As someone who has had a TBI I find this very interesting. At the time of my accident I was 7/8 of my way through school to be a speech-language pathologist. Of course, I lost my speech and had expressive aphasia. It was horrible to deal with. I understood everything perfectly that was said to me, but could only respond with jargon. Some nurses looked at me and assumed that since I couldn't talk, I must not "be all there." One nurse came in and started to pull out strands of my hair a few at a time without an explanation. I started cussing her out in aphasic.
I find the amnesic phase of other survivors quite interesting. I fell backwards going down a flight of stairs. I was at the top so it must have been about 14 stairs. At the bottom of the stairs, my head went into a door frame. I sustained many other injuries that I don't have to list at the moment. Keeping it short, I had a craniotomy to evacuate a rather large hematoma. As far as what I remember, I do not remember the events leading up to the accident, a span of about 10 minutes. I remember the ambulance crew turning on the lights and siren as we left the development, and I remember being intubated in the trauma bay. I would give anything to know what caused the accident, but I will never know. I praise God that my dad was there and heard me fall or I would have not survived. I had a 70% blood loss.
Can't spend too much more time on it at the moment, but I'm so thankful that I got the trauma surgeon that I did. He was one of the best in the state and I credit him with saving my life. He also had an awesome sense of humor, too.
Gotta run for the moment, but interesting topic, thanks!
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