Have You, or a Loved One, Suffered a Brain Injury?
If so, you have gained valuable information that could help people living with a brain injury and their families and friends. Please take this opportunity to share your knowledge and experience.
We are twelve-year survivors of a traumatic brain injury (TBI). Jessica is the survivor; Garry is the caregiver.
We believe we are working toward a successful recovery from Jessica's brain injury. But what is a successful recovery? How do survivors and caregivers survive successfully? We are examining these questions for a series of books dedicated to improving the lives of survivors of a brain injury and their families.
But what is a successful recovery?
Of course, by “successful” we do not mean a complete recovery—a return to the person you were before the injury. The most important element to a successful recovery, we believe, is acknowledging and learning to live with the permanent impairments caused by the brain injury. Without this understanding by both survivor and caregiver, the recovery is doomed to failure!
Going Beyond “Just Hanging In There”
In the early stages of Jessica's recovery, we felt that we were barely hanging in there, certainly not "succeeding." As we look back over what we've learned during the past twelve years, all too often we say to each other:
- Why didn't we think of that?
- Why didn't somebody tell us that?
How We Can All Make a Difference
Our accomplishments and failures over the past twelve years have taught us much that can be useful to others. We want to share this information through our book, so that others facing brain injury will have the resources we lacked.
We also recognize that there is a wealth of information on recovering successfully from a brain injury that we still have to learn.
Please Join the Project
We continue to recruit new participants to the project. If you are a brain injury survivor, a person who cares for someone living with a brain injury, or a medical professional working in the brain injury field, we need your help. If you would like to participate in this project, Please Click Here