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Dealing With Traumatic Brain Injury
If someone in your family has suffered from traumatic brain injury, then you know how devastating it can be on the lives of those people. It doesn't just affect the injured person, but everyone in their lives too, and obviously this depends on the severity of the head injury.
This article will look at some of the symptoms, possible treatments and more, so read on.
Traumatic brain injury affects the wallet too, and eats up time like a starved teenage boy. Here we shall look at some of the symptoms, as well as possible treatments, and outcomes too.
Any damage to the head, accidental or otherwise, can cause traumatic brain injury. The sudden stopping of a car can shake the brain inside the skull causing damage. Falling while skate boarding and then hitting the head on a curb or the ground can cause the damage too, or falling from a bike, or skiing, or..., the list goes on. To reduce the chances of head injury, it is essential that we protect our heads as much as possible, which means that while snow boarding, wear a helmet, ditto biking, skiing, and skate boarding. It may look a little weird, but it is better to look weird through wearing a helmet, than to look weird because of the damage it has done to your brain!
Head injuries can cause various injuries with differing symptoms. Depending on the area of the brain which is damaged, there can be headaches, speaking difficulties like slurred speech, visual disturbances, problems with walking, problems thinking and following through with something, vertigo, dizziness, weakness of the muscles, perhaps just on one side of the body, seizures, and the list goes on.
The treatments have to be different depending on the symptoms of traumatic brain injury. This in turn can mean many different appointments to many different specialists. If this is necessary, make sure that all the specialists know the treatment others have suggested, and that they all get the test results from all tests.
As a result of the brain injury, sometimes the patient has to be taught the very basics that they learned years before. This means therapy to relearn what has been lost, and this is both time consuming and expensive. Or it may be that occupational therapy is needed to retrain the patient for a new career, or even their old one.
The time needed to take the patient to these therapy sessions if they are now living at home can take up a great deal, and cut into work time significantly. This often means a double hit on the pocketbook. Wages are often reduced as the helper isn't able to work as many hours, plus the therapy costs money that you haven't earned, which hits the wallet again.
Now, the time used on patient therapy and other appointments, can mean reduced time spent on your own life, and this can lead to resentment and bitterness, frustration and in many cases debt because of the medical costs involved. This in turn can lead to feelings of guilt, for perhaps wishing the patient wasn't around any more. It is a terrible situation to find yourself in, and you should realize just how much energy something like this takes from you. It is very natural to find yourself resenting the intrusion into your time, which is perhaps stopping you from having your own life, or at least the life you used to have. It is a terrible thing to happen, and it takes a very understanding and patient person to deal with it.
One of the ways you must help the patient who is recovering from the traumatic brain injury, is to never give up hope or encouragement. Without hope the life for you and the injured can be very depressing, and yet most of us know that the body can and does heal itself in time for some people. Often where permanent injuries are involved, you will find that doctors make the mistake of diagnosing something as permanent when in fact the person recovers to some extent. Even though it is not expected to, the body can and will recover. There must always be that hope, otherwise, severe depression can set in for all involved. Try to continue giving encouragement and hope, even though it can be difficult for you. The chance of recovering from traumatic brain injury, even if it is slim, is better than no hope at all. On the other hand, you don't want to have your expectations too high. Somehow you need to find a suitable level of optimism - difficult I know.
For all traumatic brain injuries, you need somehow to be optimistic, patient, loving, kind, supportive, and to give hope, a very tall order to ask. But really, what other choice do you have? Traumatic brain injury is an energy drain for relatives and friends, but it can bring some families closer together as they deal with the problems tbi presents. Hopefully your family can be strong and supportive too.
About the Author
For those with a traumatic brain injury, the future tends to be very much unknown, as the symptoms do not all show up at the time of the accident. Find out more about the symptoms and treatments of tbi by going to tbibraininjury.com
