March is Brain Injury Awareness Month! To celebrate and help spread the word, I’ll be posting a different resource every day all month. Today’s resource is an informative article “What is a Cavernous Malformation?” by Joseph M. Zabramski, MD. Straightforward, understandable article about CCMs. Dr. Zabramski is Professor Neurological Surgery, Barrow Neurological Institute (and a … Read more
March is Brain Injury Awareness Month! To celebrate and help spread the word, I’ll be posting a different resource every day all month. Today’s resource is website Be Brave For Life: Funding Research to Make a Difference. Be Brave for Life’s mission is to inform, support and improve the lives of individuals affected by benign … Read more
March is Brain Injury Awareness Month! To celebrate and help spread the word, I’ll be posting a different resource every day all month. Today’s resource is the podcast Strokecast: A generation X stroke survivor explores rehab, recovery, the frontiers of neuroscience, and one-handed banana peeling. Bill Monroe launched the Strokecast podcast in February 2018. He … Read more
March is Brain Injury Awareness Month! To celebrate and help spread the word, I’ll be posting a different resource every day all month. Today’s book is Prisoners without Bars: A Caregiver’s Tale by Donna O’Donnell Figurski. Donna called 9-1-1. David slipped into a coma. A neurosurgeon said David would make a “great organ donor.” Donna’s … Read more
March is Brain Injury Awareness Month! To celebrate and help spread the word, I’ll be posting a different resource every day all month. Today’s resource is podcast Cavernous Angioma Recovery, on Recovery After Stroke Heather L. Rendulic talks with host Bill Gasiamis about life-threatening brain bleeds, surgery, and life with cavernous angiomas. You can find … Read more
March is Brain Injury Awareness Month! To celebrate and help spread the word, I’ll be posting a different resource every day all month. Today’s book is Successfully Surviving a Brain Injury: A Family Guidebook, from the Emergency Room to Selecting a Rehabilitation Facility by Garry Prowe. Someone you love has suffered a brain injury. The … Read more
March is Brain Injury Awareness Month! To celebrate and help spread the word, I’ll be posting a different resource every day all month. Today’s resource is the organization Alliance to Cure Cavernous Malformation (aka Angioma Alliance). This was the first patient organization for those with cavernous angiomas. The Alliance also works closely with academic researchers, … Read more
March is Brain Injury Awareness Month! To celebrate and help spread the word, I’ll be posting a different resource every day all month. Today I’ll be LIVE on the Another Fork in the Road podcast at 8:30 p.m. Eastern Time (US). We will be discussing Support Group Pros and Cons Support groups can be a … Read more
March is Brain Injury Awareness Month! To celebrate and help spread the word, I’ll be posting a different resource every day all month. Today’s book is Jimi & Isaac 5a: The Brain Injury by Phil Rink. Isaac always knows the answer. Everything is easy for him. But when his dad falls off the roof, Isaac … Read more
March is Brain Injury Awareness Month! To celebrate and help spread the word, I’ll be posting a different resource every day all month. Today’s book is Head Cases: Stories of Brain Injury and Their Aftermath by Michael Paul Mason Head Cases takes us into the dark side of the brain in an astonishing sequence of … Read more