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Simple tips … enhancing one’s well-being with TBI, SCI, Chronic Illness and...
How can we improve awareness of self and others and enhance one’s well-being while dealing with traumatic brain and spinal cord injury, mental and physical illnesses, and the aging process?...
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Treatment that changed TBI symptoms: Neuroendocrine complications in TBI Part 4
Neuroendocrine complications after TBI are identified in these posts as severe injuries to the brain. Degrees of brain injury may remain unknown since many traumatic brain injuries are commonly...
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Simple tips … enhancing one’s well-being with TBI, SCI, Chronic Illness and...
When one’s life changes, do others “accept” these changes? Can you return to previous employment with limitations and be “accepted” as a functional employee without comparisons? The question is...
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Brain Mapping
Massachusetts General Hospital is researching the brain with the most powerful brain scans in the world. Video from BBC February 16, 2013 describes the newest technology and most advanced images of...
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Laughter as brain injury medicine … Are you sleeping?
Who needs sleep? Awe, one is finally having restful nights with adequate amount of sleep. You would think 4 out of 7 nights are good if you had a TBI, and to our standards I’m in the “good” range now!...
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Simple tips … making it easier one day at a time with TBI
Do you have a written plan to help yourself or your loved one through the difficult days of TBI? One did not like telling others about having a bad day. They are just days in the lives of TBI....
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Relieved it’s not me … new what?
This isn’t an April Fool’s joke, but I wish it were!I was told this was a new step stool! Take a look at this picture. Unless it was a recent purchase from a thrift store it definitely is not a new...
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Laughter as Brain Injury Medicine … Silly comments or questions
Have you laughed today? Many times we say things that are innocent but don’t realize how silly they sound. Two of my favorites I have listed below. One is just a silly question while the other is a...
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Simple tips for brain injury … exercise Part 1 of 2
Are you struggling to get on track to feeling your best? What is your best? Are you interested in becoming your healthiest and prefer avoiding the gym? Are you someone who does best with structured...
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Laughter as brain injury medicine … cold feet
It’s been a rainy spring 2013! Walking through the puddles reminds one during childhood when we’d run and jump in the fresh puddles on a warm spring day. It’s not been warm but it’s refreshing all...
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Simple tips for brain injury … exercise Part 2 of 2
Exercise, that seems like work! Even if you think you aren’t exercising, it’s likely you are. Are you doing any of the following? Household tasks such as vacuuming, dusting, mopping, or other...
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Laughter as brain injury medicine …. Where did that hour go?
Weeks ago we changed the clocks. Clocks were turned ahead by one hour. Atomic clocks automatically reset. Spouse awakes to an alarm every morning. It’s been quiet and peaceful morning after morning...
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Simple tips … reminders of additional paperwork
There is plenty of paperwork and financial obligations that continue while dealing with devastating injuries and illnesses. Do you and/or spouse or significant other own property? Are you paying life...
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Laughter as brain injury medicine … reading
How many romance novels can one read? It’s reading that kept mother-in-law’s 96 year old mind and memory remain clear. Who cares what type of reading? She handled finances, checkbook, and all her...
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Laughter as brain injury medicine … you don’t understand
Communication is unpredictable, just as other symptoms of TBI. Some symptoms are invisible and others are incomprehensible! As I met up with someone while working out in the pool I asked “How are you...
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Missing in Cleveland, Ohio Part 2 of 2
Police were at the door of this home. There was “no answer”, but that does not mean suspicion. It’s a right and as much as we know that the police were knocking at the door where these three young...
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Simple tips traveling by air with TBI, aging, and other physical and mental...
Do not let your physical and mental challenges stop you from traveling when you want or need to. You can get preferential seating by Air Carriers Access Act. Feeling confined or not in control of your...
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Laughter as brain injury medicine … hair spray
I reached for hair spray to spritz a little that maintains some style and eliminates the static hair. Oh, the hair seemed a bit sticky but I just assumed I put a little too much on. It certainly...
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Simple tips for brain and spinal cord injury, illness, injury, aging,...
When you come across health issues there are a number of questions you and your advocate need to ask. It’s difficult to know what questions to ask when your world is turned upside down and you are not...
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Laughter as brain injury medicine … Do you hear what I hear
When I woke this morning I heard a faint buzzing or ringing tone. It sounded to me as though it were an alarm clock in the distant room. I only heard it in my room. It became bothersome and...
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Laughter as brain injury medicine … you didn’t step in that did you?
Ever seen those signs “No shirt, No shoes, No admittance!” With all the new clothing fades it seems as though people wear sleepwear anywhere and pants far below the buttocks! I’ve seen them wearing...
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Simple tips for brain injury, illness, aging, injuries, patients … Do you...
A person that is traumatized or fighting illness needs help.Remembering to ask all the right questions, listening to all the tests and procedures needed, preparing for the best recovery all while being...
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Laughter as brain injury medicine … Is life really a “walk in the park”?
A walk in the park is peaceful. A time to slow the pace of life and take in environmental delights! Here you’ll find uncomplicated natural things that get overlooked quickly in life. It’s a place to...
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Laughter as brain injury medicine … What’s your vision?
Vision? What vision? What’s your vision of perception? Have you laughed at some ridiculous comments or created laughter in a room full of serious people? At a recent specialist appointment to check...
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Laughter as Brain injury medicine … smoothies anyone?
Laughter as brain injury medicine makes life easier. Have you ever offered someone a treat, but found you didn’t quite have the ingredients? All one needed were ice cubes or ice chips. On a hot day...
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Laughter as brain injury medicine …. gas up
Laughter is powerful and healing. Being observant of others and our surroundings can bring laughter of things we or others do. You pulled up to the gas pump to fill up. One goes in to pick up...
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Laughter as brain injury medicine … Which one is yours
Imagine going for aquatic exercise at 6:00 am and on this day no one else was in the pool yet. It was just the lifeguard and I at the pool. As usual I immediately began exercising. My husband and I...
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Simple tips after TBI dealing with behavioral changes, aggression
Aggressive and violent behaviors are common with brain injuries. This type of behavior is extremely difficult to deal with especially when the survivor is young, healthy, and physically strong....
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Laughter as brain injury medicine … Who’s brain injured
Who is always to blame but someone that’s brain injured. Who is believed? It’s not the one who survived brain injury. Those who survive TBI, strokes, multiple other brain dysfunctions, and chronic...
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Modern technology is great when it works … Technology Tolerance Test
Over the past several years we’ve become increasingly dependent upon home computers, cell phones, iPods, iPads, Tablets among other devices. They provide instant answers, music, directions, and nearly...
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