http://mychannelnews.info/tbi/traumatic-brain-injury-tbi/ Latest Channel News Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:04:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://mychannelnews.info/tbi/traumatic-brain-injury-tbi/comment-page-1/#comment-944 Jeremiah Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:19:15 +0000 http://mychannelnews.info/?p=943#comment-944 This is what most of our veterans are coming home with and it is often undiagnosed, ignored or even worse, belittled. Those freaking IED's go off and even if your not outwardly manifesting evidence of wounds the concussive effects of the explosion pretty much pop every small capillary in your body (your brain in particular) giving you essentially a body wide bruise right down to your neural network. The guys suffering from it may not even be completely aware of the change immediately, thinking that they just "Really had their bell rung." Get a bad enough dose of these nearby artillery barrage concussions and the fuzziness may become permanent and have all sorts of very subtle effects that only become apparent when they come home and suddenly everybody sort of notes that there's something not quite the same about you. Of course, that's always been the war veterans curse, how does one come back from psychological and physical assaults to the system and be the same, you just don't. This is what most of our veterans are coming home with and it is often undiagnosed, ignored or even worse, belittled. Those freaking IED’s go off and even if your not outwardly manifesting evidence of wounds the concussive effects of the explosion pretty much pop every small capillary in your body (your brain in particular) giving you essentially a body wide bruise right down to your neural network. The guys suffering from it may not even be completely aware of the change immediately, thinking that they just “Really had their bell rung.” Get a bad enough dose of these nearby artillery barrage concussions and the fuzziness may become permanent and have all sorts of very subtle effects that only become apparent when they come home and suddenly everybody sort of notes that there’s something not quite the same about you. Of course, that’s always been the war veterans curse, how does one come back from psychological and physical assaults to the system and be the same, you just don’t.

]]> http://mychannelnews.info/tbi/traumatic-brain-injury-tbi/comment-page-1/#comment-927 Kurt Evans Mon, 10 Aug 2009 03:43:39 +0000 http://mychannelnews.info/?p=943#comment-927 As someone who lives with the results of a traumatic brain injury, I can attest to what the true affects of having a brain injury really are. As someone who lives with the results of a traumatic brain injury, I can attest to what the true affects of having a brain injury really are.

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