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Post a new topicby livingwith on Fri Mar 20, 2009 2:25 pm

I was nearly killed when on April 30, 2007 I was hit on purpose at 60 mph by an illegal. I was CareFlited and was in the ER for 11 hours. I was told by my TBI specialist the ER head wrote in my patient record he thought I would die.
It, the TBI was something that I didn’t know right away I had, for all the other injuries, but within 2 days of coming home I knew something wasn’t right. I couldn’t think properly, remember anything, and found I needed a pen and paper constantly t...Read the full article
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Re: Living with TBI

Post a new topicby Rick.C on Sat Mar 21, 2009 3:31 am

Hey There

When reading your story you sure did say in when it comes to so many people who have one. When you look at Mrs. Richardson compared to your incident and mine ( I wrote my story in Feb) it sure does make things seem like we are lucky. I hope you can some how contact me through email it helps to talk to people with similiar things. I have lots of questions to find out what type of things to expect.
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