Communicable Diseases and the Brain-Injured: For Them, It’s More Complicated
A long time ago, when he was in second grade, I took my son for a play visit to all three houses where the youngsters in his class were in...
Stroke and Atrophy Reversal: Can It be Done? It’s Up To You!
In the beginning of 2024, while I was at rehab after the "fall of falls," I moved along in the gym to do some more exercises but could not. I...
Connection Between Heart Attack and Brain Damage: There Are Many and They Go Both Ways
My Uncle Ben had a heart attack on the golf course, and my family was overwhelmed by grief, especially my father who considered Uncle Ben his best friend who met...
Cancer and Brain Injury: A Volatile Mix
My early memories of my deceased grandmother were all about her illness. First, type 1 diabetes ravaged her with insulin injections, sometimes 4 jabs every day. She fell often and...
High or Low Blood Pressure Can Be Dangerous for the Damaged Brain
"The Story of the Three Bears" was written by English writer Robert Southey who had an old woman stealing their porridge from the bears' house. Twelve years after Southey's story...
Toxic Family and Friends May Not Help with These Inconsiderate Expressions
A damaged brain can be difficult for recovery, and regrettably, well-intentioned but tactless family and friends sometimes unintentionally interfere with your recovery or worsen problems. Recovery is hard enough without...
Pesticides and the Injured Brain
All throughout my childhood as far back as the 1950s, my favorite part of going to a shore town like Atlantic City or Wildwood was not the endless sand, loads...
Relationship between transgender and brain injury
I had a cousin who met me when I was a toddler. He was the same age as me so, of course, I don't remembered him. and then years later,...
Determining If Someone Has a Brain Injury
I received another email, this one from a lady who often worried that her little girl was not scanned when she fell off a pony at 6-years-old at summer camp...