of life of people affected by traumatic brain injury through programs that build community and foster resilience.

Brain Injury Association of America

The mission of the Brain Injury Association of America (BIAA) is to advance brain injury prevention, research, treatment and education and to improve the quality of life for all people affected by brain injury.

Brain Injury Research Institute

At the Brain Injury Research Institute, our purpose is to study the short and long-term impact of brain injury in general, and specifically in concussions. We focus our attention on the development of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), and the physiological effects of this condition on the lives of CTE victims and their families.

Brain Trauma Foundation

Since 1986, the BTF dedicated its mission to improving TBI patient outcomes worldwide by developing best practice guidelines, conducting clinical research, and educating medical professionals and consumers.

Brain-Surgery.com

The purpose of this website is to provide clear, understandable, non-technical information about the medical conditions that usually require brain surgery, as well as information about the techniques and skills needed for successful surgery on the brain.

BrainLine

A national multimedia project offering information and resources about preventing, treating, and living with TBI. BrainLine includes a series of webcasts, an electronic newsletter, and an extensive outreach campaign in partnership with national organizations concerned about traumatic brain injury.

Concussions

Whether you are a professional athlete, weekend warrior, or something in between - a sports injury is likely to occur sometime in your lifetime. But the biggest controversy in sport injuries, besides sudden death, drugs and spinal injuries is without a doubt concussions...

David's Traumatic Brain Injury Blog

A survivor of a harrowing cycling accident in 2010, David is the author of Metamorphosis, Surviving Brain Injury. His ongoing journey is chronicled here on David's Traumatic Brain Injury Blog.

Head Nurse

Brain on the top, spine down the back.

Hope after Brain Injury

Hope after Brain Injury is a non-profit organization devoted to sharing hope with those affected by brain injury through counseling, education, and connection to community resources. We consist of brain injury survivors with their caregivers and healthcare professionals committed to the advancement of brain injury recovery.

How to Recover: Comebacks from Traumatic Brain Injury

Whoever you may be, sometime or other life may well deal you a bad hand. And I can tell you, a traumatic brain injury ("TBI") is indeed a bad one! But it seems that the trick to life is recovering well from bad hands. This blog is about the ups and downs I've had and the lessons I've learnt recovering from mine.

Kara Swanson's Brain Injury Blog

I often think of brain injury recovery as waiting for a bus. You sit at the bus stop waiting and waiting and waiting for the bus to come. To be healed. To be returned to the life you chose. And then…one glorious day, you simply get up and start walking.

Shireen Jeejeebhoy: Deconstructing Misconceptions about Brain Injury

Author Shireen Jeejeebhoy blogs about many different topics. While much of it is based on her books, Lifeliner and She, Shireen has started writing about brain injury, too. She brings her perspective as someone with a mild TBI - Brainline.org

STOP Sports Injuries

The comprehensive public outreach program focuses on the importance of sports safety-specifically relating to overuse and trauma injuries. The initiative not only raises awareness and provides education on injury reduction, but also highlights how playing safe and smart can enhance and extend a child's athletic career, improve teamwork, reduce obesity rates and create a lifelong love of exercise and healthy activity.

Traumatic Brain Injury Blog

I started this blog because I wanted to help people better understand the impact of brain injury and the remarkable work being done every day to improve our ability to diagnose brain injury, to treat brain injury, to prevent brain injury and to obtain compensation for brain injury caused by negligence.

Brain Injury Support Group

I lived through it, so I can help!

The Brain Fairy - Living with Brain Injury

An information center and inspiration for those with an injured brain, and for their caregivers, families and friends.

The Fight Of My Life: Living with Traumatic Brain Injury

A candid conversation: when disability strikes.

Brainstorming4Us

Our goal is to offer encouragement and resources for families and survivors who have been thrown into the unknown world of traumatic brain injury (TBI).

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