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Why meds and not HBOT

By aNewBob · New reply yesterday at 3:21 pm
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Today seemed a little better. He is still very tired. He kept wanting to go back to bed. i have read that sleep is good for a brain injury. But if he sleeps all day then he won't sleep at night. Wished ...

would like to talk with othercaregivers

By kellyjoe · Posted November 15, 2009
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my husband is 41 and recently had a chemical spill at work that left him with a brain injury causing a type of dementia we have a 20 month old daughter looking for other caregivers to talk with that might ...

hello

By kellyjoe · New reply November 13, 2009
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hello new to site kellyjoe ...

MERLD World Blog

By Cie · New reply November 6, 2009
Discussion in Living with a communication disorder · 1 reply
The latest installment (there are three thus far). I hope that you all will find them informative. I would appreciate any feedback and rating on the content of my blog so I know if it is helping anyone ...

How long does Billy have with an ef of 29??

By sophianbilly · New reply November 3, 2009
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his defib/pacemaker was implanted in June 2009 when he was still at UCH after a chronic heart happened on April 2009......He had anoxia to his brain and heart which is why they waited soooo long....He ...

true life

By theyrethere24 · New reply October 31, 2009
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true life called today. i dont care if i get on it. just the facty people need to know what we go threw. good luck to anyone that got the good threw ...

www.powercatcharters.com/Billy

By sophianbilly · New reply October 23, 2009
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I look for information all the time.....My Billy had a chronic heart attack with anoxia to the brain and to the heart on April 10, 2009....I was alone in the morning with him when he complained of chest ...

new to group husband 41 with aphasia

By kellyjoe · Posted October 21, 2009
Discussion in Speech and language disorders · 0 replies
would like to talk with other caregivers my husband 41 has aphasia among other problems ...

Stanley's Hearing

By stanleysmom · New reply October 15, 2009
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I haven't posted in a while regarding my son's hearing. He has recieved his hearing aids and doing well. I was on a mission for a while to find out why he is losing his hearing. After 6 months we finally ...

Mixed receptive/ expressive language disorder

By sky2bro · New reply October 4, 2009
Discussion in Speech and language disorders · 23 replies
My two year old had been give the diagnosis or mixed receptive expressive language disorder. There is little to go off of other that it has no known cause, he may or may not be able to function at a normal ...

Finding info.

By wigglemommy · Posted October 1, 2009
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I would love to hear from anyone who has a child with a genetic disorder especially a chromesone deletion ...

Age of MERLD Diagnosis?

By JaxMom · New reply September 27, 2009
Discussion in Speech and language disorders · 6 replies
Hello everyone - I'm new to this board and am going thru some things that sounds so similar to what all of you are. My son is 5 1/2 and we have not yet had a MERLD diagnosis, however he has been tested ...

MERLD World Blog

By Cie · Posted September 27, 2009
Discussion in Living with a communication disorder · 0 replies
Hi everyone! Well, I began my MERLD World blog today as a prelude to my book, hopefully which will be published in 2010. I hope that you will follow. Cie http://open.salon.com/blog/cheryl_cie_ho smer/2009/09/27/merld_world ...

Another MERLD question

By Mecca · New reply September 9, 2009
Discussion in Speech and language disorders · 11 replies
I am new here and found this site based on another discussion about MERLD. I didn't want to take over her post, so I decided to start another one. When my son was 2 we had him evaluated by EI as he had ...

Writing a book on MERLD

By Cie · New reply August 22, 2009
Discussion in Living with a communication disorder · 2 replies
I am looking for testimonials for my book on living with MERLD. Two of my children have been diagnosed with it. I've been looking for ways to make the activities of daily living better for them and the ...

Guestbooks are now live!

By TeamInspire · New reply August 15, 2009
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Hello everyone, Last week we mentioned that we'd be adding guestbooks to Inspire in the near future, and they are now live! We're very excited about this feature and hope you enjoy it. To check out your ...

Scheduled maintenance this evening

By TeamInspire · New reply August 12, 2009
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All, Inspire will be performing database updates this evening starting at 8:00 Eastern. We expect the updates to take no more than 2 hours and the site will be unavailable at this time. We thank you for ...

Hi all...new to this group

By Bootyjig5 · New reply July 14, 2009
Discussion in Hearing disorders · 1 reply
Hi everyone. I never in my wildest dreams thought that I would join a group like this, but I'm glad that I did. Right now, this is place I need to be. On May 18th I woke up with no hearing in my left ...

Again its' been a while since I last posted

By CanadaNuse · Posted July 4, 2009
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A lot has happened since we last posted. Current Up date from NIH isn't going to be clear cut and to the point. All it say's that my daughter Ashley case is more complex then they thought! Yesterday July ...

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