I’ve already done a post on this, but it’s a good introduction to my blog & pretty important to me. So here we go…
Why I started this blog was to tell my story & to help others in my situation… or make more people aware of how brain injury affects one’s life. So this is how I got my brain injury & details about the what specific bits of my brain were broken ….
I had a TBI (traumatic brain injury) when I fell off a motorbike in Vietnam & hit my head.
As I fell from the motorbike, I would have hit my head at such speed my brain bounced around my skull. Like it’s been shaken dramatically outside, so effectively effects the inside of the scull.
My brain rapidly shifted inside my scull, causing more damage to several areas. It isn’t known what the Glasgow coma scale I was, but they think around 3… or 2… or 1….
GCS is how impaired someone’s consciousness is. It ranges from 1-15, where 1 is pretty much dead. It is rated on 3 aspects revolving around responsiveness: whether the patient can open their eyes, how well their motor skills are (this maybe testing them with pain) & visual responsiveness.
This is what medically happened to me (if you’re in the medical profession, I hope you’re impressed):
There was a diffused amoxyl injury. Intervertebral& a ventricular bleed. In the scull the c7 spinousg process tip fractured. Bleeds caused damage to my optical nerve, so I’m blind in my right eye.
Edited, now some years later. When I can see all the grammatical errors…. A beautiful reflection of how life should be; every day, a little bit less bad.