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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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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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Marilyn Colter
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October 24 2009 |
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People just don't understand what the real consequences of brain injury are, do they? Brian Reid recently asked readers of his Washington Post column, "On Parenting," whether the growing number of news reports about brain injuries attributed to football had caused them to consider youth football in a new light. Most readers who responded didn't seem too concerned.
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Marilyn Colter
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October 24 2009 |
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Just hours after posting my previous blog entry, I ran across a news article about "Pathways: From Brain Injury to Hope." This documentary, just released in October, 2009, follows the progress of four brain-injured patients during their stay at Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital in Lincoln, Nebraska. Filmed by Tiffany Verzaal, whose daughter, Alexis, suffered shaken baby syndrome at her day care, the documentary will be appearing at film festivals across the country. Here's a clip.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_ftzHc9_g
I hope you will help spread the word about this film and see it when it comes to your area.
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Marilyn Colter
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September 02 2009 |
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With a $50,000 grant in hand, speech language pathologist Sarah Hamrick Powell, at Roger C. Peace Rehabilitation Hospital in South Carolina, hopes to improve the life of brain injured students returning to school.
Among her goals is the improvement of communication between teachers and families as well as training for teachers about how to deal with the diverse learning problems TBI students encounter when they come back into the classroom after a brain injury. Powell will be developing educational materials for both families and teachers in order to make it easier for information to flow between schools and families.
Good luck to Powell, Roger C. Peace Rehabilitation Hospital and the schools their TBI students attend. It's steps like this that will bring our kids learning success after brain injury. |
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