“What brain injury survivors want you to know”

Here’s a reposting of a reposting, but it’s still current and valuable and poignant. I found it on Anne McGinnis Breen's Brain Tumor Blog -http://gbyay.blogspot.com/ 

Basically, it’s a brain injury victim’s request that transmogrifies into a bit of a rant and, at times, becomes a plea for understanding and help. It’s entitled “Lost and Found: What brain injury survivors want you to know.” http://gbyay.blogspot.com/2013/07/lost-and-found-what-brain-injury.html

Here’s a plaintive excerpt from that list: “Please don’t be condescending or talk to me like I am a child. I’m not stupid, my brain is injured and it doesn’t work as well as it used to. Try to think of me as if my brain were in a cast.”

What a good analogy.

Here’s a link to http://www.brainline.org/ - the source of the original post.

Image credit: <a href='http://www.123rf.com/photo_17170375_a-broken-brain--digitally-manipulated-3d-render.html'>AlienCat / 123RF Stock Photo</a>

 

Another Celebrity Brain Tumor Victim

Olivia Newton-John has announced on her facebook page that, "My beautiful sister Rona sadly passed on May 24th in Los Angeles. It was May 25th in Australia - which was our mother Irene's birthday. Rona died of a very aggressive brain tumor and mercifully suffered no pain."

See: https://www.facebook.com/olivianewtonjohn