Total Entries: 209

THERESA PORTER

Friday, 1/4/02, 9:01 PM

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!! MY NIECE WAS IN AN AUTO ACCIDENT ON CHRISTMAS EVE 2001. SHE IS IN THE AGITATED STAGE OF HER TBI. I HAVE BEEN DOING ALL THAT YOU HAVE SUGGESTED ON MY OWN FROM THE BEGINNING - LUCKY NATURAL INSTINCT. IT IS COMPFORTING TO KNOW THAT AS HER SUPPORT SYSTEM WE HAVE BEEN DOING EVERYTHING RIGHT BY ENCOURAGING HER, PRAISING HER, LOVING HER, TOUCHING HER AND BY LETTING HER KNOW SHE WILL BE OK BECAUSE SHE IS SO STRONG. SHE HAS REGRESSED A BIT, BUT I KEEP TELLING HER SHE IS GETTING BETTER AND HER RESTING IS TO REPAIR HERSELF. ONCE AGAIN THANK YOU FOR REACHING OUT WITH YOUR STORY AND KNOW IT HAS BEEN COMPFORTING AS WELL AS A GREAT STORY TO PASS ON TO OUR OVERBEARING NEGATIVE FAMILY MEMEBERS - SO THEY GET THE HINT TO TONE DOWN - WITHOUT STEPPING ON THEIR TOES. ALL THE BEST TO YOUR FAMILY & GOD BLESS. THERESA

From:

EVERETT, WS

E-mail:

tljdrc@gte.net

Marvina Jenkins

Thursday, 12/27/01, 9:51

PM
	You were caring and strong in how you dealt with your mother's tbi. Very loving. Your mom is a very lucky woman. God Bless you for having the strength to see your mom through the early dark days of her brain injury.
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David Foster

Monday, 12/24/01, 4:27 AM

thnx for signing my guest book and giving me a chance to check your website. the imfo here is great,

From:

CT

Web Site:

Davy's site

E-mail:

htsDavy418@webtv.net

Martha Guertler

Sunday, 12/23/01, 5:24 PM

What you and your Mom is very special and am very happy for both of you. Glad things are going well. Thank you for your story and well wishes. Hope you both have a very happy holliday this year. Will add you both in tonight in my talk. Have to stop and get a bit of rest and of course talk to my Mom. Thanks again

From:

Maryland

Web Site:

don't have one

E-mail:

Mcneal1321@aol.com

David R.

Monday, 12/17/01, 1:24 PM

Hello great site. My E-mail is my Sign, Taurus the bull. I'm here trying to make society seeeeeeeee. Take Care.. David R. "STILL SURVIVING 2 D ETXREME OF LIFE"

From:

Lynn, Massachusetts

Web Site:

SURVIVING BRAIN INJURY

E-mail:

ElToro518@aol.com

Jeanie Hartranft

Sunday, 12/16/01, 9:49 PM

Thank you for the great story!! My sister is only 26, was widowed last year and has 2 young boys. She had a massive AVM leak in August, has made tremendous progress, but the hospital and insurance company is giving up on her!! I know she can do more!!! Thanks for giving me encouragement!

From:

Glendora, CA

E-mail:

msjeenee@yahoo.com

Jeanie Hartranft

Sunday, 12/16/01, 9:44 PM

From:

Glendora, CA

E-mail:

msjeenee

karen wiliams

Friday, 12/14/01, 9:52 AM

I just want to thank you that God gave you the gift of compassion and knowledge to know how and what to do for your mother. I have a 15 yr. old son who has a brain injury from a 4-wheeler accident and am struggling on what and how to help him. I thank you for giving me the opportunity to read all the messsages and find I am not alone. God bless you and your family and all the others of us who are out there looking for support!

From:

inwood wv

E-mail:

gkjwill@aol.com

Friday, 12/14/01, 8:52 AM

Dennis

Thursday, 12/13/01, 8:06 AM

Our organization is dedicated to raising awareness as to the need for a brain injury cure. Brain injury is the only major disorder that does not state a cure as its major goal. Brain cell regeneration continues throughout a persons life. Recent advances have shown that with help the potential to repair injured cells is a realistic goal. We would like to have you join us in our fight.

From:

Coalition for Brain Injury Research

E-mail:

dbenigno@bellatlantic.net

john wooby

Sunday, 12/9/01, 10:14 PM

bless you!

From:

islin ,n.j.

E-mail:

clayjwh2o@aol.com

Janine

Thursday, 12/6/01, 11:11 AM

Thank you for your website. I was a passenger in a car accident Feb.7th. I was in a comma for a month in a rehab for 6 weeks. I am a wife and a mother of two children. Very nice to read about someone who knows what I have felt like. I am called a miracle. I lived and I walk and talk and some people can not even tell that I have a brain injury. I am blessed and every brain injury person that is signed in is also a miracle. Still have therapists I am seeing to improve speech, memory,fatigue,and depression. Thinking of all of you and wish all the brain injured people happy holidays. Thank you!

From:

Albuquerque

E-mail:

Janine13Wilkins@hotmail.com

ashley

Thursday, 11/29/01, 5:26 PM

i'm ashley. i'm 17 years old. i was in a car accident on october 19th and have tbi. i was supposed to, well, basically be mentally deficient-- not able to speak, walk, remember anything/anyone, etc-- i actually ended up doing all of those things, and after just 5 weeks i am about 90% back to what i used to be. after a few weeks of therapy of course. you wouldn't even know how much it does help having family members right there by your side through everything. i keep telling mine that that's why i think i even pulled through this like i did. i just wanted to say thank you for your page, and BLESS YOU for what you are doing!

From:

illinois

E-mail:

washy71@hotmail.com

Kim Baker

Sunday, 11/25/01, 6:07 PM

My Dad was injured in a car accident on Christmas Day, 2000. He suffered a closed head injury requiring a craniotomy to remove the clot and a 9 day coma. In addition, he suffered spinal cord injury and had surgery for that. After a number of hospitals and long term acute care hospitals, we are now in the Spinal Cord Injury program at the local VA hospital and may be going home in the next couple of months. He is suffering short term memory loss and that makes it difficult to explain his situation to him over and over again. We faced the same things you saw - 'Due to his age...', etc, but they didn't know the active, vital person he was before this misfortune, so we have kept at it. Currently, he is paralyzed from the upper waist down, but they are having trouble finding the exact cause, since nothing has shown up on his MRI's as far as spinal cord injury in the lumbar region. Thank you for your information and story. While the stories we have read from others are inspiring, we keep running into the age factor. To know that there are those who are older and overcoming this helps immensely. We spent 2 weeks at the Brain Rehab program in the VA hospital in Tampa, Florida. We found that a lot of what they do, my sister and I had been doing all along, reviewing information, big calendar and discussion of what day and time of year, questions about family history, math questions, etc. So we'll just keep on keeping on. Bless you for your devotion to your Mother. With all the doctors have said - and most is pessism, they do admit that they have limited time with these patients and the progress that is accomplished is thanks to their dedicated families. I don't know what people do who don't have family to help them - especially in times like these. God bless. Kim

From:

Stephenville, Texas

E-mail:

rickkim@msn.com

tracy

Saturday, 11/24/01, 6:23 PM

thank you for that it was very interesting to me my husband suffers from a anoxic brain injury and was in a coma he is now recovering and the things you talk about doing for your mother i do for him so maybe i'am on the right road. hope you mother is doing fine and much sucess to her recovery tracy

From:

texas

E-mail:

hatray@aol.com

Kathy Winkler

Sunday, 11/18/01, 6:57 PM

That was so helpful. My daughter is working through TBI also. She was in an auto accident She is haveing to relearn everything all over. Some days it takes her awhile to get through things also but I don't mind waiting. She is 15. Thank you for your web page. I also do many of the samethings you do and they really do work.

From:

VA

E-mail:

luckypenny4@yahoo.com

Kathy Winkler

Sunday, 11/18/01, 6:42 PM

That was so helpful. My daughter is working through TBI also. She was in an auto accuted. She is haveing to releran everything all over. Some days it takes her awhile to get through things also but I don't mind waiting. She is 15. Thank you for your web page. I also do many of the samethings you do and they really do work.

From:

VA

E-mail:

luckypenny4@yahoo.com

Larry

Saturday, 11/17/01, 2:42 PM

I just wanted to tell you, Betsy, that your mother is very lucky to have a daughter like you. I am an occupational therapist and i work with patients with traumatic brain injury. Family involvment certainly helps the healing process, and i am sure your suggestions will help others.

From:

Arlington, Va

E-mail:

ltrane78@yahoo.com

TED

Sunday, 11/11/01, 12:50 PM

I READ YOUR STORY ABOUT YOUR ROAD TO RECOVERY AFTER COMING OUT OF YOUR COMA AND I CAN RELATE TO THAT BECAUSE I WAS IN A COMA TO WHEN I WAS HEAD INJURED FROM A TRUCK WRECK 5/29/87.AND AFTER A LOT OF MY TIME AND REHABILITATION I FINALLY BEAT THE ODDS SO JUST LIKE THEY TOLD YOU AND ME WE WERE LUCKY BYE TED

From:

OHIO

E-mail:

SHORT2RUN@AOL.COM

kathleen

Wednesday, 11/7/01, 4:49 PM

m an occupational therapy intern,i agreed on wat you have relayed that tactile stimulation can help brain injured patients to recover

From:

philippines

E-mail:

katzie_08@yahoo.com

brenda plamondon

Sunday, 11/4/01, 2:06 PM

From:

conn

E-mail:

mbplam@PRODIGY.NET

regenia browning

Tuesday, 10/30/01, 8:03 PM

my husband got a brain injury while mowing our front yard (on a riding lawnmower)a man hit throwing 113ft in the air not knowing what hit the ground telephone pole, or the impact itself. they said he was a trauma1 he was in a 9 day coma .this happen oct.12,1999. it`s been two years. they told me he would be at his top. at 2 years. but he is so far away, and don`t get me wrong he`s done so well but i have a question, do they keep getting better, or is the drs. give up i have a30 yr marriage and i give 100% all the time i am his only caregiver thank you

From:

balch springs, texas

Web Site:

regenia22001

E-mail:

regenia22001@yahoo.com

regenia browning

Tuesday, 10/30/01, 7:55 PM

my husband got a brain injury while mowing our front yard (on a riding lawnmower)a man hit throwing 113ft in the air not knowing what hit the ground telephone pole, or the impact itself. they said he was a trauma1 he was in a 9 day coma .this happen oct.12,1999. it`s been two years. they told me he would be at his top. at 2 years. but he is so far away, and don`t get me wrong he`s done so well but i have a question, do they keep getting better, or is the drs. give up i have a30 yr marriage and i give 100% all the time i am his only caregiver thank you

From:

balch springs, texas

E-mail:

regenia22001@yahoo.com

Heather Boisvert

Friday, 10/26/01, 5:21 PM

I am a caregiver at a brain injury rehabilatation living center and I have found that everything you have said to be true.God Bless!

From:

Hillsboro.n.h.

E-mail:

hbois69@hotmail.com

Jodi Rowcroft

Thursday, 10/25/01, 5:10 PM

I myself am 8 years post-tbi. It has and still is a struggle. I was a passenger in a motervehicle accident. I wanted to let u know how important your website is in the fight to make others aware of the severities surrounding tbi. The more caregivers like you make your story public the more tbi survivors feel supported. Thanks again: Jodi Rowcroft

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