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Marilyn Colter
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February 09 2010 |
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Garry Prowe has just released "Successfully Surviving a Brain Injury: a Family Guidebook." The book, the first in a series, is focused on issues "From the Emergency Room to Selecting a Rehabilitation Facility." It's a great new edition to the list of books for caregivers. As a matter of fact, I think this book should be handed to families in any emergency room family waiting area when a brain injury patient has just been admitted. Garry has kept the first few chapters short, succinct and to the point. The facts he focuses on in the first few pages are often dealt with in a couple of paragraphs but they either answer the question a family member hasn't been able to get answered, or tells people how to find out the answer. Most families in the first few days of dealing with brain injury won't be able to absorb any more than that information but will be grateful for the information. Especially good is the short list of "7 Reasons to be Encouraged." Check it out on our book reviews page.
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Marilyn Colter
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January 19 2010 |
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This week I ran into two people who I'd been out of touch with for a few years. Both had brain injuries—it was a reminder to me of how hard it is for families to survive a brain injury. How can we help families like these? Is there any way to help these survivors maintain their relationships?
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Marilyn Colter
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January 04 2010 |
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Amid all the joy and celebration of Christmas recently, we were distracted by the struggle of a friend's family whose son has leukemia. This 8-year-old boy, whose chemo treatments are brutal, had dealt cheerfully with the illness and hospitalization for months. But suddenly, during the Christmas season, he experienced setback after setback—pneumonia, surgery, infection, reaction to chemo, intubation—day after day we followed the continuous battle.
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Marilyn Colter
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January 04 2010 |
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Happy New Year! Have you seen how much increased interest about brain injury there has been from the media and the general population in the last half of 2009? While I grieve for the families having to deal with it, the world seems newly interested in helping brain injury survivors
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Marilyn Colter
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November 22 2009 |
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Recently we've seen a lot of visits and book orders from New Zealand. Although we've seen orders before for "Missing Pieces: Mending the Head Injury Family" from all over the world, we were intrigued about the sudden spike in the number from New Zealand.Thea, who handles our orders, finally just had to find out what was up. In a follow up email to a book buyer, she asked how the buyer had heard about us. Sure enough, in a recent NZ Brain Injury Association newsletter there had been a very positive review of Missing Pieces and a suggestion from the author that the book would appeal to Kiwi readers.
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