Lifestory

Jess 14, Shares Her Experience of Brain Injury

My name is Jess. When I was two years old, I had meningococcal septicaemia and the after effects are being partially deaf in both ears and brain injury. We only found out around a year ago that I had ...

Five Hidden Difficulties of Living With TBI

It was August 2008 when I suffered a massive brain hemorrhage along with an AVM (arteriovenous malformation) and an aneurysm. I was on life support and in a coma for five week

Who I am vs Who I Once Was

Niki Aiman, from America, was twenty-nine years old when she sustained a traumatic brain injury in a road traffic accident six years ago. In her latest blog Niki explains how her life has been affecte...

How I’m Pushing Restart After a Brain Injury

I look in the mirror and I don’t recognize the person staring back at me. I don’t recognize this person anymore. Life has changed so much over the last year and a half, I feel like I am living in th...

Brain injury revealed the meaning of isolation, loss and acceptance

Brain injury revealed the meaning of isolation, loss and acceptance. Chloe Luckett is originally from Wolfville, N.S., and now lives in Halifax. Here is her story, in her words.

Silver Lining

If you mentioned the words silver lining to me in conjunction with the loss of our first-born son, Aaron, and our only surviving son, Steven, fighting for his life with a severe Traumatic Brain Injury...

Injury and Grief

While my thoughts should have been carefree during our summer vacation at our favorite North Carolina beach, each day as I took in the vastness of the ocean, I was reminded of the far reaches of traum...

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