A stroke is NOT a form of traumatic brain
injury (TBI).
The word
"traumatic" in the definition of TBI relates to the cause of the
brain injury, not the fact that people feel traumatized from their brain
injury. And of course, people with strokes or brain illnesses feel just as
traumatized as people with TBI. But TBI's result from external forces such as
being hit by a car or bullet or falling off of a ladder or roof top.
Strokes, tumors,
and brain illnesses are not TBI's. The term "TBI survivor" has become
so generalized, so popularized by the TBI community, that many people with a
stroke or tumor think they are also TBI survivors. Not so. Instead, one is a
stroke survivor, or a tumor survivor, or an anoxic brain injury survivor, or a meningitis
survivor. Individuals with these other forms of acquired brain injury are not
TBI survivors. However, they may claim to being ABI survivors. Everyone with an
acquired brain injury (and that would include illness, stroke, toxin, trauma,
or tumor may lay claim to being an ABI survivor.
Since I was riding
my bicycle when I hit my head (or face) against the divider between the
windshield and the front door of the car that drove against me, I’ve been
classified since the beginning as a victim of TBI, however in my humble opinion
all of my symptoms fall with much more precision if someone looks at my brain
injury like it was due to a stroke.
I mean, if
somebody breaks the femur no question is ever asked about the way the femur
broke, it-s casted and everyone waits for the body to make the repair by
itself, same if a brain gets injured, what's the difference if it's injured
from any illness, a tumor or a fall from the roof or an accident like mine? The
brain is injured, that’s all that counts, NOT the way it was injured.
It's primarily
based on this concept that I started to do some internet research on this and
Oh, my!..... the huge amount of expertise that neurology has accumulated in the past decades, this is yet another reason for my madness to be impossible to dissipate in any way whatsoever, I simply put here the very few websites dedicated to this matter, while I hope that my current neurologist will look at my blog, otherwise next time I’ll see her I'll have something new (to her) to discuss.
Oh, my!..... the huge amount of expertise that neurology has accumulated in the past decades, this is yet another reason for my madness to be impossible to dissipate in any way whatsoever, I simply put here the very few websites dedicated to this matter, while I hope that my current neurologist will look at my blog, otherwise next time I’ll see her I'll have something new (to her) to discuss.
VERY long Youtube documentary on the brain
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