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This is amazing, great to hear!

Can you please share with us the things you did in order to recover so well from your injury? Did it just happen spontaneously, or you got a certain treatment that helped you recover more efficiently?
It certainly wasn't spontaneous. A spent a month inpatient in Barrow's Neurological rehab at St. Joseph's hospital in Phoenix. I was fortunate to have a physiatrist MD that is recognized as an expert in rehab for TBI survivors.

I had daily physical therapy (was still in a wheelchair at that time), occupational and speech therapy. Some of the therapies included board and Wii games, building Lego models, solving sorting problems, stuff like that. Tasks that help rewire damaged synapses. After hospital discharge I continued outpatient therapy. As memory and task accomplishment starting coming back I started working part time from home. Getting back to tasks like data analysis, communicating with co-workers, and just starting to feel productive again helped a lot.

My family also got me a "therapy dog", my little pug Keona.

My ongoing therapies include mindfulness meditation, yoga and monthly massage therapy.
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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.
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