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Brain injuries
Ambien (sleeping pill) used to "awaken" individuals in a PVS
- By formybro · New reply November 24, 2009
- 12 replies
- I need to read more about it. I just wanted to put this out there. Google-- Ambien and persistant vegetative state. It is amazing. My brother is receiving this 2x a day. I played music for him the other ...
36 year old brother OD now has ABI----HELP
- By formybro · New reply November 24, 2009
- 7 replies
- My only brother has been in the ICU for over 1 month. I don't know how long he was down for. I was told that his oxygen level was 72 when they found him. The ct scan reveals many infarcs to the brain ...
HBOT - Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Anoxic Brain Injury
- By kuwanyauma · New reply November 16, 2009
- 11 replies
- Hey! Can anyone please give me your experiences and results using HBOT for your loved one with an Anoxic Brain Injury? I was thinking of using this therapy for my husband, but it will eat up most of our ...
My Stepfather
- By hayley4 · Posted November 14, 2009
- 0 replies
- Hi to all the brave people whos storys ive read so far on here! this web site has given me alot of hope! my stepfather suffered chest pains whilst on an emirates aeroplane travelling back from Afganistan ...
Brain Injury Recovery / MCS / PVS / Anoxic
- By WMD · New reply November 6, 2009
- 26 replies
- My name is Wendy and I am the mother of a 13yr old boy who sustained a Severe Anoxic Brain Injury when playing in his friend's backyard in May 2008. There is so little information available about anoxic ...
Billy' s cortico blindness
- By sophianbilly · New reply November 2, 2009
- 2 replies
- Cortico Blindness /Visual disturbances. The person may have trouble processing visual information. They may find it difficult to focus or they may reach for an object, but not be able to touch it because ...
BRAIN FITNESS
- By mysonjosh · New reply October 25, 2009
- 3 replies
- For those with brain injuries, check out Lumosity.com, a wonderful website for stimulating the brain. It has great cognitive exercises and I use it daily for my son Josh, age 22, who suffered from an ...
Why are we so hesitant to call ourselves brain injury 'survivors'?
- By QuintBy · New reply October 25, 2009
- 1 reply
- It is impossible to read about someone who has had cancer who is not referred to as a 'cancer survivor'. Yet I rarely see those who have survived anoxic brain damage, or have awoken from a 10-day coma ...
Anoxic Brain Injury/ABI from Sudden Cardiac Arrest/SCA
- By NWWriter · New reply October 23, 2009
- 96 replies
- I'm tossing this topic in for discussion because I'm finding that the stigma of "brain injury" (or the more sweepingly-frightening term "brain DAMAGE") often stops people from admitting that they have ...
Cortico Blindness/www.powercatcharters.com/Billy
- By sophianbilly · New reply October 14, 2009
- 1 reply
- I am sorry for all of your losses and I can relate... My life changed on April 10, 2009 when my love one Billy had a cardiac arrest with anoxia to his heart and brain and now 6 months later he is improving ...
Intracranial Pressure after ABI
- By Aaron-Pennsylvania · New reply October 12, 2009
- 3 replies
- It is now 11 months since Samantha's SCA/ABI and we were just told that her intra-cranial pressure is too high (after a spinal tap) and a shunt (valve) is going to be drilled into her skull to bring the ...
Any known coma/pvs awakening after 1 year from ABI?
- By Hope4him · Posted October 11, 2009
- 0 replies
- Is there anyone out there who has experienced or knows of someone who has experienced awakening after one year or more from a coma/pvs state due to an anoxic brain injury ...
Hypoxic brain and poor kidneys
- By WantMyDad · New reply September 28, 2009
- 6 replies
- Hi, I'm from India. My dad, aged 66, had a Bi-pass surgery (CABG) done in 2000 and has Diabetics & hypertension. Recently, he developed kidney problems but his urea and creatinine levels were under control ...
Luke's surgery
- By lbsmom · Posted September 9, 2009
- 0 replies
- My son Luke (3) was having dental rehab on July 17, 2009 and went into cardiac arrest, and was revived. We were initially told his heart rate went to 40's but never stopped, he was given about 5-6 epinephrines ...
Ena_Brother_Aidan
- By Ena_Brother_Aidan · New reply August 24, 2009
- 5 replies
- Anoxic Brain Injury My family decided to transport my brother to a hospice, after 14 days of coma from anoxic brain injury - 4 minute w/o oxygen during a respiratory/cardiac arrest at a hospital. My desire ...
Books about ABI
- By jjame0113 · New reply August 2, 2009
- 3 replies
- Hi all, My mom overdosed about 6 months ago and now surfers from ABI. She slowly is making progress but not much, I will never give up hope and pray to God to give me the strength to make it through this ...
anoxia
- By 4STRONG4MOM · New reply July 18, 2009
- 7 replies
- On March 24, 2009 I took my mom to UVA hospital in Charlottesville, VA for a hysterectamy. In the middle of the night she suddenly stopped breathing. They don't know how long she was without oxygen, there ...
Generic Lamotragine instead of Lamictol
- By momcaregiver · Posted July 17, 2009
- 0 replies
- My son cant tell me if there was a change. There is alot of people on the www with opinons. Most of them are on it for depression not siezures. They talk of spacey fellings and off balance issues, and ...
PPCM (Paripatum Cardiomyopathy/ Post Partum Cardiomyopathy
- By woodforddave · Posted June 8, 2009
- 0 replies
- PPCM interupts 1 in 1300 women who become pregnant leaving them with a fight for their life when they should be spending some of the best and happiest days of their lives with their new family members ...
Cardiac Arrest at 86
- By grandmacomeback · New reply May 2, 2009
- 1 reply
- My Grandma had a cardiac arrest at 86 and had congestive heart failure prior. She is a vibrant woman and is very young for her years. She had this arrest last Tuesday and it has been four days with no ...
