Snow…please understand. I doubt you have any experience or medical knowledge of TBI. I have 20 years of supporting people post TBI. I have 8 years working with neurologists and neurosurgeons with regard to my Fathers TBI…that altered his life, and my families lives for the 8 years post injury, until the effects finally took him. .
You have no idea what a TBI does to a person long term. So please…DON’T.
My dad never had any surgery to open his skull, he never was put into a coma. Yet he was treated for 3 months, had to learn how to talk and write again. Had a year of physical therapy. His life was never the same.
It was as if he looked normal, but parts of his brain we’re amputated.
There are 17 who were concussed minor. They are back to active duty. The other 17 are listed by the pentagon as having TBI. It only takes a major concussive event. Such as a missile exploding near you. It could simply be the force of the explosion rattling the brain, or the force of the explosion causing them to hit their heads hard enough to damage the brain.
This issue is a cause for me. You simply have not lived it. You don’t truly know the affects it has on the person and how it effects the rest of their lives.
What else would make a grown man jump out of a moving vehicle simply because the A/C didn’t cool it down fast enough. TBI effects rational thinking. This happened to a TBI patient I had worked with for 20 years. He turned to his staff who was driving, said bye, unbuckled and opened the door and jumped. Split second irrationality…dead.
No TBI sufferer ever goes back to normal. This is my problem with Trumps statements. And my problems with those who defend those statements.
You are wrong. Go talk to a neurologist. Go volunteer some time at a military hospital or rehab center and work with some people with a TBI. Then tell me I am wrong. You wont. So you are the one barking. Not me.
Again – A good friend who’s daughter has gone through it. And a co worker who’s grandson went through it. I know from them what it takes to come back (if you can even call it that). One of them has been in and out of jail because of the issues related to it. No I haven’t had a TBI, nor has any of my family members. But people close to me have. So YES I understand how it effects a person.
I have 20 years of experience in the field. I have refuted it. Since there are now two moderators here…i see I have worn out my welcome. I will say goodbye now. Nice trying to explain TBI to you all. I fear if I stay around I wont around. Know what I mean.
Actually there’s three of us here but I’m enjoying the conversation. I mean that… this is a good thread. Reminded me of the older forum days of actual discussion without too much negativity. I hope everyone keeps posting.
I thought youd say that.