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Surviving traumatic head injury requires support
Author(s) -
Caballero Dorothy
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
aorn journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1878-0369
pISSN - 0001-2092
DOI - 10.1016/s0001-2092(07)66126-2
Subject(s) - traumatic brain injury , neuropsychology , coma (optics) , psychology , head injury , glasgow coma scale , medicine , head (geology) , psychiatry , physics , cognition , geomorphology , optics , geology
In April 1986, I was involved in an accident that nearly killed me. Instead, I survived a coma of several weeks, lost a month of my life, was paralyzed on the left side, and emerged brain injured. It is not easy to live as a survivor of traumatic brain injury. Even though I worked in the OR for 30 years, I was not prepared to cope with what happened to me. I sought the assistance of a neuropsychologist, James P. Quinlan, PhD, who helped me understand what happened and why I was so different. With the help that I received from him and others, I helped create the Midwest Institute for Neuropsychological Development, Chicago. My family also was not prepared to deal with me as I am today. To help them so that they could help me, I wrote this letter.