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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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An Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) is an injury to the brain which results in deterioration of cognitive, physical, emotional or independent functions. It can occur as a result of trauma, hypoxia, infection, substance abuse, degenerative neurological disease, brain tumour or stroke. This Speaking From Experience video offers offer first-hand accounts from ten people living with ABI. They discuss the impact it has had on their lives and the ways they manage...
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"Author and journalist Hilde Østby was cycling to work one day when she crashed head-first into a stone bridge. At the hospital, she was diagnosed with a traumatic brain injury and prescribed rest and relaxation. But her brain was anything but restful: ideas for new writing projects popped into her head at a frenzied pace. Never before had she had so many 'aha' moments. But at the same time, simple tasks like walking through an airport felt impossible....
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Publisher
Strange Light
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Nineteen battles his way into the pros, becomes the quarterback, becomes the myth. Marries the owner's daughter, touches greatness few will ever dream of, retires into what he assumes will be the promised afterlife of days on the golf course, celebrity endorsements, and cushy real estate investments. But markets tank, family disintegrates, fame fades, and the holes in his mind and memory from a career of punishment on the field become too large and...
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Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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Hannah Manning was once an internationally renowned journalist and war correspondent; today she's a woman suffering from a traumatic brain injury. Unable to concentrate, full of pain, and haunted by her memories, Hannah goes to Ontario to her sister's small vegetable farm to recover. But Hannah experiences strange visions of a woman emerging from the icy-cold mist. Is the woman real or the product of her damaged brain? Which would be worse?
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English
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"Tom Mondrian is watching his life ebb away directing traffic as a police constable--until a bullet to the brain changes everything. With a new unusual perspective, including an inability to recognize faces and absolutely no filter between what he thinks and what he says, Tom finds his career is suddenly shifting gear. Tom's new condition gives him an advantage over other police officers, allowing him to notice details that they can't see. Now, with...
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English
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"Meghan Michaels is trying to find balance between being a single mom and working as a full-time nurse. While on duty at the hospital, a patient named Caitlin arrives in a coma with a traumatic brain injury, having jumped from a bridge and plunging to the train tracks below. But when a witness comes forward with shocking details about the fall, it calls everything they know into question. Was Caitlin pushed and if so, by whom and why? Meghan mistakenly...
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Publisher
iUniverse
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Some would label Rob Plaskas as disabled and others may call him a victim. Truth be told, he is a survivor and a fighter. A first-hand account of the tragedy and terror he experienced, who he was, and what he has become. Over time he learned to confront the circumstances and embraced his new reality. He found courage and strength to reinvent himself and charted his own path to succeed in his new life. This memoir is about his recovery from a brain...
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English
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An Unforgettable Story of Life After Death. "The cold voice of the anesthesiologist recited the typical 'count backward from 10' cadence. Darkness closed around me before he got to 7. That's when I found out what it's like to die - and to come back from the dead." It was a beautiful winter's day, showing no signs of what was to come. Steve Sjogren, pastor of one of America's fastest growing churches, went into the hospital for routine gall bladder...
10) Her three lives
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Greg Hamlin's kids think he's having a mid-life crisis. With his youngest off to college, the wealthy architect has divorced his wife and begun designing a new life with Anya, a struggling lifestyle blogger whose Bronx-upbringing and Caribbean roots seem an odd match for a suburban-Connecticut dad. But before Greg's second act can truly start, a savage home invasion leaves him housebound with a traumatic brain injury and glued to the live feeds from...
11) The way I say it
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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"Rory Mitchell has always had an issue saying his Rs correctly (which is a real problem given his name); now in sixth grade his former best friend, Brent, suddenly sides with bullies against Rory; but then Brent is hit by a car and suffers a serious brain injury, which requires Rory to reevaluate everything"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Annie Liontas suffered multiple concussions in her thirties. In Sex with a Brain Injury, she writes about what it means to be one of the "walking wounded," facing her fear, her rage, her physical suffering, and the effects of head trauma on her marriage and other relationships. Forced to reckon with her own queer mother's battle with addiction, Liontas finds echoes in their pain. Liontas weaves history, philosophy, and personal accounts to interrogate...
13) Billal
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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Lebanese-Australian Billal is struck by a car in the aftermath of fighting between Anglo-Australian and Lebanese youths on a state housing estate in south-west Sydney. Billal is hospitalised with permanent brain damage. The film follows Billal's long fight back to some sort of health, and the stresses on his family through this period as they try to come to terms with what has happened to their son, and at the same time struggle to...
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Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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A documentary film on isolation, art, and transformation after brain injury made by a filmmaker with disabilities from brain injury. It follows three artists as they navigate social isolation, stigma, and rebuilding their identities. They practice the arts to re-connect to their own sense of self-pride and to their larger communities. Rather than emphasize how people got injured or highlight medical aspects of disability, we explore consequences of...
15) What about Will
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Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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"Trace's relationship with his older brother Will becomes increasingly complicated after Will suffers a traumatic brain injury and becomes addicted to pain pills"--
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Language
English
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"Every juncture in Jon Kerstetter's life has been marked by a crossing from one world into another: from civilian to doctor to soldier; between healing and waging war; and between compassion and hatred of the enemy. When an injury led to a stroke that ended his careers as a doctor and a soldier, he faced the most difficult crossing of all, a recovery that proved as shattering as war itself. Crossings is a memoir of an improbable, powerfully drawn...
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Publisher
Crown Archetype
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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Both ESPN investigative reporters, the authors reveal how the NFL, over a period of nearly two decades, sought to cover up and deny mounting evidence of the connection between football and brain damage. This narrative moves between the NFL trenches, America's research labs and the boardrooms where the NFL went to war against science; it examines how the league used its power and resources to attack independent scientists and elevate its own flawed...
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Publisher
Hay House, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"At age 37, Harvard neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor suffered a massive left-hemisphere stroke that took away her ability to speak, walk, read, write, or remember any of her life--and gave her an unprecedented, profound experience of dwelling in the right hemisphere and the sense of oneness and peace to be found there. Her recovery led to her writing the New York Times bestseller My Stroke of Insight, being named one of Time Magazine's Most Influential...
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Publisher
Freida McFadden
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
After years of hard work, Dr. Charly McKenna finally has it all. Prosperous career as a dermatologist? Check. Spacious apartment overlooking Central Park? Check. Handsome lawyer husband? Double check.Then one night, a bullet rips through the right side of her skull and she loses everything. As Charly struggles to recover from her brain injury, she begins to realize that the events of that fateful night are trapped in the damaged right side of her...
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