A perhaps not so brief introduction
 

Hello everyone. My name is Joe. From what I have seen this looks like a very friendly/helpful site. I wish I found it months ago.
I am a 49 year old electrician. I am married 26 years and have 4 sons. This past November I fell and fractured my skull. There was a concushion and a subarachnid brain bleed.
I have what I call snapshot memory of the first two weeks. Almost like having 2-3 five second video clips of a two week movie. After that there was hallucinations. Also a migrain headache that lasted roughly 2 months. Thank God the medication took care of the migrain because I have never felt pain like that. I was using incorrect words and not realizing I was making mistakes. Also shortly after stopping the migrain medicine I noticed a numbness going down the inside of both arms and down to my hands. Almost like an electric shock. It is not all the time and only lasts a few seconds but I assume is from the whiplash I had from banging my head.
My neurologist recommended I have a neuro psych. evaluation which was O.K. and lasted about 7 hours total including the interview. Now I am in cognitive therapy which started I guess two months ago at 3 days a week and has weened down to one day a week of group and one day of functional. Each day is five hours.
Before I started therapy I thought I was great and couldn't wait to get to work and wondered if therapy was even necessary. Now a couple months into it I can't believe how much trouble I have in some areas and not in others.
My main problem area seems to be executive function. This would be my organizational skills. I also had problems with recreating an image with blocks.
Right now the therapists feel , as well as myself and family, it would be unsafe form me to return to work and I have applied for ssdi.

Well enough said. I hope to "meet" you all.

Nice to meet you!!
 

Hi Joeyy!
 

Welcome to NT! :hug:

This is a great place to be for support and understanding!
I'm so sorry about your accident.... It can seem like such a long journey trying to find our way 'back' to the life we once had.
It's amazing to me to see how people come together in such a place as this. We all share a common bond and we build one another up in strength and love.

Make yourself right at home here - you're among friends....

We have a forum here for SSDI. I find it very helpful. Here's the link to get you there:

http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/fo...aysprune=&f=28

It's so nice to have you,

Rae
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Hi Joeyy and welcome. I had a skull fracture with epidural hematoma and subarachnoid hemorrhage in November 2010. I also had hallucinations, some retrograde and about four weeks of post traumatic amnesia. Like you, my neuropsychological evaluation showed deficits in executive function. The good news is that with continued therapy I’m grateful to be able to report that a second NPE 3 months later showed a return to normal functions. All brain injuries are different but there is reason to be hopeful and optimistic about your recovery. Best to you in your continued recovery and please continue to share your progress with us.

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