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Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Phoenix AZ
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Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Phoenix AZ
Posts: 531
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Your OT experience sounds familiar with mine. I also experienced some of your same frustrations and thinking similar to your comments: "I knew that I knew this stuff -- it felt wrong, but I couldn't figure out how to make it right." Been there, believe me.
All these activities are designed to reestablish those neuro pathways. My experience was that the simple stuff gets easier; they make it harder, then that gets easier too. I had some very serious deficits in spatial, executive and short term memory functioning. After time and doing what was prescribed in OT and speech therapy I finally tested “normal” (whatever that means) in my neuropsych evaluation.
Hang in there!
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What Happened: On November 29, 2010, I was walking across the street and was hit by a light rail commuter train. Result was a severe traumatic brain injury and multiple fractures (skull, pelvis, ribs). Total hospital stay was two months, one in ICU followed by an additional month in neuro-rehab. Upon hospital discharge, neurological testing revealed deficits in short term memory, executive functioning, and spatial recognition.
Today: Neuropsychological examination five months post-accident indicated a return to normal cognitive functioning, and I returned to work approximately 6 months after the accident. I am grateful to be alive and am looking forward to enjoying the rest of my life.
Last edited by Lightrail11; 04-12-2012 at 12:58 PM.
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