Navigating Through the Fog: The Story of a Stroke Survivor and the Woman who Loves Him.

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This book which is based upon the experiences of hundreds of people living with a brain injury, their families, and the medical professionals who treat them will answer many questions about medical, insurance, financial, legal, family, and personal issues. This manual is designed to be used by a wide variety of persons with brain injuries or brain disorders.

Brain injury DVD on rehabilitation and educational challenges of three youths with brain injury returning to school. This special book for children helps them understand their reactions and emotions when a parent or sibling has a brain injury. Written for children ages , it is a n interactive story book that uses a variety of tools to help youths express themselves.

This is a story of how a young woman and her family survived incredible odds, there is one clear message: This documentary DVD for adults and veterans with brain injury, families, and caregivers has accurate, sympathetic and empowering discussions about living with brain injury. This story shows how David overcame many of his disabilities with the help of his family. Journalist Bob Woodruff suffered a traumatic brain injury that nearly killed him while embedded with the military in Iraq.

While on active duty in the U. Army, Lori Williams sustained a severe traumatic brain injury in an automobile accident. The author discusses her 22 year journey and the ways in which she was affected by a brain injury, discussing the ramification of this incomprehensible tragedy. This book is a personal memoir of how Jennifer Mosher learned to accept her newly injured self and discovered the best way to manage life with a traumatic brain injury.

It is a journey through brain injury rehabilitation and recovery. This is a remarkable story of Joyce Little Fahl who overcame a debilitating brain injury she sustained in an auto accident. This is a story of triumph over tragedy, inspirational for those with TBI, their loved ones and caregivers. Dixie Fremont-Smith Coskie and her family grow to find hope, healing and even greater love after the horror and despair they experienced when her son sustained a traumatic brain injury.

This book is about perseverance, filled with universal lessons of struggle and triumph. Each chapter is followed by the harrowing journey with vital insights to assist others through their tragedies. Devastating, degenerative brain disease has been shown to be the result of severe repetitive had injuries such as concussions, and no one is more at risk than athletes. Former Patriots linebacker Ted Johnson tells Bob Simon that his depression and other cognitive problems are due to the more than 50 concussions he says he suffered on the football field.

Brain injury DVD on concussion and post concussion syndrome for students, educators, coaches, school nurses, and athletic trainers. The true concussion crisis is in youth sports, where children die every year and many more are impaired for life. This book shows parents, players and coaches what a concussion is, how to identify its symptoms, when it is safe to return to the field, and how the game should be changed to prevent concussions.

This documentary is a valuable resource for healthcare professionals, families and survivors of mild traumatic brain injury. This DVD provides insight from the perspective of the injured as well as the treatment professionals. This is a clearly written guide to understanding mild traumatic brain injury for anyone who has sustained a head injury, concussion or MTBI caused by a fall, automobile or sports related accident or a blast injury.

It describes the signs and symptoms as they show up in everyday life. Since MTBI is often unidentified and misunderstood, this book is also an essential reference for health care professionals, teachers, athletic coaches, and employers to expand their knowledge of the physical and behavioral symptoms. The intention of the author is to create a greater awareness of this injury and to inspire hope that brain injury survivors will get better, learn strategies to compensate, and discover their own resilience and resourcefulness.

This book offers guidance for returning veterans, from treatment options, to diagnosis criteria and techniques, to resources for rehabilitation and support. Discussions in clued TBI and PT definitions, outlining the risk factions, explanations of diagnostic criteria, prevention techniques, barriers to seeking care, and treatment options. When a parent is injured, sons and daughters often feel confused, scared, anxious and angry.

This guide helps parents explain the physical, cognitive, behavioral, social and communicative changes that can follow a brain injury, blast injury or PTSD. Each chapter has an exercise for children and practical tips for children, parents and professionals. Story book helps children understand their emotions and reactions when a parent has a brain injury. It is highly recommend for families of injured veterans and service members. This is an essential handbook for anyone who has ever returned from a war zone, and their spouse, partner, or family member.

In clear practical language the author explores the latest knowledge of combat stress, PTSD, MTBI, and other physiological reactions to war, and their treatment options. Recognizing that warriors and family members both change during deployment, the heart of the book focuses on what is necessary to successfully navigate the transition from combat environment to the home front. Traumatic brain injury can result in confusing and frightening changes in a parent. An eventual solution to the mystery is never offered — a final comment only implies that Maureen, the main character, might have observed something relevant but failed to realize its importance: In fact, Maureen's contemplations on the event suggest that she has, in true Gothic fashion, suppressed her lust for living in a social structure that is built on women's willingness to maintain the idea that marriage guarantees them ultimate fulfilment.

Adult women are described as somewhat grotesque figures, whose unattractive looks correspond to the insipidity of their lives. She had a heavy face, a droop to the cheeks — she reminded Maureen of some sort of dog. Not necessarily an ugly dog. The thickset bodies of the women, their clipped or otherwise fixed hair — all of these superficial attributes highlight how they seek to embody a rigid morality rather than, for instance, tempting suggestions.

The women in the story have eliminated their playfulness; to serve as pillars of their community, they have become immobile. She disappears at an age that marks the turning point of her leaving adolescence behind in order to enter maturity. Therefore, her disappearance makes Maureen wonder whether the girl did not simply take the chance to escape provincial life. Maureen gives in to reminiscences of her own days in the C. The girls played cards, they told jokes, they smoked cigarettes, and around midnight began the great games of Truth or Dare.

Questions requiring Truth were: Do you hate your mother? How many peckers have you seen and whose were they? Have you ever lied? In fact, the girls' games mockingly parody the mottos of the C. She remembered how noisy she had been then. A shrieker, a dare-taker. Just before she hit high-school, a giddiness either genuine or faked or half-and-half became available to her.

Soon it vanished, her bold body vanished inside this ample one, and she became a studious, shy girl, a blusher.

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She developed the qualities her husband would see and value when hiring and proposing. Maureen's thoughts imply both her loneliness and her inclination to try a different life. In this way, Heather's disappearance becomes symbolic for the rebellious girl Maureen had once been. Like Heather, this younger, independent self got lost.

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Therefore, Maureen wants the younger woman to have run away, to have opposed what small town life held in store for her: I dare you to run away. There are times when girls are inspired, when they want the risks to go on and on. They want to be heroines, regardless.

They want to take a joke beyond where anybody has ever taken it before. To be careless, dauntless, to create havoc — that was the lost hope of girls. The melancholy of the story remains, like the mystery at the heart of the plot, unresolved. Stronger sensations, hidden desires, are implied in the characters' observations, in their gestures and looks, but they are never actually verbalized — and, thus, neither consciously perceived nor acted upon.

If Heather had indeed become the victim of a crime, her perpetrator would have been the only person who has failed to restrict him- or herself. But all of these probabilities are swallowed by the bleak, mundane character of the town.

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The inability to communicate is highlighted in another grotesque feature: A stroke has slurred the speech of Maureen's husband; the only verbal contribution of Mr. Siddicup, whom Marian suspects to be involved in Heather's disappearance, has stopped speaking altogether after a laryngectomy. The guttural sounds and inarticulate expressions of the men mirror the distorted images of the women.

Munro seems to mock her readers' expectations when she turns a story that began as a mystery into a delineation of a scenery that is devoid of any suspense.

It is, instead, a representation of the 'underlying dreadfulness' stated by Tennessee Williams. The possible crime that briefly disturbed it eventually serves to enhance the impression of dull stagnation. On the surface, the story narrates a young woman's failed attempt to break free from a troubled marriage with the help of an older, more sophisticated female friend.

Upon closer examination, however, Carla's — the young woman's — return to her husband suggests a correlation between submission and security. Her homecoming may limit her autonomy, but it also provides her with the reassuring feeling that there is something, and someone, to care about. The comfort of a familiar unhappiness prevails over the vague temptation of freedom — or so it seems. Munro's dense and concise narration suggests a number of different explanations for Carla's eventual decision to stay with her husband.

Carla, the young wife, Clark, her husband, and Sylvia, the older friend, are representations of such archetypes as the damsel in distress, the dark lover, and the wise woman, respectively. All three characters are entangled in a triangle of suppressed desires and contested power relations. She takes pleasure in the knowledge that she has a set occupation, and attends to her routine of tasks.

These tasks include cleaning the little horse barn of their trailer park home, and caring for the tourists who come for a horse ride. Carla's third obligation serves to describe the character of her husband Clark, because. Clark had fights not just with the people he owed money to. His friendliness, compelling at first, could suddenly turn sour.

There were places he would not go into, where he always made Carla go, because of some row. Her emotional composure and quiet compliance form the counterbalance to Clark's irritable, unpleasant, and self-absorbed personality. Her parents' disapproval positively boosted Carla's perception of Clark as a dark, romantic rebel. He represented a challenge which appealed to teenage Carla's longing for heightened sensation.

I hate when you're like this, that's all. Clark cannot endure defiance from anybody. In their conversations, he tries to outwit rather than communicate with Carla, forcing her to submit to his regime of domestic terror. She also tends to avoid direct confrontation. Her reluctance to win one of their verbal contests results from her sensing that such a defeat would impair what is left of his romantic appeal; it would also, however, further provoke his brutality.

Her education and social status seem to depict her as superior to Carla, as someone Carla might consult when she is in trouble. Sylvia despises Clark, and when Carla breaks down in front of her, crying about her miserable marriage, she offers help. She arranges a bus trip and temporary accommodation for Carla in Toronto.

Yet Sylvia's readiness to help the young woman derives from her being appalled at Carla's noisy fit rather than from an earnest desire to end Carla's obvious unhappiness: In order to excite some passionate response from her husband, Carla had invented a bedtime story about how Sylvia's late husband had molested her — a narrative to stimulate Clark's and Carla's more intimate moments. Clark, however, has decided to use the story in order to gain some material profit as well.

I love to read and am always reading a book. I like to read everything except murder mysteries. Right now my favorite author is Isabel Allende. What is the best advice you could give other writers about writing or publishing? The best advice I can give to a writer is just do it! Get it down on paper.

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I like having the control of self-publishing so if you have the up-front money, I recommend self-publishing. The perfect readers for our book are stroke survivors and their families and of course the caregivers.

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It is also wonderful for people in the medical fields. But because it is a story of hope, healing and survival with a happy ending, it can be a story for anyone.

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