Traumatic Brain Injury - Bek's Battle

My sister Rebekah was hit by a car 7 months ago. She is still technically in a coma as she can't communicate aside from an occasional thumbs up when prompted. I pray everyday she will be able to live a somewhat normal life again. She turns 24 in 2 weeks and she'll meet her first niece in a few days. I pray one day she'll be able to do the things she loved again including singing and acting with the local theater troupes.

We take so much for granted.
To see this young woman struggle and never give up is a blessing. I sincerely hope she recovers fully. My prayers go to you lil one and to your family. May god watch over and keep you safe.

My brother is an inoxic brain injury survivor.... I am praying he gets better!

With God everything is possible, if you don't know Jesus Christ please seek him today, prayer is the most powerful thing God gave us for our time here please use it he loves his children

I had a severe grade 3 concussion for 3 weeks. Got tboned iam 25 years old and I came home and couldnt walk and lost cognitive function.. no brain bleeding .. but after 3 weeks I have gone to rehab and rehab has helped me come back to a normal life

A very strong willed young lady!!.. I know it's tough to recover from Trauma... One day at a time ...

I’ve been where Rebekah is, I got hit by a car running a red light at about 45-50mph when I was crossing the street at 14, it’s been a very dark and difficult 17 years for me because therapy in recovery stopped to soon and I was put back into school where I was tormented for speaking with that same speech impediment, if there is anything I can say to Rebekah, you are very Beautiful, Jesus Christ loves you very much, you will get better with time, and I have found that singing and listening to positive uplifting Christian music seems to help the most. I still want to be normal also, but what is normal really? I’m happy to be me, and I wouldn’t give anything to be anyone else because at the end of the day, only I have the strength to walk in my shoes. Same to you Rebekah, only you can walk your life. Just know your not alone. To be honnest I think even Eminem suffered from traumatic brain injury and was in a coma for a day more than me. If that can give you any hope towards a successful future. Also if you are interested in making your own music I do, you can literally use bandlab to make excellent quality music with a looper to make music. I find that the vibrational frequency of music seems to be healing.

I hope you're doing well. My brother is on a ventilator right now, he had a heart attack and it took too long for someone to get to him in time so they're saying he has brain injury die to lack of oxygen from the time his heart stopped til resuscitation. Now the doctor is trying to get my family to pull the plug. Another Dr is saying he could stay in ICU for 14 days and then we could do a trach and transfer him to a hospice but he'll have to stay heavily medicated because he is having bad seizures when they try to decrease the benzos to take him out of the coma. I don't know what to do. I don't even think I have a say in the matter.

This is awesome.

Never EVER give up. God won’t give up on you.

One doctor told my mother that me in a coma was all she'd ever see of me again

Hemianopia
Hemiparesis
Both left side from right side traumatic brain injury that impacted my right side enough to crush the hearing in my right ear

Music therapy
Billiards
And finally believing in the Lord Christ I met while I laid in a coma for what felt like forever.
Finding True love and my passion in life like Skateboarding, running and soldering in the army was all I knew

As a hardware deep passion for the things I can do are blurred by things I have to ask for like a driver for my own car I can't legally drive due to a severe seizure disorder and the left side Hemianopia and everything else accompanying the TBI that might fit in a traumatized Tracktor trailer or Amazon prime van

Beware of the vines hospital in Ocala Florida; if you can

I hope she is doing better. It will be a very long road. I know. Sending positive vibes to her and her amazing family.

It’s fake. I set all this up

Insurance primary concern allows hundred clinician encounters beyond that out of petients pocket

Tragically that civilian , military nor Veteran's hospitals . Have in place Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for immediate use in cases of head injury / TBI !!!

JESUCRISTO 🙏✝️💚BENDIGA “ BEK” Y TU FAMILIAS Y AMIGOS

Ryan deweerdt Jonathan Friends

The things we take for granted...

Amazing people, all of you!!!

BENDITO SEA DIOS! NADA ES IMPOSIBLE, Gracias a Todos Los Doctores y LA Familia!!!

They always show the ones who have some function. The ones who never recover, need 24/7 care, financially ruin people don’t get shown.

What an amazing girl. 😊

Thank you for showing your story 🩷🥹

God Bless her I’m so happy for her God gave her another chance I’m definitely gonna go there after my stroke in 2021 I still have hope for me to move my left side so Happy for this place I think God has his hand in this hospital

It is not the good Lord helping her, it's science.

I went threw a tbi in 2021 it changes you but basically

God bless. I'd like to share some powerful music for God that lifted me up when I was mentally down.

Narnia - Living Water
Narnia - Can't Get Enough Of You
Narnia - Long Live The King
Narnia - Reaching For The Top
Narnia - Inner Sanctum
Narnia - Trapped In This Age
Narnia - Another World
Narnia - Sail On
Narnia - The Armour Of God
Narnia - You Are The Air That I Breathe
Narnia - No More Shadows From The Past
Narnia - Aiming Higher
Narnia - Shelter through the pain
Narnia - Enter The Gate
Narnia - Rebel
Narnia - Dangerous Game
Stryper - To Hell With The Devil
Thunderstone - Veteran Of The Apocalypse

Bizzle - No Hate
HezekiYah - The Most High
HezekiYah - Mercy
HezekiYah - Sorrows
HezekiYah - Only A Remnant
HezekiYah - Prophecy
HezekiYah - Blood Of The King
HezekiYah - Jerusalem
Young Bro - The Reason
Young bro - no other
Young Bro - Your Goodness
Young bro - Is that you
Young bro - right here right now
young bro - adore you
young bro - imitate you
young bro - stay focused
young bro - here we are
young bro - carry me through
That Flight Illuminate Sevin
Sevin - In it Not Of It
sevin - Highway
sevin - soverign
sevin - thank you
Sevin - fall
sevin - back 2 you
sevin - neva believe you
sevin - somebody lied to us
sevin - sunrise
sevin - finally home
sevin - One Moment
sevin - darkest light
sevin - Surrender
sevin - Come home
sevin - end of days
sevin - tell me
Bryann T - middle of my storm
Bryann T - all belongs to you
bryann t - God's spirit is stronger
bryann t - Ministry with a message
bryann t - Lift His name Up
bryann t - perseverance
bryann t - KMF Anthem
bryann t - documented
bryann t - call upon
bryann t - Dat Part
Bryann T - Warning
K Rino - Really Need You
K Rino - House of the enemy
Zro - My Story



Phil Driscoll - Warriors
NeedToBreathe - Survival
NeedToBreathe - Brother
NeedToBreathe - Who Am I
Casting Crowns - Nobody
Andrew Ripp - Jericho

I fell 14 feet from our back porch when the railing broke when I leaned on it. Fortunately my 6cm brain shift to the left resolved after 2 weeks and I returned to work after 3 months recovery at the same hospital where I was treated. I was lucky with only minor deficits.

That is no way for any person to live

Beware. Psychiatric drugs can do something very similar and just as difficult to only ever partially recover from.

She has bright beautiful eyes . Somebody is at home, she's fighting and so I think shes going to be fine...press on Beck, God is real, He's able and will be with you every step of the way.

Praying for a healing amen

Almost brought me to tears. God is healing her, I have to believe...

The brain is so susceptible to trauma.

on 3 june 2023 my brother went unconscious
His eyes rolled back
...and doctors told us that he has a heart attack and as a result have hypoxic brain injuury...
uptill now there is no complete treatment for this thing..

Its been a month now

initially he can only open his eyes with limited look around movement..
now
He can move his lips and tongue a little..
And he also started to yawn..
and few times ..very few times..move his elbow,feet finger and head a little.
When something is put in his mouth he try to chew it

Its been almost three weeks he is breathing on his own initially was put on a ventilator

doctors says from now it all depends on patient's will power to secure complete recovery..

He is having food through NG tube
He also have tracheostomy tube in the neck
Also mri scans have shown global or severe hypoxic brain injuury

He is only 33


He was a healthy person before.
It seems like he can listen when we ask him to blink his eyes he blink his eyes

He tried to grip my hand when i hold it

Please get Bek some HBOT. It should be the PRIMARY treatment for TBI.

My ex dtr in law was hit by a car last year..ripped her carotid artery causing a stroke, crushed pelvis n hip bones..today? She's about 90% of her old self with mild weakness on left n walks with a limp .she's back to her car club, beach outings, traveling..helps to have a lot of support and a wealthy boss😉😉
Never give up..one day can make a huge difference✌️❤️😊🙏

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❤️💚Good luck for You !Be strong 💪
I wish all the best for You!

The time I was 3 months something hospitalized. When I was rushed to the Emergency at Bascom Hospital.
I remember a tube went up my nose and I hear a woman voice told me swallow, swallow. Everything went black after that.

I was like Micah Jones, but much worst. The hospital wasted no time and immediately goes to work after woken up from my coma.
I was in bed completely paralyzed from the head down. The first thing that I could remember when opening my eyes. Is asking myself where am I, where is this place? Having monitor and pump at the bed the side. Still wearing diaper and a pee bag. Tubes in the mouth and nose. Wires on my bald head, neck, and arm.

I remember all the way back only a day or two from woken up. That my father was the first one and later families, relatives and friends started to come to visit me. The upper floor where I have to wear a C-Collar for my neck from Page. One of the Physical Therapy. I have no control over my head. I could still remember the pain every time my head dropped backward, I WINCE PAIN. Like the bone about to snap.
For weeks I have to wear a C-Collar for my neck to be stable. After that, I would get fast transferred from a woman on the bed from one room to the next to get treated. I feel amuse inside with a slight smile looking up at the lights on the ceiling like the world is spinning.
MRI, CAT and Ultrasound Scan to see the inner body and the brain if there's anything wrong.

Then every day Physical Therapy with Ritu an Indian vegetarian young woman and Ron.
One day I just got exhausted and tired from all the Physical Therapy and ask to stayed in bed.
Occupational Therapy with Jacklin and Ritu.

About 2 months the hospital feed me liquid food through a small wire in my neck. All nutrient Vitamin and Mineral.
I felt the sting and WINCING IN PAIN and taste the liquid food as it dripped down my throat, because it was dripping too fast.
It sting for A FEW DAYS LATER until one of the nurse came in my room checking if everything's ok.
Saw I was in pain every time the liquid food dripped and knew it was dripping too fast and adjust to a steady pace, and asked me "is that better?" I nod my head saying yes. I feel so relief after. I still have a small scare on my neck to this day.

Then it was time to take x-ray of my throat as I was given a piece of solid food to eat to see if I could swallow it down.
For 2 or 3 days before I could swallow the solid food. I would missed the hospital food when it's time to eat.
Every day something new and it's all American food too. I would eat practically everything.
Family would bring food every lunch time, father, mother and my two older brothers.
One day my Blackanese brother took a picture at lunch time and let me see. I look very unhealthy.
The look in my eyes saying I'm ok inside. But the outside is all messed up. One time after lunch when big brother Minh brought me back to my room. I couldn't remember who he was. I couldn't talk and have to take speech class with Jill and Robecca.

3 months close to going home. The hospital let me see dogs of all kinds. When I pet the dog I sense the hospital staff is watching me.
The hospital staff also took me and my father 3 outings trips. To Westfield Valley Fair Mall to wake up the brain and the nervous system of the five senses. At the mall is a lot of commotion and noise where the staff watching me closely to see my alertness.
There were a girl walking fast by me and I remembered her immediately. It's was my friend Sunny's ex girl friend Ngọc,
and then go eat ice cream at the cart. Down the street of Bascom to Asian Garden Restaurant to eat pho.
To get strength and muscle mass back in my very skinny body. I was 125 lbs before now about 75-80 lbs. 3rd outing trip to go play remote control race car. In the middle of having fun playing, the moment when I crashed is when I just I have a feeling and knew I'm being watched and observed. On how my brain is working. My judgment on controlling the remote control car, twisting and turning with one hand.
Many follow up, more food, rest and observation to see my logic and how fast my brain has recover before I get to go home.

For 5-6 months after I got home is where I began to talk. One night I needed to pee but couldn't. The urinal is kept in the bathroom.
So I slam the music boombox that I have on the side down on the floor and force myself to call out until my mother or father heard.
Now I kept the urinal in my room with 2 spare mark with orange permanent marker. To know which is the daily use or spare in my Sterilite 3 Drawer Cart. Every time I want to say something and it doesn't come out right. I get pissed off at myself and I would get angry very easily when people tend to get on my nerve.

To my ex girl who stayed by my side at the hospital all the way home, and gave me a Radio Alarm Clock with CD player to listen to at night.
Every night I listen to the song Vân Quang Long - Người Tình Cô Đơn and I would put it on repeat.
It's because of your CD you made for me I recover so fast. I was Music Therapy myself and didn't realize it.
The music make me feel emotional and wake up the nerves in the brain. THANK YOU VERY MUCH BABY AND I MISSED YOU.

Whoever are paralyzed know what I'm talking about. Life was hard for the first few years for my family especially me.
When I just got home from Bascom Hospital. I was still depressed and having to take antidepressants medications.
I have to adapt and adjust my active life style to a paralyzed. I was right handed and now I've learn to use my left hand.
I will be both left and right handed when I walk. Not quite understand and know what's going on. A year later my brain slowly recover.
Memories are coming back one by one but not all until now.

One day I just have a thought to try and wheel the wheelchair by myself with one hand.
Since then, it got out of control for all things. I didn't asked for family help to push me around after eating to the living room to watch tv anymore. I have to memorize to do all things in a certain way, and remember as much as I can. To make my life, family and other easier.
Learning how to eat right avoid fattening and oily food. When I'm too heavy family member have hard time transferring me.
Reading and writing with the left hand, folding my own clothes (easier to fold on the bed) and pooping.
After wiping when dropping the toilet paper in the trash can. Too much paper in the toilet in toilet will clogged.
Making sure the toilet paper landed poop side down and clean side up in the trash can.
Because I know poop will disgust anyone and didn't want family to go in the restroom and see poop in the trash.
Spraying the whole restroom with Febreze Air Freshener Linen & Sky. The easiest smell of fresh air from the sky before family open the door.
First thing when opening the door is the smell hit your face. Many other small things I have to remember that would be a problem if I do it wrong. I will make sure to do it right the 2nd or 3rd time...

My walk is getting more and more closer through the years. On Thursday, December 7, 2017.
I went to my family doctor for a check up. He put me on a new medication. Folic Acid, folic acid belonging to the B-complex group of vitamins.
I found the supplements called Bronson Organic Folic Acid, and NutraFitz Naturals B Complex Vitamins - B Vitamins Whole Food Supplement.
Supports and balances the energy, metabolism, and "nervous system." Promote the development of healthy cognitive function and memory. Supports healthy digestive and neurological the science of nerves. Cardiovascular function encourages healthy mood and sleep rhythms. Enhances healthy cell growth and division. Cognitive function can be defined as cerebral activities that lead to knowledge, including all means and mechanisms of acquiring information. Cognitive functions encompass reasoning, memory, attention, and language and lead directly to the attainment of information.

It's very strange how people affected by brain injury. It's like we're a whole new different person.
The look, body and personality changes. With Pure Cordyceps and GanoUltra Lucidum Mushroom that I've already taken.
Plus the Folic Acid and NutraFitz Naturals B Complex Vitamins.
I will recover like Micah Jones a full 100% through GOD'S OMEN SIGN THE CROW.

Now my family Doctor has retired his son take over his position and said I don't need to take anything only what he prescribe.
Just let the body recover. If I want I can take 1 A Day Multi Vitamin for Men. I'm taking Saffron about a year or two now.
It help with Nerves Growth, Lower Red Blood Cell, Improve Mood and Treat Depressive Symptoms,
Appetite Control and Aid Weight Loss. I only use Saffron for the 6 main reason.🐺

I once like this I had a TBI and came out my body on the operating table I was thirteen I send my love to Beckie and wish her all the best in her recovery one day at a time Beckie my love from Scotland 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 I’m 59 now and have a job we can and will progress even with TBI

we are going through it right now. Michael Dee Robinson The Journey

I got one but it was my fault I was so drunk one night skateboarding down a huge hill and I remember that when I was skateboarding down but then I blinked and woke up in the hospital with my parents next to me

Bonk

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