Question for all you nurses out there

[Celt42]

I have an assignment that I'm having difficulty finding the research for. I was assigned a Chronic illness that I have been "living with" for the last few weeks. Each week we're asked a question about our illness. This week the question is whether or not we can find any nurses out there who made it through nursing classes with the illness we've been assigned. My questions for you are these:

Have any of you suffered from TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury)and still managed to make it through the nursing program? If so, did you find it difficult to manage and to get licensed afterwards? If you did, would you mind telling me what form of symptoms you suffered from?

Thank in advance for any replies!

1st year nursing student

[Celt42]

I realized after I posted this, that asking if you knew anyone who had managed to work past having TBI was inappropriate. So let me amend that to ask instead only if you yourself have managed to work with it.

[Esme12, ASN, BSN, RN]

Whether or not one can still work as a nurse after TBI would depend on the amount and kind of disability left by the injury.

[nurseprnRN, BSN, RN]

i had a spectacular slip and fall on ice three years ago and had a concussion after landing flat on my back with no opportunity to break my fall at all, just....wham. i was lying there unable to move, but, oddly, still mentating. thinking: blacked out vision, hmmm, occipital lobe isn't liking this; deafening noise in ears and can't talk, hmmmm, temporals and parietals aren't too happy either; immobile, hmmm, motor pathways taking a brief break.... scared my poor husband half to death. me too, a bit, but no insurance and carry on. after about ten minutes i crawled into the house and lay down for a few hours, told him to talk to me q15 minutes and call the ems if i didn't answer him lucidly. i was ok. sort of.

it took me about nine months to really get over it. meanwhile, i work for myself so there was nobody to tell me i was screwing up, slow on the uptake, forgetful, exhausted, and headachey except...me. i knew that already.

it wasn't nursing school, but i hope that helps.