Several months after my TBI, when the shock of waking up after a month in a coma had started to dissolve into the realization that things were going to be really different, I began the slow task of sorting my life out. There were so many issues; I was unable to process conversations quickly, I felt stiff and unemotional, and I was too accepting of the things happening ... Read On
Jeff Sebell
Jeff Sebell is a published Author, Speaker and Blogger writing about Traumatic Brain Injury and the impacts of his own TBI which he suffered in 1975 while attending Bowdoin College He has been active in the community since the inception of the NHIF, and was on the founding board of directors of the MA chapter. His book "Learning to Live with Yourself after Brain Injury", was released in August of 2014 by Lash Publishing.
Honoring the Courage of the TBI Survivor
Some acts are obviously courageous: a person runs into a burning building and saves a life, or a bystander dives into a lake to save a drowning person. These are dramatic examples of courage and bravery, when people make spur of the moment decisions and put their own lives at risk in order to save others. There is, however, another, harder to see type of courage, and to ... Read On
Finding Happiness after TBI
Each of us is searching for our own brand of happiness; for those things that make us feel good. Happiness keeps us all going, it keeps us juiced. We need it. Sometimes, though, events complicate our search for happiness, and, for many people, happiness can be difficult if not impossible to find. For those of us who have experienced a brain injury, especially those who are ... Read On
Becoming Someone New after TBI
Looking out of my hospital room, at the green, metal bridge which spanned the Kennebec River, surrounded by the descending crispness of fall, I knew my life was going to be different. Stuck in my new world, I watched as the traffic rumbled over the bridge; my eye drawn to a lone maple tree with the first red leaf of autumn fluttering in the breeze. I had some time to ... Read On
Ooops! I forgot…again!!
"Let's see...where did I put my keys?" "Damn! Will someone call my phone?" The ol' memory don't work the way it used to. Are we getting old? Yes, we are getting older, but we've also had a TBI. The information we need is buried somewhere in our noggin, we just can't dig it out because of that "damn brain injury." It's as if our brain is a big filing cabinet, and the ... Read On
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