Traumatic Brain Injury Recovery: 10 Things My Doctor Didn’t Tell Me

Living with Head/Brain Injury (TBI)

Traumatic Brain Injury Recovery | 10 Things My Doctor Didn’t Tell Me
10 things I wish the doctors would have told me about traumatic brain injury recovery before I left the hospital.

Traumatic Brain Injury Recovery | 10 Things My Doctor Didn’t Tell Me

Though 50 years ago very little was known about the subject and “a bit of a miracle” that I survived to share this “info” with you!

1. No Two TBI’s Are the Same
2. There Are Groups with Resources to Help TBI Survivors and Caregivers
3. There Are Some Very Common Deficits after a TBI
4. There is No Time Threshold for Recovery
5. Spend Some Time Investigating Alternative Approaches to Dealing with Your Symptoms
6. BEWARE of Overstimulation
7. Balance Pushing Yourself and Allowing Down Time
8. Physical Fatigue
9. You Will Be Living with an Invisible Injury
10. Accepting the new normal *

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11. (bonus) Head/brain injuries affect/impact people in different ways

from

https://www.facebook.com/livingwithheadinjury/

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How to Make Good Life Decisions (from Motivational Self Help Books)

INSPIRE

https://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/how-to-make-good-life-decisions-from-motivational-self-help-books

An article written about 20 long years (“many moons”) ago

from

https://www.facebook.com/Uplift-Encourage-and-Inspire-479972392393133/

and

from a Google search (thanks for rescuing me from “sheer utter chaos”, Big G!* (and by that I’m referring to both God and Google, but probably far more the first)

https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=how+to+make+good+life+decisions+craig+lock&rlz=1C1CHBD_enNZ767NZ767&oq=how+to+make+good+life+decisions+craig+lock&aqs=chrome..69i57.46805j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

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http://www.personalgrowthbooks.wordpress.com

“Sharing, supporting, informing,  enlightening, “entertaining”(??), encouraging, empowering, enriching, challenging, igniting, uplifting (and perhaps even) inspiring”

enough there for now, c!

Picture (below great) by my old friend John (“the world’s third worst photographer”, so he calls himself), but whose photographic talents I definitely  do NOT possess)!

https://www.facebook.com/fotoshop66

You may also like https://jetpix.wordpress.com/

John sunrise (besT

Shared by c, “the world’s absolutely worst photographer”, but “not too bad Information and Inspiration Distributer, Incorrigible Encourager and People-builder * (totally impulsive)”
* not bridges (thank goodness)!

Well my family and friends say I’m “safest” just writing and sharing

from

https://craigsbooks.wordpress.com/2018/09/22/i-dreamed-a-dream-13/

41616223_10215244836147136_431180867881140224_nSHARE, INFORM, IMPACT, UPLIFT, IGNITE…

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Opening plenary of the Nelson Mandela Peace Summit, UNGA: 24 Sept 2018

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“For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”

– Nelson Mandela

http://www.craigsquotes.wordpress.com

via Opening plenary of the Nelson Mandela Peace Summit, UNGA: 24 Sept 2018

and

https://journalistandwriter.wordpress.com/

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