Useful Websites About Brain Injury
http://www.biapa.org/site/c.iuLZJbMMKrH/b.1760731/
Books
Following is a list of books recommended by BIC members and their families:
Where is the Mango Princess? A Journey Back from Brain Injury
by Cathy Crimmins Knopf Memoir ISBN: 0375404910
Cathy is the spouse of a TBI victim. In this book she takes the reader on the journey she and her husband and child took through the insurance bureaucracy and the multiple hospitals. Her candor is refreshing and many of her experiences mirror those of all TBI survivors and extended family.
Here’s a second review from a BIC member…I couldn't put this book down. WHERE IS THE MANGO PRINCESS? is Cathy Crimmins' memoir of her husband being hit by a speedboat and his consequent TBI (traumatic brain injury). His rehabilitation is lengthy and difficult, and the man who emerges after the injury is not the man Crimmins originally married. But her personal outlook is long on humor and she has an honest concern for getting it right --- both her story and the specifics of the problem and its treatment. It's a remarkable achievement and one that even the most hesitant reader, the one who doesn't usually like stories about medical trauma and mishap, will find enlightening, uplifting and ultimately moving._______________
End Your Story, Begin Your Life by Jim Dreaver
Jim Dreaver suffered three strokes that ended his career as a chiropractor, so he moved on to a new career as a writer and lecturer. Dreaver talks about the need to acknowledge a disability, but not to continue living that life "story." Start fresh and live from today on, finding new strengths, developing new abilities and appreciating the joys of life.
This book can be purchased online at www.EndYourStory.com
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Over My Head by Claudia L. Osborn
A doctor who was a head injury and can explain it to Normies
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It's Always Too Soon to Quit by Lewis R. Timberlake
Talks about people that we all know and the things they had to overcome to come out with a terrific outcome.
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Holistic Self-Care for Post Traumatic Stress and Dissociative Identity by Dr. Cindee Grace
Dr. Cindee Grace (naturopath) is offering her book Holistic Self-Care for Post Traumatic Stress and Dissociative Identity free to members of the brain injured community, and is encouraging you to share copies with others. Here's a review:
Cindee Grace has written a treasure trove of healing wisdom, inventive, user-friendly technique and mind-body-spirit methodology for people wrestling with post traumatic stress and dissociative identity. An intimately written insider’s healing memoir, as well as a brainy, professionally grounded self-help manual, this book will be a godsend to scores of survivors of even the worst kinds of trauma and abuse.
-- Belleruth Naparstek, LISW author of Invisible Heroes: Survivors of Trauma and How They Heal
To read and/or download Dr. Grace's book, go to this website and scroll down to the red click the "to read" icon next to Dr. Grace's book title. Here's the website:
http://www.amyweintraub.com/resources.htm
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